Owen, so glad you live near me, so I know where to bring the doll to be fixed!
On May 10, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > An adventure right here in river city! > > I recently cracked my iPhone 4s screen. I'm not sure if it was caused by a > drop, or by my carrying my phone in my pants front pockets .. and bumping a > door or something. I was surprised by the crack until I read that iPhone 4 > glass breaks are 82% higher than the earlier iPhone 3gs after 4 months of > use. (This from a warrantee company) > > The usual "fix" is to trade it in for a new phone, getting replacement value > for your broken phone .. i.e. a cost of $200 and hassling with Apple and > Verizon. > > I started to look for alternatives and was surprised how many you-tube videos > showed how to "tear down" the iPhone (and most others as well, this is a > general problem). And there are kits from places like iFixIt and iCracked > that are do-it-yourself. > > iCracked is a recent Y-Combinator award winner .. VC money with a fascinating > business model: they train folks all over the US so that they immediately > became a large company with hundreds of local repair people. They have three > modes for customers getting their phone fixed: 1: mail in to iCracked central > and get it fixed a few days, 2: find a local repair person (there are 3 in > Albuquerque!) or 3: DIY kit. > > Here's their DIY video: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXTWp6bd6Y&feature=related > > Normally I wouldn't think much about DYI but with computers and phones > getting smaller and smaller, they are costlier to do simple thing like > repairing batteries etc. Heck .. I decided to buy some tools, buy the kit, > and see if its possible. > > Well, it seems to have worked! I just stitched up the patient and its doing > OK, apparently. We'll see after a few days if there are any oddities. > > As a side note, it turns out teens here in Santa Fe are doing this for pay. > One neighbor mentioned a classmate charging $40 + parts cost for screen > repairs, so its not a bad business. > > Here are some pix: > A picture of the work space: > http://backspaces.net/temp/PhoneFix/Panorama.jpg > The tool setup, showing a ridged work surface to make sure parts and screws > don't get lost! > http://backspaces.net/temp/PhoneFix/Tools.jpg > A closeup of the above, showing the chart used of the steps for the tear-down. > http://backspaces.net/temp/PhoneFix/ToolsNChart.jpg > A view of the instructional video .. a really great tool! > http://backspaces.net/temp/PhoneFix/Video.jpg > > Now to attack my Macbook Air! > > -- Owen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." Charles Dickens, opening lines of David Copperfield
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