How hard to replace screen?
My screen replacement went very well, except I wish I'd spent an extra 1 dollar and purchased a new mainboard to USB-C sideboard coax cable too. I already had a spare USB-C sideboard on hand, because I find that cell phones often become bricks eventually, after the stress and strain of power cable charging situations and mishaps ruins the phone's charging socket and the phone can no longer be charged. As part of the USB-C sideboard, the Pinephone USB-C socket is well worth the money for its relative ease of replacement, compared to the surface mount soldering rework required on most cell phones I've seen.
Anyway, I didn't need my spare USB-C sideboard when I replaced my screen, but the mainboard end of the coax connector was reluctant to stay connected to its mainboard socket upon re-assembly. I spent a lot of time with this fussy task! Eventually I changed the natural slack, lay and angle of the cable such that I could snap it in place and then twist it slightly to a somewhat new angular / rotational position of the connector barrel on the socket. It seems to be holding now and the phone is fully functional. These connectors loose retention force quickly with repeated teardown and assembly--even faster than all the sticky backed components lose retention with each teardown and repair.
Hopefully my replacement screen will remain defect free a lot longer than my original screen. My replacement screen is a -1 revision but my original was a -2 rev. The repair wasn't nearly as challenging as removing, cleaning, and re-lubricating the shutter iris in my little Sanyo XACTI HD camera, but neither repair is something I'd like to ever do again!
Anyway, I didn't need my spare USB-C sideboard when I replaced my screen, but the mainboard end of the coax connector was reluctant to stay connected to its mainboard socket upon re-assembly. I spent a lot of time with this fussy task! Eventually I changed the natural slack, lay and angle of the cable such that I could snap it in place and then twist it slightly to a somewhat new angular / rotational position of the connector barrel on the socket. It seems to be holding now and the phone is fully functional. These connectors loose retention force quickly with repeated teardown and assembly--even faster than all the sticky backed components lose retention with each teardown and repair.
Hopefully my replacement screen will remain defect free a lot longer than my original screen. My replacement screen is a -1 revision but my original was a -2 rev. The repair wasn't nearly as challenging as removing, cleaning, and re-lubricating the shutter iris in my little Sanyo XACTI HD camera, but neither repair is something I'd like to ever do again!
