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Ipod touch cracked screen

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I own an ipod touch 16 GB that I bought from Singapore as its cheaper there compared to prices in India. About 2 months old. I dropped it on my driveway and the screen is cracked and looks like there are spiderwebs over the screen. I called up a couple of showrooms in India and they don't deal with such service requests apparently..

The ipod in itself seems to be working fine.. Touch screen is working, songs are playing..

I called up a service center as well and they said they cannot replace broken screens.. Having read a lot of discussion threads I presume that unless I can come up with something that proves that the screen broke on its own due to some manufacturing defect I will not get a replacement..

Can someone please suggest a nice story that proves that the screen cracked on its own due to some manufacturing defect or can someone suggest how I can fix this?

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  • Anonymous Oct 29, 2008

    the screen is broken , and it works fine and the side of the ipod touch is cracked open.... the screen is really bad , the glass is falling from little by little

  • Anonymous Feb 10, 2009

    i dont get why they cant fix it i mean the important stuff is all working just the glass in front of it why cant they just open the ipod and replace the glass

    id pay extra for it
    oh and yeah this happened to me to


  • ARobol58 Apr 27, 2009

    i have a dent on the back so i am trying to solve my problem to

  • Anonymous May 07, 2009

    i was at school and i happen to set my ipod on the and a kid walked by hit the table and knocked it off and broked the screen. now i have a crack at the top of my ipod. It's a touch by the way.

  • Anonymous May 23, 2009

    my ipod was in my jacket pocket and my friend said can i borrow your jacket and i said yes so i let her borrow it and she left the jacket on the table and her friend said this is not my jacket and she threw it on the floor and my friend said why did you do that it has a ipod in it

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If you're out of warranty, somebody has to open the iPod and replace the digitizer (touch panel). The part is available on ebay. If you want to do it yourself, Here's a guide on how to disassemble an iPod touch. Maybe a tech savy friend can do it for you. If you want to pay to have somebody do it for you there are third party iPod Repair Services.

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IPod Refresh has probably the cheapest repairs for the touch.

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You will not be able to fool anyone into thinking that this screen just "cracked" on it's own due to a manufacturing defect. The people who repair these on a daily basis have enough experience to know when a unit was dropped. I do not know how Apple operates in other countries, but I assume they have a similar situation to what they do here in the US and do not allow others to repair the iPod. You will most likely have to pay for this repair or replace the iPod at your own expense.

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The excact same thing happened to mine. I bought mine in HongKong and if you have the warrenty Apple will be happy to fix it for you.

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