Easiest iPhone Glass Fix – WITH LASERS (Not clickbait)

so apples gonna hate me for making this video so we all know that the back glass on the newer Apple iPhones are nearly impossible to repair even Apple themselves charge five hundred and fifty dollars to repair the back glass on an iPhone 10 and six hundred dollars to repair the back glass on an iPhone eleven and eleven Pro it's because the adhesive on their back glass is permanent now they're the only manufacturer that does this most manufacturers have an adhesive that melts away when it gets hot and you can remove the back glass and repair the whole phone for like twenty dollars removing the back glass is so hard and so impractical that's why Apple charges $600 to replace it on the iPhone 11 in order for a third party to remove the glass it has to be subject to extreme temperatures I've even attempted to take the iPhones to the opposite end of the temperature spectrum and use liquid nitrogen today though I think we found something that's more practical more repairable and takes the pain out of removing the back glass and it's all done with lasers [Laughter] so this guy right here is an all-in-one multifunctional laser machine that separates the back glass panel from the frame Laser is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation the red laser you see on top of the glass right now is mostly just to figure out where the phone is located so we don't start lasering the metal frame of the phone the laser is strong enough that will actually etch the metal so we're trying to stay on just a glass surface once we switch over to the white laser that's where it'll immediately start burning underneath the glass and separating the glass from the metal frame which is exactly what we're after saving ourselves about 500 or 600 dollars Apple if you're watching you can totally buy one of these yourselves and drop your prices just a little bit now as the laser is pulverizing all the adhesive underneath the glass there is quite a lot of fumes that come out so this is a vacuum that sucks up the fumes from the burning adhesive puts it through a filter and gets rid of the burning adhesive smell so this setup is from a company called riwa and the software they have included with it works with most every major manufacturer but today we're mostly worried about the iPhones because those are the hardest to repair each design is already pre-programmed into the Machine all the way from the iPhone 10 the 10 are the 8 the laser can separate the bezel from the screen as well as the back cover and the back cover on the 10 is what we're doing today once I have the laser cut out selected make sure the phone set in the right spot and then as soon as I hit mark the real laser starts going all the laser in you see happening right now is happening in real time none of this footage is sped up and the whole process only takes about five or ten minutes one pass with the laser underneath the glass gets rid of the bulk of the adhesive and we can do a second pass just to remove any of the remaining after that we can start removing the glass shards from the frame a laser is a concentrated light beam and that concentrated light energy can be absorbed by some objects but not others the laser would pass through the glass just fine but as soon as it hits the adhesive or the paint on the back of the glass the energy is converted to heat and starts pulverizing that paint and the adhesive and turns it to dust the higher power the laser beam the more damage it can do and that is it the laser has removed the paint from underneath the glass so now the glass can fall away from the phone for the most part so you can see here the laser design is cutting out the black portions and that same design left the space for the wireless charging pad as well as some sensitive bits down here along the bottom but those sensitive bits don't have adhesive behind it holding it to the glass panel so we're just fine so now the laser has run its course we can take a look at the phone and see exactly what the laser has done taking a thin metal pry tool in between the glass and the frame of the phone I can slowly wedge the pieces of glass out away from the back now in a perfect world if the glass was completely crack list the laser would have gone through and disintegrated the layer of adhesive between the glass and the metal frame you can see the pulverized paint an adhesive getting on my fingers the laser has literally burned everything underneath the glass to ash but where cracks appear in the glass the laser refracts and doesn't quite burn away the adhesive so there's still some prying to do but it's still much easier than any method we've tried so far like extreme heat or liquid nitrogen now Apple has designed their phone in a way where the glass panel sits underneath the camera lens which poses a slight problem for removal because that camera lens is welded to the frame and we want to leave that intact to make it an easier repair I'll slowly chisel out the glass from underneath that welded camera lens depending on what glass you buy there are third-party glasses that fit underneath this camera lens I would recommend though that you buy a glass pack that fits over the camera lens I'll show you what I mean in a second it just makes the repair much easier because you don't have to deal with that lens so obviously I'm not a professional I'm just showing that the machine actually works someone who does this on a regular basis would do a much cleaner job but the technology is pretty fascinating so now we have all the glass shards away from the phone the phone itself is still working still functional even though the back glass is removed and now it's time to add the new glass it'll be good as new so when it comes time to select a piece of glass for your phone there's a couple different options one is you can get the glass with logo or without the logo Apple's been pretty anti repair from the beginning so the vendors that sell the glass with the logo tend to disappear if you're a business doing this on a regular basis you might want to buy the without the logo that way there's no copyright issues it's effectively D branded you could say the second thing to look out for is the cutout of the glass this white panel here you can see has the exact same cutout as the original piece of glass meaning we'd have to unweld the camera lens put the glass down and then glued the camera lens back into place which is a much more difficult repair so I recommend buying the piece of glass that has a cutout large enough to slip over top of the camera lens and then sits down snugly inside of the frame it's a much easier repair and no one's really gonna notice the difference the adhesive I'm gonna use to adhere the back glass to the phone is called a 8000 it's a multi-purpose jewelry adhesive that adheres glass and metal I'll apply it to the metal of the phone and basically the same pattern that Apple used initially and then do a super thin bead around the edge of the phone before I clamp the glass down into place there should be some seepage out around the sides of the phone this will help with water resistance even though I would not trust the phone to be water resistant and before the adhesive cures which is about four to ten minutes we'll use some isopropyl alcohol to clean up the seepage from underneath the glass we want to make sure most of the overflow goo is gone before it has time to dry it's easier to clean up when it's wet you might be asking yourself what about water resistance even though we've applied the glue in the same pattern that Apple applied the original adhesive water resistance isn't something that you want to trust in the first place much less after it's been broken and repaired you should keep your phone away from water either way one thing to keep in mind though with this laser machine is that the more cracks are the more shattered your phone is the harder it is for the laser to get through the glass if your glass is pretty much obliterated the laser is gonna go down and get refracted all over the place and not burn through the adhesive underneath the glass so the less cracked your back is the easier it is for this machine to work either way though this machine brings the repair to a much more practical and sustainable level it's doable so each of these back glass panels costs about 20 bucks now granted we did have to buy a two thousand dollar machine but for a repair shop doing a lot of these on a regular basis it's a substantial improvement and I'm a huge fan of where the technology is headed lasers are pretty cool so obviously this repair is a bit more complex than average teardown and requires some pretty expensive equipment but it's good to know that the repair is possible and that there are people out there doing it for much cheaper than Apple repair is an option as much fun as playing with liquid nitrogen with the king of random was using this laser separator is much easier I have a feeling these machines are gonna get real popular real quick I'll leave a link for these down in the video description so you can check out the current pricing as with all technology I'm sure the price is gonna go down as time progresses if you have any questions leave them down in the comments come hang out with me on Instagram and Twitter and thanks ton for watching I'll see you around these right here our all Apple watch displays every single one of them my buddy's done so many Apple watch repairs that he turns them into artwork

Channel: JerryRigEverything

Views: 22,274,024

Rating: 4.8568592 out of 5

Keywords: iPhone back glass repair, How to replace iPhone glass, iPhone glass, iPhone, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone repair, Laser separator, laser repair, laser back glass, laser iphone, new iphone, broken iphone, cracked iphone glass, back iphone glass, clear iphone

Id: Lj4Od9D4puc

Length: 8min 50sec (530 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 07 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/zeta_cartel_CFO]

that's cool. But why even replace a glass back with glass again? I'd say make it metal. Unless its a warranty thing.

[u/Perific]

Cool. But the design just screams "buy new iPhone!"

[u/Houdiniman111]

Huh. TIL that the paint is also the glue.

[u/Count_Dirac_EULA]

No PPE makes me a sad panda.

[u/Kichigai]

Someone who does this on a regular basis would do a much cleaner job

Also they would wear gloves.

[u/Skitscuddlydoo]

Can you please put on some gloves? I mean cool vid and all but you’re making me nervous.

[u/north_or_south]

When the glass first breaks off the phone I literally winced

[u/redd_dot]

Wow, thanks Paul Rudd!

[u/Rygon1999]

Wonder if this could be used to separate the glass from a digitizer on a phone