Damaged Ipod Touch

Nelson Santos · 14 Aug 2011 at 17:13

My brother decided to take my ipod touch out with his friends with out telling me and came home with the resulting damage.

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As you can see the damage is quite bad in the top left hand side of the sceen, but the LCD seems to be okay. The only problem is the metal casing has been bent. If i bought a screen replacement, and bent the metal back myself would this work?

Also i have seen loads of replacement sceens but unsure which to get, and what tools to get to repair it my self.

Any help would be appreciated.

whitecrook · 14 Aug 2011 at 17:17

Youll never get it back the way it was. Why doesnt you bro buy you a new one.

U mad bro?

The__Malteser · 14 Aug 2011 at 17:18

I'd smash my bro if he did that to me.

Nelson Santos · 14 Aug 2011 at 17:34

whitecrook said:
Youll never get it back the way it was. Why doesnt you bro buy you a new one.

U mad bro?

He is doing, but wont be able to for at least 2 months, just wondering if i could repair it to a reasonable working condition so i can use it.

Hyburnate · 14 Aug 2011 at 17:42

The__Malteser said:
I'd smash my bro if he did that to me.

Same, I'd make his face look like that

whitecrook · 14 Aug 2011 at 20:52

just gaffer tape it for now. It'll be alreet.

oli356 · 15 Aug 2011 at 07:57

Hyburnate said:
Same, I'd make his face look like that

yup.... he get a hammer on it?

Vonhelmet · 15 Aug 2011 at 10:29

What the hell did he do to it?

NightShadow · 15 Aug 2011 at 21:28

Best bet would be to get a water damaged one off of Ebay and swapping the innards IMO.

MikeHunt79 · 15 Aug 2011 at 23:48

How on earth did he manage that? Is your bother friends with FPSRussia?

I would look at getting a new digitiser, frame, and home button assembly, these are around £30 I think... With the tools it's not too hard to do, if a little fiddly.

Im' guessing that the back part it stainless steel, so you can try bending it back, it won't look great but at least it will be functional.

Nelson Santos · 16 Aug 2011 at 14:12

Vonhelmet said:
What the hell did he do to it?

He claims that he dropped it off the mantelpiece but i doubt it would do that much damage, looks like he stood on it with football boots.

Ordered a new screen, and i am going to try bending it back into possition so that it looks reasonably ok. Just got to wait untill he buys new a new one, to get it back to the condition it was in.

Andy90 · 16 Aug 2011 at 14:28

Its obviously been dropped end on since you can see where the cracks all radiate from.

I doubt as others have said that you will be able to bend the metal back properly since its always going to have some dents, but a new screen would make it useable.

Get your brother to get you a new one and why not get something like an Otterbox case to fit around the old one, you'll never see the dents on the sides then - give him the old one

ns400r · 17 Aug 2011 at 16:11

That has been broken by someone attempting to remove the screen. The initial screen break might have been caused by a drop but someone has tried to jemmy the screen off.

L33 · 17 Aug 2011 at 16:20

ns400r said:
That has been broken by someone attempting to remove the screen. The initial screen break might have been caused by a drop but someone has tried to jemmy the screen off.

The metal frame tends to 'peak' out like that when these devices are dropped on a corner, something has to give and the metal bends outwards. Same happened to my old ipad, looked like someone had tried to crowbar it open!

Nelson Santos · 19 Aug 2011 at 13:53

ns400r said:
That has been broken by someone attempting to remove the screen. The initial screen break might have been caused by a drop but someone has tried to jemmy the screen off.

No-one has tried to take the screen off, i wont do that untill my new screen has arrived.

MikeHunt79 · 19 Aug 2011 at 14:46

Nelson Santos said:
He claims that he dropped it off the mantelpiece but i doubt it would do that much damage, looks like he stood on it with football boots.

Unless the mantlepiece was on top the Eiffel tower then I'd have a hard job believing that... I agree it looks more crushed than dropped...

Mr Spew · 19 Aug 2011 at 19:13

Nah, that's what they look like when dropped - used to buy/sell/repair hundreds of iPod touch units myself (returned using the Argos accidental damage warranty) - fun times.