- This topic has 4 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 1 week ago by
.
-
Posts
-
I got my 7 year old grandson a Dell Venue 7 tablet for Christmas, he had it about two days, when he accidentally dropped it and cracked the screen so bad that it wouldn’t work. I bought him another one. I decided to keep the one he dropped and maybe get it fixed, as a spare.
I put it on top of the refrigerator and pretty much forgot about it. A couple of weeks ago, my wife was cleaning and found it. She told me if I wasn’t going to get it fixed she was going to throw it out. I fired up my internet, and found a replacement screen on ebay, googled for instructions on replacing the screen, and decided to give it a whirl. I figured that I didn’t have anything to lose, by trying to replace the screen. It was the first time that I had ever tried to repair anything electronic.
The operation was a success, the patient made a full functional recovery. I did end up with a row/column of dead pixels on the right hand edge. I can live with that. I am calling it a win.
Glad to hear about the win! We had a similar experience with a run-of-the-mill, year-old Windows laptop we bought used…for $25 😎 . The previous owners dropped it, broke the screen, and apparently thought it was too much trouble to fix it. We replaced the screen, and voila, fully functioning laptop!
There is a small download that will sometimes fix stuck pixels. I had a few on a new monitor, and it fixed them. I can’t remember what it’s called, but if you search for ‘stuck pixel fix’ you should find it.
Congrats on the DIY! I replaced the battery in my iPod Touch and it was a right pain in the tuchies. It didn’t help that I managed to tear the hair thin cable that the instructions explicitly warn about not tearing. Then had to wait a month for shipping. I’ve never been afraid of this kind of job and have an electronics background, but next time I’m paying someone else to do it.
The web site ifixit has instructions on how to dismantle all sorts of consumer tech gear for these kinds of repairs, and parts are surprisingly cheap on amazon.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.