9:23 Haven't heard Matthias being this happy in 10 years or so that I'm watching him.

That fused combination of excitement and relief while shouting "It still works!" is so darn relatable.

I encourage everybody to take one of these repairs on. If you're like me, you'll botch the first one, but you'll learn in the process and be good to go after that. I started with one 5-year-old phone that wasn't working, and when I was done it still wasn't working, but I've successfully repaired three newer phones since then. One of the joys of family is a steady supply of damaged phones to repair.

I did that same repair for my daughter... Two weeks later Apple made her model EOL and stopped doing updates of the iOS. I got the parts at a local repair shop. He was doing a repair on a similar iPad. I guess they all start with removing the screen. He used a heating pad like you'd use for a sore back and laid the iPad face down on it for 20 minutes or so then flipped it over and everything just peeled apart.

Your excitement on finding that it worked - superb!

After all this years, watching you mastering woodworking.. sitting there in awe about your abilities... finally I'm watching you doing something I'd done better ;) Still - good job! I love repaired electronics! Love your channels!

Just got mine in the mail today. kzfaq.infoUgkxhcEDB3r-OJ3_X5hQzr7k1ZofTQy1ao_U The corners of the box was a little smashed but I think that’s more of the shipping’s fault. iPad was in perfect condition though. I ordered the yellow one thinking it was going to be a bright vibrant color. Instead I looks like more of a Gold color. I personally prefer the gold look. Definitely not disappointed but just a heads up to the ones expecting a brighter cream of yellow.

I’ve worked on laptops and desktops, always avoided tablets and smart phones though. After watching your video, I might try it out next time I break a screen. Thank you

I convinced my father once to do a repair like this, he got it done and was similarly happy and proud as you were! Good memory:)

Fantastic work, Matthias! 😃 Louis Rossmann would be proud! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

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I’ve never heard you so excited before 9:30. :). Thanks Mattias, you are awesome as always. I actually did the exact same operation a few years ago and was blown away to when it still worked. I had problem getting the new tape to stick properly. Regards /D

When you say "It's WORKING .. it's WORKING" in a surprised voice ... that right there was worth the price of admission. Great video!

I've replaced 2 tablet screens (samsung), a phone screen, and a power jack inside a laptop using the small ifixit toolkit... it made this kind of repair so much easier. I am sure there are other great kits, but I can speak to the quality of the ifixit ones. I don't regret the $30

How you were doing it around 2:15 was what I found easiest to remove glass from glued together devices. I would up using a mix of playing cards (nice and stiff with sharp edges) and guitar picks to slowly work things open.

As someone who repairs these every day for my job I can say, not a bad job at all! The plastic in the screen on the corner is probably the protective film they put on the inside glass and thats probably the pull tab you can see. If you need to do one of there again just pull it off before closing it up. :)

Loved hearing the genuine reaction when it still worked after turning it on!

I have watched your videos for years and this has to be the most excited I’ve ever seen you.

Great job sir!!! I love that you keep your videos real!

I am a fan of attempting to repair things around the house, from toasters to washing machines to devices. Great video!

In 10 years of watching your videos, I don't believe I've ever heard you as excited as with "it works!".

I have watched your channels for many years now and I think when you saw that the screen still worked was the most excited I've ever seen you! Ha!

Very fun to see you out of your comfort zone, and to see you so giddy when it works the first time

Your excitement is akin to a kid's on Christmas morning!

Fun to watch, I've done the same repair once before, and managed to cut one of the cables for the screen. Glad you were more successful :)

I was screaming at the screen (figuratively) 'swap the touchID sensor!!!'. That'll be a really annoying error for anyone used to using it on the pre-fix. That said, great job! Tip: When working with broken glass, apply a layer of strong tape like quality packing tape or tuck tape. It causes the fragments to come up in one sheet, especially if you use a suction cup.

That was gutsy Mathias you deserved the success👏. All the best from the UK.

The dremel vise-grips and hammer, were just great! Thanks for sharing!

Good job. I've seen the same repair done on an iPhone and, at least for that model, it required disassembling basically the entire device from the back.

Now you know how I feel doing woodworking projects 😅 Those little bitty screws are still annoying, even with the right bits lol. I had to get the screen off an old iPod touch and I'd imagine the iPad would be way more annoying without the big heating pad the repair shops use. Also for future reference, you can still power off the device by just holding the power button for a bit. (or power and vol up on newer ones) ;)

The experience with how to take things apart is the reason for whenever I get equipment in hand that do not work any more I dismantle it completely. Often the result is that there is no way it could be put back together again, but that is not a problem. Have made it much easier to later really fix similar devices. Anyway just the knowledge of how thing are put together can often be very helpful even if you never try to fix devices and/or tools.

The excitement when you managed to fix something like that is the best feeling there is even with all the road blocks and the things apple does to prevent 3rd party repair aka you repairing it.

Dude I never remove the front screen protector…. unless I had another screen protector to put on it. Great job on the video!

Thanks for doing this. I need to do it myself. My wife's iPad screen is also broken and the battery is swelling. Of course she wants a new one. I'll show her!

I have rarely seen Mathias so excited about something :P It must have felt very nice!

Magnifying glasses/goggles are a must for these repairs. Cheap specialized tool kits are are also a big help, and contain the right sized screwdrivers.

Man, man, man. Even if you don't understand it, you can teach me something. Super! Rob

Repaired lots of iPads years ago.. same technique. Hot air around 100°C is enough. Just keep keep it moving around the edge your working on. And for the bende edges in the frame I did the same. Little bit of hamering, and shape it with a Dremel tool.

Best way to learn is to try!

Well done ! the trouble I had with those screws was giant fingers ! I also found a cocktail stick required to line up little tiny holes.

Epic! So glad this video popped up. I was in the middle of changing my daughter screen and the original screen ended up exactly like yours.

Finally a tutorial video I can relate with lol I have had to do this several tablets and only 1 iPad for family and friends and it hardly ever goes as smooth a the videos I watch glad it's works good still

Boy, you have CAJONES!! I'm Impressed. I'm vividly reminded of taking a Hapsac GC/Mass Sprec apart to replace the Quads. Had to buy specialized tools. No operational mill, or I would have Made Them. You be an Engineer, fo; sure!

I sure do hope the right to repair is supported in the future. It's the best feeling fixing something yourself.

This was a great video! Glad I came across it since I apparently missed it when it was new.

I've done a few similar jobs in the past, and i learned the hard way that getting a job specific tool kit makes a world of difference. You spend enough time fighting with the device and the glue, fighting with scrounged/field expedient tools at the same time makes it 5 times worse.

Glad you got it working and saved some money.

I loved your delight when it all came together. :)

You should do more small electronics repair, this was entertaining

Grab a cheap hot air rework. I have the "YIHUA 959D". You can set the temp and airflow, and it's amazing for this type of work. I've used mine for re-work ONCE and used it for "other stuff" 50+ times lol.

Matthias outside his comfort zone! More of this, please!

Well done Matthias 👍

I've done some android phones but not an ipad. Thanks for the video

I love it when a plan comes together

jack of all trades. you keep amazing me. nice repair Matthias 👍

Nicely done!

This is a very useful and encouraging video. I have an iPhone 7 that needs this doing to. My biggest challenge right now is figuring which amazon supplier to use for the kit. It seems that all of them seem to have mixed reviews.

I did this same replacement once on an iPad mini. Really wasn't too difficult, had about the same level of difficulties that you had. Glad to see your repair went well! It's lucky they don't fuse the digitizer to the screen like they do in phones.

Thank you! Usually I am rather intimidated by your work but now I get to see you fumble as bad as I do!

Very brave, good job, Congratulations

That has got to be the least confident I have ever seen you, normally you are so across everything that you do. It’s good to see that you are human. Great video as ever, thanks for sharing.

I have 3 teenagers. I have replaced a couple dozen screens, etc. You can almost always find a sub-assembly that is much easier to replace e.g. screen+digitizer+camera. And you can typically find the right colour, too ;)

And the marriage is saved! Seriously, it was like playing operation but with higher stakes. Looking forward to more suspenseful videos like this in the future.

enjoyed it. thanks Matthias

Congrfatulations Matthias! Your efforts paid off. I have to admit that I was nervous watching you do this. I did a battery replacement on my iPhone a while back, feeling ok about voiding the warranty since at the time, the Apple replacement cost $100.00 US. Turned out the battery I put in was used, and did not hold a charge! I had to put the old battery back in and hold my breath while taking in to Apple to have them do the replacement. All good in the end, but lots of angst in the process!

That’s a job well done indeed, we do live in a throw away your world so it’s nice to see something not going to the trash.

Curved surgical clamping pliers is really helpful for this kind of repair.

Great. I'll have to try to fix my cracked screen now. Thanks.

Love the unread email count. Too real

I have the same iPad which i dropped on new years eve 2020, on the side of the camera there is no glass left and cracks running through the screen. Been using it like that for 2.5 years now 😅 It's annoying and dangerous because sometimes a splinter of glass ends up sticking in your finger. But over one month Apple will probably release a new iPad which comes with wireless charging, I'll just get that one and sell my current one for a junk price. Nice job on fixing it!

definitely with apple stuff, you're gonna have to replace the home button or anything else because of the backwards pairing to board shenanigans. But hey you live and learn, definitely came out better than my first screen repair on my device!

Hugely important notice for anyone looking at this repair and wanting to generalize it as a general touch device glass replacement: Note that on a large majority of devices, the screen is directly glued to the glass! Don't be fooled by dozens of eBay listings only selling the glass part, as during removal you will notice the glass and screen are glued together over the entire surface of the screen. This adhesive is extremely difficult (next to impossible) to remove and has an immense chance of breaking the screen while doing so. Practically it is fair to say removing the glass and adhesive from the screen is not possible. It's tempting for a budget fix (the glass bits usually go for only 7 dollars or so) but if getting the device working is actually important, you will higly likely be disappointed. Much better to just dish out for the whole screen + digitizer assembly in the first place - also results in less work. If the device is "useless" and you just want to try replacing it out of interest, that's a fair chance to learn something though. Go ahead.

Best part when he closes the glass leaving the dirt on the lcd 😁

Nice job.

I have never seen you this happy =)

Excellent video to show someone to back up your argument why not to buy Apple products.

Thanks for the upload, #righttorepair

The homebutton that came with the ipad is programmed to the ipad motherboard. The one that came with the digitizer isn't. I don't know what videos you watched but transfering the original home button is a must...

i am an expert on this, but this is a great video. dont be scared of technology, its basically ready built things using simple components. even up until the newest iphones or computers. the things just get smaller lol.

Well done. I damaged the LCD on my iPad mini when I tried this. At that point it was not worth repairing.

Great job... That elation, when it works, is an unbelievable feeling, isn't it???? It is... I repaired a Sony Camera a year ago.... omg, that was tough... But when it worked.... I was beside myself with joy, let me tell you..... You are clearly younger than me... I had to do the whole job looking through one of those lighted magnifying glass things... Or later I bought these super-zoom close up vision glasses things I found on Amazon.... That stuff is just too small... You can buy small tools & all that, and do it, but, if you can't see what you're doing, it's really hopeless..... Yeah, pretty sure I never saw vise grips & a hammer used in an IPad repair.... heh heh heh!!!

Sir, you have to undo the tiny screw at the special Apple proprietary battery connector, and slip an Ace or a Joker card between that connector and batteries, to keep the device powered off. As your trying to connect the digitizer, you could inadvertently pass current into the other bus traces on the ribbon cable, and destroy the touch screen and home button driver chip on logic board, or the new digitizer itself, it’s happened to me before, and the boss had to foot the bill over my rookie mistake, and wasn’t very happy with me.

stressful for sure, but you made it. I sliced the ribbon cable on mine when I tried to replace a samsung tablet screen a number of years ago, which killed it's display.

My partner used to work repairing phones. She says it's 180-200°c needed to release that glue. Also she recommends canned air for clearing the dust from the screen. She also says you did really well for a first one!

It works, so, well done :-)

If you ever again will have to deal with adhesives use some isopropanol. It's highly effective to weaken the glue and help clean the old adhesive. And is completely harmless to electronic parts. Props for putting a hammer into iDevice. 😆

for those small screws if phillips type the best driver to use would be a JIS precision driver as they fit those a lot better. otherwise good job on the repair

On the one hand I'm a little surprised you don't have a nice set of drivers from ifixit, on the other hand I'm a little surprised your fix for "I don't have a fine enough phillips bit" wasn't "Let me make one out of wood" because if anyone could, it'd be you!

I always assumed that you were pretty handy with computers being that you used to work for blackberry. A magnetic screwdriver set with all the right bits makes repairs like this way easier. you could have turned off the ipad by holding the power button until the screen went black, thats how it is on almost everything, even the newest devices. Working on it while it was still on was ballsy and I'm surprised it worked. also, seeing you bend that corner back into place with a hammer right next to your new glass panel gave me a whole aneurysm

Top tips from someone that has failed as well as succeeded. Use the 3D printer bed to prewarm glue I usually go for 80 Celsius. IPA in a syringe loosens the glue and makes it really easy 😀

I think that I would start with IFixit rather than a cheap part from Amazon. They have very good fix-it instructions.

I love the shameless Dreo plug!

I've used the hot bed on my 3d printer to warm up phones for screen replacement though i'm not sure if the bed is large enough to be effective on an ipad.

Never thought that a (bigger persuader) is needed in replacing iPad screen 😀

Matthias we love you because of that: 4:03

paper ignition temperature is the ~250C which will melt solder.

9:44 subliminal ad for Dreo... nice.

"Slide to power off" - I laughed, sorry

I did this kind of thing several times in my early IT career. Never again. Just... never. I like the Wera advent calendars for getting a handful of good screwdrivers without spending a fortune.

The final repair step would be fitting a glass screen protector and protective case to prevent future damage 🙂