My Problem

The phone would not hold a charge more than a few minutes but worked otherwise.

My Fix

The battery arrived quickly and fit perfectly. The repair was done in 40 min without a major hitch. It's running perfectly now.

My Advice

Only one small hitch. One of the screws on the circuit board is covered with a "Do not remove" label which doesn't appear in your video. Consequently I spent awhile trying to understand why the board wouldn't lift until I peeled away the label and found the 7th screw. It would be a good thing to tell people that in the video but otherwise it went well. The how-to video is a life-saver.

My Problem

I stood on my mac when it was shut and cracked the screen

My Fix

The first time I ordered the tools via the guide, only to find out I need more tools as my macpro was newer than the guide although it had the same model number.

(2011)

I have yet to try again with the additional tools.

My Advice

Name the year models in the guide please and maybe have a one click "here is all the tools you need for the job" button.

My Problem

My Xbox had already had the RROD, I had sent it in once to someone who "knew" how to fix fit, then it got it again.

My Fix

The repair was pretty straight forward, i had bought the kit, just followed the step by step tutorials on the RROD fix, re-applying thermal paste, and reflowing the board. It's been about a month now and it's still running RROD free.

My Advice

Take your time.

My Problem

battery didnt last 8 hr

My Fix

45 min i was done

My Advice

take your time

My Problem

My 4th Gen ipod, that I got free with a powerbook I purchased in 2004, had finally given up the ghost. It just wouldn't hold a charge.

My Fix

It was a little tricky opening up the case, but after applying a little extra elbow grease I got it open. The spudger I got helped in those hard-to-reach situations.

My Advice

Buy yourself a spudger! I do occasional Mac repairs, and metal tools always end up scratching components. I've been dying to have a spudger, and it works great!

My Problem

My iphone kept crashing and the power would go from any percentage to zero. We did change the battery. But the process was nowhere as simple as the video showed the connections were much tougher to disconnect and reconnect. We had to use a 10 power magnifier to see what we were doing. The problem appears to have been corrected but the phone runs a little slower on gmes and sometimes when typing and is warmer than before. If it lasts for another year that will be fine. apple said it couldnt be done, gee I wonder why ;-)

My Fix

Read the directions thoroughly especially the one about disconnecting the display. I'm having trouble typing into these fields. Use magnification!

My Advice

See above.

My Problem

To be honest, there wasn't any problem regarding my iPhone 3GS, it was working well. However, the power button seemed a bit "tired", and my battery didn't last as long as before.

My Fix

Overall, it went very well. I had trouble opening up the phone, and I had to remove the screen protector I had placed, and then use the Section Cup to open up the phone. I also had trouble with the "Do not remove" adhesive, it tore apart into small pieces. Everything else regarding disassembly and re-assembly went well. However, I am disappointed about the replacement power button. It simply don't work. It didn't clicked when I pushed it. I kept the old one, and when comparing the two, it seems that the one IFixit sell is some cheap chinese copy. The Apple one has totally flat back plastic which allows to press the electronic part as it should, when the other one has a back plastic filled with holes and industrial marks. On a good note, the battery is as good as the original one.

My Advice

The screws looks like they are all the same (except the two from the case). I recommend writing on a paper "Yellow, Orange and Red", and put the screws on it according to the repair guide. It really helps when re-assembling.

My Problem

The phone was shutting off at 50% charge.

My Fix

A little longer than 15 minutes, because I took my time. The only tricky part for me was putting the memory board back in and getting it aligned.

My Advice

It's easy. Just take your time! Also, the protective sticker over the one screw you are not to remove, forget it...it tore on me. I just ripped off a tiny piece of the replacement battery sticker(it covers the glue strip), and placed that on the screw before I secured the ribbon that covers it. I'm guessing the screw was covered as to not short out the ribbon. Either way, no worries.

My Problem

The power button stopped working

My Fix

I got the tools needed way faster than expected from you guys...thanks!

Went 100% perfect with your instructions

My Advice

Take your time and follow directions closely. If you do, no problem at all

My Problem

After one minute or so, the backlight was turning off, probably because of overheating.

My Fix

I ordered a LCD for my MacBook A1181 and I replaced it without removing the panel. It was a little bit tricky to plug it in the inverter, but watching at pics (Fig.1) of the inverter helped a lot to know where I was going to plug it.

My Advice

Buy one extra bezel mounting clip in case. I was not able to put the bezel back in place so I removed every gray mounting clip from it and clipped them on the LCD mount (Fig.2) before to clip the bezel in place. This was the only way I could do it without destroying all clips.