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Originally Posted by vilord
If you are good with *very* small, sensitive parts, you should be okay to replace just the digitizer. Just imagine on one of those newer copiers you had to replace the touchscreen...
The digitizer is held on with some sticky goop, and it has a small ribbon cable that is *attached* to the screen. Its not soldered, really, its more like a chemical bond or something. Anyway, when I replaced mine I soldered the new digitizer cable onto that same spot on the screen, took about 4 or 5 tries of pulling the thing back apart and resoldering before it worked.
As already posted, PITA.
If I had to do it again, I think I'd try to find an alternate to soldering, but I don't know what it could be.
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I had a side business of buying and reselling 6700s, some of which required repair, so I did my share of replacing defective screens. Replacing digitizers always proved to be less effective than replacing the entire LCD/Digitizer combo, and virtually all LCDs come with the digitizer included. An LCD is only around $40 on ebay with digitizer.