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-I dropped my relatively new Fairphone6, face down, on a pavement, on the way into a supermarket in the run up to Christmas - going in to do the annual Christmas-battle-trolleys food shop. I picked it up, fearing the worst and found just a small chipped/cracked area at the bottom left of the screen. Just where the *back* arrow softkey is. It worked, but the cracks extended across the screen, and the focal point of the break was slowly crumbling into glass-dust. And every time I swiped my thumb across the *back* softkey I was worried it'd start depositing slivers of glass in my flesh.+I dropped my relatively new Fairphone6, face down, on a pavement.... 
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 +I was on the way into a supermarket in the run up to Christmas - going in to do the annual Christmas-battle-trolleys food shop. I picked it up, fearing the worst and found just a small chipped/cracked area at the bottom left of the screen. Just where the *back* arrow softkey is. It worked, but the cracks extended across the screen, and the focal point of the break was slowly crumbling into glass-dust. And every time I swiped my thumb across the *back* softkey I was worried it'd start depositing slivers of glass in my flesh.
  
 I waited a couple of months, trying to ignore it.  I waited a couple of months, trying to ignore it. 
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 Once back together the phone booted up and the screen is perfect. Once back together the phone booted up and the screen is perfect.
  
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 +=== Update - front camera ===
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 +It took me while to notice (several weeks), as I don't take many selfies and rarely use the front facing camera, but when I did I saw the image was very blurred and blue tinted... 
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 +I wondered if I'd damaged something when I fitted the screen, so I took it apart again to look.... and found a blue peel-off protective film on the inside of the screen over the aperture that the front camera looks out through!
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 +Peeled it off, reassembled and its all perfect again.
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 +There's no mention of this film in the instructions, and it's not immediately obvious the small piece of blue film is there, so its easy to overlook.