How to fix a cracked iPhone
To those of us with new iPhone babies, we have the same worry that “real” parents do: Eventually, your child (be it squeezed from Apple or a vagina) might eventually get cracked out. Its scary, but it can happen…see below:
Poor Kevin.
However, all is not lost. Some dude on the Something Awful forums was able to fix his crack baby iPhone and give it a semi-normal life. Here’s the list of materials from his post:
Things you need:
- Razorblade (.47 cents)
- Dremel or Rotary tool (I am not working this into the price of $5, hopefully you have one of these)
- Scissors ($1.53)
- A single sheet of 1/32 of an inch thick clear plastic. This can be obtained at most hardware stores. ($3 bucks)
- Safety goggles, glasses, anything to protect your eyes (you should have this too)
- Anger, spite, and an imagination.
Here’s the synopsis of the method via Ars Technica:
[The Dude From The Forums] was able to successfully replace the cracked glass on
his iPhone with the clear plastic (although you should note that
replacing it with plastic will definitely remove the iPhone’s almost
mystical scratch-resisting abilities). He did so by scraping off the
broken glass with the razor blade, which results in a bunch of glue
stuck to the LCD behind the glass. This is where some good old Goo Gone
came in. Once the glue was removed, he measured out the plastic to the
perfect proportions and rounded the corners with the dremel. Hey, no
one said this process was for the faint of heart, folks.
Now like all recovering crack-heads, the iPhone can go on a have a good life, but it still just “ain’t right.” For instance, the touchscreen works, but like stated above, its not even remotely scratch resistant. Still the best thing to do is keep your little iPhone baby off crack, but if he does fall in to that crowd, now you can kinda fix him…but he’ll never be able to get a better job than working at that car wash down the street and you will kinda have to support him for the rest of your life…and he will always have to wear one of those helmets with a chin strap and a headlight on top.
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Sky