DIY Demo: Just How Easy Is It to Fix Your Phone's Shattered Screen Yourself? The suction-cup struggle is real. Google's partnership with iFixit makes authorized repair kits a cheaper at-home option ...

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It's great that Apple has a self-repair program, but the tools that they sell are very, very expensive. There's no need to spend a small fortune on Apple's iPhone repair tools, with these options. In ...

If you’ve got a Samsung Galaxy phone in need of repair, you may need to find a new shop. Best Buy’s Geek Squad—once a Samsung-authorized partner—will no longer fix hardware issues such as depleted ...

I break a lot of iPhones. In fact, it's part of my job. The most recent victim of a CNET drop test was the third-generation iPhone SE. I'm sorry to say the results weren't pretty. The iPhone SE was ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No matter how careful we are, accidents can happen, especially to things we always have on-hand like our iPhones. While there have been many ...

The green line issue on phones is a hardware problem that cannot be fixed by software. The display of the affected phone needs to be replaced, and depending on the phone model, such repair can ...

The cost of repairing a cracked screen on premium phones is shockingly high. While there are phones with relatively affordable screen repairs, there are some high-end models where fixing a cracked ...

Dara Weinstein remembers the fateful moment as if it were yesterday. She had just finished filming a video on someone else’s phone and was turning a celebratory somersault when her iPhone 11 came ...

When the iPhone 13 lineup was first released in September, teardowns quickly revealed a major change to the repair process. For the first time, if you place the iPhone 13’s display through a ...

Amario Andre set out to fix his phone, but all he ended up with was a burn mark on his carpet. The battery life on his Samsung phone had plummeted, so he ordered a replacement battery and tried to ...