Google Copied Apples Best Feature But There's A Catch - Pixel 7a Teardown And Repair Assessment

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[f.miller]

I'm pretty sure Google is using true love to keep the screen togheter. That's why is so hard to separate it.

[piotrg.]

I may be mistaken, but this black "glue" on screen can be some kind of loctite used to bond metal parts in car engines. It hardens when pressure is applied (oxygen is cuted off) and overflow can be easly removed. Its oil an water proof connection sealing any micro imperfections in materials bonded together. It's very temperature resistant as its mainy seals hot engine parts.

[jreererer]

I think the screen touch glitching at the start is an indicator that it was already faulty from factory, which might add to it just fully breaking when the phone was fully disassembled

[Chickenbreadlp]

The symptoms of the "dead" screen seem to indicate a lack of power to the OLED. Reason I say this is because the panel is extremely dim and seems to be dimmer the more pixels are active (thus the panel seems to be "off" when showing the lockscreen or certain dialogs during the setup)

[eliprovencher]

Hugh, it seems as though the ambient light may be malfunctioning, the symptoms are very similar to a bad proximity sensor on an iOS device. was there maybe adhesive around it or is it possibly misaligned or disconnected after the full disassembly? I can see it’s below the front camera pressed through the mid frame?

[henryD]

You got it so hot that you couldn't even touch the side opposite the heater. Cooked all away through. Something didn't survive

[MasterN]

It is possible if unlikely that the heat did end up damaging the screen itself. If the screen was still pretty warm when it was initially tested after having been removed it could have damaged something as it cooled down. From the sounds of it the screen got REALLY hot and it went through multiple hot/cold cycles which would expand and contract. You can also see the screen itself flex pretty hard while its being pried off the frame. All of that induces a lot of stress. Either way as noted if you are removing the screen its broken anyway but for it to be so difficult is a bad sign. I doubt it was intentional though.

[rrp]

update us to any developments with this. interested to see if this display would work on a different phone or if a different display would work on this one

[desmeitit]

It looks like they used a self-curing rubber gasket maker to attach the screen. Kinda similar to what they use for automotive repairs

[NeoNec]

Look under the front camera, there is a hole in the screen. That hole is for all front facing sensors, even for screen brightness. The screen isn't close enough, too much light is going through that hole for the sensors. Try to push the top 1/3 with 2 finger down and see if you have better brightness.

[poeterritory]

Maybe it was the extra long heating time that caused it to fail.

[TheUltimateRecycler]

Interesting video Hugh! Thanks for doing these tear down and reviews so that we don't have to! 😊😊

[RanenPo]

Hugh considering you blasted the front screen with a hell lot of heat I am not surprised you (literally!) cooked it to death

[stevehewitt]

Just had this exact fault on an ipad. I found a bit of tape over the light sensors, removed it and sorted. Maybe the sensor got damaged?

[nhansgoofyvideos]

Now you have a chance to do a video on replacing the display!

[eshbanvelez]

Great video Hugh, I just got mine and I'm loving it. My thoughts are that maybe all the heat did actually end up damaging some component in the screen. Because like you said it doesn't point to it being an anti repair maneuver by Google. Although it did seem to have problems since the beginning so maybe it was from a bad batch. I'd be curious to see if a screen replacement would bring this Pixel back to life, I suppose it's too much to ask for an update on that? Keep being awesome!

[TechDove]

Im pretty sure all rhat heating you did to the display DID damage it, and once it cooled down thats when it took effect

[jonathanbost]

I think that like a lot of phones it's just supposed to be opened from the back, and to replace the screen I'd bet they'll sell the screen with the frame attached.

[sickside]

Hi there, the problem with the screen might be from the proximity sensor reattached incorrectly, that sensor considers that it's in a dark environment and it'll dim the screen near 0, I don't believe the screen it's faulty.

[perkman]

it might off been to much heat on the screen