Let's cover something......

　　The price that I charge *seems* suspiciously low. The reason for that "low price" is the needed part costs 1/3 of what it did a year ago and no one else has lowered their price accordingly. You will see everyone else in the Bay Area charges between $135 and $160 for this repair.

　　iPads in many ways are like your children. They are new to the world and fairly frail. You do what you can to protect them, you get a leather case, you hold them with both hands.... and then getting out of your car.... it slips out of the case or out of your hand.

　　Not obvious about the iPad2 and iPad 3 is that it uses tempered glass on the front. Flame tempered glass is designed to break and then crumble away making the need to replace the broken glass more acute than the earlier iPad. In the first gen iPad model the device would work for quite a while a crack in it. The new model has glass that begins to fall out after being smashed.

　　And of course you self-esteem takes a hit every time you see the broken front and re-live the event of the breakage each time you see and use the iPad.

　　Not that it will ever really *be* the same, but it can be made to look like it did pre-fall. It will take some funds and a bit of time.

　　I charge $108, (which is the total cost - parts, tax, labor even return shipping if needed) to replace the "upper glass/Screen" on an iPad 2

　　I charge $128, (which is the total cost - parts, tax, labor even return shipping if needed) to replace the "Retina Display upper glass/Screen" on an iPad 3

　　*ALSO*

　　When you look at the iPad you see just three things

　　1) aluminum back plate

　　2) tiny 1/32" black or white plastic bezel around upper glass

　　3) the glass itself

　　If there is any deformation of the metal backplate or bezel from the impact to break it or other impacts that occurred without breakage, it has to be taken into account.

　　The glass itself is brittle and un-yielding so if it doesn't fit directly then the bezel and back plate have to be refashioned. That refashioning can mean trying to bend back a dented area with a punch and mallet. It can also mean using a small rotary grinding tool (Dremel Moto-tool) to grind back away deformed or dented metal. The trick is to make the glass lay smoothly while retaining good cosmetics.

　　I'm a perfectionist by nature so this task is done delicately.

　　My phone number is

　　or I have a toll free number that is easy to remember -

　　1-877-iPod-Pro

　　which demonstraes how long I've been at this work.

　　My website is

　　More on methods of payment is here:

　　/call--1-877-IPOD-PRO/payments.shtml

　　These are comments people have sent me after they received their iPads, iPhones and iPods back fixed.

　　/call--1-877-IPOD-PRO/comments/comments.shtml

　　If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area I'm in Santa Rosa three blocks off the 101 freeway at the corner of Steele Lane and Service Court.

　　If you live in the Bay Area, call and arrange to bring it by then go wine tasting, shopping at Macy's or a more recent things is for people to go to the River Rock Casino for a while as I repair it.

　　People also send me their iPods and iPhones from as far away as Seoul, Istambul and Tehran but also from around the country and I have written narratives with photos of the work for about 2100 cases in the past 5 1/2 years. Look Here:

　　/call--1-877-IPOD-PRO/recent_fixes/recent_fixes_357.shtml

　　The address where I work is

　　Frank Walburg

　　2145 Service Court

　　Santa Rosa, CA 95

　　I actually do repairs for people while they wait on Sundays . If you plan on being in the area wine tasting and want your iPhone repaired or iPod looked at, give me a call and bring it by.