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I stupidly managed to drop the phone and cracked the screen, anyone got any experience of either iSmash (Google's "approved" repairer) or Google's own repair service?
iSmash about £95, Google around £140.
It is practically a new phone, am tempted to go "official". Typing this through the tears, clearly 🙁 😉
I smashed my Pixel a few weeks ago. I Smash was £100 or something. A local phone repair place did it for £60.
It is possible to DIY. There's a guy on YouTube - jerryrigeverything. He does some teardowns of various phones and called the 3a a very repairable phone. One of the reasons I got one.
With 23 months to go on a 24 month contract, I am very reluctant to take any chances on a nearly-new phone to be honest.
What are places like Timpsons like for this sort of thing? Any more security than a bloke in the shopping mall?
Like I say, with a phone this new I am keen to not eff it up by taking too much of a short cut for the sake of a few quid. Is this missing a trick? (DIY approach aside).
I'd not touch a local place as you'll end up with a b grade OLED/digitizer non dragontail glass unit that'll break again and won't end up being ip68 rated any more.
Official everytime as you'll still have your phone warranty.
Pixel is totally repairable like onzadog says but it's essentially built up from the screen, rather than the screen being built onto the front of the phone- so there's a lot involved in getting there.
If you go to an independent, make sure they can get the parts- some 3a components are in short supply apparently. (I only know this becuase I'm getting a Pixel 3 repaired right now, and the durn fool idjit doing the parts ordering has slowed the entire thing up by thinking it's a 3a, and has run into these stock issues)
I’d not touch a local place as you’ll end up with a b grade OLED/digitizer non dragontail glass unit that’ll break again and won’t end up being ip68 rated any more.
This is the sort of thing I need to hear TBH.
Official everytime as you’ll still have your phone warranty.
I wonder if the warranty still applies if I use iSmash (who are listed as the approved third party repairer) - I'll ask on their support chat thing maybe.