Broke my screen replacing the usb port on my Pixel 3a XL, no big deal right? 5 year old phone, very popular, lots of replacement parts!
It's 130 if I buy locally. I could upgrade to a pixel 4a XL for 160.
Even from Aliexpress it's 55! That's 1/3rd the value of the phone!
Why are there no after market parts? I don't need oled! I don't need HD! I'd take a 480 led screen if it was cheap
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Every phone maker uses a different panel mounted to a different housing with a different sheet of glass over the front so there are no economies of scale for spare parts in android land. That's my best guess anyway.
For iphones, where there otherwise would be economies of scale with the parts, Apple has armed guards at every point in their supply chain with instructions to kill anybody attempting to buy standalone parts before they make it into the final product. For more details see every Louis Rossman video ever.
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I almost bought an archbtw phone, but it had too many reviews about missing or dropped calls
it's pretty much the closest thing to my dream phone that exists
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gets me every time
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Still weighs less than the average rdrama (tt)
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Yeah I think it's just an economies of scale thing.
OLEDs are also a cartel !neolibs
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A pretty cartel!
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Ya they got me by the balls. OLED moniotrs are just so much better. I got a cool pic on my mouse
demonstrating how individual pixels 
turn off for black, zoom in and stare 
into the abyss 
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So just scale up the total amount of replacement parts available. Unless you just don't feel like it.
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Apple also charges 25% of the value of your phone to protect it against a 0.01% probability occurrence.
Apple Care About Money.
!droiders
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bc the system is designed to frick you in the butt
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Yea it really is. They know I need that screen to backup my photos and shit, they have me by the balls.
And of course every phone I could buy for parts has a smashed screen.
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setting up backup procedure + debug access via scrcpy should happen very early in the setup phase when getting a new phone. You got a relatively cheap lesson here
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I don't know if it's because I changed the hardware, or some ubuntu bug, or a bug in ADB but after swapping the usb port for the new one the device is now unauthorized.
Can a mobile javacel shed some light?
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are you sure you also enabled the settings that adb certificates don't get periodically deleted (I think the normal lifetime is one week)
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I did not.
Once again I am screwed by google
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honestly, custom roms should disable all this security theater crap by default. Technical users don't need the guard rails, and we already get theft discouragement if the 99.9% of normies have locked down devices
User who install roms already implicitly voiced their opinion on the freedom vs security tradeoff
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A lot of roms don't even publish builds for the pixel 3 anymore because the firmware is EOL so it's "insecure"
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You don't need a screen
to do that. Just a USB c to hdmi adapter. With something 
like this you can plug in a mouse 
and keyboard 
too 
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I don't think Pixels support hdmi over usb. At least, my 6 doesn't
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That's what you get for buying Googleshit
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Probably not one of those pieces of shit. Those little grey Chinese ones half the time have something fricky, best just get a USB C to USB A cable, which may have just come with the phone connected to a charger anyway.
God I hate those pieces of shit little grey hubs.
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Neat. I'll buy one for encase this happens again, already ordered the replacement part
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Its a Pixel phone. Did you turn off auto-backup? It should auto-backup to your google account everytime its plugged into a charger longer than 2 hours.
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I flashed a custom rom because google stopped updating it, I back everything weekly going to change that to daily when I get the new screen
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I don't trust automatic backups. Someday it'll bite me in the butt, I'm sure
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You have to pay for that now.
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cant you hook it up to an external display via the usbc and then connect a bluetooth mouse and keyboard then transfer yourfiles with wifi/bluetooth or cloud? Either way, good luck!
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Only if you enabled that in developer settings while the screen was usable. Ever since I got fricked by this same scenario I do that first thing when I get a new phone
Jewish lives matter on zogdrama.net
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android doesnt require you to enable that in developer settings, curious
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Idk, but you should have a screen protector and case. Learned the hard way; now I never buy a new phone without them.
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Oh I didn't break the screen doing anything, I broke it replacing the USB port. Pulled a lil too hard on the screen while removing the glue and it broke.
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Ohhh Okay. I've broken two phones trying to DIY repair, myself.
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How did you break xem? I want to repair one which had its battery swollen. I don't think it's that hard but I don't want to f#ck it and end up rendering the device useless, and don't want to pay the local repair man because xe is a happy merchant that will probably give me the worst battery imaginable and charge me x3 what it costs
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Tried to replace a battery on one, screen glass on another. There are some phones where replacing the battery is trivial, on others like the one I had it's a complex and delicate task.
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I owned a (regular non-XL) 3a once upon a time and I think I remember pixels from that generation having exceptionally fragile displays in terms of removing them to work on the guts of the device
I assume you have already looked into the adb options for pulling data from the phone? Idk what the status of that is these days and you probably have to enable it on the phone (with a functioning screen) before you can pull anything but it's worth a look if you haven't already.
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i was so gentle. I just let the glue cool a little too much
It's unauthed now! I don't know it that's because it's locked or I changed out hardware.
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When you buy a phone, you are just buying a touchscreen with pennies worth of electronics and firmware attached.
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Because no one wants to buy old phones.
The solution is to just buy old phones rather than trying to fix cheap
shit. That's what I do every few years when my USB port and battery 
wear out.
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Had I been 10% better at cellphone repair I'd've done fix. I just get too impatient and use a little too much force
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Title: costs as much as new phone
Article: costs 1/3 as much as a new phone
moral: you should feel bad
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That was from china, from a local shop it was the same as the phone and ebay was 2/3rds
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so maybe skip the local shop who is giving you 200% markup next time?
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I feel your pain. I had a pixel 4a that I broke and it was too expensive to fix so I went back to my pixel 2 for another year until I could get my current pixel 6. It's fricking bullshit how much it is to replace a screen
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Buy iPhone, poorcel
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no itunes is gay
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Well xir it is a phone that is somewhat outdated so, finding aftermarket parts could b somewhat hard. Have you tried contacting those repair shops that have thousands of screen parts? I don't know if xey are willing to sell but it's probably worth a shot
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They wanted 100 ro 150 for it, I can get a pixel 4 XL for that
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