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"You need to buy this special heater pad to break the screen adhesive!"

No, I think you will find that in fact I don't.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are thinking about a soldering plate? Those go up to 300°C or some times 400°C.

A phone screen is fixed with hot glue, that starts to melt around 60°C.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

What I've used for this purpose is one of these. And I can attest that 60C° is nowhere near high enough to set that kind of thing for purposes of getting a Google Pixel 3a off safely.

But I bet ThetaDev is right that a flat plate heater can work just as well when set to lower temperatures because they heat the whole screen at one time.