neato lcd screen replacement made in china

Removing and replacing the LCD screen on your Botvac requires the removal of a couple of other components in order to gain access to it. Included in this guide are instructions on how to remove the battery and brushes. Make sure to keep these components organized in your removal process to ensure an easy re-assembly process.

Go to the robot LCD screen and select MAIN MENU/SETTINGS/SOFTWARE UPDATE and press the SELECT button to start the software update process. The robot will first update to 2.1.1 and then to 2.2.0 automatically. Then the robot will reboot again. This process will take up to 3 minutes.

Upon completion, the Neato robot will play the start-up chime and then show the main screen on its LCD. To verify, go to MAIN MENU/ABOUT/VERSION INFO and confirm that you have version 2.2.0 robot software.

Broken screen replacement service is provided from thousands of repairs stores and phone parts wholesalers worldwide, iPhone of which are mostly engaged in. So how to purchase reliable LCD screens among so many quality grades from China suppliers? Let me firstly elaborate on the quality grades of the iPhone LCD digitizer assembly that most repair stores and traders used to replace the broken ones.

According to the investigation, 90% of the Chinese iPhone LCD screen suppliers are found selling third-party manufactured screens and seldom sell genuine original LCD screens. Therefore, if your phone screen is broken, there would be a high chance for your screen to be replaced with a non-original one. Why? Maybe the cost and quality are relatively competitive, so why not?

As known, Foxconn is authorized to assemble iPhone, so there are some original iPhone LCD screens leaked from the assemble factory. And there are brought out from the factory for replacement. However the price is definitely high and still, some people care more about the quality of the screen than how much they cost, so for this group of customers, the Original Quality of LCD digitizer assemblies are preferred.

For some LCD digitizers, the LCDs are still working while the front glasses are broken, which can be recycled. Some factories recycled these broken screens by removing the broken front glass and attach a new one, then the LCD digitizer assembly would be new again, which is what called refurbished. Brand new original LCD screens are limited, and the refurbished ones can replenish the shortage of the new original LCD digitizer assemblies, for their quality would be more stable than the third-party manufactured.

Some Chinese factories purchase the original single LCD display, not compete LCD screen from the original factory, and then attach high copy front glass, backlight, etc, materials into a complete LCD screen, which quality is not stable and the display color is slightly different from the ones with high copy backlight. Well, their price would be cheaper and loved by many repair shops and wholesalers.

Under the shortage of original LCD screens, many Chinese factories begin to produce the high copy LCD screen. The stock and supply are getting less and less since about 2015, which leads the price goes higher and higher. Therefore the Chinese manufacturer starts to produce LCD screens with high copy raw materials. With competitive prices and good quality that meet most iPhone users’ needs, they are also popular among many wholesalers and repair shops.

With the premium quality of LCD and OLED screens tested strictly, we’ve helped many clients enlarge their markets worldwide. If you wholesale the LCD digitizer assembly or retail them in your repair shop, more information and sample are supported for your reference, please do not hesitate to contact us or leave your comment to discuss more.

Best approach is to replace with same capacitance/rating as original, but higher grade capacitor (more expensive). Manufacturers do save pennies by using crappy caps. Even better approach is to replace with right-sized and right rated capacitors, but that requires in-depth analysis of the circuit in which the capacitor is used. It can be safe to bump the capacitance up by ~2x, but do it one at a time. In Neato those are all power supplies, as there seems to be no analog on the control board, so the rated voltage should be about 2x~3x of the max. actual voltage on the node. 25V for 3.3V rail seems like an overkill, but they might have chosen it for other reasons.

Another tip: it is safe and easy to add caps in parallel (minding the polarity). If the original cap had dried up and lost capacitance, it contributes very little and can be left on the board. Usually there is a surface-mount ceramic cap for each electrolytic one (for high-frequency bypass), which can be used as a spot to attach a parallel electrolytic cap. Follow the traces on the board and use ohmmeter to confirm, usually it is the closest one. You don’t even need to unscrew the board from the base to do this rework if you know which place to mount new caps. I added 200uF 10V to C10 rail this way and it resurrected my Neato XV-12. I left long leads, put some tubing, bent them so the cap can lie on its side nearby, soldered the leads, then hot-glued the cap to the board so it won’t shake the solder joints loose.