[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] chessie-james:
Yes it was already ruined......

Thanks for the backup my friend. 100% correct, it was already screwed and knowing full well what a new genuine bit would cost, it was worth a punt to try and help someone else out. Its like this....I always chuck my rubbish at the bin......if it goes in, I dont have to walk over there......if it doesn't I will walk over, pick it up and put it in the bin......why not take a punt?! Now if you read my last post, you might learn something. I am a 39 yr old engineer with an MEng in electrical and electronic engineering, MIL2000 soldering qualifications, and am no stranger to taking on complicated jobs......like my TX2-1340ea that you can see my SGN sitting on in the pic. That laptop has been repaired by me after the ATI 3200 got so hot it unsoldered itself from the board, due to HP not heatsinking it properly, and was promptley reballed using a 50 watt 12v halogen downlighter, the correct reballing stencil (£5 ebay) and some leaded 0.5mm balls and a k-type thermocouple with display (£3.50 Ebay) and a 1mm copper shim (£1.50 Ebay), so all in £10, when every other sod in London wanted £130 to do the job. And as for the green pic, the photo was taken with a Sony Satio, under a very large HPS light, the SGN takes green pics under that light, so does my mates Canon EOS Rebel Digital SLR...I just use it because if bloody bright and you need to be able to see what you are doing when messing about with these things. And seeing as my phone cost nought pence, as it was an upgrade, and the insurance didn't cover it, as it was with 14 days of me taking out the policy, and even if it wasn't, having to pay the whole years premium plus the £75 excess cost more than the damn repair, I thought it was worth a shot in the dark.

I just have this to add........if all you can do is ***** about how other people are so stupid for trying something that you are not prepared to do yourself "because the $700 phone means more than life itself", then I suggest you get a life, stop interferring with other people, that are trying to help and learn.......basically, if you have nothing nice to say.......don't say anything at all......

Thanks to everyone that has backed me up, some people seem to have more money than sense, and I will keep working on a cheap way to get these things off, without any scrapers, heat guns, hairdryers or goo-gone and also try to find out what type of glue they use to hold these things together and in what quantity it is applied in the original manufacturing process, so that if I do find a way to get the glass off, you can replace it with the same stuff that was originally there!!

Happy trails people, will be around......

---------- Post added at 03:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:45 AM ----------

Well said kawgirlval69. Everyone loves a bit of DIY. I too get stuff with this being the statement that comes with the broken bit of kit "I saw this bloke fix it like this on Youtube.....if he can do it, so can I"....erm no you cant pal......you dont just slap an Ipod HDD on the table to get it working again, pretty much the same as you possibly could reflow your expensive graphics card in a gas oven, but it really isn't the correct way. A few video clips and people think they are McGuyver. I have been repairing stuff for over 20 years, and when I get stuff that other people have mucked about with, I generally turn it away because who knows what they have done to it. 20 mins of watching Youtube and a hammer does not an engineer make........