A Number of Annoying Things #5

I like taking the train. I personally find the German high speed trains ("ICE") very comfortable and for the most part they are on time. But when people do either not realize that they are in the quiet zone or if they blatantly ignore that fact and keep talking on their cell phones all the time, then I find that extremely annoying! 

Lyrics Snippet #22

Today's snippet is not especially inspiring or exceptional in my opinion...I chose it simply because I just realized that "Killing an Arab" by "The Cure" is a song about the novel "Stranger" by Albert Camus. And since there has not been a Lyrics Snippet in a long time I decided that this was sufficient.

I'm alive

I'm dead

I'm a stranger

Killing an Arab

~ "Killing an Arab" - The Cure ~

Replacing the Display on My Nexus 4

Before

I am not exactly the luckiest guy on earth when it comes to cell phones. One phone I lost, one got stolen, and one just died on me. I also managed to knock loose a picture with a vacuum cleaner which in turn fell directly onto my phone’s display and shattered it. And just recently I dropped my Nexus 4 while sitting on a chair reading with the phone in my lap. The result was a partly shattered display (which I could have lived with) and a partly non-responsive touchscreen (which rendered the phone useless).

New Display and Tools

Another thing about me is that I am good at following directions and recipes. Luckily, nowadays there is an abundance of directions on the internet both in written form and as videos. This enabled me to repair my dish washer, fix a couple things on my car and once even to repair my broken TV by replacing the horizontal reflection transformer.

So I went to work and watched a couple Youtube videos (http://goo.gl/fVxreu, http://goo.gl/JIjWkT) about replacing the display on a Nexus 4 and came to the conclusion that this is not rocket science. Fortunately the prices for the displays have come down on eBay quite a bit and I got mine for $60.

 Exposed motherboard

When the package arrived today I immediately started to take my phone apart. That was not quite as easy as the videos made it out to be but in the end I managed. The tools which came with the display were of very low quality and I could only use the Torx screwdriver. The Phillips screw driver was a bad joke. It got all bent out of shape while working on the very first screw.

After

Long story short, in the end I succeeded and now have a working Nexus 4 again….until the next mishap happens….