OK, this is what worked for me. background: I just replaced the screen on my SE. went to boot it up and it was stuck on the apple symbol. plugged the phone in to my macbook, started itunes -which said a restore was needed. did a restore and got the error 9. tried to restore again and same problem. did some googling of the problem and ran into a random comment where some user posted a slab of text but one thing that was different was that he said he tried "plugging in headphones" I dislike the bullsh!t of iphones (error codes- dodgy "upgrades", etc) and usually use android. my kids use apple phones because the phones are simple and the cameras are pretty decent. so I tried to restore again and this time I inserted and then removed a headphones plug in and out of the iphone. maybe it was a fluke. maybe itunes kicked in properly and worked, maybe because i was facing north and had just sacrificed a chicken to Steve Jobs. who knows?? but it worked and my iphone restored. I wasn't going Rocco Sifredi with the...
I had this problem with a 3g. I installed a really old firmware as the new firmware "upgraded" the baseband. this caused problems with the baseband/connectivity for some reason. I then installed the latest firmware whilst maintaining the older baseband. though, as i said this was with a 3G and not a 3Gs.
I've done GPU reballing ith a hot air gun on G3 laptops. I bought a replacement G5 as my regular G5 died from faulty ram sockets. the new G5 had garbled graphics. slightly usable but garbled. Yesterday I decided to reflow it. followed all the fregac steps as above and as I have previously done with laptops (fixed 5 in the past). waited an hour then added thermal silverpaste. red LED came up!!! added more thermal paste, again 4th red LED. this morning I tried pmu reset and change battery and still red LED. I took the heatsink off and the little bit of plasticy stuff that goes betweeen the heatsink and the gpu and I flipped it over. replaced heatsink, and a touch more thermal paste and fired up the machine and it booted to GRAPHICAL PERFECTION!!!! very stoked with the outcome.
cool. success. just remember when reattaching the 3 cables at the end that the 2 horizontal ones are in the right order. I spent 10 minutes trying to connect the first cable as it was actually on top of the second cable (from when I added the camera, prox sensor ,etc).
just required flip on over the other at the base of the cables. and then they connected properly.
I was given a couple of "dead" surface RTs with chargers. none of the little lights on charger plugs lit up when attached to any of the tablets. I found that by very slowly "rolling" the the plug on/in to the connector pins (and some times slowly up and down the length of the plug) that suddenly the light on the magnetic plug comes on. my theory (probably wrong) is the battery is so flat that simply connecting up the power charger won't start it. the battery needs a "spark" i.e. the gentle rolling of the plug in the magnetic socket. All of the 4 units I was given appeared dead initially. they hadn't been touched for months. All 4 units starting working (power light come on on the plug) by slowly rolling the plug in to the tablets magnetic power socket.
just bought a second hand iPhone 5. the previous owner broke the battery connector ribbon completely off. the phone will turn on when plugged in to power but goes to the itunes connection screen. can't update or restore as getting errors. ordered a new battery, but found it interesting that it still powered up (though limited0
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cool. success. just remember when reattaching the 3 cables at the end that the 2 horizontal ones are in the right order. I spent 10 minutes trying to connect the first cable as it was actually on top of the second cable (from when I added the camera, prox sensor ,etc).
just required flip on over the other at the base of the cables. and then they connected properly.
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I was given a couple of "dead" surface RTs with chargers. none of the little lights on charger plugs lit up when attached to any of the tablets. I found that by very slowly "rolling" the the plug on/in to the connector pins (and some times slowly up and down the length of the plug) that suddenly the light on the magnetic plug comes on. my theory (probably wrong) is the battery is so flat that simply connecting up the power charger won't start it. the battery needs a "spark" i.e. the gentle rolling of the plug in the magnetic socket. All of the 4 units I was given appeared dead initially. they hadn't been touched for months. All 4 units starting working (power light come on on the plug) by slowly rolling the plug in to the tablets magnetic power socket.
just bought a second hand iPhone 5. the previous owner broke the battery connector ribbon completely off. the phone will turn on when plugged in to power but goes to the itunes connection screen. can't update or restore as getting errors. ordered a new battery, but found it interesting that it still powered up (though limited0