[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bigbutter:
My experience

Hi all,

Just got done replacing my screen and am happy to say everything in my tilt is 100% working.

I've been reading everything this week on this thread while the new screen for my Tilt arrived. Just wanted to give another shout out to blackberry8100parts.com - they're really good on service. They were out of stock when the website said they weren't, so Blair went ahead and shipped it overnight instead of regular mail as soon as he got the parts. It came with both a T6 & T4 screwdriver along with a nice case opener tool.

I went ahead with the full dissassembly because that had the most resources. I used all 3 dissasembly guides posted in this thread and had them on my laptop in front of where I was dissasembling. I went painfully slow so the whole process took almost 4 hours. At each step I checked all the guides and carefully put each part I took out on a marked piece of paper so I didn't lose any screws. Besides the tools with my order I used a jewelers phillips head (necessary, don't even start without it), a flashlight, a very small standard head driver for where the opener was too small, and a magnet for grabbing those small screws if they happen to fall into a spot on the circuit board.

I'm pretty much retarded when it comes to anything handy or mechanical, so you'll probably do this a lot better than me, but I got stuck on a few places none of the guides really covered:

a) the hinge is pretty tricky. THere are actually two parts that are supposed to come off off the top of the case around the hinge -a triangle piece next to one hinge and a strip that covers one of the metal parts of the hinges. I spent about an hour trying to get that hinge on when I figured out the long strip covering the screw holes could be pulled back.

b) The keyboard connector is a small hinge. When the guides say "remove keyboard ribbon" you need to get in there with a fingernail and pull to the left of the ribbon. Just put your nail under the right side of what looks like a connector and pull back to the left.

c) The guide based on the 90 degree screen hack is WRONG. You do NOT need to take out the six screws around the sprints and disassemble the metal casing on the top screen assembly. Use the official manufacturing guide for this part - you only need to take out the 4 screws, unpack the case, pull the SIM connector out, and pull the top case off. again, you do not need to take out the six screws or mess with any of the metal spring assembly

d) THe speaker is a ***** to get back and working. You have to have the rubber piece aligned just right such that the speaker lines up wwith the metal contacts on top of the wheel assembly.

e) If you want to test as you're reassembling, you can hold the battery in place before putting the bottom cover on. I'd recommend getting at least to that point first. Note that you pretty much have to have the thing all the way together for the antenna to work.

f) THe case has to be back on perfectly or the buttons won't work. I almost crapped myself because the first time I put it back on nothing happened when I powered up. I plugged in my charger though and the light was working, so I figured I couldn't have screwed it that bad. I removed the case and pressed the powewr button again while holding the battery in place. Everything was working.

Honestly after all that I probably would have rather gone the shortcut method. I thought this route was safer, but really you can seriously screw your phone with either method. The complete dissasembly is a little easier to understand I think and more documented, but if someone eventually posts full pictures on how to do the shortcut I'd lean that way.

Anyways, props to the guys who put the guides together. My tilt is back in action!