iFixit - Answers With Device "iPhone"

iPhone 7 Plus: Press home button to upgrade (broken home button)

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:40:03 -0700

Hello

I googled everything & everywhere but couldn't find an answer.

I have iPhone 7 Plus stuck at press home to upgrade screen, home button is broken. I tried pressing power + Volume down. Then tried connecting iTunes, that says enter passcode on phone to connect. Latest iOS.

Advise a solution please. Reply soon.

If this button is repairable or not?

⟐ Answered 十月 18, 2024 at 22:40 GMT-7

iPhone 5c: White Vertical Lines on LCD

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:09:06 -0700

I have tried replacing the LCD/digitizer assembly twice on the iPhone 5c. Both screens initially look great and then, after assembly, the LCD starts to display white vertical lines and the digitizer fails to respond. I now have gone through 2 LCDs ($160). My supplier says it is static electricity. My question: Is there a resolution?

⟐ Commented 四月 07, 2020 at 19:09 GMT-7

iPhone 7 Plus: Lightning port too loose?

Fri, 23 May 2025 11:28:12 -0700

Looking for suggestions or similar symptoms to diagnose.

Lightning cables will just not stay in this phone if either is even shifted to the slightest. Unscientific measure; I used to be able to pick up the dropped phone by the cord alone without disconnect. Now ANY pull or pressure and the cord comes out. I don't see any debris in port, but my eyes aren't perfect. I can't tell if there are pressure levers or contacts that I see inside on left and right, and maybe one is bad?

YES, it still connects to laptop.

YES, it still charges fine.

YES, i tried original cable.

YES, i tried a NEW original cable.

YES, the cables 'pop' in/ fully seat.

NO, there is no case.

YES, i tried with a passthrough case.

help?

⟐ Commented 五月 23, 2025 at 11:28 GMT-7

iPhone 5s: Can I replace an iPhone 5s screen with a iPhone 5 screen?

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:36:51 -0700

I have cracked my iPhone 5s screen. An iPhone 5 screen is a lot cheaper than a 5s screen. I know the home buttons are different, but I could care less about having touch-ID. So is it possible that I could put an iPhone 5 screen on a 5s?

⟐ Commented 十一月 23, 2020 at 21:36 GMT-7

iPhone 7 Plus: iOS 11 & iOS 11.0.1 Freeze and Hangs!

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:23:34 -0700

Hey, So I have had allots of issues with the new iOS update.

The whole system freezes and I cant move a thing about 30 seconds.

This happens to the 6s Plus and 7 Plus models.

Anyone who has the same issue?

⟐ Answer deleted 三月 15, 2019 at 1:23 GMT-7

iPhone 5: "No Service" after battery change on iPhone 5

Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:20:41 -0700

I replaced my iPhone 5's battery today following the iFixit instructions. Everything appeared to go smoothly and was trouble free. After the replacment, the device was powering on, charging correctly, all buttons are functioning as well, and Wifi connections work just fine.

However, I can't connect to the cellular network. I have updated the date/time via settings and rebooted the phone. I also reset network settings and finally reset the entire device back to factory settings. However, I keep getting the "Searching" message on the status bar followed by "No Service".

Any idea on what went wrong?

⟐ Commented 十一月 25, 2018 at 0:20 GMT-7

iPhone 5s: iPhone 5S Stuck in recovery mode : iTunes restore error 50

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:45:04 -0700

Hi,

I bought an iPhone off eBay germany. It always gives the same restore error in iTunes :

"The iPhone [iPhone] could not be restored. An unknown error occurred [error 50]."

Anyone got a idea how to get the iPhone to work? I've tried 2 different computers with firewall off, different USB ports, different cables but keep getting this error at around 65% of the restore process.

I've tried restoring in the DFU mode too, still the same error pops up. I read somewhere it might be the Baseband IC which needs to be replaced. Would replacing the Qualcomm MDM9615M help?

Anyone who has had the same issue or knows about it? Kinldy help me out of this.

Haris

⟐ Commented 一月 19, 2021 at 6:45 GMT-7

iPhone 5: Replaced Battery, Constantly Reboots and unchanging battery percent

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:15:42 -0700

I've recently replaced my iPhone 5's battery with a cheap $10 one from amazon.

Right after, I've experienced many problems. Every few minutes or so, my phone reboots itself and I get a panic message in the diagnostics.

Another issue is that my battery does not change (percent or icon) until I reboot my phone.

I've done the following:

Reset all settings

Restored as new

Restored from backup

Removed the sim and put it back

All of these did not work, unfortunately.

I've even put back the original battery, however I still experience these problems. I'm guessing that I may have damaged the original battery trying to take it out, so maybe that's why it doesn't work.

Anyway, I've ordered a replacement from here and am currently waiting for it to be delivered so that I can see whether I damaged something internally or whether it was both of the batteries.

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

Edit:

I've received my iFixIt battery and have installed it.

It did not fix my issue unfortunately. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Also, when using iBackUpBot's error log I get:

Could not get event from temperature service

Could not get value for gas gauge

Unable to lookup battery voltage

⟐ Commented 四月 28, 2021 at 10:15 GMT-7

iPhone 4: What does error 2001 on iTunes mean?

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:51:37 -0700

I tried to restore my iPhone on iTunes when error code #2001 appeared. The error also shows a picture of a USB cable with an arrow and the iTunes app logo. What does this mean ?

⟐ Commented 二月 25, 2019 at 4:51 GMT-7

iPhone 6: Any possibility to replace Homebutton AND have Touch ID still working?

Fri, 03 May 2024 20:58:28 -0700

I do a lot of phone repairs and I have some customers who tried replacing the screen on their iPhones by themself and brokr their home button (mostly the flex cable).

Is there any possibility to get Touch ID working again without getting it repaired or replaced by Apple?

⟐ Commented 五月 03, 2024 at 20:58 GMT-7

iPhone 5s: Why is my front camera not working?

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 11:47:48 -0700

iphone 5s lcd broken ill changed the new one front camera not woking ill replaced new camera stil its not work

⟐ Answered 二月 08, 2020 at 11:47 GMT-7

iPhone 4 Verizon: LED light won't turn off even when powered down!

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:47:44 -0700

My iPhone 4 recently got wet and now the LED stays on all the time, even when the phone is turned off. Everything else works fine. Is there a way to fix this without having to replace the whole phone?

⟐ Commented 二月 18, 2021 at 23:47 GMT-7

iPhone 5s: Why does my iPhone 5s have a red screen?

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:31:28 -0700

I recently changed my screen. After that, everything worked just fine. But when my phone died, I was trying to charge it, and a red screen showed up. The first time it happened, I fixed it. Then, I tried turning off the phone and it happened again, but I was able to fix it. The last time was the other night. My phone battery drained again so when I was trying to turn it back on, the red screen showed up and now sometimes a blue screen shows up too. I'm unable to fix it now. I tried removing the screen and putting it back on but it still shows the red screen.

⟐ Commented 二月 03, 2021 at 19:31 GMT-7

iPhone 6s: Unable to activate - error.

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 02:04:31 -0700

Trying to set up this iPhone 6s and I keep on getting this message.

Unable to Activate

An update is required to activate your iPhone.

I have put it into restore mode twice now into iTunes on my Mac and attempted to Update & Restore. Still coming back with the same thing. Haven’t tried just restoring but it’s saying it needs an update. Also has the small exclamation mark in the top left hand corner with a “No Service” sign next to it, even though it has a SIM in it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

— Sam :)

⟐ Answered 一月 12, 2024 at 2:04 GMT-7

iPhone 5s: iPhone stuck on red battery logo screen

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:28:57 -0700

My iphone died completely and turned off. So it's been 3 hours charging and it's not turning on, it's totally just stuck on the red battery logo screen. I was thinking about restarting it or put it in dfu mode, but there are two problems: 1) my home button isn't working, 2) it's turned off so it's not detectable to the pc

Anyone got any idea how to fix that?

⟐ Commented 四月 24, 2026 at 16:28 GMT-7

iPhone 3GS: My drunk friend slept with my iPhone and peed in his pants

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:56:51 -0700

My iPhone 3GS was pee'd on by my drunk friend who slept with it the other night at a party. He didn't tell me till the next afternoon which the camera was still moist and foggy. So i dried it up but idk if he tried turning it on. Two days goes by and nothing works, so i decide to open it up and look at the logic board and the copper contacts attached to the battery are corroded and have like little dark spots. i sprayed little amounts of contact cleaner and cleaned them up brand new but nothing. I'm charging it now but still no luck.

⟐ Commented 十月 14, 2021 at 9:56 GMT-7

iPhone 6: iPhone 6 Black Screen but it's on & can still receive calls

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:42:44 -0700

This is the first time I have experienced with my Iphone 6. After I charged it, when I was answering e-mails the screen turned black. I was thinking maybe it was the battery. But when I try to charge it again the screen is still black and I got surprised that my Iphone is ringing and I can still answer calls and it alarms and I still receive text messages. But I couldn't open it because the screen display is black. I tried to "hard reset" but It did not work. What could be the problem? I did not drop the iphone. The screen just turned black unexpectedly.

⟐ Answered 十一月 23, 2025 at 10:42 GMT-7

iPhone 5s: How to fix my iPhone 5s screen glitches?

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 02:31:40 -0700

Hello, recently I just dropped my iPhone 5s on the ground and the screen has developed these glitches. The touch screen and the touch id works just fine. There are no dead spots. Around two months ago I shattered the screen and I took it to a phone store that fixed it for me. So the screen isn't original, therefore they could have possibly not reassembled it correctly. Just wondering if anybody knows what could possible be the problem? So that if i purchase the tools to open up the phone myself that I could know what to look for and fix. Thank you!

⟐ Commented 一月 15, 2021 at 2:31 GMT-7

iPhone 5: iPhone5 - Black screen after swap, constant "bong" noise.

Mon, 08 May 2017 06:33:55 -0700

I had a damaged white iPhone5 Screen, smashed digitizer and all.

Swapped in a black screen kit ordered off of iFixIt, actually had the screen light on the first try but with odd repetitive blocks along the top. Also the front camera was not sitting right, so I pulled it off, put it back together, and now there's no screen.

Power and Mute buttons seem to be unresponsive, it only boots up when connected to the charge cable.

It does seem to reboot with the Home+Power button.

Odd thing is, when it does boot it makes a repetitive "bong" noise every two seconds, if connected to the charge cable while muted it gives a double vibe every two seconds.

I tried power cycling the battery a couple times, and that did nothing. I can't swap the old screen back in the digitizer disintegrated as I pulled it off. Any help will be appreciated!

⟐ Answer accepted 五月 08, 2017 at 6:33 GMT-7

iPhone 5c: Broken Screen, Can't slide the slider to turn it off

Sun, 22 Aug 2021 05:13:12 -0700

I have this iPhone 5c to repair, but before I start, I want to turn it off. When I hold down the power button, I get the slider—but the screen is so badly damaged that I can't slide it. Is there any way to force shut down an iPhone? Thanks in advance!

⟐ Commented 八月 22, 2021 at 5:13 GMT-7