What caused my iPhone 5s to brick)?
I purchased this iPhone 5s used in January 2017 for 100 dollars, and at the time it worked great. I later dropped it in the lake by accident, but recovered it and put it in rice. It worked afterwards, but the vibrator motor glitched for a day or two, eventually correcting itself. It has been 1 1/2 years since and everything was working, until the vibrator motor stopped. Since i recently repaired my iPhone 5’s battery, I figured I could easily take it apart and reseat or replace the motor.
I disassembled the phone, reseated the motor, and then half-reassembled it. Bam! It worked again. I don’t think I reattached the screws inside but I may have, not sure. But I realized the flash on the back broke, so I took it back apart to try and fix it by reseating cables and such. I tried several times without success, and one time while trying to restart it again it just did nothing. Before this it had been starting fine and working normally even when I hadn’t totally reassembled it, but now there was a black screen with no responsiveness, didn’t even show up in iTunes.
I’m baffled as to what happened. I read that if I put the 1.3 mm screw in the 1.2 mm hole I could have broke the logic board and caused it to go into a boot loop with a blue screen, but it does literally nothing. I don’t think I ESD the board, because there’s plastic shields all over it. I did pull a bit hard on one of the screen connectors, but I really doubt that was the problem because everything was working fine after I did that until one of the times I turned it off and removed the screen again to inspect the flash. I also accidentally disconnecting the LCD when it was on, but again it seems unlikely that would break it. Does anybody know what I did and if its salvageable? I don’t want a new phone, the screens are too big for me, and replacing the logic board would cost as much as the phone’s worth, so I’d rather not. Thanks!
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Update: I had a weird theory that leaving it alone for a week could potentially fix it. I was correct. I plugged it in today and it started up, working properly with the exception of the power button, vibrator and switch, and volume. I have determined that the connector for these buttons (FPC J2) is broken and needs to be replaced at micro-soldering levels, in other words I’m going to use assistive touch from now on because there is no way I’m buying a micro-soldering kit when there’s a 99% chance I’ll botch the repair anyway.
TL;DR Leaving an iPhone to sit and then charging it will fix it sometimes. Because that’s Apple. If anyone knows how I can fix the connector or jimmyrig it, let me know. If you think its safe enough to attempt micro-solder without frying it, (I’ve never done it before but price and time isn’t a concern, I just don’t want to break it since I got it working well enough), let me know. The connector is iPhone 5s J2, this is what it should look like:
and this is what mine looks like:
(to see it click on image and zoom to top left)
As you can see I damaged it quite badly, and the flex connector and everything attached would need replacement as well. Unless I could just do some sort of jumper set up with 18 micro solders connecting the plates to the connector wire. Let me know your thoughts in comments.
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