How To Repair A Galaxy S3 Screen

Introduction

Say you dropped your telephone and the glass is now cracked but the display is still working. You don't need to change the full display ($199), but the front glass ($six-$10).

If your phone already has a protective screen applied to it, you are ready to begin.

If your telephone already has a protective screen practical to it, you are set up to brainstorm.
If information technology doesn't, cut a piece of packaging tape the size of the screen and use it to the screen. This will help you remove the broken drinking glass later.

With a plastic opening tool, pry open the back case. It will come out very easily.

With a plastic opening tool, pry open the back case. It volition come up out very easily.

Take out the battery. There are no cables fastened.

If your provider/version of phone takes a SIM card, remove it by pushing it in a bit until you hear a pocket-sized click, and and then slide it out.
Dart United states does non use SIM card.

At this point y'all can already go to the next pace, which is using a rut gun. However I felt safer by taking out the motherboard too.
If you decide to have out the motherboard follow the Samsung Galaxy S III Motherboard Replacement, it has all the details.

Yous need to have lots of patience in this process. Have your time.
Using an infrared thermometer heat the surface to 170-180° F (roughly lxx-fourscore° C). This will loosen the gum but not damage the electronics.
Hold the gun at most 3 inches from your telephone (in this picture it looks similar its right on meridian). With the heat gun set to low, heat upwardly the borders for almost 3 to 5 minutes depending on the strength of your heat gun.
Yous must be conscientious when using the estrus gun on this device. If the device is heated up also much then it may melt the digitizer and cause discoloration. If you start to meet any discoloration then shut off the gun immediately.
If you lot are working with a hair dryer, it might take up to one hour.
This melts the glue that holds the drinking glass to the frame and to the display. The glass is glued to them.

Using a guitar pick or a plastic opening tool, very advisedly commencement to work separating the edges of the drinking glass.
Make certain to become from height to bottom.
You lot will demand to utilize the heat gun a number of times as you go down separating the glass. For spectacles with lots of damage you will demand to go extra carefully as to non damage the LCD with the shattered glass pieces.

When y'all commencement separating the screen, you need to beginning from the top borders and work your fashion to the center, ungluing the whole screen from top to bottom. Leave some opening tools in to prevent the glass from bonding over again to the LCD.
Be extra careful when yous get to the bottom because the menu buttons are glued to the glass.
Practice not pull the glass just yet, you might harm the cables. Pull the screen from the summit to the bottom to the bespeak where you tin see the menu and render button cables.

Actress attention is necessary with this step, don't impairment the buttons or cable! With a spudger, detach the buttons from the inner side of the glass. This might require a little actress oestrus. Also, the best strategy is to starting time in the eye, under the black ribbon that connects the two buttons, and then move sideways to split up each one.
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Take out the cleaved glass. I was able to accept it all in ane slice.
If your glass is very shattered you will need to pick up the small pieces with tweezers, one by one or stick record to the glass earlier you accept information technology out. Yous can also apply screen protectors.

Take this modest metallic piece from your old glass, yous volition demand to put information technology in the new i.

Clean up the mucilage that remains on the borders. A small-scale microfiber with a bit of WD40 or windex can help you lot take all the glue off.
Be sure to non use too much WD40 or windex.
When cleaning out the glue, exercise Non endeavor to scrap gum out of the cracks betwixt the LCD and the frame. A very pocket-sized corporeality of force toward the center or from underneath will crack the LED.
Cut upward two small 1mm pieces of the sticker tape and gum the buttons to the phone to continue them in identify.
Information technology's very of import to brand sure the buttons line upward exactly with the picture.

Put pieces of the sticker record forth the inner frame of the phone.
Make clean upwards the digitizer with lint complimentary wipes or a clean microfiber towel. I used some lens cleaner to leave information technology spotless and smudge costless.

Take out the plastic from the new drinking glass, make sure you dont touch the inner side of the screen.
There are sparse protective plastic layers on both sides of the glass. Pare them out earlier placing the glass on your phone.

Check the glass against the light to make certain it is streak gratuitous earlier applying. If packaging left noticeable marks clean with glass cleaner and let dry out earlier applying
Peel off the paper from the sticker tape and put on the new glass. Printing on the edges to secure adhesion.

Decision

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse lodge.