Okay... so this is a complicated one. I've been fixing some 3G's for a bit, I've gotten down the method for replacing the glass/digitizer, home button, or lcd. But this one seems a but deeper, any help would be so so great.
This newest phone I've been trying to repair for a friend is not doing so well. When he gave it to me, the lcd screen was damaged, not the glass or digitizer. It had a dead pixel and he wanted to replace it, cracked the lcd while removing it. He also said that the home button had intermittent problems beforehand but not often. No battery problems were mentioned. At that point I took it from him to try to fix, it had not been assembled since the screen was broken.
Here's what I did. I bought a new lcd, new home button, installed the front assembly and tested it on my personal iphone. it all worked. Sweet.
When installing into the phone I was repairing, three major problems existed. 1) The LCD was having intermittent backlight issues. Sometimes it was off, sometimes it was on, when adjusting the brightness level as mentioned on another forum, it seemed to help. 2) The home button did not work. 3) The battery didn't seem to be charging correctly. It would say it was low after being plugged in all night, sometimes would be at full charge eventhough i never plugged it in, strange ****.
Next I updated the phone to 4.1, to see if that would help. Did not fix any of the issues. I found a way to jailbreak it and ran a package that could simulate a home button. Wasn't happy with it and decided to get back at the route cause - the hardware issue which might be related to the other problems.
At this point I was confused that the home button still didn't work, it had a new button and the contacts to touch the motherboard were at the correct height, I even tested the button contacts with a multimeter, worked. And as I said before, it worked on the other phone, so it must be the bottom assembly of this phone. I then tried jumping the two metal pads with a wire while the phone was on to simulate the home button press - didn't respond to it. Next shut it off and tried at that point to unplug all the other visible cables and plug them back in, I thought maybe something else was loose.
Upon assembling and turning on, the phone is either completely dead or turns on with a dim screen, flashes a line below the apple sign, then shuts off. The computer will recognize it in recovery mode but itunes will not restore, the phone goes into dfu and shuts off after about a minute of trying to restore.
Totally stuck and super frustrated haha. Any intelligible information would be extremely helpful!!!!
This newest phone I've been trying to repair for a friend is not doing so well. When he gave it to me, the lcd screen was damaged, not the glass or digitizer. It had a dead pixel and he wanted to replace it, cracked the lcd while removing it. He also said that the home button had intermittent problems beforehand but not often. No battery problems were mentioned. At that point I took it from him to try to fix, it had not been assembled since the screen was broken.
Here's what I did. I bought a new lcd, new home button, installed the front assembly and tested it on my personal iphone. it all worked. Sweet.
When installing into the phone I was repairing, three major problems existed. 1) The LCD was having intermittent backlight issues. Sometimes it was off, sometimes it was on, when adjusting the brightness level as mentioned on another forum, it seemed to help. 2) The home button did not work. 3) The battery didn't seem to be charging correctly. It would say it was low after being plugged in all night, sometimes would be at full charge eventhough i never plugged it in, strange ****.
Next I updated the phone to 4.1, to see if that would help. Did not fix any of the issues. I found a way to jailbreak it and ran a package that could simulate a home button. Wasn't happy with it and decided to get back at the route cause - the hardware issue which might be related to the other problems.
At this point I was confused that the home button still didn't work, it had a new button and the contacts to touch the motherboard were at the correct height, I even tested the button contacts with a multimeter, worked. And as I said before, it worked on the other phone, so it must be the bottom assembly of this phone. I then tried jumping the two metal pads with a wire while the phone was on to simulate the home button press - didn't respond to it. Next shut it off and tried at that point to unplug all the other visible cables and plug them back in, I thought maybe something else was loose.
Upon assembling and turning on, the phone is either completely dead or turns on with a dim screen, flashes a line below the apple sign, then shuts off. The computer will recognize it in recovery mode but itunes will not restore, the phone goes into dfu and shuts off after about a minute of trying to restore.
Totally stuck and super frustrated haha. Any intelligible information would be extremely helpful!!!!