Side-buttons / cable #3 / I'tunes won't recongnise + WSOD
Great Post, I feel like contributing my painful experience at changing my back cover, without the proper tools (specially a MAGNETIC screwdriver and the so useful magnifier-on-stand)
First, I ripped the thing apart breaking the white little clamp on my way. Changed the back cover. Managed to put everything back together and started the phone..... No response, the freaking thing was dead. I freaked out ... opened it up again, my hands almost shaking, reassembled it.... nothing. So, I repeated the same process again, plugged it into the computer and Voila! (Don’t know why) The empty battery icon goes on.... the boot logo....and the….White Screen Of Death. From there, tried everything. I was unable to Restore or DFU Mode etc...So I kept the routine of letting the phone battery died and bring it back to life by connecting it to my computer...wait for the boot logo and pray. Until at some point I started pressing on the Home button when the boot logo appeared. Well, It worked! I kept pressing until the lock screen showed up.
Sigh! With the Phone working, I was now able to realized that the side-buttons/ Mute / earphones jack / power buttons weren’t working, as well as, the Light sensor / earphone (on the phone). Plus, It wouldn’t be discovered by any manner by my computer.
My research led me to think that the ribbon connecting the side / mute / ear-plug/power buttons was somehow busted. So, I successfully ordered and changed the ribbon, and they all work now, except for the earphones mic and control (Which, I suspect is the result of either the quality of the parts or my handling). I’m now at the point of changing ribbon # 3 for the Light sensor / earphone, (it seems like the thing should work even without the white clamp.) I’ll keep you posted on this.
OOhh and if I had not jailbreak the phone before this happened, I wouldn’t have be able to lock or power off the phone or communicate with the phone at all. (Thanks SSH )
Now, if anyone knows something about the charging/synch craziness other than the dfu mode thing, I’ll appreciate to know.
Thanks