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all right today I'm going to show you how to replace just the glass on your Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and your Samsung Galaxy Note 2 I'm going to try it actually with the piece of string that ended up not working out too well you can do it without taking apart the phone I ended up taking mine apart just because it is a little bit easier to get the glass away from the LCD itself what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to take my heat gun and just gently heat up my phone for about two to four minutes some people say that you can do this with the blow-dryer just like your regular hairdryer I found that the hairdryer doesn't heat up enough to melt the glue between the glass layer and the digitizer layer so I have the heat gun they're pretty cheap I'll put a link in the video description below if you need to buy one you want to get the screen too hot to touch that way you know that the glue is liquid between the two layers I'm just going to take my razor and kind of slide it in between the glass layer and the digitizer it's right below the colored part of the lens and this is where I try to take a string and kind of slide it in and just pull it through to kind of separate the glass and it was good in theory the string ended up melting so I guess if you can find a stringer super thin wire you might be able to put it in between just pull it down and separate the layers but in my opinion the prying it up with razor blades works out a little bit better so as you can see I've taken two razor blades and kind of dug at the corners a little bit to get it started and I'm lifting out very very gently along the edges super slow and then I'm going to heat it up a little bit move it another couple centimeters heat it up some more move another couple centimeters just a little bit but a little bit you can see the glue just kind of melting away on the inside I'm going to put a link right here for another video I made for three common mistakes that people make when trying to separate the glass from their phones and it will talk about not heating the glass up too much because you can burn the LCD underneath so you just want to put it on for you know 30 seconds warm it up till it's too out to touch anymore slide your razor blades or your pry tools down a little bit and just kind of continue that same process I normally don't recommend that people try to separate the glass from their phone just because the success rate is so low but it definitely is still possible as long as you go super slow and don't put any any pressure on the digitizer underneath the whole process took me about 45 minutes from start to end so I would set aside you know a good 45 minutes to an hour and make sure not to rush anything you always want to start at the top of the screen as well just because there's the buttons down at the bottom of the screen that will rip if you start prying down there so make sure you start up by the earpiece you can see that I've lifted it up in a way and now you can see that the buttons are down there at the bottom I'm taking care not to lift it too far away from the phone so I don't rip any of the cables down there if you do rip a cable just send me a message and I can see if I can find a replacement part for you you can contact me on Facebook or just leave a comment down in the bottom and now I'm just prying the buttons away from the screen themselves and now I'm just going to clean up a little bit you can leave the home button off for now just make sure you reapply it before you put the top screen back on so I need to get rid of all the rest of the glue from the phone as well as pull off the earpiece from the old screen and the home button bracket from the old screen as well so just kind of pull that out and away and now I'm going to finish cleaning up the glue from the phone it's actually a pretty big pain the glass digitizers which is what is right above the LCD right now is super super fragile it's about the same thickness and fragility as an egg so when brushing at it remember that any force that would break an egg is the same amount of force that would break this digitizer it's super fragile so I tried heating it up a little bit to melt the remain glue to see if I could pull it away that way it ended up not working out too well the best method that I found is just getting a little bit of Windex on a white glint free cloth and just rubbing very gently at the glue and it'll eventually just rub away now if anybody else has any better ways of getting rid of the glue on the phone please message me or leave a comment below so we can share it with the rest of the world cleaning off the glue took about just as much time as separating a glass from the digitizer now if you've gotten this far it's pretty impressive the hardest part is over so there's three layers to the screen you have the outer layer which is the hard glass which protects the phone the layer right below it which is the digitizer and this is what senses your fingers going on the screen and then the lower layer right below the digitizer is the LCD which is what you see on the screen if your phone does not work if the touch part of your phone does not work or if you cannot see anything on the phone because the LCD is broken then replacing just the glass will not work in order to replace just the glass and be successful your phone has to be visible and recognize your touches that's when you can replace just the glass now I'm taking my double-sided sticky tape I'll put a link in the video description below to where you can buy this it's pretty cheap just a couple bucks and I'm basically going to make a sticky frame around the edge of the phone as well as around the LCD itself that way no dust can get inside between the glass and the digitizer so make sure that when you put the sticky tape in a square around the LCD itself that there's no way that dust can slip inside so make sure it's completely sealed off also make sure not to cover up any of the light sensors the proximity sensors or is that camera up at the top of the phone taking the double-sided tape and just making my little fortress around the edges here if you have any problems you can always message me for help you can find me on Facebook or on Twitter at Zacks jerry-rigged Google+ as well as Facebook I'll put link at the end of the videos for all of that stuff you can click on the bottom left corner to head to my website alright so right here you can see that the earpiece is already in place and I pulled off the bottom protective layer on the glass and I'm just lining it up along the edge of the foam and I'm leaving the bottom up just a little bit so I can reline that home button now you can see that I've messed up a little bit here I forgot to put in the metal bracket for the home button that we took off of the old screen so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to pry up the screen a little bit again slide that bracket in and then put it back down again so save yourself a step remember to put that bracket in beforehand and you can see that everything's good if you need a link to see how to put your phone back together again go ahead and click that if you decided not take your phone apart you'll find you should be good to go now make sure to get a case on this thing try not to drop it and you can see that everything works out great if you have any questions make sure to leave in the comments below don't forget to like if this video helped you and the best thing that you can do for me is to subscribe to my youtube channel and don't forget about Facebook Google+ or Twitter I hope to see you around thanks for watching