Busted Screen - Need Replacement

[kronchev]

My friend gave me his 5500 because hes, well, according to him, it was in his pocket, he took it out to use it, and the screen was busted. which means he sat on it

I need a new screen. Does anyone know where I can buy JUST a screen? Ebay doesnt have any broken models for sale, only completly working. Someone on these forums is parting out a broken 5500 but I might be too late for that. Help is greatly appreciated, I want to see this thing work

[Tom61]

Just the digitizer (touch screen) or the entire LCD? If it's just the touch screen, you can get a replacement digitizer designed for a Dell Axim X5 and use it. If it's the LCD, you're pretty much out of luck, as I don't know of anyone selling replacement screens for the SL-5500. Since the digitizer is compatable with the X5, possibly the screen is too (haven't taken apart my SL-5500 to see), but those cost almost as much as a working SL-5500 on Ebay.

[ran]

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I want to see this thing work
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Define "work"

I have 3 iPaqs with broken screens that are working,  and still quite useful.  Just not as PDAs.  I'm turning two of them into "WiFi radios" to carry audio to distant parts of the house.  I'm going to try to use the third with a Ratoc card to make a wireless webcam,  but I'm not sure whether it has enough horsepower to pull it off.

The OZ folks have built a "bootstrap" (console only) image similar to the one I'm using for the iPaqs.  It's available on the Familiar site:

[a href=\"ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/distributions/familiar/releases/v0.8.0/install]ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/distributions/fam.../v0.8.0/install[/url]

You'll need to check with them to find out what's needed to  make it go:  I'm guessing you'll need a seriial cable to hook up a console,  but it's possible that they're using the Z's keyboard to avoid that.

Ran