Damaged my iPhone 5 screen ... What are my options ?

[ahmadka]

Hi guys .. So I've had an iPhone 5 for the last 1.5 years now .. Yesterday though in the spur of a moment, the phone just slipped through my fingers and landed on a bumpy stone pathway, which sorta cracked the inner screen ... The outer screen is not cracked, only the inner one .. Display is fuzzy, but touch is fully working, along with all other features ..

Looking online, I see a lot of replacement iPhone 5 screens, but all of them seem to be third party ones and not original Apple's ones .. I also think that Apple doesn't openly sell their parts online .. So what should I do now ? They only provide their original screens through their authorized service centers, none of which exist in Pakistan I think ..

I could probably get the screen replaced from any mobile shop, but I fear that the quality might not be that good ..

Opinions ? Recommendations, etc .. ?

 

[amirparvez]

So you the inner digitizer is cracked or the outer glass panel is cracked. If the digitizer is intact then you will need a top glass replacement which could be found in any reasonable repair shop but most of them are Korean or chinese which work since i got the top lcd glass panel of my s5 replaced. If the inner digitizer is cracked then its better to sell it off like this and get a new phone.

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[ahmadka]

So you the inner digitizer is cracked or the outer glass panel is cracked. If the digitizer is intact then you will need a top glass replacement which could be found in any reasonable repair shop but most of them are Korean or chinese which work since i got the top lcd glass panel of my s5 replaced. If the inner digitizer is cracked then its better to sell it off like this and get a new phone.

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The inner digitizer is cracked from one place which is making the screen fuzzy. The outer glass is cracked only like 2% ...

I would prefer to try and get it repaired somehow because selling it off will probably fetch me very less money, and the phone is fine otherwise .. It seems there are tons of options online for replacement screens .. problem is I don't know which one is the best .. Same goes for mobile shops in Pakistan .. I'm sure lots of people will claim that they can replace the broken screen with an original Apple one, but I doubt that would be true ..

I don't mind getting an aftermarket screen, as long as the result is virtually the same as that of the original one ..

Has anyone else here also had this problem ?

 

[ahmadka]

No one has had this problem before ? That's a little hard to believe ..