IF you have errors such as:
- "This iPhone cannot be used with this accessory" .... but nothing is plugged in.
- Battery stops charging.
- Phone stops syncing to computer.
- Phone drains battery excessively fast as random odd things happen. iPhone seems possessed.
These are all symptoms of a bad flex cable. To determine if it is hardware or software always do a restore first. If that doesn't fix it, you're boned.
There are several tutorials on getting the iPhone apart so I won't bother. This picks up where the others leave off. No one has a Flex Cable DIY pictorial except
MMI, right here, right now.
This is not a standard general warning.. I mean this..... I'm an Electronics Engineer, you better listen to the following:
If you have no experience working inside micro SMD electronics, do not even THINK of attempting this, You WILL kill your phone. There are 100 different ways to do it in just the first 5 steps.
I'm going to let the pics explain themselves because if you can't figure it out, then you are not the person that should be doing this. This is Darwin in action. Only people who can understand what they are seeing and the process can pull this off. Sometimes things work themselves out, this is one of those times.
I'll just mention two things.....
#1- make sure you scrape all the old glue off.
#2- If you are willing to lose your phone to a dangerous and touchy repair, I'll do this for you. You must be willing to accept things can go wrong. I've never killed one yet.......... that means nothing. The advantage of me doing is that I have 15 yrs electronics experience, and I have a number of these flex cable operations under my belt. You buy the cable, I'll take a tip for doing it. I have better odds of it coming out alive, you have nearly no odds. This operation makes
ME cringe and I've been doing Micro SMD work for a decade and a half.
To start, After you've taken the phone apart using one of the many DIY's on the net, slide a razor blade under the edges of the glass ends to remove the glue and separate the glass from the frame. The rest is in the pics.
Requirements: Razor blade, small flat blade, Soldering iron, and magnifying glass.
Without further adoooooooo.............
Click the pics for larger images.
