My wife dropped her HTC One - X from waist height onto the pavement yesterday and to our surprise the glass screen has shattered like a bolt of forked lightning. You can still use the phone although the touch screen is a little unresponsive in places
Does anyone know how much it costs for HTC to repair this fault?
I have spoken to them, but I have to send the phone in first for diagnosis and if I decide the quote that materialises is too much I have to pay them £25 to send the phone back to me.
I believe the phone requires the digitizer only so how much would I be looking at? I am trying to ascertain if I should go through home insurance or just fork out the money myself.
It's worth me mentioning I did purchase a supposedely new glass screen digitizer from ebay for under £30 to fit myself, but on inspecting the replacement screen it is full of scratches and looks used so I am requesting a refund. These screens could be cheap Chinese knock off's which aren't made of Gorilla Glass, although that didn't stop my original one from cracking on an innocuous waist height fall.
I think its best to get HTC to fix the fault given my current experience, but open to options from you guys?
Last edited by saltyzip; June 1st, 2012 at 04:55 AM.
I would let HTC replace the screen . coworker smash his ,brought replacement screen, this phone is not so easily to replace the screen.
go to this website called www.htcpedians.com they show you how to replace the screen
Is this British pounds? Wow that is 221 USD. Hardly seems worth it.
I ordered a Galaxy S4 which is coming tomorrow, but I was thinking of having mine repaired to have as an extra phone and for travel, but for 299 I can get a Nexus 4. It will be brand new and unlocked. I think I'll do that.
Last edited by alderran; April 24th, 2013 at 05:59 PM.
Don't know if this will help (as I'm in Australia), but I was looking for a HTC One X for my wife a while ago as I really liked mine and she needed something better, and decided to find one with a broken screen and fix it. It may look like a monumental task to fix one but watch the youtube videos a few times for the teardown/rebuild and it is easier than some of the older phones. With that in mind I got a lcd/digitizer combination for about $85, I would do this rather than just replace digitizer as it can be a bit messy. If you do decide to do it yourself, I would recommend getting a new lcd frame for the lcd/digitizer to sit in, as it has new adhesive, as using the old adhesive you run the risk of the digitizer popping up on the sides and it's easy enough to transfer your cables that are stuck down to your old frame over. I had never done this before, but after a bit of trial and error plus youtube, I now look for broken one X's on ebay and gumtree and have no problems fixing broken screens (plus now flash custom roms). Also as a guide to cost to having a phone place replace glass/screen here, it is anywhere around $200AU
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