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Re:25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone sc... by hippich on Sunday June 23, 2013 @07:23PM (#5929994)
i believe iphone 4s and 5 have welded glass or something making it much harder to replace alone. as a result usually they replace lcd+glass which make it much more expensive.
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Re:25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone sc... by aliston on Sunday June 23, 2013 @07:53PM (#5930103)
You can generally buy the digitizer + lcd on ebay for about 30 bucks. It's a lot of small screws, but really not too difficult to swap out. Took me about 45 minutes.
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Re:25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone sc... by m-r-a-m on Monday June 24, 2013 @12:36AM (#5931006)
For any phone I would recommend buying the digitizer/lcd combined. It's such a pain to separate the two (on phones where it's even possible) and only slightly more expensive.
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