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all right three tips on replacing the shattered glass on your new Samsung phone works from the galaxy s3 and on all the way through the nexus is the notes all that good stuff this video is just about tips so if you want to see the full complete restoration of the phone click on the bottom left hand corner and that will take you to a full video right now I am separating the glass from the buttons on the phone so the buttons stay with the phone itself you don't need to open up the phone to replace the screen on it right now I'm just peeling off the glass because the glass is just a solid piece of glass there's no wires coming out of it or anything so I've gotten the button separated and I've gotten the glass pieces coming out and you'll see in a second why called this mistake that teeter-totter effect for lack of a better scientific term you can see as I lift up on one corner of the glass the other side of the glass is pressed into the digitizer underneath and crack the pressure cracks the digitizer underneath and it doesn't take very much pressure at all so you have to be really careful as you lift up to not put any pressure on the screen underneath the phone it cracks the digitizer over the LED and once that is correct there is no fixing it you have to replace the screen as a unit mistake number two not enough heat so you can see I had my blow dryer I was going on this phone I was kind of melting the glue between the glass and the digitizer and you want to get it to a point where the glue is liquid enough that the glass kind of just peels away by itself here you can see I'm kind of struggling with it the glass isn't wanting to separate from the phone so I'm heating it up again with the blow dryer which just never really gets hot enough some blow dryers might mind it not if all you need is the glass for your phone you can usually find them on Amazon for less than 10 bucks I will list them in the video description below you can just click on the link and I'll take it right to Amazon this video is all about the common and very costly mistakes that people can make when swapping out your own screens and how to avoid them this saves you a lot of money and everyone is happy and you subscribe to my YouTube channel but really you should click the subscribe button below right here you can see that the glue is actually super stressed you can see all the crack lines in it it's just because it's not getting hot enough still I'm kind of forcing it apart from the screen underneath and it's not happy about it so right here I'm going to come up from the other corner and the digitizer is stove stuck to the glass above it that it just starts cracking apart and once it starts cracking like I said before there's no saving it it is completely destroyed and you just have to replace the whole screen as a unit and I have videos for all of these Samsung phones on how to replace the screens as the units just kind of search through my other videos if you end up destroying your screen this is usually just a cheaper alternative for the people who don't want to spend a whole lot of money the screens for these phones are just will need they're about ten bucks just for the glass part anyway once I realize it was broken that is ripped off the whole screen this kills the phone alright mistake number three too much heat so I got a new heat gun and I started off way too close to the screen they heated up way too fast so you want the screen to be at the point where you can barely touch it with your hand where you wouldn't want to rest your finger on the screen and that gets the glue to the right temperature where it'll separate from the clasp so here you can see through the crack in the screen that it's heated up so much that it's actually started to discolor the LED underneath the glass this point I realized that I had messed up but I decided to keep going anyway so you can see that the screen is super hot at the moment and as I kind of peel it up from the phone it's super the glue just kind of is super liquid underneath and it just slides away and the glass actually really easy to just pry up and away from the phone right now I'm also pulling it up at an angle to avoid that teeter-totter effect so I'm not putting any pressure on the digitizer underneath the glass same thing with this you can see the glue separating from the digitizer in the glass itself you want to find a happy medium you know between this and mistake number two you don't want to see those stress fractures in the glue but you also don't want to you know damage your LED either it's a fairly expensive mistake now I have the new piece of glass on top of the phone and I'm just running the heat over really quick just to make sure that the the double-sided sticky tape that I have underneath kind of melts again to the glass and holds it a little bit stronger than it would normally have the that same screen attached to my test phone and you can see the burn mark right there in the LED there's no fix in it if you want to see how a screen swap is done correctly go ahead and click in the bottom left-hand corner that'll take you straight to the video where it's 100% is done perfect and yeah any questions make sure leave in the comments below you can also find me on Facebook jerry-rigged everything on twitter is Zach's jerry-rigged and don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel I put up videos fairly often and I'd love to see you around thanks for watching