Take your time and always be relaxed. Make sure you have a clean desk with enough free room. Make sure unwanted people or pets cannot disrupt your repair. Make notes of your process (its fun and useful).

Answered here 😃 😃

(Please everyone use safety glasses during disassembly. Prevented glass shatters in my one remaining good eye!)

Hi all,

I need some advice. I’m at step 28 where the guide says “Remove any tape obscuring the LCD screws”. Instead of just peeling back a small part, I wrongly removed the entire tape, all around the display 😬 I don’t know what got into me, but after spending several hours on removing the broken digitizer I got a little enthusiastic by the ease of this removal.

So my question is: Should I replace the tape? And if so with what? And why was it there anyway?

Another question: there’s a thick layer of the residue from the old digitizer tape. How to best remove it? Using IPA and a cotton swab takes ages and forces some glue down in the frame.

Third question: how to best clean the display? There’s some sticky debris on it.

(Why it took me so long: the glass was broken a lot and to small pieces. Also repairing in 2D instead of 3D takes ages. Also I did not heat enough. I learnt not to stress and it helps!)