Hi, I’ve been waiting patiently for at least 4 months for the screens to come back in stock because my screen smashed and there were none available (so I couldn’t be on a warranty wait list because of a faulty screen). I signed up to receive knowledge when they came back in stock. I finally got an email a few days ago, and I was at work so couldn’t action it. By the time I finished work they were sold out!!!
How long will we have to wait? Do you also sell screen protectors because this is clearly an issue for many people.
Hi
Seems the display module is sold out again.
Anyone have any news when it will be back in stock?
The availability of this module seems to be an ongoing issue!
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Well since it’s been sold out for a long time it’s to be expected that the first new batches will all be sold out fast. So it’ll probably take a few more batches until the stock is filled again.
The best way to find out when the’ll be back again is - as always - to subscribe to the email alert in the shop. Also sometimes @Douwe finds out something and updates the first post.
Did you install the latest update before attaching the new display? It is needed for the new batch of displays, and instructions how to do it manually (if your old screen was too broken) should have been sent to you by mail
Does everybody who buys a new display get this e-mail? If so, I didn’t get one (no problem, since thanks to the forum I would have known what to do, and a short test confirmed the display I got works with the current LineageOS anyway).
That would then be the second automatic (?) e-mail process in connection with the shop that seems broken, see posts from here on.
Well it IS mid September and still no new screens. Seems a few people got emails about available stock, but I never did. Are the people wanting new screens being informed in order of their request, or do you have to just get lucky.
It would be good if I could place a back order instead of checking the site every day hoping for stock … which is always “coming soon”.
Meanwhile, the smashed screen works remarkably well (I put a tiny crack in the screen of a NEXUS 7 and it was immediately un-usable). The worst damage to my FP2 screen is over the proximity sensor so that doesn’t work (screen stays blank during and after calls, and there is no way to turn the screen blanking function off) - but strips of sellotape are keeping the glass shards out of my fingers.
And now my FP2 keeps crashing and re-booting whilst the screen cracks get bigger and bigger. Daren’t strip it down as the display module will shed glass all over the place.
Why oh why can’t we place orders for new displays?? For one, if they knew how many people are waiting they would know how many to make! And the people waiting longest could get a screen first … instead of those able to respond quickly to a random email before they sell out again.
@ModularKing was right when he posted. There is often a back and forth pattern with availability of modules. I’ve noticed time and again that modules went out of and back into availability several times over the course of a few days.
Thanks for clarifying. I suspected something like that already, although it’s really a bit surprising and I bet more on a mistake.
Just wanted to show, that the modules are available again, so nobody is discouraged to try the shop.