fix lcd screen iphone x made in china

“Original” screens are those containing LCDs manufactured for Apple. “Copy” screens are compatible replacements entirely designed and manufactured by third-party companies not associated with Apple.

LCD display panel can have poorer resolution (i.e. looks “coarser”), worse brightness, contrast and vibrancy and reduced refresh rate amongst other problems.

Changes in specification from original can result in battery and performance issues. Certain badly-engineered screens could even damage the backlight circuitry.

Customers who bring their iPhones to us for a screen repair are offered two choices of replacement- an original or a “copy” screen. The most common response is “Is there a difference- and which one would you recommend?”

Originals are those screens containing LCDs that were manufactured for Apple. So-called “copy” screens are compatible replacements, but designed and manufactured entirely independently by third-party companies, typically in China.

Our answer is simple- the original screen is the one we’d go for ourselves, every time. Some people think we make more money on them, but this isn’t the case. We recommend originals because they’re far higher quality and the price difference is fairly small.

We’d rather only fit original screens. The only reason we don’t is that many people will shop around and choose purely on price. As such, we need to offer the cheaper copy screens to remain competitive and avoid losing these customers. In some cases, they didn’t even know there was a difference in the first place- especially since it’s not in some shops’ interest to draw people’s attention to the issue!

This may well be the worst copy screen we’ve ever come across. As a result, the unfortunate customer has ended up paying twice to have their screen replaced- we’re sure that had they been properly informed, they would have chosen an original in the first place.

While the difference in price between copies and originals can vary across devices, it’s generally around £10 – £14 extra to have an original screen fitted. This really isn’t a lot considering the improved quality and reliability.

We compare our prices to our competitors- and we know that we come out of it favourably. While we have to offer copy screens to remain competitive, we always advise customers to go for the original.

When you’ve spent- directly or indirectly- several hundred pounds for an iPhone with a Retina display, it doesn’t make sense to replace it with a lower-quality screen that can make a £400 phone look like a £40 one! Not only that, but you’re likely to have fewer issues, and a longer-lasting screen.

There’s nothing stopping any random person without training or experience opening up a smartphone repair shop. As a result, the industry is full of companies with little skill or experience who are only interested in getting hold of your money and installing the cheapest parts they can find.

Many- if not most- don’t even acknowledge the existence of copy screens, let alone explain the difference to the customer. Hardly in their interest to do so if they only fit cheap, low-quality copies. Some of them can hardly be blamed- they know so little, they’re not even clear on the differences between OEM, non-OEM and copy displays themselves! Others can be more deliberately misleading… and some outright lie.

Generally, these shops are looking for the cheapest price on replacement screens.. When offered a copy at a half or a third of a price of the original, they’re going to go for that. That might be fine if they offered the customer a cheaper price- what we disagree with is selling “supermarket beans” (i.e. the copy screens) at “Heinz beans” prices!

Heading towards the “blatantly fraudulent”, we’re aware of companies that shamelessly fit copy screens while claiming them to be original. Worse, they’ll take your broken original screen and sell that to a recycler for more than they paid for your copy!

Apple tightened up their supply chain around 2015, which reduced the number of screens available for repairs and increased their price dramatically. A lot of companies went bankrupt, and Chinese manufacturers responded by making their own “copy” screens from scratch. At first, these weren’t much cheaper than the Apple ones, but the price soon fell.

We should be clear that- despite the name- “copy” screens aren’t direct copies of the Apple originals. Rather, they’re compatible replacements that have been designed from scratch and- as a result- vary in some respects that have an effect on usability and quality.

One of the most important differences between an original and a “copy” screen is how the digitizer (touch sensor) is designed. Apple has it manufactured as part of the LCD itself, whereas the copies have it on the glass.

Although there are only a small number of manufacturers of the bare LCDs themselves, these are then bought by countless other companies who add the remaining components needed to turn these into a complete working screen. As a result, you could easily end up with an LCD from the best “copy” manufacturer, but the digitizer/touch (as part of the separately-manufactured glass) from the worst.

There are countless digitizers out there, and you can only take the supplier’s word that the quality is good. Many ship good ones at first, then switch to cheaper parts to make more profit. This is particularly bad with the iPhone 6S and 6S+, since Apple moved the chips responsible for touch processing onto the LCD itself. As a result, you’re not just getting a copy screen- you’re getting copy chips too.

The performance specification (power drain, etc.) of most copy screens isn’t identical to the originals. As a result, they can drain the battery more quickly and mislead the operating system which was optimised for the original screen design.

It’s even possible that this mismatch could damage your backlight. We do a lot of subcontracted repairs for less-experienced shops, and get backlight repairs in almost every day. We’ve had cases where we fixed the circuit, fitted the new copy screen to test it, and had it break the circuit again!

Copy screens can disrupt the touch ID fingerprint reader. With the 6S, 6S+, 7 and 7+, the home button- part of the 3D touch- is part of the screen assembly. Frequently the home button flexes on aftermarket designs don’t work properly and stop the touch ID working- annoying if you use it to unlock the phone or log in to your bank.

We’ve seen many lift away from the frame that holds them in place. This usually results in the flex cable getting torn, and the screen needing replacing. You don’t even need to have dropped the phone- this often happens through general everyday wear and tear.

That brings us to another major issue with the copies. When you drop an Apple original, the glass often breaks, but if the LCD itself is intact, you can continue to use it until it’s fixed. With the copies, the touch/digitizer is on the glass and stops working when that’s broken. Even worse, the LCD itself is more likely to break due to the thinner and more fragile glass.

We’re not convinced this will happen, since Apple recently changed their repair policy to accept iPhones with third-party screens. However, it is possible that copy screens could be stopped from working via an iOS update, since those make a number of security checks.

The Apple Limited Warranty covers your iPhone and the Apple-branded accessories that come in the box with your product against manufacturing issues for one year from the date you bought them. Apple-branded accessories purchased separately are covered by the Apple Limited Warranty for Accessories. This includes adapters, spare cables, wireless chargers, or cases.

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People have told us that our prices are way lower than the Apple Store! An iPhone X screen replacement is $80 less with Smart Tech than the Apple Store. We use the same quality screens and do the repair in 15 minutes instead of hours or days. Same warranty and same quality without the hassle.

Some of our customers have told us that they received a quote from their insurance that was significantly higher than our price. With insurance, you also have to back up your phone, wait days for a phone to be shipped to you, and be out of a phone for 3-5 days in some cases. Insurance companies use the lowest-quality refurbished parts that will not work the same and will break easier. This puts you in a position to spend even more money and have more hassle down the road. Smart Tech uses better parts, comes to you and fixes your phone in 15 minutes! Same-day immediate service is available. It"s really a no-brainer that Smart Tech is your BEST option for any and all iPhone repairs.

Smart Tech iPhone Repair fixes your broken screen in 15 minutes. With Smart Tech, there’s no waiting in a crowded store—we come to you, wherever you want, whenever you want.

Going to the Apple store to get your iPhone repaired isn’t fun. The lines are long. Customer service representatives are always busy with someone else. Diagnosing the full extent of your phone’s problems takes longer than it should. And the Apple Geniuses never tell you what you want to hear when you finally do get the full diagnostic back.

Smart Tech drives to wherever is most convenient for you—work, home, Starbucks, McDonald"s, sporting events, etc—so you don"t have to worry about missing any of your work meetings, kids" games, or even just have to waste time waiting. Whistle while you work, and we"ll whistle while we fix your cracked or broken iPhone screen.

People in the Milwaukee area who broke their phones used to have three options: live with it, get a new iPhone, or drive to a brick-and-mortar shop to get their cracked screen replaced. Not anymore. Now, you can call Smart Tech, THE ONLY iPhone REPAIR COMPANY IN MILWAUKEE THAT DRIVES TO THE LOCATION OF YOUR CHOOSING TO MAKE REPAIRS MORE CONVENIENT FOR YOU, THE CUSTOMER.

When you choose Smart Tech as the company to replace your iPhone screen, you"re getting quality replacement parts. Places like tech shops and mall kiosk stations have bigger profit margins on their screen replacements because they use cheap materials, off-brand Chinese imitations.

People often show us their iPhones after going to these places, and what we see is baffling. They have rubber bands holding their screen to the phone because, after only a few weeks, the screen has peeled off. That"s what happens when you use an inferior repair service. If it doesn"t peel off, it doesn"t work as well. Bad touch. Bad color. Break easier. The works.

Now, you can call Smart Tech, the anywhere iPhone repair people. Our iPhone screen repair services are superior to other companies in Milwaukee for a few reasons:

WE ONLY WORK ON iPHONES. If you needed heart surgery, would you go to a surgeon who works on all body parts? Or would you go to a cardiovascular surgeon? Don"t go to a phone repair shop that fixes Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, HTC, Sony, LG, Blackberry AND iPhones. Smart Tech is your best option for iPhone repairs in the Milwaukee area. Stay right where you are. WE COME TO YOU.

We are grateful for your business. We think highly enough of you and your time to bring the service to you. Tell us when and where it’s convenient for us to meet you, and we’ll be there. The quality of our service reflects how much we appreciate you choosing Smart Tech as your anywhere iPhone repair people.

Do you think a "Jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none" store that also repairs iPhones can possibly be qualified to do acceptable work on your iPhone? We know it takes a specialist to repair iPhones the right way. iPhones are different than every other phone, and if the repair isn"t done properly, you will have issues. We see this with a lot of phones worked on by the big chain stores and

Screen doesn"t always respond or work the same (almost all of the other companies fixing iPhones in the area use low-quality, non-Apple parts—we use OEM high-quality parts)

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Apple’s iPhone X is notoriously hard to repair. Its screen and back are made of glass, and dropping the $1,000 iPhone will often break an unprotected device. Users who want to repair a cracked screen with Apple will have to pay upwards of $279 for the service.Users who want to go another way and pay a third party repair store for a replacement have thus far been out of luck—aftermarket parts for the new wave of Apple devices simply didn’t exist. Worse, iOS software updates can cause problems with phones repaired with aftermarket parts.AdvertisementBut there’s a new wave of replacement screens coming out of China that promise to make repairing the iPhone X a little cheaper and easier if they can work out their own unique kinks. The first is a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, first spotted by Mobile Defenders.

The existence of aftermarket LCD iPhone X displays is surprising, because the iPhone X ships with an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen. That means third-party screen manufacturers have found a way to make an entirely different technology (which is used in other versions of the iPhone) work with the iPhone X.Mobile Defenders tested out the screens and found a couple of quirks. They have a red shift when viewed from an angle, are thicker than the OEM OLED screen, and run hotter than an original iPhone X screen. Repair experts who have tested the screens say that it uses the iPhone X’s battery faster than expected.“This is not a proper solution, and is almost guaranteed to be blocked by Apple in the near future,” Kev Notton—founder of San Diego-based RepairMapr, a diagnosis tool repair shops can use to annotate repairs—told me on Facebook. “We wanted to warn anyone that may purchase them off eBay/Amazon thinking that they"re the real thing.”There are listings for the screens on eBay, though a lot of repair professionals are getting them direct from suppliers in China. Confusingly, many of the listings refer to the screens as both LCD and OLED. They also tend to cost more than the $279 Apple charges for replacing the screen. “The term LCD is so loosely interchanged with "display" these days, kinda like Kleenex to tissues, so I can certainly see average consumers being confused by it,” Notton said.For Notton, even if a person who gets an LCD to replace their OLED is informed, the next person who uses the phone might not be. “Most of these devices have 3 or more owners in their lifetime,” he said. “Even if a single customer wants a cheaper repair, the next owner of that device won"t know they"re receiving a device with a lower quality technology inside.”Aftermarket OLED screens have hit the market too. A video uploaded by REWA Technology—a Hong Kong based wholesaler—showed off the differences between the OEM screen, the LCDs, and the new OLED.

The aftermarket OLED screens had normal touch functionality and ran a little thinner than the OEM screens, but the sample REWA used in its video had a glitch that caused bright pink lines to run across the whole screen. Despite that, REWA and other third-party repair stores are hopeful that the new batch of screens from China will soon be provide customers a cheap and easy alternative to Apple’s official repair process. “It’s a start,” Michael Oberdick, founder of the Ohio-area repair store iOutlet, told me over Facebook. “I obviously wouldn’t put on a customer’s phone yet but I’m sure there is cases out there that the consumer is informed by a repair shop about the difference and possible issues and will put it on their device as it may be their only / quickest option.”