Breadman

I have an iPhone 6, I get a distorted sound out of the speaker. It works and is usable but just sounds bad sometimes. Earpiec...

Water damage limited to top of the phone; no signs of any water under the top 5 sockets. there was a bunch of corrosion up th...

OK. I found the problem. The filter between the housing and the loud speaker had some sticky hard stuff that was blocking the sound. I had originally blown out the filter with air and considered it clean, but on second attempt I actually took out the filter and inspected; that stuff would not come out with just air...needs some sort of solvent or soaking; I replaced filter (original might be cleanable but I didn't want to put in the effort and I had another from a defunct water damaged unit) and working flawlessly now.

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My unit worked as it should when connected to computer but was screen stuck on "ok to disconnect" or "do not disconnect" or diagnostic mode. I happened to have another iPod Nano 6th I was working on so I took out the battery/logic board and moved it to the unit with the good flex cable; and it worked flawlessly. Likely, the switches went bad with some water exposure; or there was moisture stuck in there; I replaced cable since I broke the cable trying to expose it. So if reset and restore doesn't work, test the on/off volume, headphone cable. I wrestled with restore/reset for too many hours and searched internet for hours for solution with no luck, then solved it.

This was an easy and complete/successful repair without taking out the logic board. Just be careful not to completely take out the speaker assembly; just move it up enough to pull up the ribbon cable below it. For my replacement part, I used one from another phone so I did this twice.

Successful battery change but I did sever the cord/ribbon to the power/sleep button. As my iPad had been opened before at a repair shop, I think they put adhesive over the cord as the small section was stuck underneath the LCD, barely visible. So be careful not to put adhesive above that exposed ribbon/cord to the power/sleep button or the next time you open it up, it's severed.

Wow; that was incredibly easy. Toyota dealer service wanted $150 to repair this (on my 200K+ miles Corolla). Took me 15 minutes. I especially appreciate the instructions to soder and fix the actual clock; I would have replaced the part but your repair advice worked.