I work in an electronics repair shop. Whenever a customer hands us their phone to get fixed we give them a spare phone to use for the meantime. The spare phones were usually just broken phones we fixed up to get barely working for phone calls etc. If any of those spare phones had a cracked screen we would put a big amount of this UV resin on them, the cracks were still visible but the resin stopped the glass shards from coming off the screen and also stopped any moisture from getting inside the phone. I see UV resin as a big bandaid for a cracked screen, it won't look great, but if you don't want to change the screen for some reason (like how we didn't want to spend money for a spare phone) it's a really good way to keep the phone working and ensure it's not gonna get worse.
I've used something similar to that in my car windshield and it worked. It was basically UV glue that after curing hides the crack. It worked because I was able to place a piece of tape inside to help keep the glue in place while it was curing. I think the oleophobic coating in phone screens make this type of repair unviable
As you said, getting the resin to penetrate cracked glass is key. Also, to make sure that the crack is invisible it has to be repaired quickly after damaging it. Otherwise the crack will accumulate tiny specks of dust that will show when sealed in resin. Which is why the window crack did not disappear.
I think the reason why Nokias don’t break because when you throw them, when they hit the ground they just split into like 3 pieces meaning it didn’t take the full impact
basically avoid some sort of scam and just repair it using the tools and the parts, don’t expect to get something that is a scam like what the ad says. Just get the parts and tools you need and do it correctly…
Or if you don't have the confidence, take it to a repair shop....just not apple if it's outdated, they'll just want you buy a new thing. And I don't wanna replace my pocket 12 mini
Just commenting to say your videos finally gave me the confidence to open my phone and replace the battery and power button. I ran into a hiccup with the ribbon cable connector on the power button being a slightly different shape, but I did some unadvisable modifications to make it fit. In the end it was very stressful, but for just around 30 bucks I was able to fix up my phone myself and now I have some actual pry tools so I don't have to open up my Steam deck or laptop with old credit cards and my fingernails haha. I've had my phone since 2017 and with the new battery I hope to have it for many more years as it is still completely usable when it comes to my needs.
I am so happy to see hugh jeffreys look at this thing i was laughing at so many times with family members. teleshopping channels sometimes have like 45 minute blocks of just this product and its too funny
I have professionally used such resin products to repair damaged glass in the past. There's a few things missing from this particular product, mainly the fact that for smaller repairs you need some way of getting the resin into the crack, as it won't flow in on its own due to surface tension. In some cases, this involves using a vacuum chamber (Like when repairing glass on watches), but usually it requires either the right type of crack or further widening the crack to let the resin flow in like you saw here. I suspect this particular resin is nothing more than something called LOCA (Liquid Optically Clear Adheive) which is notoriously horrible at doing what this product claims; It's meant to hold pieces of transparent material together, not fill cracks.
I've used this to repair a drinking glass where 1 part of the handle became loose. There was a smallish gap, and it was filled neatly. And after some rounds in the dishwasher the repair is still invisible. But it is not suitable for phone display repair. It even says that in the instructions.
I'm very glad to find this video. Even IPA is sometime not enough to clean electronic parts (ethanol is better but more expensive), any resin which has medium viscosity never fills fine gaps, I think. But, if we can use a vacuum pump and a vinyl bag, air pressure may possibly help resin to intrude into gaps.
There is a pottery repair artisan in Japan who uses a similar product, and how he does it is heats the pottery and apparently that change in temperature "sucks in" the resin. So the idea is sound but requires a different process.
Ive been seeing these "magic" screen repair liquids in ads since i was 12. Im 23 now and these are just as much of a scam as they were in 2012. If it were this easy, tech shops everywhere would be all over it.
@@PsyWalks Exactly! Companies are always looking to either save money on there work flow or sell other peoples ideas. If products like this worked, you'd bet your ass amazon would have stolen it and advertised it above lcds in search results...
@@PsyWalks or if we're being perfectly honest, why hasnt the industry tried to shoot it down? like if any of these did as advertised then it would completely kill the phone repair industry for the most part as screen damage is probably the most common issue. that said, like we as a society are trying to and basically succeeding in killing the phone repair industry
But even you have to admit that the tech went long way over that decade and that these are now of much better quality. The scams I mean, not the magical eye droplets of course.
the windshield resin is for rock chipped windshield. it fills the hole and prevents the long thin cracks. when you get long thin cracks u replace the windshield
ive done a fair bit of research on this kind of thing and had some experiences myself; this kind of UV adhesive (because it seems like it's literally just LOCA glue) of course works in phones to hold components together, but it is also used in screen protector applications for curved display phones. If it's covered by some sort of film, whether that be glass or plastic, it will actually hide scratches & cracks via filling them in, but once you take the protector off, it doesn't do anything. it can't really fill them in permanently, only hide them, and only if there's enough liquid to make it look uniform.
LOCA glue is different, it doesn't cure hard, it cures gummy rubbery. This is UV acrylic glue which used to cost something absurd like $30 from Conrad, it's good for arts and crafts things, it cures hard.
@Polyeith Same experience as me. LOCA glue, a glass screen protector and UV light can hide light to medium scratches on a phones screen. I use this for my current phone (XR) which was purchased second hand. Previous owner never used a screen protector...and as a result the screen had loads of light to medium scratches (I'm guessing the scratches were caused by placing the phone in a handbag and having items such as car keys, lipstick, and other objects scratching up the screen). Yes, the scratches will be visible when you remove the screen protector...but with the screen protector on the vast majority of scratches cannot be seen, and it's far cheaper than having the phone's screen replaced...
a resin like this is okay if you can get it in the cracks in the first place, even if it just makes the crack full enough to not cut yourself as you use the device, maybe a vacuum chamber could help. expecting the cracks to vanish is too much though. I used something similar on my S8 that was smashed and it made a difference as my fingertips didn't feel the cracks as badly even if they were just as visible. that stuff behaved differently though and didn't ball up.
one thing car window repair kits come with is a little plastic suction tool that helps the resin seep into cracks, but the oleophobic coating on the displays probably doesnt help either
It could (theoretically) work on a superficial crack, might even work well on a scratch. I'd want the little vacuum thingie it comes with when bought as a windshield repair kit. Put the vacuum thing on the crack, put a few drops in, apply pressure (if you've used one of these kits to fix a windshield before...that), and MAYBE even try some light flexing of the screen (to try to create a path for the resin to get in). I tried it once on a back glass that I knew it would never work on and...it worked better than I expected (but not enough to not tell it was broke, even from a distance). I just slapped a skin over top, then a case, and went on my way.
My phone screen has a couple of annoying, small deep scratches. And a bunch of shallow ones too. If I could use those windshield crack fillers and gave it a cerium oxide treatment perhaps I would get it pretty close to new. I polished my previous phone with cerium oxide and the results were honestly pretty good but not perfect because of the deep scratches. Sounds like an idea to experiment with when it's time to retire my current phone. I won't mess around while it's still completely functional.
I know this type of glue, it's just a LOCA (Liquid OCA). It used for screen refurbishing (not just filling cracks, but whole front glass replacement) In fact, in some situations you really can use it to make some cracks less visible
This is common practice on car windshields with minor "stars". But the way it works and you can look this up, alot of pressure is applied before curing the resin. The pressure pushes the resin into al of the cracks.
This kind of resin works really well to repair chipped (not cracked) windshields. A chip doesn't go all the way through the glass, so the resin fills the "hole" and makes it almost invisible. Chrisfix made a great video showing the repair process.
I'm not so sure about writing the idea off because the cheapest resin you can find doesn't work. The liquid supplied seemed to be different from the liquid in the adds. Perhaps try again with a $40 bottle of resin from say rain-x?
This does actually work for hairline scratches. Your also not supposed to use a knife or razor blade to scratch off the access residue. Your supposed to use alcohol pads to remove the residue. You actually hurt your own testing scratching the residue off. Also, you didn't try to fill in any scratches. Your devices were completely cracked.
i seen a video once where they said you can repair a cracked screen with a mixture of off bug repellent isopropyl alcohol in equal parts and table salt brushed on lightly and left in the sun to dry i never have tried it because every one i crack is usually missing pieces would love to know if it really works but i have my doubts love to watch you work and admire the passion you have
I have "repaired" the crack of a mobile phone and a tablet with the corresponding car window repair agent. Paid a couple of euros. It requires vacuum/overpressure treatment to penetrate the gaps. It's not completely imperceptible, but it prevents further cracks and is a method when nothing else reasonable.
Some of the packages contain a syringe and a stand that can be glued to the windshield with double-sided tape. First, a negative pressure is created to remove the air. Allowing the repair agent to fill the space. After that, the excess pressure is pressed with the syringe, and the rest of the holes are pushed in full.
Just a thought, smartphone glass tends to have an oleophobic coating. You could try wiping the screen down with a solvent like acetone to remove the coating, then the resin might not ball up like that. You can buy tubes of the oleophobic coating to reapply if you want.
In the spirit of trying to get this to work on the cheap maybe try a food storage vacuum container/bag, or high frequency vibrations (sonic toothbrush) or cooling/heating to get the resin to penetrate the cracks. But it's never going to work a well as the adverts suggest.
You mention that car windshield repair professionals use suction to force the resin into the cracks. A lot of people have chamber vacuum sealers. I wonder if the resin bead on top of the cover glass could be similarly sucked into the crack if a such a vacuum was applied around the damaged phone? How much are shattered phones going for on the secondary market? I might just try out that technique with my own vacuum sealer.
I had two cracked samsungs. I found it. JB Weld worked great. I cant see the crack anymore (eventhough my finger bumps over the 1/16" lump. NO MORE visible cracks! The second I got really serious. I had some Loctite 613 (yea, the green stuff). I smeared it all over the screen and let it dry. Cracks filled, but there is a green haze that annoys me when watching spy ninjas. Oh well, I can try both next time. Double duty. Clear liquid, yea right. Go for the stuff any man has laying around in the garage. Oh, dont use the 613 on your brake rotors (i didnt have any brake clean to remove the oil residue). The wheel squealed for about two miles, but I just kept going faster and it finally got hot engough that that red glow broke it free.
5:00 Yes, but you also need to apply suction to the windshield so the resin will seep into the crack... otherwise it'll just sit on top like what you experienced. The crack repair companies that drive to you do just this with a few extra steps, drilling the impact, covering the area, adding resin, applying suction and letting sit... I recently did this on my car which had two quarter size impacts from following an 18 wheeler. Using two permatex kits for 10 bucks a piece... it got rid of 99% of my visible cracks. That said I WAS curious what would happen if you used /that/ one a phone. If you can get it to seal and have suction... it should work? However I don't know how it would affect touch.
I've used something similar for my phone. For my current phone I didn't manage to get a screen protector for about a year and it got a ton of minor scratches, I used a screen protector that was attached with liquid resin and it hid all of the scratches. It didn't fix them if I remove it now they will still be there but while the screen protector is on you can't see them. It's a cheep way to cover up small scratches.
Modern smartphones have an oleophobic coating on the glass which repells liquids and causes liquid to bead up instead of pooling in an area, which is why these repairs don't work on smartphones, it does work on car windscreens however
Resin will work but you have to have a barrier between the inside environment and outside and air pressure has to be applied to force the reason into the chip, it cannot be a crack as the resin can only reinforce it cannot repair
Yea thats basically what is just used on car windshields. If you get safelite to come out to repair a windshield, if it is a relatively small crack they just use that and it works
The reason think this doesn't work is because it needs a vacuum in order to fill the cracks. I wonder if you put the phone under a vacuum and with the resin on top if it will work as that is what you need to do with car windshields.
this type of resin is made for windshield glass. its the same kind of process they use for cars, except in a car they use a small vacuumed pump to force the resin into the cracks. try and vac pump next time.
It could be ok for "repairing" slightly chipped PC monitor screen external layers (they're plastic but can't be replaced on their own). But you would need to somehow evenly resurface the whole thing, otherwise it's still going to be just as noticeable.
That's kind of obvious from their product ad claims. I mean, adding some kind of liquid to magically get rid of cracks in glass is the biggest snake oil we can hear.
maybe removing the oleophobic coating before applying the resin might make it work better? you'd then have to reapply it but if it works it'd probably still save you money
The car windshields have many layers and the cracks can catch the light and reflect it more easy. Such glues fill the gaps and prevent this light reflection. Nothing else to be expected.
I'd want something like this that actually works, but not for some stupid screen, but for my old teddy bear that has had many adventures and his eyes are a little cloudy now
My phone repair shop has started seeing a few ppl bringing their phone sin after having fallen for this scam product. We don't mind. The word of mouth advertising we get after properly repairing the devices brings in extra business, and we're selling a lot more Protection Pro screen protectors than ever.
this stuff is like liquid screen protectors, which are awesome. I used one back in the day on my apple watch because it had a big nasty scratch on the screen. the liquid screen protector hid it perfectly
I think the idea is that you need the SAME type of material to make a crack disappear. Any difference in refractive index will cause the cracks visible. So resin, being a plastic, can repair plastic but not glass.
The thing is that modern smartphone screen has this protective layer designed to work with greasy finger tips... could that be why it's repeling the resin?
I think the resin works on car windshields because they don't have the anty oil layer that smartphones have. I think that's the reason why te reason why it slips from the smartphone glass
Just to be fair (although not denying that this is an obvious scam) But the hydrophobic coat on most phones and Tablets might be the causing the resin to form beads instead of seeping into the cracks. Although on cars they use vacuum to let all the air escape and let the resin take it’s place.
I have an iPhone 14 Pro before I got the glass protector on it. I have something in my pocket that left a little micro scratches on it. I was wondering if the Reds it would take care of it
Might work better if you apply it and place glass screenprotector on top. That would look better not cure the screen offcourse. The resin will fill in the gaps and looks cleaner and the screenprotector will make it feel like new.
@@killersberg1 i used some of this glue+glass protector on my 11 pro max for about 6 months,in this time i replace them three times,now i don't have any protection on screen and when i wrote messages i miss a lot of letters(missclick).the screen is not that acurate anymore.
Yeah, who'd have thought tht such an item would never have been able to repair a damaged phone or tablet screen? If your phone or tablet screen really has cracked/been damaged, you just have to replace the component - no matter what the price of replacement parts are.
I wonder if it would work if you put the phone in a vacuum chamber to suck all the air out? Maybe that would force the resin into the empty spaces and get the air bubbles out like when its used for crafts.
I used this(similar product but on Amazon) plus some liquid glass screen protector to help hide scratches in my OnePlus 8 it hid them pretty well. I mean the scratch was obviously still there just no longer an eye sore and I had to actually look for it
This is supose to be there how It is. Phone makers had to make secure devices. If you broke the class, that glass had to be secure even when is shatered
I think the iphones and ipads have oleophobic layer on the glass so that might be reason why the resin is not working on back of the iPhone and even on the iPad... In the end the resin whether it works or not is just a liquid and if you have layer that should repulse the liquid the resin has no chance to do it's thing Edit: But yeah if the ad says it fixes phone screens when it doesn't then it's a false advertisement and potential scam
I work in an electronics repair shop. Whenever a customer hands us their phone to get fixed we give them a spare phone to use for the meantime. The spare phones were usually just broken phones we fixed up to get barely working for phone calls etc. If any of those spare phones had a cracked screen we would put a big amount of this UV resin on them, the cracks were still visible but the resin stopped the glass shards from coming off the screen and also stopped any moisture from getting inside the phone. I see UV resin as a big bandaid for a cracked screen, it won't look great, but if you don't want to change the screen for some reason (like how we didn't want to spend money for a spare phone) it's a really good way to keep the phone working and ensure it's not gonna get worse.
What about some Alcatel Pixi Glitz's? Those things are TANKS.
Giving a customer a spare phone in the meantime? That's actually brilliant and thoughtful.
@@zarktyark7312 thank you!!!
@@qwertykeyboard5901 hahaha I’m not sure we have them here but we got a couple of phones that just can’t die
Good data
I've used something similar to that in my car windshield and it worked. It was basically UV glue that after curing hides the crack. It worked because I was able to place a piece of tape inside to help keep the glue in place while it was curing. I think the oleophobic coating in phone screens make this type of repair unviable
>oleophobic coating
Yea that pretty much makes this product useless then.
Since you can remove the oleo phobic film from phones using alcohol, it would be interesting to see what would happen if you try that out.
@HughJeffreys
You don't seem to understand windshields are... laminated. You didn't even notice the lack of a crack on the interior side.
@@PizzaFreaakYou can Not remove oleophobic coating of the screen with alcohol you dummy.
A cracked Nokia? What cracked it? A diamond?
Haha alien did that
A roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris most likely , that's what broke mine .
Oh Jesus, this jokes are so stale
@@1vbAPiYkand I'm gonna meet the dude pin a couple of months regardless
Another Nokia
As you said, getting the resin to penetrate cracked glass is key. Also, to make sure that the crack is invisible it has to be repaired quickly after damaging it. Otherwise the crack will accumulate tiny specks of dust that will show when sealed in resin. Which is why the window crack did not disappear.
You mean fresh?
whoever cracked that screen on the nokia must’ve had godly amounts of strength
I think the reason why Nokias don’t break because when you throw them, when they hit the ground they just split into like 3 pieces meaning it didn’t take the full impact
basically avoid some sort of scam and just repair it using the tools and the parts, don’t expect to get something that is a scam like what the ad says. Just get the parts and tools you need and do it correctly…
yeah, i get "winzip" scam ads on internet.
"winzip" utilities is scam. all driver scan programs is scam
Or if you don't have the confidence, take it to a repair shop....just not apple if it's outdated, they'll just want you buy a new thing. And I don't wanna replace my pocket 12 mini
Just commenting to say your videos finally gave me the confidence to open my phone and replace the battery and power button. I ran into a hiccup with the ribbon cable connector on the power button being a slightly different shape, but I did some unadvisable modifications to make it fit. In the end it was very stressful, but for just around 30 bucks I was able to fix up my phone myself and now I have some actual pry tools so I don't have to open up my Steam deck or laptop with old credit cards and my fingernails haha. I've had my phone since 2017 and with the new battery I hope to have it for many more years as it is still completely usable when it comes to my needs.
I am so happy to see hugh jeffreys look at this thing i was laughing at so many times with family members.
teleshopping channels sometimes have like 45 minute blocks of just this product and its too funny
hi walter
I've had fond memories of watching those TV shopping blocks for some reason.
And the presenters. How they managed to do it with a straight face is beyond me.
I have professionally used such resin products to repair damaged glass in the past. There's a few things missing from this particular product, mainly the fact that for smaller repairs you need some way of getting the resin into the crack, as it won't flow in on its own due to surface tension. In some cases, this involves using a vacuum chamber (Like when repairing glass on watches), but usually it requires either the right type of crack or further widening the crack to let the resin flow in like you saw here. I suspect this particular resin is nothing more than something called LOCA (Liquid Optically Clear Adheive) which is notoriously horrible at doing what this product claims; It's meant to hold pieces of transparent material together, not fill cracks.
I've used this to repair a drinking glass where 1 part of the handle became loose. There was a smallish gap, and it was filled neatly. And after some rounds in the dishwasher the repair is still invisible.
But it is not suitable for phone display repair. It even says that in the instructions.
I'm very glad to find this video. Even IPA is sometime not enough to clean electronic parts (ethanol is better but more expensive), any resin which has medium viscosity never fills fine gaps, I think. But, if we can use a vacuum pump and a vinyl bag, air pressure may possibly help resin to intrude into gaps.
There is a pottery repair artisan in Japan who uses a similar product, and how he does it is heats the pottery and apparently that change in temperature "sucks in" the resin. So the idea is sound but requires a different process.
Heating the phone enough to make a difference would just kill the phone.
Ive been seeing these "magic" screen repair liquids in ads since i was 12. Im 23 now and these are just as much of a scam as they were in 2012. If it were this easy, tech shops everywhere would be all over it.
thats actually a reall good question you can ask yourself
„if this product is so magical as said in the ad why isnt it all over the market yet?“
@@PsyWalks Exactly! Companies are always looking to either save money on there work flow or sell other peoples ideas. If products like this worked, you'd bet your ass amazon would have stolen it and advertised it above lcds in search results...
@@PsyWalks or if we're being perfectly honest, why hasnt the industry tried to shoot it down? like if any of these did as advertised then it would completely kill the phone repair industry for the most part as screen damage is probably the most common issue.
that said, like we as a society are trying to and basically succeeding in killing the phone repair industry
But even you have to admit that the tech went long way over that decade and that these are now of much better quality. The scams I mean, not the magical eye droplets of course.
the windshield resin is for rock chipped windshield. it fills the hole and prevents the long thin cracks. when you get long thin cracks u replace the windshield
ive done a fair bit of research on this kind of thing and had some experiences myself;
this kind of UV adhesive (because it seems like it's literally just LOCA glue) of course works in phones to hold components together, but it is also used in screen protector applications for curved display phones. If it's covered by some sort of film, whether that be glass or plastic, it will actually hide scratches & cracks via filling them in, but once you take the protector off, it doesn't do anything. it can't really fill them in permanently, only hide them, and only if there's enough liquid to make it look uniform.
LOCA glue is different, it doesn't cure hard, it cures gummy rubbery. This is UV acrylic glue which used to cost something absurd like $30 from Conrad, it's good for arts and crafts things, it cures hard.
@Polyeith Same experience as me. LOCA glue, a glass screen protector and UV light can hide light to medium scratches on a phones screen. I use this for my current phone (XR) which was purchased second hand. Previous owner never used a screen protector...and as a result the screen had loads of light to medium scratches (I'm guessing the scratches were caused by placing the phone in a handbag and having items such as car keys, lipstick, and other objects scratching up the screen). Yes, the scratches will be visible when you remove the screen protector...but with the screen protector on the vast majority of scratches cannot be seen, and it's far cheaper than having the phone's screen replaced...
a resin like this is okay if you can get it in the cracks in the first place, even if it just makes the crack full enough to not cut yourself as you use the device, maybe a vacuum chamber could help.
expecting the cracks to vanish is too much though.
I used something similar on my S8 that was smashed and it made a difference as my fingertips didn't feel the cracks as badly even if they were just as visible.
that stuff behaved differently though and didn't ball up.
one thing car window repair kits come with is a little plastic suction tool that helps the resin seep into cracks, but the oleophobic coating on the displays probably doesnt help either
maybe the oleophobic coating stopping the liquid from fully seeping into the cracks. it might work better if you stripped the coating.
It could (theoretically) work on a superficial crack, might even work well on a scratch. I'd want the little vacuum thingie it comes with when bought as a windshield repair kit. Put the vacuum thing on the crack, put a few drops in, apply pressure (if you've used one of these kits to fix a windshield before...that), and MAYBE even try some light flexing of the screen (to try to create a path for the resin to get in). I tried it once on a back glass that I knew it would never work on and...it worked better than I expected (but not enough to not tell it was broke, even from a distance). I just slapped a skin over top, then a case, and went on my way.
My phone screen has a couple of annoying, small deep scratches. And a bunch of shallow ones too. If I could use those windshield crack fillers and gave it a cerium oxide treatment perhaps I would get it pretty close to new. I polished my previous phone with cerium oxide and the results were honestly pretty good but not perfect because of the deep scratches. Sounds like an idea to experiment with when it's time to retire my current phone. I won't mess around while it's still completely functional.
I know this type of glue, it's just a LOCA (Liquid OCA). It used for screen refurbishing (not just filling cracks, but whole front glass replacement)
In fact, in some situations you really can use it to make some cracks less visible
This is common practice on car windshields with minor "stars". But the way it works and you can look this up, alot of pressure is applied before curing the resin. The pressure pushes the resin into al of the cracks.
0:47 isn’t even an actual iPhone. It’s a fake decoy one that you can buy in bulk
So Now that resin isnt scam anymore?
@@Namrec_Molaibruh u stupid
This kind of resin works really well to repair chipped (not cracked) windshields. A chip doesn't go all the way through the glass, so the resin fills the "hole" and makes it almost invisible. Chrisfix made a great video showing the repair process.
I haven't seen any products that work well if they have that countdown timer at checkout. Those timers always set off my scam alert sirens.
Yea i need to repair mine after over heating my phone. Your SE 2020 video really helped
Can you put the resin and then apply the screen protector and let us know the result?
One likely problem is the oleophobic (and hydrophobic?) coating on the phone glass, not allowing the liquid to wet it properly.
I'm not so sure about writing the idea off because the cheapest resin you can find doesn't work. The liquid supplied seemed to be different from the liquid in the adds. Perhaps try again with a $40 bottle of resin from say rain-x?
This does actually work for hairline scratches. Your also not supposed to use a knife or razor blade to scratch off the access residue. Your supposed to use alcohol pads to remove the residue. You actually hurt your own testing scratching the residue off. Also, you didn't try to fill in any scratches. Your devices were completely cracked.
i seen a video once where they said you can repair a cracked screen with a mixture of off bug repellent isopropyl alcohol in equal parts and table salt brushed on lightly and left in the sun to dry i never have tried it because every one i crack is usually missing pieces would love to know if it really works but i have my doubts love to watch you work and admire the passion you have
Phone glass hase usually teflon coating applied to it, to reduce fingerprints. That's why it probably doesn't wanna go into the cracks.
I have "repaired" the crack of a mobile phone and a tablet with the corresponding car window repair agent. Paid a couple of euros. It requires vacuum/overpressure treatment to penetrate the gaps. It's not completely imperceptible, but it prevents further cracks and is a method when nothing else reasonable.
Some of the packages contain a syringe and a stand that can be glued to the windshield with double-sided tape. First, a negative pressure is created to remove the air. Allowing the repair agent to fill the space. After that, the excess pressure is pressed with the syringe, and the rest of the holes are pushed in full.
Just a thought, smartphone glass tends to have an oleophobic coating. You could try wiping the screen down with a solvent like acetone to remove the coating, then the resin might not ball up like that. You can buy tubes of the oleophobic coating to reapply if you want.
In the spirit of trying to get this to work on the cheap maybe try a food storage vacuum container/bag, or high frequency vibrations (sonic toothbrush) or cooling/heating to get the resin to penetrate the cracks. But it's never going to work a well as the adverts suggest.
You mention that car windshield repair professionals use suction to force the resin into the cracks. A lot of people have chamber vacuum sealers. I wonder if the resin bead on top of the cover glass could be similarly sucked into the crack if a such a vacuum was applied around the damaged phone? How much are shattered phones going for on the secondary market? I might just try out that technique with my own vacuum sealer.
literally I was thinking this video was for something else and I was going to ask you to try this stuff out, you're a hero.
Would putting it in a pressure vessel help to force the fluid into the crack?
I had two cracked samsungs. I found it. JB Weld worked great. I cant see the crack anymore (eventhough my finger bumps over the 1/16" lump. NO MORE visible cracks!
The second I got really serious. I had some Loctite 613 (yea, the green stuff). I smeared it all over the screen and let it dry. Cracks filled, but there is a green haze that annoys me when watching spy ninjas. Oh well, I can try both next time. Double duty. Clear liquid, yea right. Go for the stuff any man has laying around in the garage.
Oh, dont use the 613 on your brake rotors (i didnt have any brake clean to remove the oil residue). The wheel squealed for about two miles, but I just kept going faster and it finally got hot engough that that red glow broke it free.
I use a whitestone dome screen protector , the liquid does fill the cracks and having the protector installed its 100% crack free to use
5:00 Yes, but you also need to apply suction to the windshield so the resin will seep into the crack... otherwise it'll just sit on top like what you experienced. The crack repair companies that drive to you do just this with a few extra steps, drilling the impact, covering the area, adding resin, applying suction and letting sit...
I recently did this on my car which had two quarter size impacts from following an 18 wheeler. Using two permatex kits for 10 bucks a piece... it got rid of 99% of my visible cracks.
That said I WAS curious what would happen if you used /that/ one a phone. If you can get it to seal and have suction... it should work? However I don't know how it would affect touch.
I've used something similar for my phone. For my current phone I didn't manage to get a screen protector for about a year and it got a ton of minor scratches, I used a screen protector that was attached with liquid resin and it hid all of the scratches. It didn't fix them if I remove it now they will still be there but while the screen protector is on you can't see them. It's a cheep way to cover up small scratches.
Modern smartphones have an oleophobic coating on the glass which repells liquids and causes liquid to bead up instead of pooling in an area, which is why these repairs don't work on smartphones, it does work on car windscreens however
it does work on windshields, windshield glass isn't the same as gorilla glass though.
Thank you for providing this service and insight so I don't have to find out myself after spending the time and money.
Resin will work but you have to have a barrier between the inside environment and outside and air pressure has to be applied to force the reason into the chip, it cannot be a crack as the resin can only reinforce it cannot repair
Yea thats basically what is just used on car windshields. If you get safelite to come out to repair a windshield, if it is a relatively small crack they just use that and it works
The reason think this doesn't work is because it needs a vacuum in order to fill the cracks. I wonder if you put the phone under a vacuum and with the resin on top if it will work as that is what you need to do with car windshields.
Use this adhesive with a screen protector and it's gold!
this type of resin is made for windshield glass. its the same kind of process they use for cars, except in a car they use a small vacuumed pump to force the resin into the cracks. try and vac pump next time.
It WILL WORK on laptop screens, tv which are cracked AND the apple vision pro but only plastic screen with glass under the plastic and scratches
I hate it when I see ads like that
It could be ok for "repairing" slightly chipped PC monitor screen external layers (they're plastic but can't be replaced on their own). But you would need to somehow evenly resurface the whole thing, otherwise it's still going to be just as noticeable.
That's kind of obvious from their product ad claims. I mean, adding some kind of liquid to magically get rid of cracks in glass is the biggest snake oil we can hear.
you might be surprised how stupid people can be
@iamdisappointedinyou3097 Surprised? Definitely not. If people aren't stupid then we wouldn't be electing corrupt politicians.
@@peterthepanda if people weren't stupid we wouldnt have corrupt politicians
@@iamdisappointedinyou3097 Politicians do indeed make it hard to believe they're also supposedly human as well...
maybe removing the oleophobic coating before applying the resin might make it work better? you'd then have to reapply it but if it works it'd probably still save you money
The car windshields have many layers and the cracks can catch the light and reflect it more easy. Such glues fill the gaps and prevent this light reflection. Nothing else to be expected.
I'd want something like this that actually works, but not for some stupid screen, but for my old teddy bear that has had many adventures and his eyes are a little cloudy now
If it's external oxidation then you can cut and polish and buff them I guess
I think a normal smartphone screen glass and a window glass are different. Therefore, it may work on the window glass but not on the screen glasses.
Even if you could actually get some resin into a crack the difference in refraction between the two materials would mean you would still notice it
We use this UV glue on samsung phones as liquid protectors and it cost only $3 CAD along with the glass and the raisin lol
maybe a "hidro" plastic foil (those that you apply with water) ?
put the phone in a vacum tube to force the air out and suck the resin in. I know it pretty specific but sound like a cool experiment
you should try crack cover up screen protectors, using liquid glue to fill in cracks then adding glass screen protector for protection
Could you try pulling down a vacuum while putting it on ?
My phone repair shop has started seeing a few ppl bringing their phone sin after having fallen for this scam product. We don't mind. The word of mouth advertising we get after properly repairing the devices brings in extra business, and we're selling a lot more Protection Pro screen protectors than ever.
this stuff is like liquid screen protectors, which are awesome. I used one back in the day on my apple watch because it had a big nasty scratch on the screen. the liquid screen protector hid it perfectly
I think the idea is that you need the SAME type of material to make a crack disappear. Any difference in refractive index will cause the cracks visible. So resin, being a plastic, can repair plastic but not glass.
I wonder if you could add a drop of dish detergent to break the surface tension, potentially allowing the resin to seep into the crack.
1:49 Oh come on, those will buff right out!
Speaking about scams, right at the end of your video I got a Temu ad
Couldn't you just put a lot on the screen and then add a screen protector on top, cure the resin and just leave the screen protector on?
The thing is that modern smartphone screen has this protective layer designed to work with greasy finger tips... could that be why it's repeling the resin?
the back of the iphone is water phobic or whatever it is called.. it probably cant even suck it in.
you were supposed to apply the resin in a hyperbolic chamber
6:58 Unless your phone is laminated glass.
I havent seen single plate window glass since the 70s but im in canada so it's cold here
While there are liquids that fit in the cracks they are not to fix them but to bond the glass together again. Like the autoglass repair ad on TV.
I think that what you're experiencing with the glue not going into the cracks has to do with the oleophobic coating most screens/glass panels have...
I think the resin works on car windshields because they don't have the anty oil layer that smartphones have. I think that's the reason why te reason why it slips from the smartphone glass
Ehat if you put a screenprotector on top, whole its curing
Just to be fair (although not denying that this is an obvious scam)
But the hydrophobic coat on most phones and Tablets might be the causing the resin to form beads instead of seeping into the cracks.
Although on cars they use vacuum to let all the air escape and let the resin take it’s place.
I have an iPhone 14 Pro before I got the glass protector on it. I have something in my pocket that left a little micro scratches on it. I was wondering if the Reds it would take care of it
Wait how'd the Nokia break? Was it dropped out of a spaceship?
Hey homie, you know Apple does cover hairline fractures like that without impact damage if it's within 1 year of purchase?
That Nokia was self-healed. 😆
Might work better if you apply it and place glass screenprotector on top. That would look better not cure the screen offcourse. The resin will fill in the gaps and looks cleaner and the screenprotector will make it feel like new.
For cracked screens, i recommend the uv glue+glass screen protector combo.
It hides the crack and prevents the screen to crack more.
Yes,but in time the touchscreen will get damaged.
@@worldvideoifyPlease explain
@@killersberg1 i used some of this glue+glass protector on my 11 pro max for about 6 months,in this time i replace them three times,now i don't have any protection on screen and when i wrote messages i miss a lot of letters(missclick).the screen is not that acurate anymore.
Yeah, who'd have thought tht such an item would never have been able to repair a damaged phone or tablet screen? If your phone or tablet screen really has cracked/been damaged, you just have to replace the component - no matter what the price of replacement parts are.
I wonder if it would work if you put the phone in a vacuum chamber to suck all the air out? Maybe that would force the resin into the empty spaces and get the air bubbles out like when its used for crafts.
You need to update your windows. , like a single glass, is outdated. Dubble or triple is standard. keeps head, cold, and sound to a minimum.
You gotta do a review of the fairphone 5😊
I used this(similar product but on Amazon) plus some liquid glass screen protector to help hide scratches in my OnePlus 8 it hid them pretty well. I mean the scratch was obviously still there just no longer an eye sore and I had to actually look for it
I do wonder if putting the phone in a vacuum chamber after applying the resin but before curing you could get some of the resin to go into the crack
How would that be an advantage ?
Cool video Hugh! Hopefully it will save some people who lack common sense some of their money.
6:32 A plane of glass ✈️
I always thought it was a scam... thanks for debunking there bs!
Looks similar to loca or the glue used to apply curved glass screen protector
This is indeed fake but you can try to buy a Screen protector then apply the UV resin. then cure it.
Interesting
Nice to see this this covered in case anyone wants to get into this.
This is supose to be there how It is. Phone makers had to make secure devices. If you broke the class, that glass had to be secure even when is shatered
I think the iphones and ipads have oleophobic layer on the glass so that might be reason why the resin is not working on back of the iPhone and even on the iPad... In the end the resin whether it works or not is just a liquid and if you have layer that should repulse the liquid the resin has no chance to do it's thing
Edit: But yeah if the ad says it fixes phone screens when it doesn't then it's a false advertisement and potential scam
0:54 If Krazy Ken has taught me one thing, then it‘s that this website is made of Red Flags.