JAW Speak

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

My glass screen broke by popping and spinning up outside of my jacket, landing glass-side-down on a bumpy pothole  a few weeks ago. It was right before going to China, so I didn’t have time to take it to an apple store. I covered the glass with a screen protector (to stop shards from falling off), and waited until I had more time. I even tried having a phone store in China look at repairing it, but my language barrier got in the way. They all kept trying to use styluses to touch the screen. Now that I’m back, I decided to repair it myself and here are my findings.

Order a replacement screen and touch sensor together. Only my glass was broken, but they’re replaced as one unit.

First watch these two helpful videos for instructions. Make sure you remove the glass top with a suction cup (thanks Chris!), don’t pry it. Also, when removing the (unbroken in my case) LCD, do not pry on it. Instead pry on the metal frame it is attached to.

Do not use too much heat when loosening the glue of the broken glass. This was my only mishap. I used a 2200 watt heat gun and warped and melted off a piece of the plastic frame. Then I spent an hour trying to reheat and bend it back. Also, watch out for repositioning the center button – mine went back in a millimeter lower on one side so it feels different. (Actually this is probably because of the warped frame.) Regarding the rubber gasket; be careful, but some damage may be unavoidable on it.

It took us about 2.5 hours to complete it, and I recovered from the heat gun mishap so that it’s not visible and everything fit back eventually. Plus it was fun to see the insides of the iPhone. Good luck!

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes

Working on os x with Spaces means I want to read something on another space instead of waiting idly for a 50 second build. But, I don’t want to get distracted. So, I use Growl and growlnotify for notifications of the build’s completion.

#!/bin/sh
# this file is called: mvn (and is executable, and added to path before actual mvn command)

# capture all args passed in to forward to real mvn
ARGS=$*

# We need the client's specific settings.xml, so always specify it now
/usr/bin/mvn -s /Volumes/TrueCryptClient/opt/maven/conf/settings.xml $ARGS 

# when you have growlnotify installed and on your path, this will pop it up
# when the build is done
growlnotify -m "DONE: maven $ARGS"

Note: if you get this error from growlnotify: could not find local GrowlApplicationBridgePathway, falling back to NSDNC, it probably means growl is not started. Start up growl in your System Preferences.

Update: Thanks Cosmin, for the enhancement. Use this snipped in the script. Have an environmental variable for what the notify command is. And say what the build status is in the growl notify.:

if [[ -n $NOTIFY ]]; then
    ($command && $NOTIFY "Build Complete" && exit 0) || ($NOTIFY "Build Failed" && exit 127)
else
    $command
fi