Howdy!
A while ago I posted about my misfortune when I accidentally had my FP2 laying with its display on a hot light source for about 30 minutes or so. The result was a pretty nasty burned spot, about the size of a 2€ coin. To my surprise the display itself worked fine, just had that annoying burn spot.
I’ve bought a replacement display back then and kinda forgot about the semi-broken display, until recently. I’m always curious when it comes to tech and I did a quick autopsy on the module. (Maybe even wondered if it would be possible to repair somehow.)
Getting the display open was not a hard task, didn’t suspect otherwise though. A small plastic lever to get under the seams and loosen the unit from the glue.
What’s inside is no magic, your usual display and the touchscreen electronics.
But I didn’t end here… I took apart the screen itself, uncovering several layers of the foil that makes the fancy graphics happening. Interesting enough, the burning damage was mostly on the glass itself and the foil beneath it, further down you could just see some distortions.
I did obviously make pictures of the whole thing, otherwise this post would be really boring. While it doesn’t really add any value to your phones, it probably is pretty interesting to some to actually see the inner workings of a display.