My Problem

My Wife dropped her iPhone for the 100th time, and this was the time it shattered the screen.

My Fix

The first time I tried, everything went smooth; till I was plugging some of the cables in; One cable seemed to come up short; I soon discovered that something I had done had sheered the thin cable and it was ruined. I ordered a second screen and this time everything went perfect!

My Advice

Take your time when putting it back together; make sure you have a good way to keep track of your screws.

My Problem

Home button wasn't working, so replaced the part.

My Fix

Was straight forward. The online step by step instructions provided by iFixit were extremely helpful.

My Advice

I felt a bit confused on how to exactly wire up the button ribbon. Took a lot of examination of the photos in the instructions. Really look at how it is setup before taking it off.

My Problem

The Home button stopped functioning on an iPhone 4 that is less than a year old. I fixed it because the poorly designed phone doesn't old up to normal use and Apple won't stand behind their products.

My Fix

The repair went well. My wife is happy again.

My Advice

Watch the Youtube video of this repair first to see what you are getting into. I purchased the recommended tools for this repair. The #00 screwdriver was not needed, don't buy one if you don't have one already. In fact, don't buy any of the drivers unless you need to, $6 each is too pricey for the quality that you receive.

My Problem

Although super happy with my Iphone experience, I had picked an Iphone 4 with a loosy mic. People won't hear me well and I had to either yell at my phone or use headphones.

The repair required opening the Iphone and changing the dock connector, where the main mic is. I decided to change the battery as well to give my phone a bit more juice.

My Fix

The repair was very smooth. All I really needed was to follow the video. One bit of advice that is missing in the video is that you need to remove the microphone rubber enclosure and put it on the new dock. That info is only on the step by step html guide.

WARNING : I don't recommend this repair to people that have no experience in precision work. Some parts are VERY fragile.

My Advice

One thing, don't forget to pull up the home button flex connector when installing the new dock connector.

Otherwise you will have to remove the dock you just installed.

My Problem

I drop my iPhone 4S manny times but nothing never really broken nothing in it. A couple of weeks ago I drop the phone at work (I'm a professional barber) and when I picked it up I was relieve until I turn the phone and the LCD screen was blanked. I didn't want to take it no were because I know it was going to cost a lot of money. I talk to one of my customer and he told me about ifixit. So I decide to take the challenge and go for it.

My Fix

It was really frustrating at first and to make it worst on me the screen that I had order didn't slide but it turn on and off and the home button work but not the touch screen. I Call ifixit and and there customer service was really cool and with no questions ask sent me another one. I got it after 4 days and before I took the phone a part I check it and it work I was really happy and after taking the phone apart 4 times this was a pice of cake. Know my phone is black and white is really cool know.

My Advice

Make sure you have patience and have experience on taking things apart and have the right tools. DO YOUR HOMEWORK and see at lease 2 or 3 different videos on how to take the phone apart

My Problem

Had the dock connector fried by a power outage.

My Fix

Stressful but was able to successfully fix the phone. Was very proud of myself.

My Advice

Make sure you have some way to organize what you pull out and which screws go to where. Also make sure you won't lose the screws either.

My Problem

When our oldest turned 14 we decided he deserved his own phone. He'd taken care of the hand-me-downs he'd had through the years without issue, an iPhone 3Gs and 4 survived without issue. Within a month of us getting him an iPhone 4S for his birthday he was the "victim" of some horseplay while waiting for the bus at school and the phone fell to the rough pavement face-down. It shattered the screen pretty good but still worked good enough so that he was able to use it until Santa could get him a new display. Santa did leave it for me to install though!

My Fix

The repair went well, I've followed quite a few online guides from replacing complicated suspension systems in a Mercedes-Benz to Nissan timing belts and this guide was far and away the easiest to follow... the screws where A LOT smaller though! There weren't any deviations from the guide other than the way his screen was shattered quite a bit of the remnants were left behind stuck to the adhesive around the button and speakers so I had to make sure to scrape those away.

My Advice

I had a piece of tape that I stuck the screws on and it worked fine but I think those magnetic mats that you can write where they came from would be very handy for future repairs.

I can't figure out why it was recommended that I buy the phillips #00 and flathead 3/32" tools with this repair, I did not need them, they are much too large to use on any screw in the iPhone. Luckily I purchased the liberation kit and the tools in there along with a smaller flathead I already had were all that I needed.

My Problem

The home button on my iPhone wasn't 100% dead yet but it would intermittently stop responding. I had learned to live with the deficient home button but was gifting the phone to one of my kids and knew I'd never hear the end of it!

My Fix

The overall process went very well... it was a little scary at times that I was going to lose one of the tiny screws or maybe rip one of the delicate ribbon cables. After all was stuffed back inside with NO extra parts except for the 'bad' home button... I fired it up and was greeted with the familiar White Apple! I functionally tested everything and it all seemed to work as it did when it was brand new!!!

My Advice

The screws are TINY and DIFFERENT sizes... be sure to keep them marked some how... I laid out everything on a piece of cardboard as I took it off the phone and used colored markers to mark the color of the screws based on the color dots on the instructions. It worked perfectly!!!

My Problem

2x iphone 4 broken home button

My Fix

first iphone; fail

broke one of the cables on the touch screen when reassambling the device

I won't do this kind of repair again, it's all really tiny and fragile

it's more difficult than you think

also, I had to pay extra import tax

all this together was it an expensive repair (I've let the screen replace somewhere)

the second iphone was a complete succes, also no tax to be payed, the package of the second home button was not that big... holds only the button, not any tools

nice manual!

My Advice

after installing the new button, DON'T RUSH

this is the most difficult, the reassambling

My Problem

2x iphone 4 broken home button

My Fix

the first iphone; disaster...

broke the cable on the screen when reassambling the iphone after installing the new home-button

second iphone was a succes

nice manual!

My Advice

it's more difficult than you think

I won't do it again

the pieces are so small and fragile

and recieved a big bill for the belgian import tax...

tip; when reassambling the device, don't get over exited, this is the most difficult task! take your time...