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We have seen so many DIY phone repair attempts gone wrong over the years that we are rarely surprised by what we find anymore! One recent job was an iPhone 6s that a customer had replaced the screen on. We found several issues with this device all cause by improper installation of the replacement screen, … Continue reading iPhone 6S DIY attempt no image

An iPhone 7 was brought in after a recent screen replacement from a shop down the road from us. Unfortunately since the repair they have been experiencing intermittent home button problems. They returned to the previous repairer to be told that it was not fixable. This is quite a common issue on the iPhone 7 … Continue reading iPhone 7 home button repair

We received an iPhone 7 recently from a regular that had done water damage treatment on the client’s device. After cleaning there was still no image. We checked this and there was an image but no backlight. We removed the board and checked for blown filters and shorts on the bottom of the board on … Continue reading iPhone 7 Backlight repair after water damage

Last week we received an iPad Air 1 in the post from a regular repair shop. This iPad air was showing nothing on the screen, no image or backlight. At first we saw damage to the LCD so checked that this was not the only fault, which it wasn’t. After testing a new LCD the … Continue reading iPad Air 1 no display

We recently received another iPhone 6 with no image. This iPhone was displaying nothing at all, no image or backlight. We tested with a known good LCD with no change, upon inspection we found a mark under the overfill on C2039 on the PP1V8_LCM_CONN line. This line provides power to the LCD and when short … Continue reading iphone 6 no image repair