iPad screen buyback grading guide

Broken iPad screen grading doesn’t need to be magic. Our grading standard incorporates all current grading and is quickly being adopted by the industry as the universal standard.

iPad

Grade A

TFT (LCD) / OLED:
Fully functional OEM screen.

White

a1

Grey

a2

Black

a3

Grade B

TFT (LCD) :
Fully Functional OEM screen with small dead pixels, backlight, yellow screen.

OLED :
Fully functional with light screen burns or has severe damage to front glass/ cracking on four corners.

White

b1

Grey

b2

Black

b3

Grade C

TFT (LCD) :
Fully Functional OEM screen with big dead pixel, stars, slight color marks.

OLED :
Fully Functional OEM screen with middle screen burns.

White

c1

Grey

c2

Black

c3

Grade D

TFT (LCD) :
Fully functional OEM screen with 3D issues middle color marks in white background or big color marks.

OLED :
Fully Functional OEM screen with heavy shadow.

White

d1

Grey

d2

Black

d3

Grade G (No touch)

TFT (LCD) :
No touch or Flex cable issue.

OLED :
No touch or Flex cable issue. Flex cable issue means the screen will flash when you shake the flex cable gently. Mixed issues are graded as Fully Broken.

Digitizer fail (No touch)

g1

3D sensor fail

g2

Fully broken

TFT (LCD) /OLED:
Physically broken LCDs /OLEDs with good flex cable and IC. If flex cable or IC is broken, screen will be considered fully broken with no value.

Lines

f1

Paper wrapping

f2

No image

f3

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