Broken display. digiter or just the glass or what is it

[bigjohn089]

Im trying to order the right component or get a cheap android. Im attaching a few pics. I dont even really know what happened. you can see the little black out spot in the top right corner. screen is green and sometimes has a rare glimpse into what the actual picture is but the glass is pristine. Not a chip or crack or even a scratch. Looking for advice. Tried to give a few angles. thanks in advance

 

[SpookDroid]

Unfortunately it's very hard to diagnose that from pictures. If you can still 'touch' the screen, the digitizer might be OK, or it might be defective in certain spots.
This would be much better diagnosed in a repair shop, but if I'm not mistaken, most shops will sell both display and digitizer for these models as it's hard to separate both, but I might be wrong.

 

[bigjohn089]

i can do everything with it. i was playing games etc. it has full sensitivity. just loses the picture

 

[SpookDroid]

Sounds like it would only be the display you'd have to replace (and glass, of course), just don't know how easy it is to separate display and digitizer or if there's a part available without the both of them. The glass I know is a PITA.

 

[Rukbat]

If the screen is green and/or loses picture, it's the whole screen.

Even most repair shops won't replace just the digitizer - the amount of work involved id so much that for a few dollars more they'll replace the whole screen.

If you're going to try doing it yourself, the only advice I can offer - unless you've replaced phone screens before - is don't! You'll end up bring a non-working phone with a sort-of-installed new screen to a repair shop - to install the screen properly, then to repair all the things you did wrong. (And that's assuming that the screen you get actually works - a lot of the ones sold on eBay don't. Screens and motherboards are 2 things you really don't want to buy on eBay. And buying a screen from the manufacturer won't be much cheaper than having a repair shop replace it.)