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Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen

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    1. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen, broken screen: step 1, image 1 of 1
      • First remove the rear case/battery cover

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    2. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 2, image 1 of 1
      • Remove the battery.

      • Remove the two T5 Torx screws.

      • Prise off the lower casing towards the right in the picture, taking care not to break the two tabs

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    3. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 3, image 1 of 1
      • Remove the two further T5 torx screws

      • Remove the three Phillips #00 screws.

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    4. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 4, image 1 of 1
      • Now carefully prise off the case all round and it will detach completely

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    5. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 5, image 1 of 1
      • Prise up this connector

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    6. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 6, image 1 of 1
      • And this one

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    7. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 7, image 1 of 1
      • Lift up the retainer using a plastic opening tool.

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    8. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 8, image 1 of 1
      • And carefully pull out the tab connector.

      • NOW PAUSE WITHOUT MOVING ANYTHING!

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    9. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 9, image 1 of 1
      • NOTE THIS FLEXIBLE RIBBON

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    10. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 10, image 1 of 1
      • Carefully lift up the board from the left-hand side allowing it to 'hinge' on the metallic ribbon connector you have just noted and allow it to lay flat

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    11. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 11, image 1 of 1
      • The freed connector for the screen should have unfolded

      • Now the screen can be pried from the outer case, but take care as you do so not to tear the metallic ribbon between the two casings

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    12. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 12, image 1 of 1
      • To detach the screen it can help to use a pry tool to push the screen from behind through the slot

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    13. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 13, image 1 of 1
      • The screen is detached and the connector can be wiggled out through the slot

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    14. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 14, image 1 of 1
      • Remove the old screen and connector altogether

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    15. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 15, image 1 of 1
      • The connector for the new screen now has to be wiggled back through the slot

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    16. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 16, image 1 of 1
      • Once the connecter is pushed through the slot, you should now stick the new screen into place using suitable adhesive strip

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    17. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 17, image 1 of 1
      • Fold down the ribbon connector from the screen and carefully fold the two casing halves together again, making sure that the two connectors are sticking out of the side

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    18. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 18, image 1 of 1
      • Reconnect the two connectors on the right hand side by pressing down

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    19. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 19, image 1 of 1
      • Reinsert the ribbon connector on the left hand side and push down the retaining catch

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    20. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 20, image 1 of 1
      • Clip the rear casing back on to the body

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    21. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 21, image 1 of 1
      • Put the bottom cover back in place and then replace all the screws

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    22. Repairing HTC Wildfire S broken screen: step 22, image 1 of 1
      • Replace battery and battery cover and all should now be well!

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Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Mikey Willbiscuit

Member since: 05/13/13

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Nice detailing of the teardown steps but the phone shown here is a regular HTC Wildfire (HTC G8) and not the latter HTC Wildfire S (HTC G13). Apparently, the orignal Wildfire has two variants (A3333 and A310e). Each variant uses a different digitizer (the touch glass panel on top of the actual LCD). If you need to buy a replacement digitizer, verify if your variant has an IC on the digitizer ribbon cable or not. On my phone, the shattered original digitizer had no IC on the ribbon and when I replaced it with one that had one, the phone wouldn’t recognize the touch inpupts.

Jeremy - Reply Share

Nice! If you wanna recycle any mobile screen you can contact LCD's Buyers

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