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Hey there. I have a broken iPhone 3G, and I’m not exactly sure about what I need to replace. I can’t touch the bottom fifth of the screen - it simply won’t respond at all, including the keyboard. As well, the small stripes won’t seem to go away no matter what I do, and looks like it’s stuck on the display. That’s the area where it won’t respond. I’ve looked at the products on iFixit, and I’m a bit hesitant to follow the guide which involves using a heat gun/blow dryer, and I’d appreciate it if there was a solution that didn’t involve heating something up and removing parts off it (Hopefully I can just buy that frame or whatever it is). I have a few pictures of the problem: http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4838/img2… There are dead strips at the bottom where the coloring is different. http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2092/… I cannot touch, and it won’t respond to me touching below that striped area. http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7293/im… Hopefully it might be a bit easier to see it here. I’d really appreciate it if I knew specifically what parts I needed to buy, like the digitizer, LCD screen, bezel, or any other parts needed to fix this without a hot gun/hair dryer. Links would be helpful. Thanks!
Looks like you have dead pixels on your LCD. this should NOT prevent the digitizer from working on those areas. SO , to me it looks like you will need to change the LCD and the digitizer. The instructions are here and no heat involved. I would go with replacing the whole display assembly, available here as well as here and many other places ;-) It is easier to replace the assembly, trust me on that.
It depends how confident you are with the repair. I have never bought an assembly and think the components are an easy enough repair. On ebay you can get a Digitizer and LCD for about £15 / $22 The parts have always worked for me and takes about 10-15 minutes to fit. Its your call as OT’s suggestion would be slightly easier, and slightly quicker but cost a lot more. As far as the quality if you look through the listings on ebay many sellers offer 12 month warranties on their parts too!
