Tuesday, September 27, 2011

My iPhone

The front screen of my iPhone has been broken again by the Hazeline bottle on the 16th September. By again, I mean that this is the second time. My blog was dead before so I did not post it up about it. The first crack was that my iPhone slipped out from my pocket while I was exiting my dad's vehicle and it hit the concrete stone floor where cars moves.

yep, this bottle dropped from my top cupboard
and maybe the impact and direction is like this
My initial reaction was ARGH and I tweeted in full caps and was swearing about it. However, less than 30min, I was cooled off and now currently still using it like nothing has ever happened. The crack wasn't so bad compared to previous one as it didn't hinder much of the visual part of the LCD.

Next I thought, if I have to bring to 3rd party mobile phone shops to repair this screen, it will cost another S$160 to S$180. Fuck that yea. So I decided to look for alternative and that is DIY! After researching much, I realised the replaced screen wasn't even original. There is actually a little gap in between the silver frame and the front assembly plus the proximity sensor does not work, lol. With that kind of price for repair, they earn about S$130. Well I know it's business, but what the heck as a consumer we want lowest as possible. Ugh, the fucking irony. Oh another thing, I actually wanted to bring back the phone to telco to replace my current unit with another one due to the battery dying out and also my home button is totally unresponsive. As for the fact that my warranty is left with a month. But screw that as it's pointless to replace now. Just another irony.

So I already bought the parts and tools. All I have to do is to wait for it to ship here and I can start replacing - to WHITE! Heh.

Oh yes, the gap that I was talking about. Front compared to back. Probably not so obvious to the camera, but it's really obvious to the naked eye. And because of that I was kind of afraid to let my phone comes in contact with water, even just the surface.