My Problem

After exhausting troubling shooting uninstalling, reinstalling, updating, rebooting, switching cords, and testing USB ports we finally identified the dock connector as the problem. The phone would still charge but my computer would not recognize. Couldn't back up, restore, or sync.

My Fix

The repair was a breeze! Ifixit.com has amazing step by step guides. Great detail in the photos show exactly what needs to be done. Parts arrived quickly and repair went off without a hitch.

My Advice

If you don't think you're tech savy enough to repair your device you're wrong. If ifixit.com has a guide for it, you can do it. Give it a shot. What's the worse that can happen?

My Problem

My old docking connector won't charging and no volume bar.

My Fix

I did repair my iPhone 4S with new docking connector. I did learn how to repair iPhone. I love ifixit help guides. My iPhone 4S is working fine.

My Advice

Helpful repair guides.

My Problem

Phone fell directly on concrete without any protective case. Shattered the back panel.

My Fix

Conservatively it took me almost a whole minute.

My Advice

Make sure you take the screws out over a surface where they will easily be found. They are T I N Y and might bury themself in the carpet if they hit the floor.

My Problem

I was having trouble syncing and charging my iPhone 4 because the cable would not click into place when I would attempt to attach it to the dock connector.

My Fix

For the most part the repair/replacement process went smoothly but I ended up having to disassemble and reassemble the phone 3 times because I forgot to reconnect or didn't properly reconnect the WiFi cable and the home button on the first or second attempt.

My Advice

Read the instructions carefully. There are adhesive strips on the replacement dock connector that need to be removed when installing it.

The tweezers were extremely helpful when it came time to reassemble my iPhone.

My Problem

iPhone 4S out of warranty for less then a month. The speaker that is used for making the noise you hear for telephone rings and notification or to play music, stopped working all of a sudden. Was taken to a fairly well equipped apple store where the only option they presented was to try and fix it for $60 with no guarantee warranty on parts and labour.

My Fix

For the part(iPhone 4 and 4S Speaker Enclosure) and tool(iPhone 5-Point Pentalobe Screwdriver) I needed. The cost was far less, $38 from iFixit compared the $65 Apple Genius Bar Employee offered. Simply by following the iFixit guide and with the tool i needed; dismantling, replacing the part, and re-assembling was a breeze. Took about an hour when going at a leisurely pace watching some online videos.

My Advice

Removing the battery was not necessary for this repair of replacing the iphone 4s speaker enclosure. so i recommend skipping it as the battery is set in there pretty well but does not interfere with the removal of speaker enclosure.

My Problem

A family members iPhone 4 decided one day to literally just turn off (or so it appeared anyway) forever and wouldn't respond to any button presses or charging attempts. Nothing physically happened to the phone to produce this problem, it just shut off.

My Fix

I figured I would swap out the battery with one from another 4 and see if it would work... AND IT DID! So after looking at the "dead" battery I decided to put that back into the phone from which I took the working battery from and tried to boot up the good phone and that worked too!?!

My Advice

The only advice I can give here is to try removing and reattaching the battery and try booting the phone before deciding the battery is dead. My assumption of what happened is some small hardware hiccup that caused the buttons to become unresponsive or the battery somehow had a loose connection or something. I'm not totally sure what happened but I am glad that all phones are working without the need for a new battery.

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

The first sign of failure was the volume buttons on the phone were not adjusting the volume, and the phone did not play some sounds. Next the phone stopped turning off.

My Fix

No problems in replacing the dock connector, except the first one iFixit sent me had a broken ribbon cable for the microphone. After emailing iFixit, they sent me a new replacement that worked correctly.

My Advice

n/a

My Problem

Front glass completely crusched

My Fix

Still awaiting the new glass

My Advice

yes

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.