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How To Replace A HTC EVO 3D Digitizer

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When electronics break or malfunction there are two things you can do if you don’t want to pay for repairs. You can sell it cheap or you can fix it yourself. I like to fix it myself if I think I can, so when I saw an HTC EVO 3D at a garage sale for $10, I had to ask what was wrong with it. The seller told me “the screen acts like you’re touching it sometimes and gets all crazy”, so I bought it with the hope that I could fix it. Sure enough, another $14 and an hour of my time was all it took. Below are the instructions on how to do this yourself. Read them all the way through before starting, click any photo to super size it, and comment below with any questions. Now let’s get started.

1. Buy a new digitizer. Check ebay and you should be able to find one for under $15. The one I bought from etechnotics came with a T5 screwdriver a Phillips screwdriver, and two spudger pry tools.

2. Remove back cover. This is pretty simple to do and likely you’ve done it before.

3. With the cover off, remove battery and MicroSD card.

4. Remove the six screws shown. There are two Phillips screws half way up the phone on the edges, and there are four T5 screws on the corners.

5. Remove the small plastic piece at the top of the phone with a spudger.

6. Remove the back inner housing with a spudger carefully. Be sure not to break anything.

7. With tweezers, remove the three pieces of yellow tape from the connectors.

8. Now disconnect the four flex cables shown. Be careful not to damage them!

9. Remove two silver Phillips screws pointed to in the photo. This will loosen up the board.

10. Flip the piece shown up as you can see in the photo and carefully pull back the board from the top end, being careful about the remaining flex cables that are still connected.

11. Pull back the silver cover tape just enough to reveal these two flex cables and then disconnect them.

12. While you’re at it, unplug the antenna cable.

13. Now for the hard part. Pry the glass away from the screen as shown with a spudger. You can try to loosen the glue with a heat gun or hair dryer, but be very careful about the amount of heat you use as it can damage the components.

14. Pry the screen out of the case in the same way, being mindful of the flex cables. Be very careful here. I nearly damaged the screen being impatient. When complete, you should have three pieces as shown.

15. Clean up any leftover glue between the screen and the digitizer and replace with thin strips of double-sided tape.

16. Peel the backing off of your new digitizer and carefully line it up with the screen, pressing it firmly in place when lined up.

17. Finally, just reverse the steps to put it back together (don’t forget to reconnect ALL the cables).

Luvvitt iPhone 5 Case Review

I’ve reviewed so many iPhone cases that go over the $20 mark (sometimes way over) that it’s nice to see one come in just under twenty bucks. I had to wonder if low cost meant a cheap product. Find out in this review of the Luvvitt Clearview iPhone 5 case.

To answer the first question right off the bat, let’s talk about the Clearview’s quality. It became apparent, right away, that the price for this case does not foreshadow an inferior product. This is no flimsy case. Instead, Luvvitt put together a classy case that uses a simple design paired with the iPhone 5’s inherent aesthetics to deliver a protective case that looks like a subtle fashion accessory for your phone. I created a video review, below, to show off the Clearview on my own iPhone.

I’ve seen (and owned) cases that are either completely clear, frosted, or completely opaque. They’re OK, and some even look good, but there’s just something about the shock resistant TPU edges in black, mixed with the perfectly clear scratch-resistant back that looks really good. It’s also not likely to crack like my last case if when I drop it. Getting the case on and off is a little more work because it’s designed to form a tight seal around the edges to keep dust from getting between your phone and the case. For $19.95, this case is a bargain.

Don’t have $19.95 to spend? No problem. Just enter the contest below and you might win the extra case Luvvitt kindly sent me to give to one lucky reader. Simply click an option and follow the instructions to enter. If your number of entries increases, you’re doing it right. Good luck!

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The Web Before There Were Graphics

Have you ever wondered what the web used to look like long before the browser wars? Today, another developer in my office reminded me of how we used to see the web twenty years ago. Back then, Google hadn’t been envisioned yet and Yahoo! was just a couple hundred or so links indexed by hand. And Yahoo! wasn’t Yahoo!. It was still just “Jerry’s guide to the world wide web” at the time. The Internet was barely in use and mostly just within the walls of colleges and universities. This, my friends, was the World Wide Web in 1994.

Today’s Yahoo! in 1993’s Lynx Browser

It was just text and not many sites to browse, but my college lunch hours were spent happily discovering content from around the world. As great as it was, I was elated to welcome the SLIP and PPP connections that joined forces with the first graphical browsers so offer a WWW with images and that I could browse with a mouse. Yahoo quickly became much easier to use.

Yahoo! in 1994 in Netscape

As you’re aware, we’ve come a long way since then. We watch videos, search billions of web pages in an instant, share photos and listen to music, not only from feature-rich web browsers at our desks, but also from our phones. It’s amazing how far we’ve come and leaves me optimistic for what the future of web technology holds.

Yahoo! Today in Chrome

Do you remember your first time online. Get nostalgic and comment below with your first internet experience. What site (or news group, for that matter) was it and when? Better yet, click the Facebook share button below and include your story.