Looking for a repair shop for FP3+ near PE15 0TU, Cambridgeshire, England I dropped the phone from a height of <1m on to a carpeted floor. I previously dropped it down the loo but it was working after I dried it out for a few days. I tried to remove the screen following the YouTube video. One of …

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Hi I suggest you go to a ‘common’ phone repair shop just to get them to remove the burred screw. You may then find by dismantling and reassembling the phone you can get it to work. Presumably you have tried just pressing the screen home with a bit of force? By burred I imagine you mean the head w…

Thank you - a bit far to go for a repair. I will probably post it back to Fairphone.

It was about asking them, not traveling to Leeds :wink: . That’s a community, not a single person. So maybe someone lives near to you or they possibly know an experienced repair shop in you vicinity.

Have you tried the old “elastic band” trick, where you put an elastic band between the screw and the screwdriver to get some grip. I’m not sure this works with tiny screws the way it works with bigger ones, I imagine it wouldn’t work when the band is too thick.

Thanks Amoun, I have just tried pressing the screen home, but it hasn’t worked. Yes, I mean the head where the screwdriver goes in. I watched this one, which I think is on the official Fairphone channel: [Replace the display of your Fairphone 3 | How to | Fairphone] Kind regards, Ji…

OK, thank you, I might try that.

If I managed to remove the screw, I don’t have a spare one to replace it. Do you know what the spec and where I good buy some?

Hi Jill Yes that’s the video I used :slight_smile: Thanks If you or a friend have a small flat screwdriver that may work. Having only two points of contact with the same applied force there will be three times more pressure on the contact points increasing friction between the driver and the screw…

Look at this tread: [image] Replacement screws? Fairphone 3 Hey! I just opened my phone up to fix a simple connection problem, which I did successful. But then when I screwed everything back together, I went a little hard on screwing one screw into the hole and “Over-scr…

Looking for a repair shop for FP3+ near PE15 0TU, Cambridgeshire, England

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