My S3 glass has Cracked.....How hard is it to replace ?

kona786 · 9 Mar 2013 at 20:13

Nephew's was bare back no case mate. It looks like it been through a World War.

The fact that it still works is impressive.

Peerzy · 9 Mar 2013 at 20:33

chaparral said:
Ouch...

I guess am a little more lucky with mine as it only a single crack from one side to the other side..
I still haven't done anything or ordered anything to try fix it mine yet..

Picture of mine

That's exactly how mine was, be very very careful. Mine was like that for about 2 months and then one day the phone was fine when I put it in my pocket and came out with purple and green liquid all over the screen. I could just about use it but within 12 hours the backlight had died and you couldn't use the phone at all.

Budget for a replacement screen or phone soon.

Peerzy · 9 Mar 2013 at 20:34

Nexus18 said:
Friends GS 3 is also badly cracked (+ water damage) so I am selling it to mazuma for £110 and going to probably get her the nexus 4. Haven't got a photo but this is what hers sort of looks like:

Last time I looked all those phone recycling places specifically exclude water damaged phones.

Nexus18 · 9 Mar 2013 at 20:44

All of them do except mazuma.

chaparral · 9 Mar 2013 at 22:17

Nexus18 said:
Hopefully Samsung will have changed the design in that respect so it isn't as easy to break when dropped i.e. not have the glass extending right to the edge.

The crack in my S3 screen from not caused by being it dropped.

It cracked while it was in my back pocket of my jeans

and it was also in one these S3 leather pouches
http://www.amazon.co.uk/GENUINE-SAM...B9BC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1362867585&sr=8-4

SoliD · 10 Mar 2013 at 12:16

Can't believe the build quality of these, my old Desire HD is built out of unobtanium compared to these, have dropped it numerous times and it has a few chunks of the Alu missing and few scratches.

kona786 · 10 Mar 2013 at 13:08

SoliD said:
Can't believe the build quality of these, my old Desire HD is built out of unobtanium compared to these, have dropped it numerous times and it has a few chunks of the Alu missing and few scratches.

you pay the price for an all glass front - which looks 10x better than my old desire. That thing feels dated to say the least. If your worried about dropping it get a gel case.

chaparral · 10 Mar 2013 at 17:10

SoliD said:
Can't believe the build quality of these, my old Desire HD is built out of unobtanium compared to these, have dropped it numerous times and it has a few chunks of the Alu missing and few scratches.

My HTC's Dersire & Sensation had taken a little bit of a hammering during there life as well and there screens never cracked......

Iraklis F.C. · 10 Mar 2013 at 19:42

wow, where do work dude, are you a miner?

chaparral · 10 Mar 2013 at 20:02

Iraklis F.C. said:
wow, where do work dude, are you a miner?

That pretty Close

I work for a waste company fixing & doing Maintenance on there heavy plant machinery ( diggers (Excavators), loaders, 15ton shredder ,fixed machinery etc)

Iraklis F.C. · 10 Mar 2013 at 20:50

well these phones certainly look like they have been through the shredder mate

VIPER258 · 11 Mar 2013 at 01:39

Scratches on that phone are crazy

G-MAN2004 · 15 Mar 2013 at 19:42

Fixed it today. Took me 5 hours! Managed to scratch the LCD a few times, but you can only see them when the phone is turned off. Will get some pics up in a bit.

tom_e · 15 Mar 2013 at 20:01

5 hours!? I'd of launched it through the window well before then!

G-MAN2004 · 16 Mar 2013 at 11:50

tom_e said:
5 hours!? I'd of launched it through the window well before then!

The glass just refused to come off, regardless of how long I used the heat gun. Horribly frustrating!

Ever since the repair though, my phone has been freezing constantly. I'm not sure if it's a result of heating my phone too much or something. :confused:

I have to hold the power button down to fix it.

chaparral · 17 Mar 2013 at 12:17

G-MAN2004 said:
Ever since the repair though, my phone has been freezing constantly. I'm not sure if it's a result of heating my phone too much or something. I have to hold the power button down to fix it.

Don't worry as it upgrade time very soon as in about 5 to 6 weeks the new Galaxy S4 will be out .....

englishpremier · 30 May 2013 at 16:34

Tears before bedtime.

I dropped mine today onto a concrete floor. Phone works fine but the outer glass is shattered.

I haven't been able to find a decent number for samsung to get in touch with them about paying for it to be replaced.

Might as well replace the chasiss at the same time. Does this look look legit? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-S...K_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item2a2ca86df5