My FP3: 5 years and counting

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What I see in the meantime (I guess since my phone got four years) is that the glue of the top cover (screen module?) is slowly loosing its functionality. Should I invest into a newer screen module - would this make since, although this behaviour is happening very slowly in my observation?

Take a look at these threads (and the replies on them), they may give you some ideas:

Display screen coming off

If what you mean is that the actual display panel is coming unglued from the display module, you can remove the entire panel carefully (making sure you don’t pull the ribbon cable from the module), remove all the glue, clean with alchohol, then use TESA tape (2mm worked for me) where the glue was to reattach the screen. I did this after my screen started to come unglued after too hastily removing the display module and it is good as new. Link to iFIXIT tape: It may not be quite as protected f…

FP3 screen Air bubble?

Hey there, luckily my screen doesn’t look like that (so far) but I did disamble a few FP3 and this is my observation about heavily used screens like in the picture: The front glas of the display unit holds to the frame of the screen with a black, flexible adhesive band. If the glue from that band doesn’t hold the pieces together anymore, these narrow, straight (mostly horizontal) lines get visible. Initially this is only a cosmetic problem but can lead to the screen itself getting lose from t…

Good luck!