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John221us

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I cracked my screen and then botched the repair (installing new digitizer) by ripping the two antennas and the power cable, when I removed the old glass. It is in for repair and they said it would take a whole week! It is amazing how dependent I have become on it in the last year.
 
John221us said:
I cracked my screen and then botched the repair (installing new digitizer) by ripping the two antennas and the power cable, when I removed the old glass. It is in for repair and they said it would take a whole week! It is amazing how dependent I have become on it in the last year.
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Funny. I used mine extensively at first, until it drove me crazy. My wife used it for about 20 minutes and then tossed it back to me with the words "Let me know when they fix everything." That was over a year ago.

The iPad now lives at the hangar, and we only use it as a chart reader when we fly. It excels in this role. We also use it when we travel, simply because it is so much more portable than our laptops.
 
I use it for taking notes in meetings, email, I cancelled my physical newspaper subscription and now just get it on the iPad and of course flight planning, charts, etc.
 
Mine lives in the plane most of the time. I really need more of a computer than that (but I'm a computer geek). If I can't do it on the iPhone, I get out the macbook.
 
I use mine mostly as a EFB, but at home, it's handy to be able to check the weather or Facebook from anywhere in the house.

If I want to know if it's raining, I'll open up Foreflight rather than look out the window.
 
When I broke the screen on my iPhone, I considered repairing it myself - $25 for the digitizer and my own free labor rather than $99 for Apple to do it.

After watching the "how-to" video on YouTube, I decided that I didn't want to mess with scraping the old glue off the LCD and living with the inevitable bubbles if I tried to put the glue layer on the new one myself... So, I bit the bullet and had the guy at the Apple Store do it.

Amazing. He was done in FOUR MINUTES! So yeah, that's about $1500/hr but it was well worth it to get it done right and done fast. :thumbsup:

Just curious, what are they charging for the repair?
 
flyingcheesehead said:
When I broke the screen on my iPhone, I considered repairing it myself - $25 for the digitizer and my own free labor rather than $99 for Apple to do it.

After watching the "how-to" video on YouTube, I decided that I didn't want to mess with scraping the old glue off the LCD and living with the inevitable bubbles if I tried to put the glue layer on the new one myself... So, I bit the bullet and had the guy at the Apple Store do it.

Amazing. He was done in FOUR MINUTES! So yeah, that's about $1500/hr but it was well worth it to get it done right and done fast. :thumbsup:

Just curious, what are they charging for the repair?
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It wasn't apple (they want a lot, over $300). It was a local shop. They wanted $180, which is reasonable, but they wanted to keep it for three days. So, I watched a YouTube video and decided to give it a whack. Now I am out the original $50 in parts, another $200 to fix what I broke and I don't have an iPad for a full week. Bad decision :nonod:
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Amazing. He was done in FOUR MINUTES! So yeah, that's about $1500/hr but it was well worth it to get it done right and done fast. :thumbsup:
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Did he take it to the back? And did you check the serial number afterward?

Most of my experiences at the Apple Store they're swapping the hardware.

I suspect the four minutes was to plug in, back up the original, and move everything to the new device in the back room. :)
 
denverpilot said:
Did he take it to the back? And did you check the serial number afterward?

Most of my experiences at the Apple Store they're swapping the hardware.

I suspect the four minutes was to plug in, back up the original, and move everything to the new device in the back room. :)
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Yes, he took it to the back, no I didn't check the serial number...

But no, there's no way he swapped the entire phone. It was a 32-gigger and it was full. I would find that much more unbelievable than it simply being an experienced tech who knows what he's doing and has probably already done a dozen iPhone screens that day...
 
Just watched the youtube on repairing an ipad, I think I will hang out my shingle on ebay and start doing them on the side. Not.
Right after I learn how to repair crashed hard drives maybe.

Memo to self: Do NOT break iPad.
 
Could go either way on that one. I had one Apple Store guy look at one of my phones once and say, "See this little crack here"... (points to a crack near a screw I'd never noticed)... "That's a manufacturing defect..." Wink, wink... nudge nudge... and the phone was swapped on the spot. I was there getting help with something completely unrelated.
 
My friend just had his iPad 3 swapped out, due to a small crack in one of the corners (it took him two visits to find a tech who cooperated). He didn't do anything to crack it, that he recalls.

As far as the YouTube video, they make it look a lot easier than it is. When your screen is shattered, you end up gouging out the little pieces that get left behind. It doesn't all come off in one piece. Also, most of the videos don't cover detaching the attennas, and the ones that do, only mention one antenna. There are two and also a powerswitch cable. You have to, apparently, barely lift the glass and somehow detach these cables that are glued to the glass. I might do better, if I tried it a second time, knowing what I now know.
 
denverpilot said:
Could go either way on that one. I had one Apple Store guy look at one of my phones once and say, "See this little crack here"... (points to a crack near a screw I'd never noticed)... "That's a manufacturing defect..." Wink, wink... nudge nudge... and the phone was swapped on the spot. I was there getting help with something completely unrelated.
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They're VERY good about making the customer happy, often replacing things like that. Apple gives them a lot of leeway to do such things. Be nice, and have something that isn't obviously abuse, and ya might just get a freebie. :thumbsup:
 
John221us said:
My friend just had his iPad 3 swapped out, due to a small crack in one of the corners (it took him two visits to find a tech who cooperated). He didn't do anything to crack it, that he recalls.

As far as the YouTube video, they make it look a lot easier than it is. When your screen is shattered, you end up gouging out the little pieces that get left behind. It doesn't all come off in one piece. Also, most of the videos don't cover detaching the attennas, and the ones that do, only mention one antenna. There are two and also a powerswitch cable. You have to, apparently, barely lift the glass and somehow detach these cables that are glued to the glass. I might do better, if I tried it a second time, knowing what I now know.
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Interview with the ifixit.com guys recently says they're still trying to come up with safe enough instructions to post how to work on the iPad 3 and they weren't optimistic. Using glue instead of clips has made the 3 a very non-green, not easily repairable device, in their opinion. They're disappointed that Apple went that route with the 3 as it'll mean way too many of them end up eventually in landfills.
 
denverpilot said:
Interview with the ifixit.com guys recently says they're still trying to come up with safe enough instructions to post how to work on the iPad 3 and they weren't optimistic. Using glue instead of clips has made the 3 a very non-green, not easily repairable device, in their opinion. They're disappointed that Apple went that route with the 3 as it'll mean way too many of them end up eventually in landfills.
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Using glue instead of "clips" on what? All of the iDevices have the LCD and the touch panel glued together, I think - I know for sure that my iPhone did.
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Yes, he took it to the back, no I didn't check the serial number...

But no, there's no way he swapped the entire phone. It was a 32-gigger and it was full. I would find that much more unbelievable than it simply being an experienced tech who knows what he's doing and has probably already done a dozen iPhone screens that day...
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Was this a 3G or 3GS? The tech changed the whole front assembly. LCD/digitizer.

I can do it in that time too on those models. It's remove the two small philips screws on the bottom and grab a suction cup to pull the screen out, then detach the 3 ribbon cables. I've even changed the screens with the phone still on as I forgot to turn it off. :rofl:

It took me 45 minutes or less when my friend's were breaking those and I was changing a lot. All of the time is spent scraping the glue off.

The 4, on the other hand, sucks to work on. It is backwards. If you break the screen, the back comes off easily but everything else inside has to be removed layer by layer. I sold mine after I did that repair once.
 
jxdrl said:
Was this a 3G or 3GS?
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3Gs.

The tech changed the whole front assembly. LCD/digitizer.
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Yup. Apple doesn't bother separating the LCD and digitizer, and I'm sure that it's for good solid financial reasons - Mainly, that doing the glue scrape/reapplication is not only costly in that it's time-consuming, it's probably not worth it with their parts cost to do anything else. Let the techs do it in 4 minutes instead of 40 and you only need one instead of 10!
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Using glue instead of "clips" on what? All of the iDevices have the LCD and the touch panel glued together, I think - I know for sure that my iPhone did.
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The glass is glued to the case on iPad 3 or something equally difficult to make it as thin as it is. It's going to be nearly impossible to open one without damaging something.

This coming from the folks at iFixIt.com who've published how to get just about any "difficult" Apple device open and repair it...

The interview and question "Why no repair articles for iPad 3?" on Patrick Norton's show (Tekzilla - Revision 3) a week or two ago. Check the video podcast catalog for interview with the iFixIt founder.
 
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