r/mobilerepair

If I replace this with an OEM entire proximity sensor part, will I keep Face ID?

I updated my phone to 26.6 then suddenly it went into bootloop to fix this i tried most of the things but nothing worked. So i tried flashing with 3utools (have tried apple devices and itunes they didnt work) then while flashing it would give error code -2 or 9. Then after 2-3 flash attempts. Its stcuck in recovery mode wont enter dfu nothing works, i dont care about the data i just want it restored.

I just bought a Samsung 21 Ultra with 256gb. But after some updates, it went from 256gb to 128gb. Why is that?

Hi all,

My personal iPhone 11 has been crashing and restarting at around 30% battery for the last couple of weeks. When the battery gets hot it seems to shut down.

I have tried 2 different batteries, and replaced the charging port, but the issue still persists.

Crash logs report thermalmonitord - TG0B/TG0V.

Is this a motherboard issue? Any help is appreciated.

Hello all!

My phone has been verified to have a failing, shorting USB IC components, the repair is horridly expensive, so I wish to find if I can recover the data on it.

My idea was replacing the battery with a fully charged one, and trying to boot the phone and create a full backup.

I assume some extra steps will be needed to avoid the shorting, but is this a viable option? Does anyone have any experience with such scenarios?

Thanks!

(While technically not a repair, this process is more of a repair than it is data recovery when it comes to technical skill and know-how)

Wanting to change my iPhone 13 battery, I got a replacement non-oem battery done by a shop about year and half ago, the new battery just sucks capacity is down to 81% according to the phone and it feels like it has swollen a bit (back panel has got a very faint rise where the edge of the battery is). I‘m planning on changing it to an oem battery and want to DIY it but I’ve got no sense of how likely it is I’ll break it. Have built PCs before but never opened a phone before

As my title says, I took the phone into the sauna and when it became too hot I decided to dip it into the ice bath at the gym for one minute to cool it down. Only the top part to try and stop water ingress.

It produced condensation and the phone died.

Kept at home dry and cool for a week.

Symptoms: will turn on but battery won’t charge, it says it may have a non apps battery. I suppose it could as I bought it second hand,

No apple warranty.

I’ll take it to one of those smaller repair shops we see everywhere in Lisbon.

Thoughts and advice welcome 🙏

Hello everyone, I recently bought a brand new iPhone 16e with the objective of getting the screen swapped with an LCD because I have issues with OLED screens (see r/PWM_Sensitive), so I brought it to a local shop and everything went fine, I think they swapped the original screen for a ZY In-cell COF, which is surprisingly good quality; so far so good, except that I cannot do over the air updates anymore which is very strange... the phone downloads the update, reboots, then shows for a couple of seconds the Apple logo and then reboots again like normal, without updating.

I already tried to enter the diagnostic mode and I can see that it shows the screen as a not original part (of course) and tap on "finish repair and reboot" but nothing changed. I also tried updating with my Mac and updating normally resulted in a bricked phone until I put it in DFU mode and reflashed the firmware (I'm now stuck on 26.5).

The shop says that it's not the screen, maybe next time I will attempt to change it myself with some kit like the ones from iFixit; any suggestions to try to get OTA updates working again? Otherwise the phone is perfectly functional and I'm happy with the screen.

Thanks

EDIT: maybe I've been a little bit harsh before knowing exactly the cause :)

Hi all,

I’m struggling to fix the home button on an iPad 8th gen.

I’ve replaced iPad screens a few times before without any major issues, but this home button has beaten me. It is not the original home button, and I now need to get another screen and home button.

I will have the home button bracket firmly attached, and the small silver riser/spacer inside the bracket still there. The problem is that the button either:

• does not click properly,
• slides around inside the opening,
• or when pressed, it shifts/slides instead of staying seated.

Does this sound like a missing gasket/spacer/adhesive ring issue, a bracket alignment issue, or something that should have been transferred from the original screen?

Any advice or photos of how this should sit correctly would be really appreciated.

Thanks.

iPhone 13. Standard model. Original screen. The issue is that it has an expanded battery that's pushing up, not broken, the screen.

I want to get this spicy pillow out of my house as soon as possible.

It would be nice to get some money for it. Do you think any tech would accept a trade-in? I don't know the expectations for a bloated battery. I'm happy to call around and ask in my local area if someone can tell me if it's even worth the time, or will they laugh me and my increasingly dangerous iphone out of the shop?

Thanks for any help in advance, I'm quite eager to get this thing out