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Dropped $38 on a screen kit for my Pixel 6a and the digitizer was dead on arrival
So back in March my Pixel 6a took a little tumble off the bar counter and the screen cracked bad enough that half the touch grid stopped working. I figured I would save some cash and fix it myself instead of paying the shop down on 6th street $140, so I grabbed one of those all in one screen kits off a site I won't name for $38. Kit showed up, I watched the videos, warmed the edges with a hair dryer, got the old screen off without wrecking anything, and felt pretty good about myself. Then I plugged the new one in and the touch was totally dead on the right third of the display. I pulled it back off thinking I pinched a cable, reseated everything twice, same deal. Turns out the digitizer on those cheap kits is a total coin flip and I torched a perfectly good Saturday plus the $38 finding out, and now I still gotta pay the $140 anyway. If you are staring at a $35 screen kit and a $140 shop quote, just ask yourself what your evening is worth, because sometimes the cheap one is the expensive one. Has anyone found a kit brand that actually holds up, or is it just luck of the draw with these things?
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quinnmitchell1mo ago
Wait, wouldn't the digitizer being dead just mean no touch at all, not one dead third? Sounds more like a bad connection or a bum panel than the digitizer itself, but either way yeah, cheap kits are a gamble.
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