Cell phone repair Burnaby

Android searches already bring people to this page, and until now it had almost nothing to say to them. Worth stating plainly: roughly half the work on our bench is not iPhone work.

Samsung, Pixel and Motorola. Galaxy S and Note screens are laminated assemblies — panel, digitiser and frame bonded as one unit — so the part costs more than an iPhone screen of the same generation, and the job is one of controlled heat and patience rather than a quick swap. On newer Galaxy models the fingerprint reader sits under the display and has to be recalibrated after a screen change; skip that step and the phone comes back unable to unlock. Pixel and Motorola panels are less widely stocked, so you will be told at the counter whether yours is a same-day repair or an order, before you leave the device.

iPads and tablets. The first question is whether your model uses a separate glass layer or a fully laminated screen, because that single fact decides whether this is a modest repair or a significant one. Older iPads are frequently glass-only. iPad Pro and Air panels are laminated, larger and thinner than any phone screen, which makes them the repair most likely to fail when it is rushed. Tablet battery and charging-port work is common too, and is often what a tablet that "won't turn on" actually needs.

Laptops and MacBooks. Screens, batteries, keyboards, trackpads, hinges and charging faults. A laptop showing no sign of life is more often a charging-circuit problem than a dead machine, and that distinction is usually the difference between a repair and a replacement. Liquid damage and board-level faults get the same component-level treatment we give phones — see micro-soldering, or data recovery if the files matter more than the hardware.

Device-specific detail lives on our iPad repair and laptop repair pages. If you are unsure whether something is worth fixing, bring it in for a diagnostic and you will get a straight answer — including “replace it” when that is the honest one.