Difficoltà
Difficile
Passi
21
Tempo Necessario
50 minuti - 2 ore
- Rear Glass Removal 7 passi
- NFC Antenna and Charging Coil 4 passi
- Battery Disconnection 1 passo
- How to remove the mid cover Samsung Galaxy S9 2 passi
- Screen 7 passi
Guida In Evidenza
Questa guida è stata giudicata eccezionalmente ben fatta dallo staff iFixit.
Introduzione
Use this guide to replace a cracked or broken display on your Samsung Galaxy S9.
Before disassembling your phone, discharge the battery below 25%. The battery can catch fire and/or explode if accidentally punctured, but the chances of that happening are much lower if discharged.
Note: This guide instructs you to replace only the display while leaving the original frame, motherboard, and battery in place. However, some replacement screens for this phone come pre-installed in a new frame (a.k.a. chassis), which requires a very different procedure—transplanting your phone's internals and installing a new battery. Make sure you have the correct part before starting this guide.
This guide involves removing the rear glass cover; you will need replacement adhesive to reattach the back cover to the phone. If your replacement display does not come with adhesive, use a strong double-sided tape such as Tesa 61395 to secure it.
Opening the Samsung Galaxy S9 will damage the waterproof seals on the device. If you do not replace the adhesive seals, your phone will function normally, but will lose its water protection.
If the frame is damaged or bent, it's important to replace it, or else the new screen may not mount correctly and can suffer damage from uneven pressure.
The process of separating the display from the frame usually destroys the display, so don't follow this guide unless you intend to replace the display.
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Before you begin, switch off your phone.
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Apply a heated iOpener to a long edge of the phone to loosen the adhesive beneath the rear glass. Apply the iOpener for at least two minutes.
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Press a suction cup onto the back cover.
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Lift the back cover's bottom edge with your suction cup, opening a slight gap between the back cover and the frame.
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Insert an opening pick in the gap you created and slide it to the bottom right corner.
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Insert a second opening pick and slide it to the bottom left corner.
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Insert a third opening pick to prevent the adhesive from resealing during the rest of the removal procedure.
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Remove the eight 4 mm Phillips #00 screws.
I think the #000 fits better!
The second and fourth screws on the bottom row are a little shorter at 2mm ( I measure the others as 3mm). Worth some care to put the screws back in the same holes as they came from. (SM-G960U)
Hi Will,
thank you for mentioning! On our model the “SM-G960XU” all screws have the same length (4 mm). However this might differ between different models and is definitely something to keep an eye on during repairs.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry up and disconnect the battery flex cable.
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Remove the two 4 mm Phillips #00 screws holding the plastic cover in place.
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Prepare an iOpener and apply it to the display for at least two minutes to loosen the adhesive beneath.
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Lay overlapping strips of clear packing tape over the display until the whole face is covered.
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This will keep glass shards contained and provide structural integrity when prying and lifting the display.
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Once the screen is warm to the touch, apply a suction cup to the upper edge of the phone.
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Insert an opening pick in the gap and start to cut the adhesive by sliding it to the top left corner.
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Compare your new replacement part to the original part—you may need to transfer remaining components or remove adhesive backings from the new part before installing.
The best way to secure the new screen is with a sheet of custom-cut double-sided tape. Apply the tape to the back of the screen, then carefully feed the display cable through the frame. Align the screen and press it into place.
To reassemble your device, follow the above steps in reverse order.
If possible, turn on your phone and test your repair before installing new adhesive and resealing the phone.
Take your e-waste to an R2 or e-Stewards certified recycler.
Repair didn’t go as planned? Check out our Answers community for troubleshooting help.
Compare your new replacement part to the original part—you may need to transfer remaining components or remove adhesive backings from the new part before installing.
The best way to secure the new screen is with a sheet of custom-cut double-sided tape. Apply the tape to the back of the screen, then carefully feed the display cable through the frame. Align the screen and press it into place.
To reassemble your device, follow the above steps in reverse order.
If possible, turn on your phone and test your repair before installing new adhesive and resealing the phone.
Take your e-waste to an R2 or e-Stewards certified recycler.
Repair didn’t go as planned? Check out our Answers community for troubleshooting help.
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3 Commenti
A bit of guidance on where the adhesive seal goes would be nice. I believe I got it right.
digitizer is stuck to glass, and came apart
Nightmare. Impossible to get the back off so far. Being trying using the iOpener with hair dryer for last 1hr. No chance.
Chris Bunney - Replica
You’re right Chris. I’ve tried on 3 separate occasions now and haven’t been able to budge that back. All that has happened is the pick has taken a piece out of the glass back leaving a rough edge now.
grahamcatto - Replica
it was not easy but doable.
Clinton Stark - Replica
It’s difficult, but the trick I did to get it was to wrap the hot iOpener around a bottom corner, apply the suction cup, then I covered the opener and phone with a paper plate, better insulating the area. Then I set my blow dryer to high heat and low velocity and heated the area under the plate for about a minute. Right after turning off the blower, I took off the plate and pulled the suction cup with a cutter at hand. You’ll hear a bit of a cracking/popping noise when the adhesive is starting to give, just apply a little more force and push the cutter at the seam. This method worked great for me, so good luck and just keep at it — you’ve got this!
Nicholas Weger - Replica
I used nearly boiling water in a storage zip bag on the phone for 10 minutes. I can’t really recommend this method, but thankfully the bag did not leak - an iOpener is probably a much better way to go. Regardless, the bag covered the entire back of the phone, and the phone was too hot to hold, but I still could not get the glass to budge with the suction cup after struggling with it for about an hour and multiple reheats. I ended up epoxying a 2”x2” square of PVC board to the bottom of the cover and built a relatively complex fixture that pulled on the PVC with the turn of a screw while it held down the frame by the edges. After heating the edges up again It did lift the glass enough to get a pick underneath it, but it cracked the glass and it was a pain to slide a pick around the edge while the glass was cracking all the way around. Once I finally got all the glass off, I spent the next 30 minutes (which is what this entire process is supposed to take… what a joke!) cleaning the adhesive off the phone.
drbenton815 - Replica
Heavy Duty Heat Gun from popular discount tool store for the win!
Jesse Meyer - Replica
Well, it is not obvious how to do this. I have no iOpener, but a heat cushion for remedy hurting muscles and sometimes a backpain. It is filled with grain of some kind and it is to be heated in a microwave oven for about 3 minutes. After that I enveloped this cushion round the phone and brewed myself a cup of tea. After ten miutes the phone was warm (almost hot) and I was able to press the tip of a small (very small) knife above the charging port into the connection between the phone body and the backplate. A very small opening emerged slowly (this is the critical point in this process) and I was able to start using the iFixit opening picks. It became obvious to me that the opening picks are too blunt to achive this with them. But after starting carefully with the (very small and very sharp) knife, everything went straight forward. Thou I had to give the phone a second heatpush with my heat cushion before the backplate came loose.
borutberg - Replica