FP5 screen replacement

[Olafur_Oddgeirsson]

I need to replace the screen on my FP5. Broken. I live in Edinburgh UK. Does any of you have suggestion where to go? Look forward hearing from you, Olafur

[urs_lesse]

Welcome to the Community Forum.

I can only point to Fairphone’s own spare parts shop, no idea if there is any other option more local. For assistance with the repair itself, you might want to have a look here: 👼 The Fairphone Angels Program and Map (Local support by community members)

As you haven’t started the repair yet, let me suggest to have a look at this:

Broken screen BTB connector

Although solved, I’m re-opening this topic as I just noticed that iFixit actually included a little warning in Step 7 of their Fairphone 5 instructions for replacing the FP5 display. This should apply to the Fairphone 4 as well – see their general advice on Press connectors here (Step 6): It seems to me their final warning against pressing on the middle of the connector is quite important. I have kept doing that before finding the above warning today (and now in fact might have ruined the co…

Usually the connector clicks into place without any problem, but every once in a while it can go wrong, so I recommend to have a look at the iFixit suggestions beforehand.