That's the plastic bit that covers the LCD. If you scratch your screen what you're scratching is the lens and not the LCD (unless you happen to actually crack the LCD or apply excessive force to the screen which affects both the lens and the LCD).
1) This is actually Glass - note the words: "Lens *Glass* Replacement"
2) When you see videos of 9000s being taken apart this seems to form part of the screen. They take out the LCD and the Glass Lens is attached to it.
3) I've read in several forums that the LCD and this glass cover are actually just one piece. And when you scratch the "Glass Lens" you need to replace the entire LCD with the lens.
So my question remains: if 3) is correct, how come they sell the lens individually?
If it is not correct - where can I find a gude/tutorial/video explaining how exactly you separate the Glass Lens from the LCD and stick on a new one?
There is nothing on this on the entire Internet - very strange - while there's a gazillion guides on how to change the trackball... so I remain confused and still dont' know:
1) can it be done?
2) how can it be done?
3) anyone here done it?
all i know is that the glass is stuck to the lcd with a glue, i have heard of people getting it off by blow-drying it for a while till the glue gets warm and carefully peeling it off and putting on a new one. they have said that it is very hard to do and very east to break the lcd screen. you might as well get the piece as a whole..
It's not just one piece, it is held togetther by a glue-like substance. The picture above shows how it's like. I have never taken it apart so I don't really know other than research done online.
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I took my Bold apart yesterday to fit the bezel and trackball, and the screen gives the apperance of being one unit, even though the pics shown in this thread suggest that it can be split into two components. For what its worth, I definitely wouldn't want to fool around with splitting the screen in two... if my screen got damaged, I'd buy the whole unit, I know that's more expensive but would be worth it I think (unless you have good skills with electronics, which i proved to myself that I don't when fitting a black trackball 4 times lol!)