I am curious to know if my iPhone is worth saving. I am very handy and deal a lot with computers due to my profession but have never repaired a phone. I enjoy learning so this should be fun for me. From what I can tell MOST essential components are relatively intact, The battery I am pretty sure is toast though. I am in no hurry to repair it considering I already purchased a new phone. This will be more of a tinkering project.

Here are my questions. (I have included photos also.. So you guys be the judge on what you think is the best route to go.)

1. Is this even salvageable?

2. What tools would I need/parts?

3. Has anyone repaired a phone this damaged? What issues could I possibly run into with this type of damage?

4. What would the estimated cost be to repair?

Thank you, any help would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. No, I did not break my iPhone attempting the bend test.

⟐ Commented Mart 14, 2015 at 21:16 GMT-7

The charger blew up (black scorched and totally melted) and flipped the circuit breaker. I am guessing the capacitor in it exploded.

The iPhone originally had a charge but does not turn on now - just a completely unresponsive black screen. It wont charge with a wireless charger either.

Any ideas on where to start? I can't find any guides on the internet for this situation.

⟐ Commented Temmuz 29, 2024 at 18:44 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Şubat 04, 2024 at 9:48 GMT-7

I asked around and they told me it's because of the front camera theirs a sticker that needs to be intact with the camera ( if you don't heat it up good ) can this be true ? Maybe it fried the front camera and it's not letting it turn on ? Anything helps guys thanks !

⟐ Commented Şubat 05, 2021 at 7:35 GMT-7

i have an iPhone 6s, which shows ,,Device unknown'' after selecting language and country . I can not activate it.

If it powers on, it takes about 3 min, until the apple logo dissapears and until i can choose the language.

iTunes does not recognize the iPhone, no matter if i try to put it in recovery or DFU mode.

iTunes and the iPhone has the actual software. I also tried to change the battery, but it didn't help.

Thanks in advance for your help.

⟐ Answered Aralık 17, 2020 at 4:48 GMT-7

In more detail: I dried the phone in dessicant for some days , then it was working fine for 2 weeks or so , with the exception of the power button which was electronically stuck at the on position. (after booting up, the red power-off slider would appear as if the button was being pressed. I could tap Cancel and use the phone as normal, only the lock/power button would not do anything. )

Anyway the other day i decided to reset my network settings after trying out an app from the iTunes store that tweaks the packet size to supposedly increase 3G data speed. After the reset, the phone is stuck on the Apple logo. It stays there for a few minutes, then resets and gets stuck again, and so on until i turn it off by holding down the home button for a while.

Any chance of restoring the phone somehow? Is it the power button that is broken or could it be the motherboard?

Thanks !

⟐ Commented Ekim 19, 2020 at 18:46 GMT-7

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⟐ Commented Haziran 05, 2018 at 15:04 GMT-7

Ive been plagued forever by iTunes error #1 and have decided its time to learn how to fix it, or at least attempt to. I have a stack of iPhone 5c's on my desk that all give error #1 at about 75% way through the restore. These particular devices are not water damaged. Some of them will come on, but will not restore. Most of them show an apple logo for about 5-10 seconds and then they shut themselves off.

I've heard a lot about reflowing/reballing the baseband chip(or nand chip) but I can't find too many specifics about it. I'm new to the reflow scene in all together, with only a few successful reflows. Is this the right direction to head for error #1? I have a heat gun, a soldering iron, a toaster oven, and an IR BGA rework station. I've seen so many different methods, I'm just not sure what would be most successful. Any help with the specifics on what max temperature should be on an iPhone PCB and length of time would be appreciated.

Also, is something like reflowing a baseband chip an actual fix? Or should I be replacing these components all together? I don't want to put a bandaid over an issue that comes back 2 weeks later in the customers hands.

And to note, I have tried reflowing 3 of these baseband chips on error #1 phones with no success. 2 of them did not change all, I used kapton tape to cover what shouldn't be heated, and used the low setting on my heat gun for about 60 seconds. The other phone, I used the high heat setting for 60 seconds, and well, that phone doesn't do much now.

Any help at all is greatly appreciated!

⟐ Commented Şubat 05, 2018 at 18:31 GMT-7

⟐ Answer accepted Ağustos 08, 2017 at 4:20 GMT-7

-If anyone has a link for a application like recboot that works, that would be appreciate as well, Thanks again!

⟐ Answer deleted Temmuz 16, 2017 at 12:08 GMT-7

⟐ Answer accepted Ocak 08, 2017 at 9:42 GMT-7

⟐ Commented Ocak 04, 2017 at 13:26 GMT-7

⟐ Commented Ekim 02, 2016 at 3:57 GMT-7

⟐ Commented Haziran 17, 2016 at 8:45 GMT-7

⟐ Commented Mart 25, 2016 at 14:30 GMT-7

http://i.imgur.com/oJgxrjs.jpg

⟐ Answer edited Ocak 06, 2016 at 12:12 GMT-7

http://postimg.org/image/mujxe5smx/

http://postimg.org/image/f3tayts6r/

http://postimg.org/image/kr56vvdcl/

http://postimg.org/image/5vtchvayh/

http://postimg.org/image/jo4et0z29/

Enjoy.

⟐ Answered Kasım 15, 2015 at 19:31 GMT-7