Ressurecting A Smartphone

On a Thursday night, I got an unpleasant surprise. My smartphone's touchscreen damaged, I guess because I carelessly bumped it to the truck in our workshop when my men were loading reinforcement steel bars for our Jawa Tengah Area project.

One third of the screen looked like it has been smashed with something that left the liquid crystal splattered all over the screen. I got a hard time reading my contact book that night. And I curse my carelessness.

So the next day I resort to my Siemens candy bar phone that I haven't been used for almost half a year. Yes, I got another phone that I haven't use for two years now.

Anyway, I asked a colleague to try to something that could (probably) helped ressurecting my PDA from near death. Thankfully, he agreed. Here is the story in pictures:


He opened the back and plug out the battery.


Then he tried pulling out the upper back case and thus reveal the camera protector.




Then he pried open the back case entirely and now we got to see the circuit board. But now we realized that the backside case can't be released because there were two small wire attached to the speaker that were glued to the case. And the space was so tiny we got an opening only a couple of centimeter.




Since we got no pincers at hand, we had to resort to nail clippers. Surely a mind-boggling exercise that required a certain level of dexterity with hands.

After that, he tried to open the front-side case because that's where the LCD were being attached to.


Here was the front side of my smartphone with the LCS still attached to it. Next we had to pry it loose. Hmm....


Not that hard though, here is the circuit board, removed from the case and the LCD.


And here is the LCD that need to be replaced.

So we went to ITC Roxy that afternoon and went hunting for sparepart kiosks that were scattered among the 5 floor of the building. We had to bargain for the replacement for half an hour just to get Rp.50.000,00 discount.




Back to the office, we get my trashed PDA and then start working on it again -- he did the pick-up and I did the documentation.


Here was the replacement ready to be installed.


Here was half of the PDA (the backside) and both of the LCD screen.


Here was another part of the PDA (the circuit board where the LCD screen had to be attached to).


We tried to temporarily attached the LCD screen to the circuit board then inserted the battery to the terminal and then turn it on. Voila! It lighted up!

Hooray!!!


Here was the front side of the PDA with the new LCD screen were being firmly installed.


And here was the pair ready to be reinstalled again. I was impatiently waiting for the moment of revelation...


He carefully attached both parts including the wiring for the speaker. Using the same nail clipper to push it into the proper terminal.


Carefully, slowly, deliberately, reattached both parts. Then after put the screws back, inserted the battery and turn the unit on.


Hallelujah!

My smartphone live again!!!

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