Felix Robinson

What exactly is the graphite for?

I feel like the last ribbon cable towards the top of the board needs to be addressed here. It's the cable right under the IR sensor for facial recognition in step five. It completely hid itself from my view and I feel like this can happen to someone else. It would be awful to destroy that cable or anything else.

I've been operating my repair shop for just a little over two years. I've had to close and reopen once which was just in december of 2018. Any help from someone on a reliable part supplier? I'm scared to try anyone out, I just really like the dependability of iFixit. I'm in the panhandle of Texas in a small city just in case someone is worried about competition!

Could we get some more info on how to contractually ensure customers? Where do I go to get that setup? How does that even work? It reminds me of those big packets businesses have people sign or the pages of legal stuff I see on online stores and if that’s the case, do I need to hire someone to accomplish that? and if so, is there not a simple way to handle it myself? I could go on but I think you get it, thanks in advance!

This should really be pointed out more than it is. I've gone through a few phones by destroying the IC. Of course if you're doing the repair without instructions it's no ones fault but your own. (guilty) But... This warning should be in BOLD and CAPPED with blinking lights and arrows.

Dude that's awesome, wish someone would have mentioned this a long time ago. Battery removal can be a pain. Defiantly going to try that sometime soon!

Also if anyone can confirm what's really causing this problem that would be fantastic, if I were to repair a customer's phone I don't think they'd like me to RIG it the best I can just to make it work.

The problem in mine was also something with the sensor behind the button, I guess it's just falling a bit short on distance between the sensor where the button is connected and the actual physical button causing it not to reach and put pressure I'm not sure. I ended up sticking a small cut up piece of rubber strip (or bumper) found on the logic board of another 4s as mentioned in step 24. I also taped over it with a small piece of duck packing tape. I needed to loosen and fiddle with the two screws that go in the power button bracket shown in step 26 until the button was able to click correctly (and when I felt it was secure enough) I'm assuming I caused too much space to be taken up with the tape but it worked fine for me. Hope this helped.