My Problem

The original problem was a shattered front panel.

My Fix

The repair worked, but along the way one very small metal prong broke off and thus the "home button" doesn't work now. Argh... more work to do.

My Advice

Be very careful, the iPhone 3GS is not very durable.

My Problem

The glass of the 3GS touchscreen digitizer was broken

My Fix

I'm very familiar of repairing iPhone Original / 3G / 3GS and recently 4 so it don't take so long to replace the digitizer

My Advice

The tricky parts are :

- Removing the broken glass from the frame, don't heat so much because it twist the plastic frame, especially near the home button.

- When you're stick the new glass, align it very well to fit with the frame and home button hole

My Problem

My 3GS would shut down when the battery showed 80%. This happened pretty suddenly. At first it would shutdown at 20%, then 60%, and within a week or two 80%. Also, we had dropped the phone and cracked the glass.

My Fix

The battery replacement gets pretty easy with practice. We had replaced 2 other batteries, so this was a breeze. The glass replacement was a little more difficult. Getting the glass seperated from the plastic frame was pretty difficult. In the end it was successful.

My Advice

If you're just going to buy the glass, make sure to buy the adhesive too. If I had it to do over again, I'd buy the whole glass/ LCD assembly and skip the hair dryer.

My Problem

My wife dropped her iPhone and shattered her front panel.

My Fix

The repair went very well and exactly how the guides walked me through the repair. Very well documented.

My Advice

If you are only going to repair the front panel I would recommend on getting the adhesive strips. They should be included or recommended. I had to use the existing strips but they do not come off very well. I would be happy to pay the $3.00 extra to have them included regardless. You should replace the Adhesive anyway.

My Problem

Although I love my iPhone 3GS, I find the front panel glass to be very fragile. That, combined with my chronic clumsiness are a bad combination. (I once had a high school football coach tell me that I had hands like feet).

My Fix

The repair went flawlessly.

My Advice

I would recommend spending a few extra dollars to buy the entire front panel assembly instead of just the glass. Using a hair dryer or heat gun to melt glue can seem like an eternity when removing the broken glass. If you're at all impatient here, you can ruin the repair job.

My Problem

My friend dropped her iPhone 3GS and the screen shattered. The touchscreen still worked so I decided it was worth fixing.

My Fix

Great! The iFixit parts and tools were just what I needed. I finished in under two hours. Using the hair dryer and scraping out the old glue were tedious, but the plastic spudger was just the right tool for glue scraping.

My Advice

Wear safety glasses while picking broken bits of glass out of the plastic frame. Do it over a piece of paper or a towel.