[kwlug-disc] OT: Where to replace cell phone screen?

[B.S.]

Non-user replaceable may not mean what one might intuitively thinks it means.

I have a UPS with such a battery. Open up the case and it's a battery much like any other - slip the leads off, the new battery in, and voila.

Turns out non-replaceable also has to do with no nice convenient cover to open, and even if present, also means the compartment isn't walled off so small fingers can't stick where they shouldn't.

In this case, easily user replaceable, but doesn't meet code to be labelled as such.

I suspect if you open your phone you will find a standard battery, albeit probably soldered in, but otherwise easily switched. (You proved with OTA that you're not as inept as you like to think you might be.)

Google and/or ebay your phone and battery and you will probably find instructions you are willing to follow. (YouTube has been amazing for videos of such openings.)

As the holiday gift giving season is upon us, perhaps you can hand it down to a little one sooner than you expected.


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> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 8:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] OT: Where to replace cell phone screen?
> 
>On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
>
>Hi all: Is there a place in KW to get a cell phone screen replaced?
>>Vendor wants $150 (which I think sounds reasonable).  Asking for a
friend. Really.
>>
>>Have we discussed this on the list before?
>>
>>- --Bob, who may not have been paying attention.
>>
>
>Please post what you end up doing. 
>
>I have a phone with a non-user replaceable battery that is otherwise fine, and will make a nice hand me down for a little one.