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Samsung Galaxy S II Front Glass/Digitizer Replacement

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    • We have a Samsung Galaxy S II with broken screen.

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    • Remove your battery, the SIM card and the SD card.

    • Remove the 7 screws highlighted in red.

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    • Use a plastic tool to remove the rear housing.

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    • The mother board is held by 2x screws. Remove them.

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    • Remove the cables that are highlighted in red, before continuing to the screen.

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    • Release the side buttons. The arrow will point you to where they are.

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    • Careful release the motherboard from it's housing.

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    • At this moment if you have touch screen with LCD and frame like spare part you are ready for replacing.

    • We will continue with disassembling LCD and Touch from the frame. Now preheat it before removing!

    • Use a hot air to soften the adhesive enough to remove the glass.

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    • With a cutter, make a room for a plastic tool, then continue with separating the Touchscreen & LCD Display from the frame.

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    • Be careful with the menu buttons flex cable in the bottom side of the touchscreen. You must release it before separating the digitizer from the frame.

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    • Now, use a suction tool to remove the screen from it's housing. Be careful when doing this, to prevent possible injury.

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    • Clean the frame from the remains of tape.

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    • Test the new spare part before reassembling.

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    • Install the LCD&Digitiser on it's housing.

    • Many times the spare parts come without adhesive tape. In this situation you'll need to install double sided adhesive tape yourself. Also you can easy find adhesive sticker exactly for the model.

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    • To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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9 Comments

I attempted to replace the display glass alone on a Virgin Mobile Galaxy SII, and was unsuccessful. Removing the Glass from the Digitizer proved to be extremely difficult. It seems as if the Virgin Mobile version of the SII is not meant for repair, so easily.

Edward Weissbard - Reply

Yes, removing the glass is very difficult and you must have some experience from before.

ZFix - Reply

To moderators: please un-archive this guide: there's no replacement or "updated version of the guide" among the current guides.

yurkennis - Reply

To moderators :

please there is a photo of a babe in the video tutorial and in the photo tutorial, not for children.

Frederic Morelli - Reply

how much the cost in replacement display with fame.....samsung galaxy s2

Bhola Shrestha - Reply

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