Take your time and always be relaxed. Make sure you have a clean desk with enough free room. Make sure unwanted people or pets cannot disrupt your repair. Make notes of your process (its fun and useful).
(Please everyone use safety glasses during disassembly. Prevented glass shatters in my one remaining good eye!)
Hi all,
I need some advice. I’m at step 28 where the guide says “Remove any tape obscuring the LCD screws”. Instead of just peeling back a small part, I wrongly removed the entire tape, all around the display 😬 I don’t know what got into me, but after spending several hours on removing the broken digitizer I got a little enthusiastic by the ease of this removal.
So my question is: Should I replace the tape? And if so with what? And why was it there anyway?
Another question: there’s a thick layer of the residue from the old digitizer tape. How to best remove it? Using IPA and a cotton swab takes ages and forces some glue down in the frame.
Third question: how to best clean the display? There’s some sticky debris on it.
(Why it took me so long: the glass was broken a lot and to small pieces. Also repairing in 2D instead of 3D takes ages. Also I did not heat enough. I learnt not to stress and it helps!)