Scratched phone screen

[Mike Barnes]

Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with what?

[Bob Smith]

If the scratch is deep you will end up with a dint in the screen if you successfully polish the scratch out. Try filling it with varnish or wetting it with an oil or Mr Sheen.

Bob

[ben]

If its an LCD chances are you might damage it with pressure being applied to it.

However if scratches are very light on a plastic transparency the use of brasso rubbed in a circular motion will erase most of the scratch.

Brasso is a fine cutting agent.

[Ian Stirling]

That's a good reason to buy phones with cheap covers.

[Henry]

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Brasso or burnishing cream work well.

Henry

[Rob Morley]

Unless you flat everything back with wet & dry first, in which case you just end up with a thinner screen.

[Bob Eager]

I once got some mobile phone screen scratch removal polish. It came in a 'refurbish' kit on special offer from Orange. I bought the kit because it was the cheapest way of getting a new antenna (also included)...

I guess it was a very fine abrasive (small tube, about superglue size). Jeweller's rouge?

[P.R.Brady]

Sounds far fetched but I heard of tobacco ash being used for TV screens. Phil

[bax2basics]

Try T-cut and a duster. Also handy for scratched safty-specs.

Bax

[Henry]

When I polished a piece of beach found amber for my wife I started with fine wet and dry followed by burnishing paste and finished with moistened cigarette ash as the final polish. It would take ages getting a deep scratch out with it though.

Henry

[Dave]

If you are on contract with insurance, drop it on the floor from sufficient height to kill it and claim a new one.

If on contract without insurance, then wait until up-grade time and get a new phone for free. That is what I do with Orange.

If it is pay as you go, then it is time to throw it away and get a new phone. :-)

The batteries die at about 18 to 24 months anyway.

Dave

[Dave Fawthrop]

| Mike Barnes wrote: | > Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with | > what? | > | If you are on contract with insurance, drop it on the floor from | sufficient height to kill it and claim a new one. | | If on contract without insurance, then wait until up-grade time and get | a new phone for free. That is what I do with Orange. | | If it is pay as you go, then it is time to throw it away and get a new | phone. :-) | | The batteries die at about 18 to 24 months anyway.

Alternatively just buy a new case at a mobile phone shop. Avoid Harry Potter ones if not a child.

[RzB]

This worked well on my Palm...

[Bob Eager]

for me too.

[Mike Barnes]

isn't?).

[Ziggur]

I hope that this is not a proven fact.

If it's true then mine have been dead for 3 years!

[Dave]

Depends what you mean by dead for 3 years. If a phone battery is still gong after 3 years, then the re-charge time will come around that much faster.

My last phone, a Nokia 6310, would last nearly 2 weeks on standby, after being re-charged.

How long does your phone last.

Dave

[RzB]

[Mike Barnes]

It was £3.98 including postage and did the job perfectly. Unfortunately my Nokia 6100 has (had!) a coated screen, so, as it says in the instructions, once you start you have to polish *all* the coating off, which took about half an hour of very hard rubbing before I ran out of patience in the corners. Fortunately the advice to mask off the area round the screen was unnecessary - masking tape simply can't stand up to that sort of rubbing.

I now have one sparkling scratch-free screen (and a rather sore finger). Thanks to all.

[xyroby]

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