How to Replace a Droid X Screen By :Robby

[thewolfemann]

Ok... so I used this video along with some other info to replace my cracked screen. Everything seemed to go pretty smoothly and even though I was crazy nervous, I felt like I did everything just like I was "instructed". When I was, what I thought as finished, and turned the phone back on, nothing happened. I then thought that maybe the battery needed a charge, so I plugged the phone up. When I did that it gave me the little vibrate/buzz thing it does when you unlock the phone. At that point I realized that it was in fact on, but nothing was coming up on the lcd... Now what do I do to get my picture back, or is it even possible? It was working fine beforehand... actually, other than the the spider-webbed glass being impossible to see through sometimes, the phone worked great. I was starting to have trouble with texting the day before i changed the glass, but everything else worked fine! HELP!

Know this is an old thread, but I was having this same problem. The disassembly was easy enough, but now I couldn't get either my original screen or the new screen to turn on. The OP didn't mention it until the assembly vid, but there's a very fragile white clip that holds the ribbon cable to the LCD in place. You can see it at the end of his left thumb at 5:03. In my case, the white clip was not making a secure connection between the socket and the ribbon cable. I tried several remedies before I found one that worked. I took a piece of very sticky tape (3/8" wide) and rolled it up tightly so that it created a roll of tape about 1/8" diameter and 3/8" long. I placed this on top of the white socket, and took another piece of 3/8" wide tape (this time maybe 1/2" long) and taped it over the 1/8" x 3/8" tape roll and adhered it as tightly as I could to the circuit board. This put sufficient pressure on the socket to make a connection. It's working atm, so we'll see how it holds up.

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