ECO-FUSED Screen Replacement Kit Compatible with Samsung Galaxy S3 Including Replacement Glass/Tool Kit/Adhesive Sticker Tape/Tweezers/Microfiber Cleaning Cloth/Instruction Manual

I had dropped my Samsung Galaxy S3 onto a sharp object on my desk and the screen suffered star shaped cracking from the right edge to the center of the screen. My first visit was to Amazon, of course, to read reviews about replacement screens. I read most of the reviews for the ECO-Fused product and came away with two perspectives. Use this product and you will either (1) have a very nice replacement or (2) destroy your phone. Gee. Nice choices! Being neither timid nor shy, I decided to purchase the Replacement Kit and take my chances. As a precaution, I also ordered Eco-Fused Liquid Optical Clear (LOCA) adhesive and an Etekcity ETC-8250 Heat Pen based on the numerous YouTube videos I watched concerning the replacement process. What follows is my experience replacing the screen which is really not too much different from previous experiences related in other reviews.I received all three ordered products in very prompt fashion. While waiting, I watched numerous videos describing how to replace the screen. I would highly recommend that you watch at least the Eco-Fused sponsored video as well as the video that describes the three biggest mistakes you can make attempting the replacement. Here is the one critical key that I took away from all of the videos. Your phone has a glass screen that sits above an air gap that sits above the digitizer. The objective is to raise the glass screen away from the edge of the phone and the adhesive that sticks it to the digitizer WITHOUT putting downward pressure on the digitizer. You must heat the glass screen enough to liquefy the adhesive, BUT not enough to cause heat damage to the digitizer. So, there are two critical operations: (1) heating the glass screen to the proper temperature and (2) separating the glass screen from the digitizer without putting downward pressure on the digitizer.I will explain how I accomplished both operations and I now have a new glass screen that is as good as, or better than, the one I broke. First of all, this is much easier accomplished with two people than doing it on your own. MUCH EASIER. The Eco-Fused kit contains the key elements you need. Primarily, the double sided adhesive tape; the tweezers; and the glass screen. The rest is superfluous. However, the three elements mentioned are well worth the price of the kit. In addition to the kit, I also used the following critical items: the digital temperature pen; a heat gun; and two jokers from a pack of poker cards with which my wife plays solitaire.I had my friend heat the screen of my phone with the heat gun while periodically testing the temperature with the temperature pen. When the screen reached 180 degrees F, I lifted the top edge of the screen up using a razor knife. I tried doing it with the plastic tools from the kit but that did not work. At the proper temperature, the screen lifted easily at the top using the razor knife. Note that I was leveraging the knife against the top of the phone which is a good 1/2 inch away from the digitizer. Also note that there were no cracks near the point that I was lifting. If you leverage against a crack, and you don't use enough heat, you can cause the broken glass to leverage down against the digitizer and ... you destroy the digitizer. My first attempt to separate the glass was using the wire in the kit. Forget about it. It's going to break and you are going to get frustrated. Trust me. After breaking the wire twice, I tried another approach. I slipped the playing card under the glass and began to work it back and forth while my friend continued to heat the glass to 180 degrees. I began with two cards, one at each of the upper two edges. But soon I found that I could turn one card completely through the width of the screen and just move that card all the way to the bottom where I carefully separated the two buttons at the bottom. Watch the video for the button removing operation. It is critical. The broken glass came off easily. From there, I cleaned up the adhesive using WD-40, cleaned the digitizer surface with eye glass cleaning solution and the microfiber cloth in the kit, put down the double sided sticky tape included in the kit (the kit tweezers are invaluable in this step), and installed the new screen. I am one happy camper. My screen actually looks better than before I broke it and it works perfectly.One note about the UV LOCA Glue - I didn't use it. The videos indicate that you should remove the motherboard from the phone before you use the glue. I decided that removing the motherboard was too risky and that I would try it without the LOCA Glue first, and if there were any problems I could easily remove the glass screen and replace it with the glue. I see no need to do that. All of the functions of my phone work perfectly with just the double sided tape solution.I couldn't be happier with the Screen Replacement Kit. WHEN I break my glass again, I know that I can replace it for about $10 since the kit contained enough double-sided tape to do at least ten more repairs. I highly recommend this product. However, it is only as good as the patience and common sense you use to apply it.

I had a completely SHATTERED Galaxy S3 screen. I actually thought this project was hopeless from the start but figured what could I lose by trying (except for a ruined digitizer, but I could barely use the screen as it was so I was willing to risk this trying. I actually cut my finger a couple times swiping the broken screen). Also, I have no previous experience with computers or repairing phones, I'm a housewife/mom who just happens to be a little tiny bit handy, so if you have the bare minimum amount of skill, patience, and a strong will, you could attempt it. But be aware the possibility of completely ruining your phone exists.By shattered I mean the glass was broken in hundreds of pieces but still adhered to the underlying digitizer. I watched several you tube videos which I highly recommend before attempting this project, especially find one that uses playing cards as a tool to lift the broken glass. After heating the cracked screen enough and attempting to lift up some broken pieces I realized that playing cards were by far the best tool to slide under each piece of cracked glass and slowly pry from the adhesive underlay. Any of the tools contained in this kit would have scratched my digitizer since I had to get so many pieces off that were directly above the underlying screen. If your screen is simply cracked once or twice across, these tools would work great to pry under the edges and slowly lift off larger pieces of glass, but if it's shattered please use playing cards! They will not scratch your digitizer, which you have to get close to with small broken pieces. The glass screen replacement fit perfectly and I have no real problems with it, although it is not an original Samsung glass. If you are particular about this, search for an original Samsung glass kit that comes with glue not tape. Also if your glass is not shattered all the other tools are unnecessary as you shouldn't use them directly over the digitizer but only around the edges. They are great to have though so I don't mind that I bought this kit.On another note, I would have added an adhesive glue to this package to give it the 5 stars. The 3M tape works well to hold the new glass in place, but it creates a gap between the digitizer and the new glass since the tape is around the edges of the screen only. If glued properly there would be no gap between the two glass screens and the touch screen would be more clear and like the original construction. So when i press down hard on my glass screen there is a ripple created on the digitizer which makes it freeze. I then have to make the phone sleep and re-wake to undo the freeze. It's a minor inconvenience and I don't ever press down hard on the screen so it hasn't been a problem at all, hence the 4 stars. But I'm considering getting the glue and redoing it since I'm of a perfectionist nature and would like it as close to original as possible. I feel like it will be more secure that way also. But as I always tell myself in these situations, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! So maybe I won't ;)One last note. After you remove all the broken glass, there's a strip of black adhesive on the phone that held down the original glass (on the Galaxy S3). I removed that completely and used the new adhesive this kit provided and it made for a very clean replacement. Some have said they left the original and placed the new glass on it alone, but mine had so many tiny chips of glass still stuck in it it was not fully functional. I thought the black was part of the actual phone but it's only adhesive so it can come off.

Tool kit is a plus, I did not need to use any of it. Screen replacement is dead simple, be careful about your back and menu button ribbons but other than that a fifteen minute repair that I think anyone can do. Now, not the quality I think of the original samsung screen, I think these are thin (seriously). Mine actually broke within a few months of the repair. I think you need be careful after replacing original glass but it extended the life of the now retired phone a few months. Worth the effort and you can do the repair, check utube for easy to follow guides from different people.update to original review 2015-08-31As a postscript, seller contacted myself after review was posted and offered to replace the kit with another sample. I accepted the offer however I am not sure there was any defect to original kit replacement glass. Nevertheless, Eco-Fused cared enough to go out of their way to make it right even though they had no obligation to do so, so kudo's for them.

Bought this to try and replace my S3 phone screen by myself as I had been quoted £150 in shops and it definitely wasn't worth the value of the phone which is nearly two years old anyway. My phone was really badly smashed, the glass was in thousands of tiny pieces across the phone and also all around the edges it had smashed into a dust so initially I thought it wouldn't work because it was such a complex break - but persevered anyway because the phone was not usable without a new screen.I followed the instructions really carefully and also watched the video (which is recommended by the seller in an email after you purchase). I used a hairdryer to heat phone, did it for about 10 minutes I then used the tweezers to try and pull some of the glass away. I wasn't worried about it getting too hot because everytime I turned the hairdryer off it cooled so quickly that it could never be getting that hot. After doing it for a while, I tried to loosen the screen but here i made a slight mistake because I thought that you had to remove the shards of glass (which i thought was the screen?!) but you actually have to peel away the backing which the glass is mounted on - this isn't made entirely clear in the instructions and I only realised after watching the video a few times. This was made easy with the tweezers and the wire as is done on the video, I got someone else to keep heating me with a hairdryer whilst I was doing it to keep it hot.**Once the screen was off you are supposed to clean the lcd with an 'alchohol based cleaner' which isn't provided in the kit to remove glue and dust**. I tried white spirit and nail varnish remover which didn't work - so resorted to straight gin which was the only alchohol I had. This worked well - but I think that there probably is something more suitable which you should buy at the same time as this kit. That said, vodka and gin would probably work just as well if you are ok to use it....Putting the glue strips on the phone is easy and placing the screen back on is pretty straight forward to put back on - the glue strips are really sticky and there's loads of tape left which may come in handy for something else! Unfortunately I didn't wait until the alcohol had evaporated off of the screen so i now have a tiny bubble of air/gin on my screen - but you can only see it when the phone is locked (not when the screen is on) and I really don't mind because the screen works perfectly otherwise. The buttons work, everything on the screen responds correctly and I am just so happy because I can now keep using this phone until it software eventually stops working. Saves me a few hundred pounds as I didn't really want a new phone yet.It's a risky, nerve-wracking process but if your screen is badly smashed then you don't have much to lose so give it a go!

Worked well enough. Only problem is after replacing, my menu and back buttons no longer work at all.Also the replacement process was pretty horrible. Getting the old screen off was really tough...the nasty fumes from the old adhesive didn't help either. I felt pretty sick the rest of the day after doing the replacement. They really should warn about this in the instructions.

The replacement process takes a long time and requires a lot of patience, but now my phone is working perfectly again, almost as good as new. This is much cheaper than having it replaced professionally and works almost as well, I don't regret purchasing this product.That said, there are some drawbacks- The tools are not durable: the plastic picks very quickly deform, the pliers bent and the wire broke ~4 times for me. I ended up using a stanley knife to get under the screen which worked much better. The wire was extremely useful despite it breaking a few times (they supply multiple pieces).- The screen itself is not as good, it feels a little worse and is not fingerprint resistant like the original S3 screen. However, a nice screen protector should solve this problem.These are small problems and easily resolved. Overall I am happy with the purchase.Tips for anyone about to do this:Make sure the screen is very hot, 200'c is hard to exceed with a hairdryer, having the glue hot is very important.I used my finger to get off most of the glue residue from the lcd, then a microfibre cloth with some ordinary olive oil followed by a microfibre cloth with alcohol based cleaning fluid to get the remaining pieces of glue.

Great product. I bought this to revive an old Galaxy S3 given to me. The glass is quality - I dropped the phone with no case onto hard floor from 3 ft. after replacement and the screen was fine (I expected it to crack). Eco-Fused contacts you by email about the replacement process, order, and then follow-up. Great customer service. The instructional video is idiot-proof and comes with paper instructions (review all the instructions before replacing the glass!). It comes with more parts than needed so unless you break the screen (there is only 1!), you have enough to work with plus more for future maintenance.This is a meticulous process. I highly recommend a heat gun if you can grab one. I borrowed one from a family member and it took 3 mins tops to unstick the glue. A hairdryer will work fine as well. Be careful not to ruin your digitizer with too much heat!5/5 product and service.