I recently dropped my phone while I was doing my daily salsa walk and ended up with a deep chip in the top right corner with some cracks running off it. I didn’t take a before picture but you can see from the pictures below how bad it was. At this stage I have used Loca Glue (Liquid Optically Clear Adhesive) to fill the hole and the cracks and shone the UV torch (Ultra Violet) on it for a while to harden it off. The instructions say about 5 seconds but I hung the torch just above the phone and left it on for an hour just to make sure!
I then firmly wiped the screen with a cloth dipped in surgical spirit to remove the excess glue. It doesn’t look pretty but at least I can now safely use the phone when it’s raining without water getting between the glass cover and the touch-sensitive screen. You can see from the last picture that the Loca Glue is totally transparent and the cracks hardly show at all.
You can buy this product on eBay from many suppliers but I chose this one because it didn’t come from China and delivery was free and quick. In the event it arrived the following day and cost me only £5.67 which is a lot less than a new glass cover costing at least £50!
9 LED UV Flashlight + 5ML LOCA Glue COMPATIBLE with iPhone, Samsung, HTC Phone
Unfortunately Loca glue doesn’t dry very hard so the repair deteriorates as you use the phone. So I tried another solution which is designed for use on windscreens but works on mobile phone screens too. Here’s the product I purchased for only £3.99 and I used the UV light previously purchased with the Loca glue:
Car Window Glass Crack Chip Resin Windscreen Windshield Repair DIY Tool KIT UK
The method is slightly different. After you have cleaned the screen with surgical spirit and dropped some resin onto the cracks you cover the repair with the plastic film provided to make it flat and exclude any air bubbles that have formed. You expose the repair to UV light for 10 minutes and then remove the plastic film, scrape off the excess resin with a sharp razor blade and then wipe the repair over with some surgical spirit. The result is similar to the Loca glue repair but a bit smoother with the big difference that the repair is hard and won’t deteriorate with use.
