What Quality iPhone Screen Do Repair Shops Use in Bowie,MD?
What quality phone screens do most iPhone repair shops use in the Bowie,MD area? That’s such an ideal question for any customer doing a decent amount of research to ask. There are so many different quality iPhone screens on the market and the prices that most repair shops charge vary widely based on what quality iPhone screen they use.
Let’s start by explaining why this is important! At the time of writing this (Aug 2021); Apple has been making it increasingly difficult for third party repair shops to thrive. The new versions on IOS always have a bunch of corky features that void repair shops legitimacy and attempts to do high quality repairs.
More importantly the quality of the screen used to do your iphone repair is a huge deal. Depending on the quality of the screen used it can cause a host of problems:
-Lag in display
-Brightness issues
-Touch sensitivity issues
-Ghost touching
-And even glitching the software on your phone..
The reality is that most clients in the Bowie,MD and surrounding areas are looking for the most affordable option. Screen replacements can be expensive, and most clients aren’t well educated on why paying the few extra dollars for a higher quality screen is so important!
So What Quality Screen Are There?
There are several different quality iPhone screens on the resell market provided usually by one of the big 3 third party distributors. Lets list the different quality scores and go over what each of them mean:
-Aftermarket
-XO7/GX Hard
-XO7/GX Soft
-Refurbished (OEM)
Here at LURE Mobile we provide and quality repair the client would prefer outside of aftermarket, get an affordable repair quote here: Instant Quote
Aftermarket
Aftermarket iPhone screens are the cheapest of the bunch, allot of local iPhone repair shops that are in the Bowie area and; areas that are focused on budget and affordable options will frequently purchase these particular screens. Although the repair may be cheap there is a huge probability that the screen used for your iphone repair will give the consumer some combination of problems.
Touch sensitivity is the most common issue, a lot of aftermarket screens will have or produce touch issues.
Ghost touching is another big problem, the screen will have trouble loading the IOS on your device and start to randomly touch controls on the screen until it warms up.
Blacking out, at times the screen will literally just go black for a short period of time, this is due to the lower quality assembly of the OLED and glass digitizer.
Lag in display can become an issue especially for users who use their iPhones frequently. Many aftermarket screens will be using a lower quality OLED display witch can cause lag issues.
Brightness issues; customers will be able to notice a difference is the brightness on their phones with the pixels being a few hundred knits apart the color and brightness difference can be very apparent.
XO7/GX Hard
XO7/GX Hard; iPhone screens are a slightly better choice for repair shops, these screens may pose such issues from time to time but are usually decently priced and pose one of the best value propositions on the market.
Here at LURE Mobile this is the first iphone screen repair quality that we offer with very little warranty claims. Although they are better than aftermarket iphone screens and we ourselves use them on some repairs we still have to be honest about the drawbacks in using this iphone screen replacement.
Please Note: Most iphone repair shops in the Bowie area are using these screens. They are a decent quality and depending on your iPhone native build country will work with very few interruptions.
Nonetheless here are a few common issues with using XO7/GX Hard screens for iphone repairs that we’ve noticed and researched after fixing a few thousand of them:
-Blacking Out! ; this is by far the most common warranty complaint for these quality iphone screen replacements. Why? There are several different variants of each model iPhone released, each one is made in a different county; some being made in Japan, Taiwan, or China for example. Depending on which country your iPhone was made in usually affects the functionality of GX/OX7 Hard screens. With Japan models having a hard time being compatible with China screen chips.
-Ghost Touching- The inevitable ghost touch, its hard to pinpoint the exact reason but usually this is a defect in the screen assembly, iphone screens are made of a bunch of different moving parts, these parts have to be perfectly assembled for the screen to function properly.
Check out a detailed explanation video of GX Hard:
XO7/GX Soft
OX7/GX Soft is the best choice for iPhone screen replacements with factory made parts. These replacement iPhone screens are a little pricey compared to the GX Hard and Aftermarket options however it’s well worth it.
OX7 Soft replacement screen offer very little drawbacks, the performance is almost flawless, and the pixelation is less then 100 knits difference from the original OEM/OELD.
In some cases we prefer to use the XO7 Soft iPhone screen replacements instead of the OEM/OLED as their performance is so flawless.
Lets go over the few drawbacks, and scenarios that can be a disadvantage for this repair:
Blackouts; their very rare but can happen. If I had to make a percentage of iPhone repairs with GX Soft that lead to this issue it would be approx .001%
Display color is a few knits from the original OEM/OLED, almost nobody would be able to tell the difference but there is a slight difference.
Depending on the phone’s original country origin in some rare cases can cause some glitching.
OX7 Soft is by far the best iPhone replacement choice from factory made parts on the market. Their usually approx $60 more expensive than the cheaper parts on the market but the few extra dollars spent is very well worth it in the long run. There is a clear difference in performance and durability with these iPhone replacement screens.
Refurbished (OEM/OLED)
Don’t be scared by the word refurbished, refurbishing broken iPhone screens back to pristine condition is the only way to use original Apple LCD/OLED’s. There are a bunch of major benefits in using original apple products with very few drawbacks.
This quality screen is usually twice the price of their aftermarket counterparts but the end repair quality is vastly different from the inherent issues of aftermarket iphone screens.
First I’d like to mention a few of the advantages in using refurbished original apple screens:
-Flawless screen pixelation (original screen knits, full color spectrum)
-Retains true tone function
-No lag in usage, screen works perfectly
-Almost 0% changes of random black outs on screen
-No risk of random ghost touching
-Original touch sensitively
-And many more technical advantages…
There are however a few drawbacks to mention when getting this repair done at a third party store, lets go over these few disadvantages:
Can’t scan screen to serial number, only apple can
Can’t identify if phone model is Japanese, Chineses, or Taiwan build to flash screen
These are some very technical disadvantages but the only 2 real drawbacks in getting a screen replacement by a third party repair shop that none can truly overcome.
Here at LURE Mobile in Bowie MD we stock original apple iphone screens of every quality score. From aftermarket to apple refurbished we can cater to each customers needs and deliver the best quality service that fits your budget and needs. Get and affordable repair quote here: Instant Quote