Carlos Oulman

Did the cables for the cellular antenna get connected back to where they belong? I think they are blue and white and they are connected from the daughter board and the main board.

Honestly, I would suggest getting a cheap SSD just to see if the thing works. You can get them pretty chap these days and if the machine is not worth fixing, put the SSD in an enclosure and use it as a portable SSD. In my experience, I just replaced the drive in my 2012 MacBook Pro with a SanDisk SSD off the shelf and haven’t had a problem. Of course, you never know what Apple will and will not allow.

I believe the voice memo app plays sound though the loudspeaker and not the earpiece speaker. It sounds like you aren’t having any problems with the loudspeaker as speaker phone is working. Does the facing camera work? What about the proximity sensor? If neither of these things work then it could either be that there was damage to the front camera assembly or it’s not plugged in correctly to the board. Try re-seating your connectors on the board. There is also a piece of tap that covers the solder points under the front camera assembly where it sticks down on the left side. If there is no tape covering these contact point that can cause problems. You can use kapton tape to cover the solder points.

If it is just a regular k-cup you should be able to remove the aluminum covering the top and grab it with a pair of pliers. This part comes out.

We would probably open the phone up and try to extract the pen tip from the inside. This does cause a few problems however as it will break the factory seal limiting the water resistance “No phone is waterproof” as well as open the possibility for breaking the back glass. If you can’t get it out from the outside, this might be your only option.

If you look at the picture above, the gold on the back of the display is adhesive. I’m not sure why it’s gold however. As far as I know, you can rip it and the LCD and digitizer will still work. In our store, whenever we do screen repairs on any phone, we always get the glass and LCD as one component. I’ve never done a glass only repair but from what my understanding is, it’s a pain in the rear end and it’s not easy. You will spend more for a full display unit but you will thank yourself in the long run as it’s much easier to work with.

Ebay can be a good place to get replacement parts for your device. As for a guide, you can search for a service manual. These are intended for authorized service providers but many of them are available online.

If you have a volt meter you can use that on the new battery. Where did you get the new battery from? Buying a battery online is hit or miss. Who knows how long a battery has been sitting around for. It that battery was dead when you got it there is a change it has been damaged form sitting without a charge. If you can return the battery and get a replacement I would try that.

There are a lot of know issues with the latest Windows 10 release. I would see if the manufacture has updated drivers on their website. If all else fails, just roll back the updates. This will fix the problems until Microsoft fixes the problems with the latest release.

I would screens from other vendors. Not sure what to quality is like form parts on Amazon. You might have just gotten lucky with the other screens and now are receiving poor quality parts.

This guide does not show how to do a factory reset but rather shows how to force the device to restart.