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When opening my phone to replace earpiece, the glass pulled away from the ‘bezel’ or frame that it is mounted in. I can see pieces of glue. The attached bracket (LCD Frame?) remained clipped into the rear case. Once I realized that this was not right (opened to about 20 deg angle), I pushed the glass back into the bezel and worked harder to open the phone “correctly”. My question is: now that the glass is not totally secure in it’s mounting ‘bezel’ what is the correct type of glue to be used to make sure the glass does not pop out in the future.
Hello this is a common issue when using a suction cup happened til me once and never used a suction cup again.. What I would use is a bit of gorilla glue super strong so you won’t experiance this again if you even need to open phone again
The iPhone 5 has clips in the top that need to be clipped in before “pushing” the frame back into the bezel. If the glass is moving away it may well need the optical clear adhesive replacing. This will require heating the phone to separate the adhesive and apply the adhesive. You will need to be wary of air bubbles and it’s recommended to cure under a UV light.
I use the iSeasmo tool to open the 5, 5c, and 5s, never had an issue with it scraping the paint on the underside. If you slide just the tip between the glass and the midframe. Just to the left of the home button and gently pry up. Even with this method I still get some separation of the bezel from the glass, but gently slide the iSeasmo (or similar pry tool) along the sides underneath the bezel and it pops up as you want. I find that 2mm double sided tape works “OK” to reaffirm the bezel to the glass, but found this article by googling a better alternative.
Actually, this problem seems to have happened to my iPhone 5 without even opening it. And it has become rather annoying. It was rather difficult to open the iPhone safely with the glass not affixed to the bezel (it is loose and the top and sides, but luckily still firmly attached at the home button). But now that I have the screen off and see the problem, I am trying to figure the best way to fix this???
Hi, I recently had this problem and I noticed that the clips on the side of the phone were functional. So, I looked inside the phone and noticed that the battery was kinda like puffed out. I popped a the plastic with a needle so that there wasn’t access air in the battery. This solved the problem and I could close the phone correctly.
I have had this issue many times, and found this article after searching for an alternative. Mainly, I am concerned with removing and re-placing the plastic camera and proximity sensors. I typically use super glue of any brand, but this is not a good alternative because one wrong move and you have the glue smeared onto the clear camera lookout, or you don’t position the bracket exactly where it needs to be and have to chisel it back off. I’m thinking of trying some type of contact cement?? I have the the LOCA glue for the LCD repairs but it takes too long to cure for little fixes like this. I’m hoping someone out there has a definitive answer.
