Broke the glass display cover on my Bionic 4G--best place to get a replacement?

[Raswan]

Dropped my belt on it, and I guess the protective glass couldn't handle the buckle. I'm seeing oodles of replacement iPhone screens at amazon, but nothing for the Droid Bionic. Am I just not looking hard enough? Is there a place cheaper?

Thanks everyone.

EDIT: Just spoke with Motorola customer service, and they quoted me a repair fee of 110$ with a 5-7 day turnaround. There's got to be a better option somewhere.

 

[Raswan]

Looks like http://www.repairsuniverse.com/motorola-droid-bionic-touch-screen-digitizer-replacement.html has it for $60 and ifixit has a decent guide that should get me most of the way to replacing it. Seems high though, with iPhone replacement screens running around 15$ or so. Anyone think of a cheaper place than he link above?

I appreciate any and all help in advance.

 

[pm]

There's several on Ebay for ~$45 inc. shipping. Search on Ebay for "bionic 4g glass".

I think the price disparity comes from the fact that the glass on an iPhone is just glass, but it looks like the digitizer is part of the glass on a Bionic.

 

[Raswan]

There's several on Ebay for ~$45 inc. shipping. Search on Ebay for "bionic 4g glass".

I think the price disparity comes from the fact that the glass on an iPhone is just glass, but it looks like the digitizer is part of the glass on a Bionic.

That's better, and you're right about the price difference. Didn't notice it at first.

Hmmmm... 14-20 days for 45$, for 2 days prime for 65$ on Amazon, or 7? days for 59$...

so many shitty choices...

 

[pm]

That's better, and you're right about the price difference. Didn't notice it at first.

Hmmmm... 14-20 days for 45$, for 2 days prime for 65$ on Amazon, or 7? days for 59$...

so many shitty choices...

Or the other way of looking at it... as recently as 5 years ago or so, if you broke pretty much any portable gadget your only choice was to send it back to the manufacturer, wait however long they wanted you to wait while they fixed it, and then paid whatever they felt like charging you to repair it. It's great to have choices.

But my co-workers always tell me that I'm too much of an optimist. 🙂

 

[Raswan]

Or the other way of looking at it... as recently as 5 years ago or so, if you broke pretty much any portable gadget your only choice was to send it back to the manufacturer, wait however long they wanted you to wait while they fixed it, and then paid whatever they felt like charging you to repair it. It's great to have choices.

But my co-workers always tell me that I'm too much of an optimist. 🙂

Ha. Touche again.

 

[Raswan]

Ended up going with repairverse for 65.99 after shipping. Included the rubber pry tool, the adhesive replacement strips, and the tork screwdriver. Would have gone with Amazon, but it was actually 80$, not 65$. Ah well, guess I learned my lesson about wantonly throwing my belt around...

 

[Raswan]

Not sure if this is allowed, and feel free to obliterate this post admins, but I wanted to throw it out there that the experience with repairsuniverse has been great. Shipped the same day from Nevada (Tuesday), arrived in Oklahoma this morning with delivery confirmation, everything was there (including a free pry tool) and in fine condition. Will be using them for all mobile-device related breakdowns in the future. Again, hope it's ok to toot the horn of a decent website; as far as I'm concerned, that's half the reason this forum exists--to get usable knowledge from people who aren't complete idiots. That is all.

 

[pm]

Not sure if this is allowed, and feel free to obliterate this post admins, but I wanted to throw it out there that the experience with repairsuniverse has been great. Shipped the same day from Nevada (Tuesday), arrived in Oklahoma this morning with delivery confirmation, everything was there (including a free pry tool) and in fine condition. Will be using them for all mobile-device related breakdowns in the future. Again, hope it's ok to toot the horn of a decent website; as far as I'm concerned, that's half the reason this forum exists--to get usable knowledge from people who aren't complete idiots. That is all.

Mentioning good service is fine - the only limitation is when people are using the forums to advertise/spam, which your post is not.

Thanks for reporting back how it went and good luck with the repair.

 

[Raswan]

Repair went pretty well--the repair guide they gave had a video, and it was pretty good. Only problem I ran into is a little bit of bleed from the bottom of the new screen--the replacement adhesive they gave me must not be quite as good at blocking out the light, or I seated the lcd screen ever so slightly too high up before screwing it down. It's not enough to be annoying, but the higher the angle you look at it the more noticeable it is. May rip it back apart at some point, but for now I'm happy it works.