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Offline BobM

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2012, 06:31:30 AM »
Got my daughters i-pod fixed yesterday. They ran into problems because the menu button melted a bit when they heated it to get the glass off and had to find a replacement button, so it took overnight. All is well now and my daughters shaking has now subsided. Withdrawal can be painful to experience.  :roll:

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Offline Bob in St. Louis

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2012, 05:49:53 AM »
Well done Bob.
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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2012, 07:38:34 AM »
If you are a father of a teenage girl I think you pretty much know the answer.
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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #18 on: October 06, 2012, 08:00:14 AM »
Good goin Bob!

We got all our parts together, I'm gonna try the repair this weekend if there's time.

I learned from etechparts.com (the Danny Richie of the iphone repair world) that there are no genuine Apple parts outside an Apple store. So all parts are gyp. But some are "aftermarket reproductions" (junk) and some are "OEM" parts, which I guess means the OEMs are making their own repair parts to feed the demand and these vary in quality. Some say Retina display, but may still have variances in color temperature. The white glass on replacements is always off color from the original and will not match the home button exactly. So I plan to install the screen that I got from UK with adhesive mask I got from etechparts. I will try not to melt the home button! :) Thanks for the tip.

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2012, 10:26:09 AM »
If you are a father of a teenage girl I think you pretty much know the answer.

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Offline BobM

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2012, 07:51:44 AM »
Yeah. Then they will bow to the awsomeness of those of us lucky enough to be in the Bob club !!!
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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2012, 03:57:54 PM »
Us Bobs "got it goin' on".   8)

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2012, 04:29:44 PM »
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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #23 on: October 07, 2012, 05:06:46 PM »
All eventually bow to _ob...



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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2012, 05:15:39 PM »
 :rofl:

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #25 on: October 11, 2012, 04:23:43 PM »
I replaced the screen today, it came out good. I did forget to put one part back in... oops! It is the clip that hold the front camera in place. But it is also held by adhesive, and seems to work OK.  It was a tedious job, but not difficult. Any hifi modder could do it, with some good small tools. Tiniest phillips screwdriver, small tweezers, heat gun, #11 exacto knife, and a stronger big round edge exacto blade for removing the screen.

The screen quality of the UK part is excellent. It fits perfectly, and the screen looks great.

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #26 on: October 11, 2012, 04:31:13 PM »
Yay! Way to go, Rich! :)
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Offline Bob in St. Louis

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #27 on: October 11, 2012, 05:15:42 PM »
Good job Rich, glad it worked out.

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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2012, 05:26:24 AM »
I consider a job successful when (a) it works, and (b) no need to resort to duct tape. Congrats!
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Re: i-pod touch glass broken
« Reply #29 on: October 12, 2012, 08:50:01 PM »
I consider a job successful when (a) it works, and (b) no need to resort to duct tape. Congrats!


You mean there are things that can be fixed withoiut duct tape?  :shock:
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