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The front panel assembly, including the digitizer, ear speaker, and home button, can be replaced on the iPhone 3GS.
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If your display glass is cracked, keep further breakage contained and prevent bodily harm during your repair by taping the glass.
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Lay overlapping strips of clear packing tape over the iPhone's display until the whole face is covered.
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Remove the two Phillips #00 screws from the dock-connector end of the iPhone.
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Remove the metal handle from the suction cup. It's easier and safer to grip the suction cup's base instead of the metal handle.
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Use a small suction cup near the Home button to gently pull up the lower portion of the iPhone's display assembly.
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Rotate the display assembly up until it is at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.
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Continue to hold the display assembly with one hand, and use your other hand and a spudger to disconnect the black ribbon cable labeled "1."
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Ribbon cable "1" is connected with a plug style connector. The block at the end of the cable is the plug which is simply pushed into a socket on the circuit board. No other locking mechanism is used.
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Rotate the display assembly up until it is roughly vertical. This will allow easier access for disconnecting the remaining cables.
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Use a spudger to disconnect the black ribbon cable labeled "2."
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Slide the ribbon cable out of the connector, and remove the display assembly from the iPhone.
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Remove the single Phillips #00 screw from the corner of the display assembly.
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Remove the two Phillips #00 screws from the right side of the display assembly.
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Turn the display around, and if there is a thin strip of black tape on the edge of the display assembly, carefully peel it up.
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Remove the three Phillips #00 screws from the left side of the display assembly.
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Turn the display assembly over and again carefully insert a metal spudger between the two metal rails along the edge of the display assembly. Gently rotate the spudger to lift the LCD up from the glass.
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Separate the LCD and glass by sliding the LCD panel away from the ribbon cables on the glass.
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Front Panel Assembly remains.
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do not forget to remove the smart cart!!
if less than an hour to remove and replace the new front panel.
sylval1 - crwdns2934203:0crwdne2934203:0 crwdns2950251:0crwdne2950251:0
tf? what is the smart cart?
Crystal Haugh - crwdns2934203:0crwdne2934203:0 crwdns2950251:0crwdne2950251:0
The hardest parts are separating the glass from the plastics and then re-attaching it. It would do you well to buy the 'custom' double sided sticky tape they sell here at ifixit. I used regular double sided tape and it took a long time to cut and fit properly so all sensors would remain working and the screen would be held in place.
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If your screen is severely damaged, there is no way to separate the digitizer from the outside glass without destroying the digitizer, is there? I couldn't do it. Also, nail polish remover is good for getting rid of the adhesive!
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Be careful putting the new screen back in. I got almost all the way to done and everything was working perfectly - then I had trouble getting the bottom portion of the assembly (near the home button) back in.
I forced it a bit thinking I had squeeze it in and cracked the new screen. Doh.
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