mwarrenus

Pebble now uses screws and gaskets to close and seal the most recent Pebble Originals and all versions of Pebble Steel. Hopefully iFixit will revisit their teardown and, well, fix it :-). The latest hardware is much more repairable; here's a step by step photo gallery of a Pebble DIY screen replacement: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...

@Yusuf Motiwala the “black tape like thing” is normally called a “flex cable” or “ribbon cable”. Typically a broken ribbon cable needs to be replaced. While repair is technically possible, it requires superb soldering skills and the Airpods miniature flex cables make repair extraordinarily difficult. If the flex cable was detached at the solder joint, a skilled repair tech might be able to re-solder it.

Did the “intense reinforcements” include acetone or another solvent? That might have been a less destructive way to separate the bond.