In Search of Replacement Screen for VKWorld Vk6735

Hi all,

My daughter had hers slip from her hand & naturally it missed all of the carpets & landed on the front camera-corner & cracked! Seriously, she's been so careful and just got up too quickly & it hit the only tiny area of the floor that's tile— gah!

Anyway, I tried to find a new one (whole phone) & had TWO orders, with different sellers on amazon.com, bail out after waiting weeks— only to say "sold-out"…

I figured, "screw-it" & I'll see about changing the screen myself, but alas, cannot find one! I won't use "alibaba" as they have horrible feedback.

Do any OzB'ers know or use a reputable place for this sort of thing?

TIA,

G

Comments

  • Aliexpress is the place to find spare phone parts.

    But it's a really weird off-brand that also has no hope of having spare parts commercially to buy. If there was a big enough market for that brand, I'm sure you'd easily find a vendor that sells digitizers and frames for it, but I can't find any.

    Unlike Samsung or iPhone, many lower-tier ChinaDroid brands have very short production runs (and extremely short lifecycle) and are manufactured usually in a fairly small quantity, before the manufacturer says 'screw it, we're making the next version!" and then move onto making a new model to sell. Hence you won't see spare parts. Batteries perhaps, but maybe not the screen.

    But since it's a cheap-arse phone that sold at around a hundred USD you're probably better off just buying another one, rather than buying a screen and attempting self repair (which is also risky).

    • This.

      I bought an ipegtop something something. Great phone, great specs, great price. Phone was dropped and glass cracked. Haven't been able to find a replacement. Still works but would like to replace unsightly glass. No such luck.

    • @scrimshaw

      Well poo!

      It's such a smooth phone, too….sh*t.

      It's got to be as you say— because she's not had it very long & then when this happened & I went to just buy another, there were none to be found. Silly me thought it was just popular & they'd run out. You're probably correct that they aren't making them any longer.

      Thanks for looking— very good of you.

      G

      PS- I've been wanting to have a go at a screen repair, just to see how I'd do…oh, well.

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