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Want to repair a scratched smartphone screenThe Ultimate Guide: How To Protect Your Smartphone From ScratchesThe Ultimate Guide: How To Protect Your Smartphone From ScratchesModern smartphones and tablets have big, beautiful displays. They look great when they come out of the box but they leave a device more vulnerable to both major and minor damage. A drop can shatter..Read More? Some articles online recommend using sandpaper, Turtle Wax, toothpaste, baking soda, or even vegetable oil. Don’t fall for these insane tips — there’s only one way to actually fix your problem. These crazy-looking tips will just damage your screen even more.
These tips are all from Daniel Johnson over at The Telegraph. Articles like this one are written by authors who didn’t actually try these tips on their own devices. They don’t understand how these methods actually work — if they did, they wouldn’t spread bad information.
The One Good Tip – Replace the Damaged Display
First, there’s one good tip here. If your screen is damaged, you can fix it by replacing the display. Your manufacturer may do this for you if your device is still under warrantyAppleCare Warranty: What Are Your Options and Is It Worth It?AppleCare Warranty: What Are Your Options and Is It Worth It?AppleCare+ protects your Apple device, but is it worth the cost? Here's what AppleCare+ offers and whether you should get it.Read More. If it’s not under warranty, you can try replacing the screen yourself. You’ll need to buy a new touchscreen display for your device, take your device apart, and install the new display. This will be easier on some devices than on others, so whether it’s worth it is up to you. Bear in mind that you could damage your phone or tablet by performing this repair.
Apr 15, 2015 Using a Windshield Repair Kit on a Cracked Smart Phone. Watch with me as I try out a windshield repair kit on an iPhone 5c. Galaxy S4 JUST THE GLASS Screen Repair BEST Video - Duration. Jun 19, 2014 We’ve previously covered replacing a damaged touch-screen display on your own How to Replace a Damaged Phone Screen Display How to Replace a Damaged Phone Screen Display Here's how to DIY replace a damaged phone screen display. You don't have to pay for smartphone repairs if you break the screen! The Latex-ite 10.1 oz. Driveway Crack and Joint Filler is for asphalt cracks and joints up to 1/2 in. It is specially formulated using a combination of pure asphalts and polymers to ensure rapid drying and maximum durability. May 09, 2018 I thought I just needed a power off/on. Then on Sunday I noticed a crack that went from the top left corner to the bottom right. There are no impact signs (no 'star' or other cracks and the crack is uniform from top to bottom). The touch screen no longer works on the bottom of the crack, but works above. I reached out to Apple.
We’ve previously covered replacing a damaged touch-screen display on your ownHow to Replace a Damaged Phone Screen DisplayHow to Replace a Damaged Phone Screen DisplayHere's how to DIY replace a damaged phone screen display. You don't have to pay for smartphone repairs if you break the screen!Read More.
Sandpaper
We’ll start with the most obviously crazy tip. What exactly does sandpaper do? It grinds against a surface, removing material. For example, you might use sandpaper to remove a layer of old paint from furniture. If you used sandpaper to erase a scratch on a wooden chair, it would erase the scratch by sanding down all the material around the scratch until everything else is level with the scratch.
So, if your screen has a scratch and you start sandpapering it, you’re not fixing your screen. You’re really just scratching your entire display. Even if you use super-fine sandpaper, you’re removing an important layer of coating. You’re better off living with a few scratches than scratching the entire surface of your screen.
“Turtle Wax, and Other Oils and Creams”
The author correctly notes that using Turtle Wax will remove the oleophobic coating on modern touchscreen devices. Oleophobic coating is an oil-repellent coating that repels the oils on your fingers and helps reduce unsightly smudges. Removing the coating means your phone will pick up more oil and smudges.
So, how do Turtle Wax and other “scratch repair kits” designed for cars work? Most of these scratch repair kits are intended for metal and paint problems, not even the glass windshields or windows on a car! Turtle Wax does offer an “intensive cream glass polish” product that “uses ultra-fine particles to remove ingrained dirt, light scratches, and wiper haze from windscreens.” In other words, Turtle Wax and similar products work by removing the top layer of your phone’s touchscreen display. This is basically just like using sandpaper.
Toothpaste
Toothpaste is occasionally used to fix scratched CDs. Here’s how toothpaste fixes scratched CDsCan You Fix a Scratched CD With Toothpaste? Here's How!Can You Fix a Scratched CD With Toothpaste? Here's How!Need to play a scratched disc and can't? Here's how to fix a scratched DVD or CD with toothpaste and other household items.Read More:
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“You are essentially “sanding” down the imperfection on the surface of the polycarbonate plastic layer [of the CD]. By sanding away the imperfection, you’re removing deflection of the laser beam, and by doing so you’re correcting the problem.”
In other words, you’re sanding down the bottom surface of the CD. This results in a flat surface, so the laser beam will be able to read the damaged CD. This may work on CDs. But, if you do this on a smartphone display, you might as well be using Turtle Wax or sandpaper. It’s a bad idea for the same reason.
Baking Soda
This ridiculous article also recommends mixing baking soda and water and rubbing the paste on your screen. You’ve probably guessed why this is a bad idea by now — baking soda is abrasive, so you’re just sanding down your screen again.
“Egg and Potassium Aluminum Sulphate Mixture”
This is the most bizarre tip here. It’s basically a little chemistry project — you need an egg white, aluminum foil, and alum. You combine the egg white with the alum in a saucepan on your stove, cook it, soak a microfiber cloth in it, wrap that cloth in aluminum foil, and bake it in the oven. You then rinse the cloth and bake it a few more times.
If this sounds insane to you, you’re not alone. We’re not chemists here, so we’re not really sure what is going on. The author grabbed this method from a Yahoo Voices article. No website online explains why this method is supposed to work. This isn’t a magic spell, so at best it will just work like all the other methods and sand down your smartphone’s screen. At worst, it could cause even more problems.
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Vegetable Oil
This tip is just silly. The author notes that “this really is a temporary and a cosmetic fix.” The idea is that you apply a small drop of vegetable oil to your screen. The oil will fill in the scratch and makes it less visible. But the vegetable oil will leave the cracks on your phone when you put your phone in your pocket or just swipe your finger over it. You’ll end up with vegetable oil on your hands, in your pocket, and over the surface of your display. Now you have two problems.
We’re not sure why anyone would ever do this. Someone might try applying oil to their scratched smartphone before attempting to sell itThinking of Buying a Used Smartphone? 6 Things To ConsiderThinking of Buying a Used Smartphone? 6 Things To ConsiderDon't want to be stuck with a long-term carrier contract or simply can't afford to fork out the full price of a brand new smartphone? Whatever your reasons, the following are a few things that..Read More so the buyer wouldn’t notice the scratch, but the buyer might just ask why there’s oil all over the phone’s screen.
It’s never a good idea to sand down your smartphone or tablet’s display. Even if you had amazingly fine sandpaper and you did a perfect job, you’d be removing an important layer of coating on top of your smartphone’s display. In the real world, you won’t have perfectly fine sandpaper so you’ll end up with more small scratches all over your screen. You might not be able to notice them, but your display might appear a bit cloudier — those are the scratches.
We hope none of The Telegraph’s readers actually took these tips seriously.
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Seems to me the author only contradicts anything that's been all over the internet on this matter. He does that simply out of personal assumption without providing any evidence.
I have been rubbing my tablet with toothpaste just hours ago for 20 minutes and as I cleaned it off I can notice those scratches getting less visible, I will try again tomorrow to see if they disappear completely. Not bad as a first try, not enough to say it will fix it, but still it smoothens it up.Hi,
My iPad mini had s a badly scratched screen and would not let me type messages and went crazy mental skipping form one site to the other.wondered if was the cracks or iPad was totally stuffed.
Rubbed candle wax over the screen then rubbed off excess with soft cloth .hey presto ..works perfectly..at least I know now it is the screen not a more serious problem..so new screen,not new iPad.?Here you go people.. Because it's not possible to fix a scratched screen.
Thanks for the link proving this article wrong. What's amazing is that the XDA-developers' post you linked was written in 2010 -- 4 years before this ignorant article was written.
What an ignorant article. The writer faults the Telegraph author for never have tried methods he listed. But it's also clear that he hasn't either before discarding them as nonsense. Most absurd is that he just repeats the same complaint over and over -- that an oleophobic layer has been removed. Yet he never explains why attracting oil is such a catastrophe. Frankly,I would rather have oils that I can wipe off than than scratches than can distract my reading.
Perhaps worse off all is the writer's inability to do a little thinking. There's a simple solution to protect the screen from oils AND prevent the vegetable oil from getting off the screen. Use a screen protector. You can get them for about $1 on eBay. Most of them have an oleophobic coating, and they'll certainly prevent any applied oil from rubbing off into surrounding surfaces.
Finally, the author is apparently just flat out wrong. Thanks to You Fail's above post, we have an xda-developer's actual experience buffing out scratches. It works and there are photos to prove it. Thankfully, some people are willing to actually try things out before promoting OR DISMISSING them out of hand. That, to me, is good science and good journalism.
Stupid.. Common sense would be to try to fix it before just throwing money away and not trying to fix it at all. Toothpaste is a very fine abrasive and will work to take down light scratches.. Not talking a chunk of 80 grit sandpaper here.. But I guess the American way to do it is throw money at it.. I like how you called someone out on ways to try and fix the scratches, and your answer is.. Just replace the screen.. That's what we are trying to prevent here genius.. Might as well try it.. Worst case scenario you are replacing the screen anyways..
How about the banana thing?
I used toothpaste before on an ipad and it worked nicely,used it for some time after that. I found online kits that sell Oleophobic coating, that could overcome drawbacks mentioned above.
Yes, you would never believe what people will do to fix their iPhone. The best way to protect your phone is to have a great case that covers the front. I've had the book book case for 2 years now and had 1 freak accident. Besides that, i've had the same phone since the 4s came out.
Wonderful Article. Keep them coming.
If a person who has done these things can post his/her experiences, it would be more interesting.You could try Rain-X for light scratches, it works for making scratched CDs playable by depositing a thin plastic coating on the surface. Only temporary though. A new screen is a better fix
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what about superglue like you can use to fix car windscreens? All you have to do is find a material with the same (or near enough) refractive index as the polymer used in the screen and when the cracks are filled they'll be much less visible. Although the touchscreen part will obviously not be like new again.
The use of toothpaste/brasso/etc to clean up vintage watch cystals is fairly common, which is probably where a lot of these ideas come from.
Thanks for the article. Really it's all common sense stuff, but you'll be surprised how dumb and gullible people can be..
Dumb and gullible is someone who believes this article without doing some actual research. As You Fail's post shows, buffing out scratches is possible. Just follow the link s/he listed to see proof.
This is awesome. Great article
Can auto glass chip repair kits such as this item repair cracked iOS device screens? If so, what should I watch out for?
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Yes, glass chip kits can be used to fix a cracked screen, but only in the following conditions:
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- The crack does not cover any of the touch surface (only the bezel area is cracked). Anywhere resin is left on the surface of the device or seeps under the glass can block the electrical signal from your finger and prevent the device from reading a touch in that area.
- The 'suction cup' (really, a gasket) included with the kit will likely only be partially attached to the device during the repair. It must completely cover the crack, but may only extend off one edge of the device (it will not work well on a corner) and the hole in the center of the gasket must not cover the touch surface.
These conditions mean a repair is not likely to work with an iPhone or iPod Touch, but may work with the larger bezel on an iPad, especially as most cracks begin near the edge of a screen.
There is one modification to the instructions included with the kits. At the point where you press the gasket sticker to the glass to make a seal, you should also fold it down so that it seals the edge of the glass as well. This is because the metal backing on the iOS device does not completely cover the sides of the glass. You need to seal the resin within the glass and prevent it from escaping. This is why a corner repair is unlikely to work well: it is difficult or impossible to get a good seal over a corner.
The last step of the process requires you to leave the device in direct sunlight, preferably outdoors, to allow UV light to cure the resin. Make sure not to do this on a hot day, or the heat can damage your device. I did my own repair on the day in the low sixties and still had a temperature warning by the time the resin had cured.
Even following these tips, you may end up with an imperfect repair. However, this should be enough to prevent or at least significantly delay the crack from spreading, and thus likely save a much more costly or extensive repair. In my case, the crack is still visible, but only if I remove the protective cover (which I never do.)
It's also important to note that this will void your warranty, but as the warranty doesn't cover accidental damage anyway it's a case of pick your poison.
Joel Coehoorn