Tom Chai

So I finally got an iPhone 6 Plus, I opened it up to check it out. During the disassembly I found a few QC issues, one stripp...

If the battery voltage drops below certain threshold, it will lock out and refuse any charge, this is a safety mechanism by design. However I’m not sure if 2.8 is the threshold or if there is anything else wrong with it.

No. Apple always use custom parts, meaning it is basically impossible to find upgrade parts outside of their original specification range.

You have to go all the way to replace the entire back case, which creates way more problems than a small scuff.

This is the dust proofing foam gasket. It is torn when you disassemble the device and NOBODY on the internet seem to sell any kind of replacement, so keep what you have as much as possible.

As of now nobody is able to hack it via software, you have to take a bunch of chips from a good iPhone XR and graft onto the target phone, which overall could cost more than a good phone. So it is basically pointless.

That would be the top end of the case. Actually, you need to check all the screws, contact clip installations on the top half of the phone.

No, just no. Interchangeable parts on iPhones are rare occurrences, you can’t swap certain parts even on same models.

iPhone 8 Plus Lightning Connector Assembly Replacement Check step 51, there is a thin flex cable going around the top right perimeter of the rear housing, around the rear camera position, that is the Apple Pay antenna. It needs to be screwed in to the rear housing and a screw post on the logic board. Also all the small clips, brackets, screw holes and contact points on the rear housing may serve RF purposes, make sure they are exactly prepared and assembled like factory condition.

The entire top and bottom end of the phone are the antennas.

That’s the lower antenna tuning cable. It does not break any RF function, but breaking it will degrade RF performance.

Yeah it is just a case ventilation fan, it doesn’t blow any heatsinks directly. Although with the very low TDP of the processor, a case fan with radiator type heat sink should do the job.

It is not possible to access the internals from the back, the back is locked to the case with screws from the inside.

It’s the top bezel itself, as always.

You need to show the back side of the battery, the supplier name is on the back.

No. Basically not related at all.

Zero! Way to go!

As you can see they've already ruined a lot of things, so this is not going back together.

Looks like it is soldered, this is going to end up ugly if you manage to break the ports.

The lightning auth chip is much smaller, this big chip is obviously for audio.

The home button acts like a plug, with wedged sides pressing on the screen from above. The screw actually pulls the button in to seal tightly.