How can I clean dust in the LCD Screen

[chu tuoc]

Recently there are a lot of dust under my LCD screen.I tried to disassemble it but I don't know how to remove the LCD screen.Pls help.Thank in advance

[CrowdAds]

[Ellen]

I have dust under my screen as well, although I'm too scared to disassemble my Gigabeat because it'll void the warranty. As far as I know, you have to send it back to Toshiba for them to do it in controlled environments, though I may be wrong. I'm not sure. If your warranty is still ok then it might be worth sending it to them to do it.

[craig198]

I saw a picture tutorial somewhere about taking it apart and cleaning. try google search.

[Ellen]

Hey thanks, I'll try that.

[craig198]

actually its on this site! lol

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/06/toshiba-gigabeat-s30-teardown.php

[Ellen]

Hey thanks this could be really useful, but won’t I void my warranty if I pull it apart?

[RCM]

As long as they don't know and you put it back together right I.E all screws there NO fingerprints UNDER the screen then you should be fine

[Ellen]

Lol, that makes sense. I think I'll give it a go, if I undo the back and it looks to hard I'll stop, just in case I screw it up.

[craig198]

good luck with the project ellen and let us know how you did

[Ellen]

Yeah I will ... Thanks for the luck, I'm sure I'll need it, I'm not very good with this sort of thing, maybe I can employ the help of my electrician friend.

[ko71991]

I've heard so many people have this dust under the screen problem... It's been a month, I think, since I bought my S30, and hasn't happened yet.

And I HOPE that it never DOES.

But I can't help but feel worried... Does Gigabeat have a case, or something that I can buy?

Best Buy and Circuit City didn't even have Gigabeat to start with, so I was thinking maybe I had to get a case nline too. >_<

[Ellen]

Yes.

Belkin have a range of cases for the Gigabeat S series. I have the Folio Case with kick stand, though having the case hasn't stopped the dust getting in. I still get the dust under the screen, although I sometimes take it out of the case, so maybe the dust came in them.

The cases that Belkin have are really nice. It’s made of a sort of vinyl/leather stuff (judging from the price, most probably vinyl). It's sometimes hard to press the menu and back button though because of the position of the screen cover.

[kjc]

I bought a leather case with flip lid (magnetic secure) that fits well i.e. snug. I think it's got enough padding to protect it from a small fall.

The company is Incipio out of California - google the website. Comes in grey, black and red I think. I got the red one pretty cheap - $20 probably cause no one wanted a bright coloured case? Pretty snazzy looking and sticks out so I won't easily leave it somewhere.

kjc

[randominality]

So i just completely disassembled my S30 and cleaned the screen. Wasnt too hard to do but it was a little bit fiddley especialy when you have to remove the metal plate that holds the front buttons/plus pad on. Anyway its all back together again and working perfectly.