Where is the mic located at the top of the phone? Is it connected to the LiDAR and camera and speaker, or are those all on different connected/cables? How hard is the repair job to replace the mic?

Also, the battery is at 84 % health, should I wait a bit longer to replace, or should I just do it while I have the phone open?

Thanks for the help

Update 3/9 need help still

⟐ Answered Haziran 23, 2026 at 17:34 GMT-7

Replaced my phone's battery following this video and after turning the phone on I noticed a spark and some smoke coming from the top screen ribbon connector. The screen displayed the flashing signal to charge battery and the top connector popped off. once the screen stopped flashing i unplugged all the connectors and tried again. phone turned on without issue but I noted smoking and excessive heat at both of the screen ribbon connectors. screen worked fine, scrolled and touched well. removed the screen and unplugged the battery.

I do not know what type of damage I have done to my phone and wanted to know if anyone could possibly provide some insight. I thought the connectors were fully plugged into the device when attempting to power it on but I am guessing they weren't. Before you ask: yes, the battery was plugged in, I followed the video and realize now that I should not have done that.

any advice/pointers/ideas? I am looking for a repair shop right now but worry that i fried/shorted something tiny that would require mirco soldering.

I understand that this is not an original Apple battery, but I have heard that some third-party batteries are able to pass this validation and are recognized by the system as genuine batteries. Does the same apply to iFixit batteries?

⟐ Answer edited Haziran 18, 2026 at 5:16 GMT-7

⟐ Commented Haziran 08, 2026 at 3:37 GMT-7

1. Tap to wake doesn't work unless I just turned the phone off.
2. Touching the screen for scrolling or pressing buttons also delayed if I haven't touched it for more than 10 seconds.

Things tried:

Looked at ifixit's FAQ, and tried shutting the phone down for 6 hours for a completed reboot. Still no change.

⟐ Answer accepted Mayıs 21, 2026 at 4:19 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Mayıs 10, 2026 at 12:25 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Mart 25, 2026 at 4:39 GMT-7

{

"crashReporterKey" : "c62ecdce22b7db52cc98612f6968bd8a80969e92",

"panicProcessingFlags" : "0x0",

"product" : "iPhone14,2",

"kernel" : "Darwin Kernel Version 25.3.0: Thu Dec 4 23:49:21 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.80.260.0.1~30\/RELEASE_ARM64_T8110",

"socRevision" : "11",

"panicString" : "panic(cpu 1 caller 0xfffffff04efb7024): \"i2c3::_checkBusStatus Bus is still in a bad state; last read status 00010110 int shadow 00010100 xfer 00000000 fifo 00000000 for device display-eeprom\" @AppleS5L8940XI2C.cpp:571\nDebugger message: panic\nMemory ID: 0x1\nOS release type: Beta\nOS version: 23D5089e\nKernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 25.3.0: Thu Dec 4 23:49:21 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.80.260.0.1~30\/RELEASE_ARM64_T8110\nFileset Kernelcache UUID: 3C48A9C82D5D969498A502AA110B0CBF\nKernel UUID: FEC30910-03A2-39A7-9A46-0EF6279FD1FF\nBoot session UUID: 34BCF4D3-1488-4A4C-8AB6-B2C1DAAE41D7\niBoot version: iBoot-13822.80.393\niBoot Stage 2 version: \nsecure boot?: YES\nroots installed: 0\nPaniclog version: 15

⟐ Commented Şubat 12, 2026 at 12:00 GMT-7

⟐ Commented Ocak 18, 2026 at 3:31 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Ocak 10, 2026 at 20:20 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Aralık 22, 2025 at 2:02 GMT-7

⟐ Answered Ekim 26, 2025 at 17:44 GMT-7

⟐ Edited by author Haziran 14, 2025 at 12:00 GMT-7

Everything else works fine, and i'm pretty sure that everything is connected correctly.

Back camera works fine.

Any idea what could be wrong?

⟐ Commented Haziran 08, 2025 at 14:00 GMT-7

i just dropped my phone. And now i cant activate it and something wrong with the net. What can be the problem here?

It happens upon attempts to use the phone and the only weird issue that has remained constant is the battery level will show 5-15% after the crash when before it will show 50-100%.

The most resent crash the phone was on the charger and was 90%+ when it crashed and came back up showing 10%.

I plugged it in and in minutes the charge showed 80% again.

after searching for fixes i checked the accessibility files for panic.full files as suggested for others. My phone does not have any files with that tag but i fid see a string of RESET files with time stamps from the occurrences.

Hoping someone here can help decipher the issue and offer some help towards a fix.

This is a low battery log that also corresponds with time of crashes.

Sorry its so long!!

⟐ Answered Mayıs 21, 2025 at 19:46 GMT-7

Tldr:
Backglass replaced - flash broken - nfc working
flash and akku replaced - nfc not working
charging coil replaced - nfc still not working

What happened and what did I do?

I dropped my Iphone Pro 13 and the glass back broke. I replaced the back and broke the flash in the process. The phone worked perfectly at the time, just not the flash.

1. so I ordered a flash and if you have the phone open anyway, I also ordered a battery at the same time.

2. then I replaced the battery and the flash. Everything works perfectly except that now no NFC things like Apple Pay etc. work.

3. after long research I found 2 problem areas. The NFC antenna is in the charging coil. And the “antenna” is also part of the flash. Both components were involved in my repair.

4. charging coil bought new and inserted. Everything works except NFC.

Now I'm stumped and don't know what to do. I have not noticed any damage. Adjusting the flash module several times has not helped either. Should I buy a new flash module and try again? Or am I missing something else?

Many thanks for any helpful answers.

⟐ Answered Mayıs 03, 2025 at 10:42 GMT-7