Cracked screen Mobile

I suspect there are more people than just me who accidentally let their mobile phones slip gently to the floor.   I guess that you could consider yourself lucky that your phone didn’t fall into the bath, like some poor people on Ebay..   In my search for a new digitizer

Your phone has a touch sensor to navigate from screen to screen, function to function , when your front glass breaks on your iphone you have to replace the glass and the digitizer(which is the touch sensor) in order to function correctly. Just replacing the glass without the digitizer will render your iphone useless because the iphone won’t sense your touch to navigate. – onsitecellularrepair.com

for the phone, I came across many such a hapless mobiler.

Similar damage to my phone..

I dropped the phone on the floor about a month ago (not really very hard, but enough to crack the screen across its width) with my Orange Mobile contract still pretty early on in its life.   As it still worked perfectly, I made the odd joke about it being a new app and that it wasn’t a crack at all.    Not particularly humorous, but illustrates the point that your phone can still work even with a pretty horrible crack.

A couple of days ago, the crack got worse, developed more into a shatter, and the touch part stopped working completely, leaving me completely unable to access the phone.   If anyone knows of any button shortcuts to get into the Orange San Francisco, the ZTE blade equivalent, please post a comment below.   I certainly couldn’t find one, leaving me with unread messages, unanswerable calls and no access contact details, so I couldnt even get the number off the phone to return the call from a landline or another mobile.

So, called the insurance company to see whether I was covered..  Yes, but £50 excess.. hmm

Popped into the Orange Shop in Bristol, really helpful guy, which is unusual for Mobile Phone shops, by all accounts.   He suggested that it was going to be expensive if you go the route of repairing it through them (remember that these phones only cost £100 new), and suggested a high street repair shop.   This was still going to set me back £60 odd.   So that, plus the £50 excess that I would have to pay..   None of this added up.

I had previously done some searching on the net and found that one could order a digitizer on Ebay (bought one for under a tenner), and then follow the instructions on how to replace your cracked screeen, and hey presto, the theory is that you should have a new phone for very little..

Here’s holding thumbs!   I ordered it today, so I will take some photos and post how it goes..

Tagged as: android, broken phone, cracked screen, digitizer, ebay, mobile phone, mobile repairs, phone spares, replacement