Went shopping this evening, nothing amazing about that, standing in checkout I decided to look something up on my Nexus 7 only to discover that the screen has mysteriously cracked.
I write "mysteriously" because I can not remember anything happening that could have caused it to break. It was in the case that I purchased with it from Google and I don't remember bumping into anything. It just up and broke.
When I returned home I checked online (using Google ironically enough) and found that there are many people complaining that their Nexus screens are breaking for no reason.
Welcome to the club.
$310 when I bought it. $75 + shipping for a new screen + digitizer to replace the broken one.. and that's if I'm willing to take the risk of repairing it myself, which is certainly not guaranteed to work. Then once I have it repaired, what's to stop it abruptly breaking again? Would a solid case have kept it in one piece or are the screens that Asus makes flawed from the get go?
Seriously tempted to just throw it in the garbage, chalk it up to experience and stay away from tablets. >:(
Follow up: Managed to replace the screen without a problem. I opted to use a rubbery glue to hold it in place instead of tape, so the screen has a bit more 'give' and hopefully this will make it less likely to crack in the same way. So far so good.
ReplyDeleteAfter being left untended for a month my original battery borked. It wouldn't report it's charge level, always showing 0% despite being full charged and able to run the Nexus for a day or more before cutting out. To fix this I bought a $50 Nexus 7 16Gb Wi-Fi with a broken digitizer from someone I found via Kijiji. The new battery works great! I also got a great new case for my Nexus 7 and I now have another N7 to toy with.. might see if I can get it up and running and install it into my iQ.