A couple of ‘before and after’ pics showing the struggle to resurrect my broken iPad.
This is how my iPad looked like after falling from the 2nd floor. The feelings are… I almost wrote ‘indescribable’, but quite honestly, I can describe them feelings pretty damn well: stupid clumsy idiotic looser. That’s what you think about yourself after dropping your precious toy in such a crazy way.
Probably the most heavily damaged area of the glass. With such scale of damage, you cannot just open the glass ‘as a book’ (actually, it’s a kind of a term). You have to cut the glass out with a knife. Literally.
Here you see my iPad 3 ‘opened as a book’. Which means that the most difficult work is behind you. The touch screen (on the left) is ready to be removed, as well as the LCD screen (on the right). Actually, first goes the LCD screen with its connector, and then the Digitizer glass along with its own connector. Easy.
Basically the last step of repairing the broken glass on my poor iPad: the cracked glass has been removed. The only 2 things remaining are putting back the LCD screen and replacing the new Digitizer touch screen glass. Which is peanuts comparing to what’s been done earlier.
And this is how it looks in the end: like nothing happened. iPad is repaired, and it feels just freaking great. Repairing it by yourself is not about money, it’s about loosing this way too bitter aftertaste of being that clumsy idiot who managed to drop his iPad from the second floor. By the way, even after such kind of damage, the thing works just as fine as before. Which says something about its quality.
