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Better Adhesive Means Better Glass Replacement
If you've ever had your iPhone glass replaced by a third-party service provider, you may have noticed that your iPhone is more susceptible to dust-incursion than it was prior to the replacement. Perhaps you received your iPhone with new glass, completely dust-free, only to find that there’s dust under the screen two months down the road. It’s annoying, and it's problematic for most third-party glass repair providers... except uBreakiFix. UBreakiFix is one of the only iPhone repair company that uses a "complete sealing" glass adhesive, as opposed to the partial coverage adhesive that leaves the sides and other areas of the iPhone open to dust-incursion. See the pictures below to see what we mean.
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How iPhone Glass Breaks
Shattered glass on the lower portion of the screen due to a face down impact on hard tile
Completely shattered front face: Much of the glass has chipped away around the upper area of the screen exposing the orange digitizer.
Severe cracking in the upper portion of the screen has caused pieces of the glass to chip off. The upper portion of the digitizer has been exposed (orange)
A severely shattered iPhone that was dropped face down onto asphalt.
Shattered glass is unfortunately a very common problem for both the 3G and 3Gs iPhone. In fact, it is perhaps the most common issue that iPhone owners face related to accidental damage. So how does the glass on an iPhone usually break?
The outer glass on the iPhone can break for a number of reasons, but broken glass is most commonly caused by the impact from a drop or fall. Even though broken glass is generally caused by a drop, a drop does not always result in broken glass. If you are an iPhone owner, you have likely dropped your iPhone dozens of times and not suffered any damage at all. So what specifically causes the glass to break? Well, as you might imagine there are several factors that influence an impact resulting in broken glass.
The obvious influencing factors are the height of the fall and the surface of impact. The higher the fall, the greater the force of impact, the more likely the glass is to break. Similarly, the harder the surface of impact, the more likely the glass is to break. Of course this is common sense; anyone would rather drop their iPhone from 2 feet onto carpet than from 10 feet onto concrete. But what are the other not-so-common-sense factors that affect glass breaking on the iPhone? This is the exact question we took to a South Florida drop test lab. Armed with several iPhones and a high speed video camera capable of recording at up to 15,000 frames per second, we hoped to find out exactly what kind of impact causes broken glass on an iPhone.
After a day spent breaking iPhones, we reached two important conclusions. First, a face down drop is the best way to break the glass on an iPhone. Second, glass breaking in high speed makes for very entertaining video. To see some of our drop tests in high speed, check the video below. Unfortunately, is it difficult to watch the glass break in a face down drop test, so only corner drops were recorded.
It was surprisingly difficult to break the glass in a non-face down drop orientation. The corner drops seen in the video would only cause a break at high velocity (simulating a 15ft + drop). Also recorded in the video above is a direct glass impact. Test 4 shows a 1.25” steal ball being dropped directly on the screen of the iPhone. This simulates direct impact from a corner of a table or other object if you were to bump it while your iPhone is in your pocket. During this simulation, the glass clearly shatters, however amazingly, the LCD remains completely intact and functional.
It was concluded that drop orientation plays a key role in glass failure on an iPhone. Though we had a difficult time reproducing consistent glass failures in the lab, we admit that our brief tests were far from comprehensive and we have heard from hundreds of customers who have broken their glass from as little as two feet. Glass breaking is somewhat illusive. Glass does not like to bend, or be contacted by sharp objects. Often the worst impacts are when the phone hits on the front but first contact is on a corner or side. These types of impacts are subtle but cause the phone to twist during impact and bend and often break the glass.
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The Highest Quality Replacement Glass
We pride ourselves in providing the highest quality parts and repairs to our customers. This is why we use only the highest quality glass available and back all our repairs with a full 90-day warranty. What most users don’t know is that several versions of iPhone glass are manufactured. This glass ranges in quality and price. To save money and provide the cheapest repair possible, some iPhone repair providers use low quality glass. This low quality glass often experiences touch screen issues and can even cause other software issues in the iPhone. At uBreakiFix, we believe that the slightly higher cost associated with high quality glass is well worth a higher quality glass and a higher quality repair.
Do you get your glass from Apple? This is a question that we receive from many of our customers. It is important to understand that Apple does not manufacture any parts themselves. Apple is purely a design and engineering company. Once the design for the iPhone is complete, Apple sources the manufacturing and assembly of the iPhone to companies in China. These Chinese companies in turn source the manufacturing of individual parts, like the glass, to other Chinese companies. So no, we do not get our glass directly from Apple. We do, however, get many of our parts, including glass, from the same companies that provide Apple with OEM parts. This ensures the highest quality glass repair available.
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