I'd like to say I was surprised when I shattered the screen of my iPhone 5S, but that screen had it coming. It had endured countless run-ins with sidewalks and tile floors and a few accidental acrobatic trips across the room. Finally, it was a 2-foot drop onto my driveway that did in the display. Sure, you could use a broken iPhone as an opportunity/excuse to go ahead and upgrade to the. You can have Apple fix your device—which isn't cheap.

It is possible for the LCD glass to have a flaw or slight crack and heat/cold or vibration can cause it to crack fully much like a car windscreen! Being a touch screen makes no difference! Such phones have a normal LCD with a 'digitizer' overlaying the screen, if anything this adds a small margin of protection! Motorola is thinking about a day where phones can heal their own cracks. Motorola patented a display that can heal its own cracked screen with heat. Cracked your phone's screen? How to fix a broken touchscreen. Too much heat will damage the display.

If you don't have Apple Care (I don't now), pricing for an iPhone 5S screen replacement at the store is $269 [ Editor's note: Apple has changed and will now do a 5S screen replacement for $129]. With Apple Care+ for iPhone (which costs $99 up front), you're looking at $79 per replacement. Or, you can fix your screen at home on your own. For $94.95, with the parts (iPhone 6 parts not available yet!) and all the tools you need to replace the screen at home on your own. Sims 1 Hacked Objects Skills Software.

Online, there's a step-by-step guide to handling the process and even a video to guide you. So, I gave it a shot.

The Parts To take apart your iPhone you need to have an arsenal of tools. Specifically, a Phillips #000 screwdriver, Pentalobe iPhone screwdriver, tweezers, a spudger, and a plastic tool to crack the thing open. If you do any electronics work, then you probably own a few of those already, but some are speciality items. The iFixIt kit comes with most of them, including a suction cup attached to a keyring for pulling your screen up. It works, and if you think this will be your only gadget-repair rodeo, then it'll do. Imac Ati Radeon Hd 4850 Driver Update.

However, if butterfingers runs in your family, you might want to consider investing in an iSclack. It's essentially two suction cups on an apparatus that makes opening your phone easier and ensures that you don't pop the screen off too fast and damage the inside. I also had a more extensive toolkit on hand and found myself frequently grabbing for those tools over the ones included in the repair kit—especially the tweezers, which aren't included in the iFixit kit but are definitely something you'll want. Easy Does It.

The first step in any iPhone repair is unscrewing the two small screws beside the Lightning connector. Once that's done, you pop the top off your phone using the suction cup device that came in the kit.

My screen was so cracked when I started to hit it with the suction cup, I couldn't get a good seal. The few times I got a partial seal I pulled up small pieces of glass. A massacre even. Pulling up the screen took around 30 minutes. In the end, I succeeded only because I managed to wedge the plastic opening-tool iFixIt sent along under the base. Be as gentle as possible during this step.

The home button is attached at the bottom of the phone near where you're pulling. Pull too hard and you could permanently damage the cable. Dismantling the Phone. Taking apart your iPhone is.

Surprisingly easy. Yes, there are a ton of parts, and they're small. Vector Untuk Corel Draw. But actually removing them all isn't difficult. I used a magnetic board from iFixit to keep all my parts together, which is a must-have if you plan to tackle this kind of repair.

Any container with a good number of compartments you can label should do the trick. Did I mention these screws are small? My magnetic board let me write on it exactly what screws went where and belonged to what, which was crucial information when it came to putting everything back together. The screws that are part of the logic board assembly in particular are a bit tricky.