[Closed] DIY phone repair

No, but interested, contemplating trying to replace screen/digitiser on my old Experia Z1 Compact, use it as a GPS for rides longer than the battery life of my Edge 25.

Had seen people using hot air guns (could steal my dad's old one) hairdriers (even easier) or those microwaveable bean bag things that I already own three of. Did you rule out any of the above for any reason?

Mine is used but there are plenty of cheap ones on ebay, they all look to be the same unit.  Seems far better than chancing it with heat guns etc.  Those things look hit and miss, easy to cook the screen or cool down too fast.

I'm interested in this. I've cracked both the back cover and the screen on my Z3 compact and would be interested in any feedback about how easy it is to replace them.

I changed the charging port on an iPhone. I watched a youtube video of someone doing it and thought it didn't look too hard.  I had no problems and will definitely do it again if I need to. To get to the charging port you have to take most things out, so I'd feel comfortable changing a screen, which was the first thing to remove.

I did my iPad screen recently using a hot air gun. I was a bit careful, it wasn’t any real drama.

Replcebase do a good selection of small and perfectly adequate tools alongside loads of spares.

My experience has been mixed. Easy things like back glass on iPhone 4S and batteries were ... easy. Front glass experiment on another 4S resulted in a trip to the bin. The much cracked front glass was much harder to remove (lots of attachment lugs) and there was the “touch sensitive bit” and cables. Now it should be joted that I am not the most handy person. Also my other issue is that you don’t really know the qualitynof the replacement parts you are using so whole excersize is risky with no clear knowledge what you are using are any good.