It's real easy to damage it, I pinched mine when I first repaired one. Didn't damage it though. It's really common when repairing the screens. Maybe you just got a bum screen, I just don't know. There's not much troubleshooting you can do without another screen.

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

Central, LA

Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 2:35 pm to Gaston

Yeah, they are easy to screw up. Even a nick in one of the tracers in the ribbon cables that's hard to see with the naked eye can cause problems with discoloration, distortion, intermittent touch response, etc. That, and excess pressure on the LCD component from warping, piece of broken glass stuck in the phone housing, etc.

Or, like Gaston said, could just be defective screen. I've installed a couple dozen of them from various sources and haven't had a defective one yet, but most of them are cheap aftermarket knockoffs made in China, so it's not a big stretch of the imagination to consider some of them might be broken right out of the box.

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Posted by colorchangintiger

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 3:23 pm to Gaston

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It's real easy to damage it, I pinched mine when I first repaired one

I was replacing the battery in my iPhone 5 a few months back. I had done it once before so I thought I was a pro. Well, i got it back together and couldn't get the screen to light up, so I figured I hadn't reattached the cables good enough. So I took it back apart and made sure they were in there. Turned phone on and had some weird off colored squares at the top of the screen, so I went to check the connections again and....frick i just ripped the cable the connects the screen to the board.

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