RIP, Lumia 920 screen. You were a worthy foe.

[MadOx75]

Let me preface this by saying that I'm really, really rough on my phones. I've got some nerve damage in my hand, so I tend to drop it every so often. When I had my iPhone, I solved this by putting it in an Otterbox Defender. The 920 was a bit bulky to begin with, so I didn't want to add a case and make it any bulkier. Its fallen out of my hands a few times and been none the worse for the wear, even when I dropped it on my tile kitchen floor. I honestly worried for my tile.

Well, that all came to a spectacular end today. I set my phone down on the raised ledge that goes around my kitchen counter this morning while I was getting my son ready for school. I don't know if he bumped into the ledge or if I just didn't place it squarely on there, but I was across the room and heard the very solid contact of my phone with the tile floor... I went over hopeful that the Lumia fared as well as it had in the past, but unfortunately, it wasn't to be. The screen shattered in quite magnificent fashion.

Here's the ledge that it fell off of. Probably a 4.5-5 ft drop.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=A81AAEA29BFE08B2!5889&authkey=!AJFnDufXrMCeRpI

And here's my poor Lumia. Excuse the crappy picture, I had to take it with my iPad.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=A81AAEA29BFE08B2!5890&authkey=!AEJf-DXn9Kq-0UM

*edit* When I click the links I posted, it brings me right to my public gallery, not the pictures themselves. Not sure if its doing that for you folks too, but the pics are in there.

 

[stmav]

I was able to see them. Sorry for your 920. That was a decent sized drop.

 

[metalchick719]

Ugh, that's terrible... Sorry that happened to you. That's been one of my fears ever since I got my first touchscreen phone (iPhone 4). I just ordered a Lumia 920 myself and am so afraid of that happening to me.

 

[Funky Cricket]

It is also why I always get TEP. My wife fell down the stairs (she was fine), but had her phone in her hand, and smashed it to bits. 100 bucks and 2 days later, another phone.

 

[MadOx75]

Mine is my work phone, so I don't get choices on insurance. My choice is to pay out of pocket for an unlocked phone or suck it up and deal with it. It still works, so I'm going to deal with it.

 

[svenhassel]

It is also why I always get TEP.

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TEP Technology Enhancement Program (various locations)
* TEP Technology Enterprise Park (Atlanta, GA)
* TEP Technical Engineering Plan (US DoD)
* TEP Teacher Education Program (various locations)
* TEP Teacher Education Programme (various locations)
* TEP Teacher Exchange Program
* TEP Tropical Eastern Pacific
* TEP Trust and Estate Practitioner
* TEP Transportation Enhancement Program

What is TEP???

 

[Len2K620]

Same thing happened to me about two weeks ago... I posted a thread today "plasti dipped Lumia 920", I feel your pain... I purchased a screen digitizer off eBay and replaced it myself for $52...

 

[Laura Knotek]

???????????????

TEPTechnology Enhancement Program (various locations)
*TEPTechnology Enterprise Park (Atlanta, GA)
*TEPTechnical Engineering Plan (US DoD)
*TEPTeacher Education Program (various locations)
*TEPTeacher Education Programme (various locations)
*TEPTeacher Exchange Program
*TEPTropical Eastern Pacific
*TEPTrust and Estate Practitioner
*TEPTransportation Enhancement Program

What is TEP???

Total Equipment Protection -- the insurance plan on mobile devices that is paid monthly on one's bill.

 

[stevethenerd]

Saddly I to shatter my 920 screen... The bill was quite hefty $200 can. Needless to say I much more careful with my phone

 

[ttsoldier]

Ouch. That sucks.

Mine fell higher than that and has two lines on the screen. Still fully functional though so I'm not changing it just yet

 

[MadOx75]

How hard was it to replace the glass? What directions, if any, did you use? I may go this route.

 

[despertador]

Aww, that absolutely SUCKS! Hopefully you can replace/fix it at minimal expenses...

 

[piepants]

Replacing the screen is fairly easy if you've done any work on small electronics before. A new glass panel is around $40-60 on eBay, but I went along the route of buying a new panel and LCD assembly for $120 which saved the effort of having to manually separate the old glass and LCD with a heat gun, and glue the new glass to the old LCD, which of course risks damaging the LCD and leaving me without a working phone.

The replacement process is fairly straightforward. There's guides out there, you just need to be patient, look after the tiny ribbon cables (there's about 4 that have to be unplugged and unglued to get the LCD/glass assembly off the mainboard), and the biggest trick I used is to get a set of jeweller's screwdrivers (very small flathead screwdrivers) and use them in the torx security screws, rather than the actual torx screwdrivers. I found the torx drivers had a tendency to slip and destroy the head of the tiny screws, especially the ones on the motherboard itself.

 

[JammyGitz]

Mine fell out of my car and slid on its screen across the car park, no scratches. I then dropped it from "texting" height and dented the corner. screen ok thought

 

[MrSean490]

If the screen still responds to touch input, I'd work with it still.