Who
I'm Taylor Dixon! I was born in the good ol' nineties. I spend my time climbing, cycling, tinkering, and binging internet content. I also love dogs, even though I'm allergic to them.
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What
Technical Writing is my game.
When
With much excitement, I joined the iFixit team in the 2018th year of our world.
Why
Why writing? Why technical? I've long been deeply immersed in the technology scene. The first smartphones started to emerge when I was in middle school, and I've been fascinated with them all along the way. I've owned more gadgets than I can count, and I've dismantled more than I own. I found tech writing during my junior year of college when I fell out of love with computer science, but still wanted a career close to technology. It was then that I realized that I was better suited for explaining technology than I was for creating it.
How
How did I make it from Utah to California? Well, I put all my stuff in the car and I drove for 12 hours! It was a big life change, but when you get a chance to be a part of the dream team, you don't turn it down. ;)
Oh, I’m so sorry! I forgot to specify: internet recovery mode is only available on newer Apple computers. I’ve updated the intro now, sorry for the confusion!
It’s hard to say for sure what exactly broke inside the bud, but if you can find some parts on eBay or somewhere then you can probably bring the bud back to life! The tricky part is finding the parts since the buds are so new.
Nicholas, I’m sorry things didn’t work out! Yours certainly seems like a strange case. I’m going to optimistically guess that your problem is confined to the screen, and hope your computer isn’t recognizing it because of its own problems (you can never trust windows drivers too much haha). I think if I were you I would try a replacement screen, and then if that doesn’t work you can pick up a new motherboard. Hopefully only one of those two parts are the root of your problem. If you do only end up needing one of them, you can return the other! Sorry again about the complications, I hope you can get it worked out! Let us know how it goes!
You can take it apart and let it all dry out for a little while! If it’s not working after that, you can check eBay for someone selling a working case by itself.
That’s a good point, Jackson! I added a warning to the step.
Dang! Metal is a scary choice, but I’m glad it worked out for the most part. That’s good to know. You could try re-heating the adhesive around the part of the screen that isn’t staying in place, and then putting the phone under a stack of books for an hour or so! That might get it to seal up completely.
Donald, do you mean the earpiece speaker grill? We do mention that in the Google Pixel Display Replacement guide.
If a new display is still malfunctioning and you’re sure the display cable is properly seated, I’d say something probably short circuited during the repair. It’s hard be certain what happened, but a short circuits tend to happen when cables are unplugged while the phone is powered on. At this point a new motherboard will most likely take care of the issue. (Google Pixel G-2PW4100 Motherboard) I’m sorry things didn’t go well for you both, and I hope you can get everything working soon!
Henry, that is a bummer! Vince is right, there’s probably something going on with your daughterboard. Make sure the long interconnect cable (the one you remove in step 18) is properly connected, and if all else fails, the replacement part he linked (sorry, ours is out of stock :( ) should do the trick!
Removing the adhesive while it is warm is a great idea!
Re: removing the glass from the OLED, as long as you aren’t inserting your opening pick deeper than Step 2 recommends, you should be safe from separating the glass and the display panel unless you are using a ton of heat, in which case you might be frying the display anyway!
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