Finally got around to replacing the digitizing screen on the iPhone 3G …

I showed the shattered glass a while ago, and I ordered the replacement screen at that time. It arrived in a week and I found that it did not include the sticky stuff that holds the screen to the plastic frame that holds the LED panel.

So … I ordered that a month later from a separate vendor on eBay in Canada and received that about a week later. I waited again for a long time because I know what a hassle this job is, but I finally decided to tackle it this evening.

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You can see the plastic frame closest to the edge of the mat.

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It has the excellent 3M sticky bits on it waiting to have the treated cardboard barrier removed for the glass. The new digitizer is still in the bubble wrap sitting below the old smashed digitizer. Just beyond the main case.

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The steel dish you see in the foreground is magnetic. These are available in dollar stores for a couple of bucks and you really want one of these to catch all the tiny screws that would be otherwise lost.

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The various tools occupying the rest of the place mat are those that I have received over the last few years rebuilding various iPods and iPhones. The plastic tools are rib spreaders case tools for separating the case from the plastic holder for the LED screen and digitizer.

My favorite tool is the suction cup. I got two of these form various sources and they work great to get the digitizer / led screen assembly out of the case once the two tiny screws are removed.

I also recommend that you keep a laptop next to you so you can review the procedure as you go. I watched as I went, rewinding off and on. I can tell you form bitter experience that you want to be slow and careful and do what they do on the video. No brain farts and no assumptions, else you will brick the LED or the phone itself.

Anyway, to make a long story short(er), I assembled it all and it would not come on. Shit! So I took the top assembly out again and did this another 10 times. Along the way, I noted that the phone was actually on, since the silence switch buzzed as normal. But that does not help when you cannot see anything.

After finally deciding that the wiring was perfect, I fully assembled the phone one more time and looked up a video on hard reset. (Again with the handy laptop.) I watched the young lady go through the motions (hold the power button and the home button together for 6 to 10 seconds.) And when I tried it on the phone, I got the Apple logo! Dang if it didn’t work.

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And as you can see, it synchronizes perfectly. The “no sim” on the top left of the screen forced me to remove it and reseat it again. The network came right up when I did that.

So … don’t be afraid. Order the parts from eBay vendors (of course you should always check their ratings) and you too can have what feels exactly like a brand new phone once more. For reasons I do not understand, the phone is fast again. I’m betting that the broken digitizer was flooding it with spurious signals off and on.

Anyway, I’m thrilled. My iPhoenix rises one more time …

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My Sister Got Kidney Stone

I was sleeping from 6p.m until midnight I saw the light, so I opened my eyes and I saw my room door was opening slowly, so I wake up and I saw my sister with her suffering face expression. She asked me to take her go to clinic, so I just do that. Inside the car I asked what happen? She said her stomach is very pain until cannot tahan. She is studying nursing course for more than 2 years already, so I guess she know very well what is happening to her stomach, so I asked "is it 生盲肠？or you want to poo is it?", she answered "no, it is hurt at near stomach area at the back there, seem it is kidney pain. I worry there are stones in my kidney". Then I said, then how can clinic can do operation to take out the stones? You must go hospital. She said she also not sure it is stones in kidney or not, so go to clinic check first. I fetched her to the clinic that near to her boyfriends house, her boyfriend meet us at the clinic. Then she go pee in the toilet and she realize her pee has some blood. So sure it is stones on kidney already, so we dont want to wait for the queue in clinic anymore, I asked the reception cancel the appointment.

Then her boyfriend drive us to General Hospital. We took number in General hospital and I phone my dad to inform him about my sisters situation because maybe cannot go home for few weeks or month because need to do operation and stay in hospital. After 20 minutes, my dad arrived and we are still queuing wait for the number call, we wait for very long because many patients there. My sister went to the toilet in GH hospital for 2 times and she said her pee is fresh blood already, she keep want to pee because the blood keep fill up her bladder. My dad said after wait for the number to check her, later still need to wait for another number for doing operation. We cannot wait anymore, so we decided go to Lam Wah Ee private hospital. My father ride his motocycle go Lam Wah Ee and her bf fetched her and me go with his MyV car. He open emergency light on his car and drove extremely fast, we reach Lam Wah Ee earlier than my dad, haha.

Lam Wah Ee hospital service is very inconvenient for us. We need to walk long way to another department to register my sister. Then walk long way back to reception to get the number, then need to sit there to wait for the number call. After 15 minutes, doctor call her go into the room to check her, me and my dad also go into the room, and her bf stay outside cannot go into the room. The doctor say later will ask the nurse help her check her blood, and then need to wait until next morning only can do x-ray to check inside her kidney. The doctor asked her want to stay in hospital or want to go home tonight? My sister replied "stay in hospital". My sister and the doctor know each other before, lol. So, we wait outside, wait for the nurses prepare everything. and my dad ride his motobike go home to take my sisters handphone, charger, laptop, cloth, tooth brush, water bottle for her, left me and her bf stay with her to wait for the nurse. After 10 minutes, the nurse call her go into the room and only she can enter the room. After 15 minutes, she came out from the room and she told us she got injected to suck out her blood to check her blood, and she got injected the pain-killer on her ass, haha. She said her kidney is no longer pain but her ass is very pain. She also got injected on her hand for the hanging grape water (吊葡萄水), because she cannot eat food before do surgery, so must feed grape water to solve her hanger. So she totally get 3 injections inside the room just now, haha. If for me, I will not stay in hospital because I worry get injection. I hate injection!!!

after 15 minutes, my dad arrive and we are still waiting the nurse call us to get the medicine + pay fee + register room. After 10 minutes, the nurse call us go to another department to register the room. I heard the counter said there are 3 types of room. Room for single person is cost RM350, room for 2 person shared is cost RM150, and room for 5 person shared is cost RM25 only, my mother said more people is more safe because if anything happen, can ask help from other, so we choose RM25 per day that 1, haha. My dad also paid RM400 for deposit too. Then we wait for around 10 minutes, the nurse bring us to the room at 1st floor. Then we all back home, left my mom stay there only. Actually her bf want to stay there but my mom always disagree my sister date with him, so it is better he dont stay there, else my mom will argue again. My sister is 20 years-old already, why still cannot have bf? Stupid mom, too conservation, over care her daughter already.

Anyway, I went to google search what causing kidney stones, and how to prevent it since I worry I will get it too, I am no gut person, I dont want do surgery and I scare of pain!!! So it is better for me to do prevention for kidney stones. Kidney stones will happen if we drink too less water or we eat too much calcium (calcium salts, mainly calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate). It mean if the water in urine is not enough to dissolve the salt, then the salt will become a stone. This is good website that has the information of kidney stones : http://www.medicinenet.com/kidney_stone/article.htm

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