Yeah. This was my first time opening the phone but I watched the ifixit teardown video almost religiously trying to catch every detail. Unfortunately despite it warning you about pick depth, it doesnt warn you about going inbetween the screen and glue. Hopefully since Google has gone this far in the repairability department, they make future pixels a bit easier to teardown without accidentally breaking it
Yikes, hopefully you didn’t get into too much trouble. It’s pretty wild how delicate these screens are. I hope future pixels are easier to take apart that reduce the potential damage from mistakes.
Haha yup, if only. Also the battery was glued to the frame with probably the strongest glue I’ve ever seen. Even after heating the back case to too hot to touch temps it was still incredibly difficult to remove the battery. I don’t think there’s a good reason to glue the battery like that where I’m sure some thermal padding would probably suffice to keep it in place, or shit even clips.
Still waiting on parts from iFixit. They’re using USPS for shipping and it’s taking forever. I’ll probably be able to do the repair next weekend, hopefully…
The state that won’t let you pump your own gas everyone.
Well I mostly got the phone for the color. I love the bay blue color so a case would just cover it up. It looks like based on the official google repair doc and the ifixit video that I’ll have to disassemble the entire phone. I ordered the back glass and all the adhesives I’ll need to replace (so so much glue!) from ifixit. Like you said I’ll have to go slow, just hoping I don’t break something in the process. My biggest worry is the screen since there’s some ribbon cables very close to where you have to use the pry tools. Even a youtuber broke their screen opening it first try.
The steam controller has a bluetooth mode you can activate upon turning it on.
The circle of life