My Problem

My rear-camera didn't work and my rear Glass Panel was broken. I wanted both to be okay.

My Fix

With the help of Ifixit tools and guides it was a very simple thing to fix. Within 30 minutes my Iphone was new again.

My Advice

I recommanded Ifixit to several friends.

My Problem

The Ipod was prviously dropped on a hard serface causing the screen to splinter.

My Fix

The total repair time too about 5 mins. Guides on Ifixit were very insightful and thorough. Hardest part was getting the miniture srews out of the EMI shield and getting the screen tucked in.

My Advice

Watch the screws don't run away. the guide does not show how the new screen tucks inside the side where the display used to be dont panic, it's eay. just play with it.

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

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.

My Problem

As bad luck would have it, my 13" MacBook Pro was on the floor next to the couch and my work 15" MacBook Pro was on the arm of the couch. One MB fell and dented the lid of the other, causing the LCD to break from the back. After crying for a few days, I looked at my options:

- trust the guys on ebay to fix it (very cheap for some strange reason and some bad reviews made me nervous)

- pay Apple repair tons of money for a whole new lid (not worth it...might as well buy a new machine)

- fix it myself for cheaper, but the repair was rated 'very difficult'

I decided trying to fix it myself was the best option...cross my fingers that I didn't make another costly mistake.

My Fix

The instructions were easy to follow, until I got to removing the glass. No matter how long and hot I made the edges of the glass with the blow dryer, I was unable to get the glass up with the suction cups. I broke one suction cup trying. Finally I dug around with the spudger and found that I was making progress. Slowly I heated up the glass and worked my way around. Despite my careful efforts, the glass cracked and I was forced to order a new piece.

The only other trouble that I had was figuring out which part to 'lift' in order to remove the LCD cable. The image in the instructions was hard to follow and I was a little freaked out after having just broken the glass. I finally figured out what they were talking about and soon had my new LCD up and running.

Putting things back together was easy and putting a new piece of glass on was simple. I have things back together and good as new. My pocket book is a little lighter, but it was definitely cheaper than purchasing a new MacBook.

My Advice

I can't stress enough how patient you need to be when removing the glass. Watch some YouTube videos on how to do this and go really really slow!

My Problem

I tripped in the terminal at Detroit Metro Airport, fell and landed on my Macbook, cracking the LCD screen. Apple wanted $1200 to fix it!?

My Fix

The repair went flawlessly. The instructions are phenominally detailed. The tools I ordered for assembly made the process easier than I expected.

My Advice

The one key is to be VERY organized with the parts you take off. Have a container for each set of screws you take off and keep the containers lined up in the order you took them off.

My Problem

My right side fan was going out after a few years of hard service. Time to replace both for good measure.

My Fix

Easy, thanks to your excellent service documentation.

My Advice

One word of caution when replacing fans, make sure that the connectors are completely seated. I checked my fan RPMs using iStat immediately after the initial power on, post repair. My right fan was turning at zero RPM. I popped the cover and reseated the connector. powered up and observed it spinning. Checked iStat and have continued to do so every few operating hours. All is well at around 2K RPM.

My Problem

Although leaving my iPhone 2g on the lawn to get soaked by the sprinklers was a good excuse to upgrade, I've never had the heart to actually throw the broken thing away. I finally decided I might as well try to crack it open so I ordered tools and a replacement battery.

My Fix

Opening the phone was easier than I expected. All told, I spent about an hour opening the phone, desoldering the old battery, soldering in the new one, and cleaning out some lint with a dental pick and canned air. The phone looks almost as good as new now, although some of the seams aren't quite as tight as they were from factory. Now I want to try repairing all my busted down gadgets.

My Advice

I cut my fingers a few times on the sharp edges of the aluminum iPhone back, so be careful! Also, use some desolder braid to clean up the pads where the battery is soldered in.

My Problem

I would go to bed with a 100% charge and wake up at around 33%.

My Fix

The repair was incredibly simple, it took 6 minutes start to finish.

My Advice

When you take out the old battery, do not set it next to the new battery and walk away. This MIGHT cause you to re-install the old battery because they are identical. This MIGHT double your repair time.

My Problem

During the call phone buzzes (noise like when you telephone near speakers)

Home button was getting more and more 'stubborn'

Plus about half a year ago it fell down and glass was broken near home button. And all the scratches started to annoy a bit

My Fix

First of all I should say that this was new experience for me, but I like to do things where you need accuracy and handiness, so I thought to give a try (it would be too expensive to get service and you'll never know what you'll get back /in my country/)

I got all front assembly with lcd instead of glass and panel with speaker and button. Well if you have 30$ more and less time and dont want to be worried about dust on LCD, you should do the same. (For me there was no option because panel was out of stock - what a ** was when after ordering, next day I got email about new stockings! But you may not be interested in my long ordering story and how everything shipped to me over the ocean and how my friend during the flight was keeping assembly in her pocket and not being worried about all the cables..!)

So I watched a video (both to be exact) how to change parts, read many comments how disappointing dock changing might be and so many functions wont work. You should carefully watch too and read the manual CAREFULLY, every single word even its only about two screws. Its a start to success.

Opening front panel went well but I managed somehow to open it to wide and cables slipt off. Its better not to do it again. Then all the screws and getting everything from back panel was quite fast and without accidents. Advice: after opening, stop for a moment and stare a bit, because your phone in real wont be the same as in picture and small details make big difference and its important to notice them - otherwise getting parts back will be harder especially if youre doing it for a first time. Next advice from me about the dock is that when you put the new dock, dont forget that screw holes must be ON the silver bezel holes but NOT UNDER, cause its goes well and fits under but its not a place and getting dock out is muck harder than you think. (my second mistake)

Be careful with camera! Dust gets easy onto panel.

Talking about display I can tell a bit of a joke. I wrote in the beginning that I hadnt chance to disconnect cables and in the dock repairing manual didnt notice that all THREE cables must be connected so i did only two (nr 1 and 2) but not that tiny one which had to go under a plate (where you have to be VERY CAREFUL). Guess what? I closed everything, turned the phone on, enjoyed perfect results and posted self promoting FB update and only then realised that i forgot that cable! But everything was working! What it does? I guess something with sound, but i turn off many sounds so didint notice.

And silver bezel started to fit badly - did some glueing. This was because of slightly broken corner i guess.

So thats my story :)

My Advice

Many written before, but one more:

original dock on contacts had some tape on it, so i asked dad to give me some and put pieces too. The same with home button. It looks more hermetic for me - if youd look in light youll see some space between dock connection and panel - cool way for dust to get in.

Wish you good luck as it happened to me - even working without all parts connected :)