Eco-Fused Screen Replacement Kit Compatible with Samsung Galaxy S3 Including Replacement Glass/Tool Kit/Adhesive Sticker Tape/Tweezers/Microfiber Cleaning Cloth/Instruction Manual

I had dropped my Samsung Galaxy S3 onto a sharp object on my desk and the screen suffered star shaped cracking from the right edge to the center of the screen. My first visit was to Amazon, of course, to read reviews about replacement screens. I read most of the reviews for the ECO-Fused product and came away with two perspectives. Use this product and you will either (1) have a very nice replacement or (2) destroy your phone. Gee. Nice choices! Being neither timid nor shy, I decided to purchase the Replacement Kit and take my chances. As a precaution, I also ordered Eco-Fused Liquid Optical Clear (LOCA) adhesive and an Etekcity ETC-8250 Heat Pen based on the numerous YouTube videos I watched concerning the replacement process. What follows is my experience replacing the screen which is really not too much different from previous experiences related in other reviews.I received all three ordered products in very prompt fashion. While waiting, I watched numerous videos describing how to replace the screen. I would highly recommend that you watch at least the Eco-Fused sponsored video as well as the video that describes the three biggest mistakes you can make attempting the replacement. Here is the one critical key that I took away from all of the videos. Your phone has a glass screen that sits above an air gap that sits above the digitizer. The objective is to raise the glass screen away from the edge of the phone and the adhesive that sticks it to the digitizer WITHOUT putting downward pressure on the digitizer. You must heat the glass screen enough to liquefy the adhesive, BUT not enough to cause heat damage to the digitizer. So, there are two critical operations: (1) heating the glass screen to the proper temperature and (2) separating the glass screen from the digitizer without putting downward pressure on the digitizer.I will explain how I accomplished both operations and I now have a new glass screen that is as good as, or better than, the one I broke. First of all, this is much easier accomplished with two people than doing it on your own. MUCH EASIER. The Eco-Fused kit contains the key elements you need. Primarily, the double sided adhesive tape; the tweezers; and the glass screen. The rest is superfluous. However, the three elements mentioned are well worth the price of the kit. In addition to the kit, I also used the following critical items: the digital temperature pen; a heat gun; and two jokers from a pack of poker cards with which my wife plays solitaire.I had my friend heat the screen of my phone with the heat gun while periodically testing the temperature with the temperature pen. When the screen reached 180 degrees F, I lifted the top edge of the screen up using a razor knife. I tried doing it with the plastic tools from the kit but that did not work. At the proper temperature, the screen lifted easily at the top using the razor knife. Note that I was leveraging the knife against the top of the phone which is a good 1/2 inch away from the digitizer. Also note that there were no cracks near the point that I was lifting. If you leverage against a crack, and you don't use enough heat, you can cause the broken glass to leverage down against the digitizer and ... you destroy the digitizer. My first attempt to separate the glass was using the wire in the kit. Forget about it. It's going to break and you are going to get frustrated. Trust me. After breaking the wire twice, I tried another approach. I slipped the playing card under the glass and began to work it back and forth while my friend continued to heat the glass to 180 degrees. I began with two cards, one at each of the upper two edges. But soon I found that I could turn one card completely through the width of the screen and just move that card all the way to the bottom where I carefully separated the two buttons at the bottom. Watch the video for the button removing operation. It is critical. The broken glass came off easily. From there, I cleaned up the adhesive using WD-40, cleaned the digitizer surface with eye glass cleaning solution and the microfiber cloth in the kit, put down the double sided sticky tape included in the kit (the kit tweezers are invaluable in this step), and installed the new screen. I am one happy camper. My screen actually looks better than before I broke it and it works perfectly.One note about the UV LOCA Glue - I didn't use it. The videos indicate that you should remove the motherboard from the phone before you use the glue. I decided that removing the motherboard was too risky and that I would try it without the LOCA Glue first, and if there were any problems I could easily remove the glass screen and replace it with the glue. I see no need to do that. All of the functions of my phone work perfectly with just the double sided tape solution.I couldn't be happier with the Screen Replacement Kit. WHEN I break my glass again, I know that I can replace it for about $10 since the kit contained enough double-sided tape to do at least ten more repairs. I highly recommend this product. However, it is only as good as the patience and common sense you use to apply it.

I had a completely SHATTERED Galaxy S3 screen. I actually thought this project was hopeless from the start but figured what could I lose by trying (except for a ruined digitizer, but I could barely use the screen as it was so I was willing to risk this trying. I actually cut my finger a couple times swiping the broken screen). Also, I have no previous experience with computers or repairing phones, I'm a housewife/mom who just happens to be a little tiny bit handy, so if you have the bare minimum amount of skill, patience, and a strong will, you could attempt it. But be aware the possibility of completely ruining your phone exists.By shattered I mean the glass was broken in hundreds of pieces but still adhered to the underlying digitizer. I watched several you tube videos which I highly recommend before attempting this project, especially find one that uses playing cards as a tool to lift the broken glass. After heating the cracked screen enough and attempting to lift up some broken pieces I realized that playing cards were by far the best tool to slide under each piece of cracked glass and slowly pry from the adhesive underlay. Any of the tools contained in this kit would have scratched my digitizer since I had to get so many pieces off that were directly above the underlying screen. If your screen is simply cracked once or twice across, these tools would work great to pry under the edges and slowly lift off larger pieces of glass, but if it's shattered please use playing cards! They will not scratch your digitizer, which you have to get close to with small broken pieces. The glass screen replacement fit perfectly and I have no real problems with it, although it is not an original Samsung glass. If you are particular about this, search for an original Samsung glass kit that comes with glue not tape. Also if your glass is not shattered all the other tools are unnecessary as you shouldn't use them directly over the digitizer but only around the edges. They are great to have though so I don't mind that I bought this kit.On another note, I would have added an adhesive glue to this package to give it the 5 stars. The 3M tape works well to hold the new glass in place, but it creates a gap between the digitizer and the new glass since the tape is around the edges of the screen only. If glued properly there would be no gap between the two glass screens and the touch screen would be more clear and like the original construction. So when i press down hard on my glass screen there is a ripple created on the digitizer which makes it freeze. I then have to make the phone sleep and re-wake to undo the freeze. It's a minor inconvenience and I don't ever press down hard on the screen so it hasn't been a problem at all, hence the 4 stars. But I'm considering getting the glue and redoing it since I'm of a perfectionist nature and would like it as close to original as possible. I feel like it will be more secure that way also. But as I always tell myself in these situations, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! So maybe I won't ;)One last note. After you remove all the broken glass, there's a strip of black adhesive on the phone that held down the original glass (on the Galaxy S3). I removed that completely and used the new adhesive this kit provided and it made for a very clean replacement. Some have said they left the original and placed the new glass on it alone, but mine had so many tiny chips of glass still stuck in it it was not fully functional. I thought the black was part of the actual phone but it's only adhesive so it can come off.

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This was the first time we tried replacing a phone screen so this is written from a complete novices perspective.The kit arrived very quickly and it contained pretty much all the tools necessary - just add a hair dryer and a sharp knife. The latter isn't on the list suggested by the kit but we found it necessary just to lift the very edge of the screen. The kit tools are made of a soft plastic, which is great for avoiding any damage the phone but weren't quite thin enough to start the lifting process.We followed the included instructions (which were helpfully automatically emailed to us by the supplier as well). At times it felt like we were completely ruining the phone but at the final step it all came together and the phone looked brand new and once turned on worked as new.For anyone that hasn't done this before, the instructions don't prepare you for exactly how messy the process may be. It wasn't totally clear whether the film that's adhered to the back of the screen screen needed to be lifted or not - we tried not doing it in fear of breaking the phone but the glass simply splintered and the plastic film started to deform.So in for a penny, in for a pound, we peeled the glass and film off together and it left an exposed, messy but undamaged LCD. A quick dust to remove any glass splinters and a wipe over with a moist alcohol wipe to removed the rubbery glue that held the old old screen in place and the dismembered phone was ready for the new screen.The rest of the process was easy - laying down the provided double-sided tape and aligning the screen took moments.If you haven't done this before, the key is to be careful but brave.

Item arrived within a expected time frame, ordered on Friday, had it Thursday.It was as advertised, and the staff were curtious. I discovered after the fact that there was a chance it would be the wrong piece, for another near identical phone (I have the i747m from Koodo but other than the packaging nothing seems to suggest it's a "m").They put my mind at ease Monday, and went to work replacing the screen on Thursday.BEFORE YOU START REPLACING YOUR GLASS ON ANY PHONE, make sure you read directions carefully AND HAVE THE RECOMMENDED TOOLS to complete the task efficiently without further damage.This came with the tools required with one or two exceptions.A heat gun is a MUST for replacing a glass cover for a DISPLAY. You must also take into consideration trying to pry the glass (even warmed) you are risking very expensive damage.I have one of those bean bags you can use to warm and ease pain from tight muscles or sore back, and used this to heat the front of the phone.While it loosens the front slightly, it was insufficient. Highly recommend either a heat gun OR another more suitable tool which will raise the temperature further.I've now ordered a complete LCD assembly to replace the whole of the unit. This might have been a better plan MY FIRST TIME AROUND.Attempt to save $75 on my repair failed.Would I purchase this screen glass again?YES. It's as advertised, my own failing in rushing the replacement was and issue. BE VERY PATIENT.Also, the tips of the spudger to separate the glass from the glass, you can't put more than the tip in or you risk cracking the expensive part of the LCD.Good luck.

Bought this to try and replace my S3 phone screen by myself as I had been quoted £150 in shops and it definitely wasn't worth the value of the phone which is nearly two years old anyway. My phone was really badly smashed, the glass was in thousands of tiny pieces across the phone and also all around the edges it had smashed into a dust so initially I thought it wouldn't work because it was such a complex break - but persevered anyway because the phone was not usable without a new screen.I followed the instructions really carefully and also watched the video (which is recommended by the seller in an email after you purchase). I used a hairdryer to heat phone, did it for about 10 minutes I then used the tweezers to try and pull some of the glass away. I wasn't worried about it getting too hot because everytime I turned the hairdryer off it cooled so quickly that it could never be getting that hot. After doing it for a while, I tried to loosen the screen but here i made a slight mistake because I thought that you had to remove the shards of glass (which i thought was the screen?!) but you actually have to peel away the backing which the glass is mounted on - this isn't made entirely clear in the instructions and I only realised after watching the video a few times. This was made easy with the tweezers and the wire as is done on the video, I got someone else to keep heating me with a hairdryer whilst I was doing it to keep it hot.**Once the screen was off you are supposed to clean the lcd with an 'alchohol based cleaner' which isn't provided in the kit to remove glue and dust**. I tried white spirit and nail varnish remover which didn't work - so resorted to straight gin which was the only alchohol I had. This worked well - but I think that there probably is something more suitable which you should buy at the same time as this kit. That said, vodka and gin would probably work just as well if you are ok to use it....Putting the glue strips on the phone is easy and placing the screen back on is pretty straight forward to put back on - the glue strips are really sticky and there's loads of tape left which may come in handy for something else! Unfortunately I didn't wait until the alcohol had evaporated off of the screen so i now have a tiny bubble of air/gin on my screen - but you can only see it when the phone is locked (not when the screen is on) and I really don't mind because the screen works perfectly otherwise. The buttons work, everything on the screen responds correctly and I am just so happy because I can now keep using this phone until it software eventually stops working. Saves me a few hundred pounds as I didn't really want a new phone yet.It's a risky, nerve-wracking process but if your screen is badly smashed then you don't have much to lose so give it a go!

Screen and tape are perfect for the job ... but the tools and instructions are a bit weak. I have no idea what the screw drivers are for!I used a heat gun to warm the glue; to my view, a hair dryer is not hot enough. Make sure you follow the instructions on this or you'll melt your unit.You need to keep in mind that there is a full sticky layer between the two glass surfaces. Once heated, you'll have better luck with a scalpel for starting the screen removal process. Be very careful to only lift the top glass and not go too deep, possibly damaging the digitizing LCD below. Then a large helping of patience and a slow but steady lift to remove the screen, will pay off. I did not use the wire. But then my old screen was still mostly still in one piece. Be mindful of the thin film switch on the bottom that is stuck to the glass. The scalpel will help here as well. Can't over emphasize the need to clean off the old glue form everywhere, including the black areas outside the LCD area. Lastly, but important, the new screen will not have any glue filling the void between it and the LCD. Therefore, in addition to the areas marked in the instructions, you should add the double sided tape around the speaker to prevent dust from leaking in over time.Added a new battery and now my phone works like new! Remember, with patience and a steady hand this product works!