Removing LOCA Glue From A Nexus 7 - How I Make The LOCA Removing Putty

+furr Thanks for the great comment, I've always been good at removing all those awful sticky labels manufacturers put on things, and using solvents always seemed to be a messy process. What I realised from the labels etc was that the best glue for removing it was the glue itself. So having purchased and tried all manner of expensive specialist solvents without success, I made myself a Tea and sat there picking at the screen, and the glue stuck to my finger, when I pulled it off, 

Picture of the UV glue sticking to my fingers and itself

some of the glue remained on my finger and there was a patch missing on the glass, So I tapped again, and glue attached itself to the glue on my finger and more came off the glass. Then it dawned on me that this was no different from the label glue problem, and within a few minuets the glue was coming off quickly.

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” 
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

It seems its the same for awful glue on a Nexus screen, the answer was literally staring me in the face as I looked at the screen.



The other thing was 'determination' not to fail and to keep trying.

#fixed1tANDRIODtip

This Is Why You Should Not Lock The Orientation Lock

I'm in the process of unlocking a Nexus 7 running LOLLIPOP 5.1 which was stuck in the boot cycle loop, a bug introduced by Google in LOLLIPOP which is not fixed for free by the manufacturer Asus.  Asus says there is NO SIMPLE FIX and that the motherboard must be replaced, costing owners in excess of $200+.

Never being one for admitting failure, I've now I've figured out how to do it pretty consistently offering sufferers a low cost replacement motherboard and money back on the locked motherboard, a real win win situation.

However, one 8GB Nexus 7 running Lollipop has me a little stumped, not because I couldn't replace LOLLIPOP with KITKAT 4.4.4

but because the owner had set up the screen lock on the device to be portrait.  How is this a problem I hear you ask, well the device has a cracked screen and like other devices with cracked screen it means that half of the Touchscreen does not work.  This isn't normally an issue, but to log onto a new network

you need to tap the screen and type into it across its surface.

With half the screen dead, that isn't possible.  If the orientation lock wasn't on, then rotating the device several times would allow the user to find working areas on the touch screen to input all the details, but with the orientation screen lock in place your restricted to what you get. If the keyboard characters of network name are in a bad area, your screwed.

So my advise is:

If you need to set the screen lock on (i.e. for reading on a train etc) then please; for your own sake and to reduce repair costs if the unit is damaged; turn it off again as soon as you can.  

This would have been a 15 minute job but now I need to swap the motherboard and into other machines and back again and its an expensive process in 'man hours for the repair'.

#fixed1tandroidtip

Nexus 7 Android OS 5 LOLLIPOP Installation WARNING

Since Google released Nexus 7 Android OS 5 LOLLIPOP there have been an increasing number of Nexus 7 2012 and 2013 owners whose tablets have frozen at the Google startup splash screen:

   

 The common symptom of this terminal condition, is for the device to be stuck in a loop at the Google flash stage. The device goes no further however long it is left.

So before deciding to install Android Google 5 LOLLIPOP

I recommend you look at the additional functionality Android OS 5 LOLLIPOP is offering over 4.4.4 KITKA,  and decide if its worth risking killing your Nexus 7 to have this upgrade?

To give you some idea of how I feel about this, I have downgraded my LOLLIPOP Nexus 7 devices to KITKAT 4.4.4

Also, I am only selling :

fixed1t Android 4.4.4 KITKAT second user replacement motherboards on eBay

for the foreseeable future and I know what I am doing and how to mend these Nexus 7 Android Tablets.


#fixed1tandroidtip

Fixing The Samsung Android Talkback Power Off Lockout

Fixing The Samsung Android Talkback Power Off Lockout.  If you have Talkback on and allow the device to sleep or turn off you can have difficulties getting back in, due to the number of Taps and slides you have to do.  This explains how to do it on a Samsung Tablet. #fixed1ttip

fixed1t website news 12th July 2015

Hi,

I discovered a series of broken links on my fixed1t Nexus 7 webpages, I think these happened with my redesign of the fixed1t site and blogs to make them Google mobile friendly.

As you know amongst the many things I do, I rebuild and fix Asus Google 1st Generation Nexus 7's and have a loyal following on my fixed1t eBay with 100% customer positive feedback.

Here is a Picture of an opened up Nexus 7 First Generation 2012

So I've been through all of the following pages on my fixed1t.co.uk website:

fixed1t Nexus 7 Refurbishments

Nexus 7 Screen Loca Glue Removal

Nexus 7 Lithium Battery Replacement

I've also added links to purchase spare and re-cycled parts here:

Check out fixed1t eBay for the latest deals of Nexus 7 Parts

and also in case I don't have the parts for your Nexus 7, here, as in the classic film:

where Kris Kringle (Santa Klaus) tells Macy's customers to go to competitors stores, if they don't stock the item the child wants from Santa ( I love this film).

I added a link to:

Click Here To Search eBay For Other Sellers Nexus 7 Parts

I hope my bloggers, YouTube and Google+ Subscribers find these useful.

Thanks for the continued support.

#fixed1t

How To Separate A Nexus 7 2012 Working LCD From A Cracked Digitiser screen - complete instructions

After a number of recent questions from Subscribers to my fixed1t Nexus 7 Youtube Playlist asking how I separate a Working LCD on a Nexus 7 2012 from its  smashed glued on Touchscreen, I decided to spill the beans.  If you have a Nexus 7 with a cracked screen and want to buy a replacement Digitiser and use your existing working LCD, rather than pay £39+ shipping or $60+ for the LCD Digitiser unit, then here is how I do it every few days.

The answer is in two parts and consists of 2 x videos, to make things simple the videos have links embedded in them to link to their opposite number.  

Video 1: How To Separate A Nexus 7 Working LCD From Broken Digitiser Part 1 

Explains what equipment I use and the set up I use to undertake the separation.

Video 2: How To Separate A Nexus 7 Working LCD From Broken Digitiser Part 2 

Shows exactly how I separate the LCD from the Digitiser, and test it.

Also once the LCD has been successfully separated from the Digitiser, then the funs begins or trying to remove the awful Nexus 7 LOCA glue from the LCD without destroying it.  Normal LOCA Glue Remover as advertised on eBay etc, won't shift it, neither will Isopropyl ALCOHOL, not Acetone.  The only real way to shift it is be using the fixed1t Nexus 7 LOCA glue removing putty, which comes free when the split the Nexus 7 LCD from the Digitiser.

Video 3: Removing UV Glue LOCA from Working LCD Display of a Nexus 7 In 5 Minutes 

Video 4: Removing LOCA Glue From A Nexus 7 - How I Make The LOCA Removing Putty

If planning to undertake this task then I recommend watching all 4 x videos through completely at least once, this is a 'One Chance' task and if a mistake is made then the LCD Display could get broken requiring the more expensive Touchscreen+LCD unit to be purchased.

If you find the videos useful or helpful please like, thumbs up and share them with others.

Regards Malcolm (aka fixed1t)

How To Remove A Cracked Nexus 7 Digitiser from a Working LCD Part 2

Okay 2 videos created How to separate the Working LCD from the smashed Digitiser on a Nexus 7 from start to clean working LCD. It's all linked to my two glue removal videos, make sure you watch them completely for tips before commencing, it may save your an expensive cracked LCD :-)