The screen on my Nokia 770 is cracked. Does anyone know of a cheap replacement option for the screen? I haven't had any luck finding anything via my online search efforts.

Have you contacted nokia about repair? I think that will be the only way you can get the screen fixed.

It is highly unlikely that you will find a replacement screen online from an aftermarket vendor. There are surprisingly few 770's out there and the device is held pretty close by Nokia. As such, you need to contact them.

How did it break?

A small table lamp that was precariously perched above my 770 fell on it and cracked the display in late September. Little liquid crystals were visible in the display area leaking outwards from the bifurcated crack, but they were contained by the rest of the display.

The slide-on case was not slid on to the front of the device, covering the display or I imagine the lamp would not have destroyed the screen.

I sent it to Nokia about a month ago and havn't heard anything from them so far. From what I hear, that's about how Nokia repairs go, but it's still a bummer that I have no information at all about what's going on. I basically considered it a loss when it broke, and kindof never expected to see it again when I shipped it off to Nokia, since it was not a phone (and the Nokia repair form I sent with it was not written for such devices), and it was obviously physical damage outside of what would be covered by the warranty. Since it wasn't in-warranty repair, I figured that the repair cost might be >50% of a new one, since the display is by far the nicest and most expensive part of the whole device.

The top of the display did work enough right after it happened for me to get a backup saved to my rsmmc card, and I was able to ssh into it to save all the rest of my data in my home dir, so I suffered no data loss (and no damage apparently to any other part of the 770).

Oh well, the new Nokia "880" looks promising. Hope it has a tad more ram and a screen that's the same or nicer in resolution/quality. Also hope it takes the same battery and charger, since I happen to have some spares of those now.

My condolences on your loss. The good news is that, based on the FCC filing documents, the battery is identical.

Besides the dreaded crack of doom (can anyone else add any more adjectives to make it even more scary sounding?) thats the first damaged 770 Ive seen. Sad. Hopefully you have some luck in getting it back (did you send it to Texas?)

(p.s. My apostrophe key just decided to do nothing but bring up the search box in Firefox.)

They actually sent it back, repaired, for free. Just got it today. Works great. Nokia is awesome.

Now I can actually USE the bluetooth gps receiver I got for my birthday with maemo mapper. Awesome.

That is cool. Good for Nokia! You know in a few years you won't see that but now everyone who buys a 770 is a developer/tester/early adopter. I think eventually these may gain popularity. It's a nice device just to have on the couch.