Z3c Front glass unglued

[mariaiham]

I have a Sony Xperia Z3 compact, and not that long after I bought it my front glass came loose in the top left corner after I've had it in a warm bath. I got it repaired and now the front glass has come loose in on the left side again in the middle.

My guess is the glue melted and the glass got unglued as while browsing google, I've seen that this happened to other Xperia users of earlier models, especially the back panel. Maybe I shouldn't have my phone while being in a warm bath, but this time I didn't do anything for the screen to come loose.

I love my phone in every other way so I am thinking of buying a new one of the same model, hoping that it is just my particular phone that has this fault. But I am worried that this is a general thing for the Xperia Z3 compact, so I would like to hear if other users have had the same issue?

Thanks a lot.

[Jhonyrod]

Ok, I'm not opening a new thread because I don't think I need assistance as such.
My screen unglued as well, maybe because I run my phone hot for prolonged periods of time (high demanding tasks such as games) worst of all, something went underneath the screen and when I was trying to press it together I damaged a corner of the LCD, a square of about 4 x 10 px and their corresponding lines are bust.
I bought the phone from a private seller on a popular Mexican site called MercadoLibre (very much like eBay) and he told me it was originally bought in USA as a gift from a family member, but that he just bought another phone and had no use for this one. I checked that the IMEI on the box, SW and label matched and online for possible duplicates. All the hardware and everything else was in order, total talk time was 0 as well (although I know it can be tricked). Anyway, I digress.
I contacted Xperia Care here in Mexico to locate a service center, even willing to pay for the repairs if I couldn't do a warranty claim. They told me that I cannot repair my phone with them, as it was not a national device and it couldn't be "sent to the [repairing] plant"...
I ended up buying the replacements from an eBay dealer (ewwtrading) and plan on repairing it myself, but I find ridiculous that Sony can't repair their own devices even for a fee.
I apologize for the wall o'text.

[sorinbm1]

Buying a Sony phone is a big hassle these days. they're great phones, that is when they work. 5 months ago i got replaced under warranty my z3 compact, because of the screen being unglued(left top corner). Today i noticed that this phone has the same problem. Fortunately, it's still covered by warranty, until december. Just for a smartphone, using a Sony product is to much of a hassle. I don't think it's a heat problem, but I think that Sony should change his quality management crue, and fire them. I will not use another Sony phone any time soon. To bad that they make good phones, but they last for a very short time. To bad...

[Oompah]

I'm on my second one with exactly the same problem. The screen peeling away from the body of the phone. Never been dropped or anything. Last one went to Sony service centre and had to go back a further three times as it came back with other things wring with it. Not related to the initial problem I might add! After this ended up getting a brand new handset fromO2 UK. Now having the same issue.

Here's the kicker. Sony say it's not a design problem, yet they're prepared to fix for nothing. Albeit with extremely poor service record.

[BRANDOQUAD]

Same problem here but i have found sort of a solution :

First Take some black electrical tape and put it on the bottom bezel of the phone and wrap it around the phone joining the end at the side of the phone , it isnt pretty but it will hold your screen down

[Kuba5262]

This issue should be covered by warranty

Contact your local sonycentre

regards,

[daTenshi]

Sad to say this is still happening to z3c. Plus the yellow/red line on mine. Got this around 7-8 months ago(in august). Didn't have enough money to pay the retail price, so got it from a pawn shop with 6 months warraty, fun. It's very trully sad since I love sony phones so much...dremt of getting this phone for a year, now I'm left with having to tape my screen on.

[k4m1]

I have the exact same problem and this seems to be design fault.

Fist time it unglued on top corner after 6 months. I had warranty so I repaired it. It took them around 1.5 months to do it.. After just 3 months it happened again. Again I rapider it under warranty. Then it happened again after 4 months! This time they gave me a new Z3 Compact as replacement.

This would be great.. but the Z3 Compact I got also got unglued on the same spot after just 2 months!

And the best part, my warranty expired! If I look at it, in 2 years my phone was around 6 months in repair shop.

Sony was very unhelpful. I tried to contact them and all they did was proxied me to local distributor saying that it was their problem instead of at least apologizing for obvious design fault.

 

[BlueBaronEan]

Looking at these comments, I think I can consider myself lucky.  My phone made it 2 years, 5 months before the top left corner came loose.  I bought new adhesive from a phone repair shop and did the repair myself.  ...only to find the glass trying to come loose again.
Another website suggested clamping the phone as best and safely as you can (considering the panels are thin glass) and run a heat gun around the edge.  And leave the phone clamped overnight.
I'm going to try this, though first attempt will be with existing adhesive.

[MCanepa]

Does anyone has found an armor case that can stick the screen to the frame?

[Lucyx]

Yeah. All the glue is gone. The screen still works in the places it worked before the screen came of but still dosent work in the places it didn't work before. I'm not replacing it until early January so have taped it up for now. But yeah I'm gonna try Samsung, I've lost my trust in sony