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  • Answer to: How do I get the screen to sit perfectly flush?

    The screen should by itself fit perfectly flush if there is no dent in the frame. I used to move over the small metal bracket at the top of the screen near the camera but after someone suggested to leave it I have more success. There are a couple of things you must check: - Did you fold the digitizer cable correctly under the top of the screen? If not it will sit on the edge under the top and bulge the screen up - Did you use adhesive all around the top, bottom and edges where the glass is in contact? - Did you check that the speaker (bottom left corner) is tucked down into the bezel? Sometimes the speaker is raised when you open the metal mid plane. Make sure it is tucked down so it does not bulge the glass on the bottom. When I follow these steps I get a perfect fit every time. Should not have to wait for the adhesive to cure. It should look perfect straight away. Of course the adhesive will sit even better after some hours. Just use your hands and press down all along the contact parts and the heat from yo...

  • Answer to: My Volume Up Button is not working, but my Volume Down works.

    Sometimes this part breaks because it is a bit fragile. I am sure it is the cable since the button itself seldom breaks. There is a cable that is connected to the volume buttons, headphone jack and power button. You will have to change this cable. It is not difficult. Just take your time. Here is the part: Here is how to do it: Installing iPhone 3GS Volume Button

  • Answer to: How To Replace Glass Trackpad

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9liOWTjY... good tutorial video!

  • Answer to: small parts that are appeared suddenly

    Your picture is not very clear but here is my guess: The part on the right is for covering the battery cable contact. Installing iPhone 4 Display Assembly - look at step 5. It is under the shiny small part. The part on the left is very important. Without it you may have terrible wifi. Installing iPhone 4 Display Assembly - step 13. It is under the green area. Take a look at this discussion on how to put it back on: http://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/38247...-fi+distance+was+reduced

  • Answer to: No backlight and LCD replacement didn't fix it.

    Buy a can of contact spray and spray on the contact and cable. Reseat the lcd cable. This happens all the time when I am replacing LCD on unibody MacBookPros.

  • Answer to: replaced glass now touch screen not working?

    Check again the digitizer cable. Take it out and use "contact spray" on the contact. I always use contact spray on these kind of contacts. Typically inserting the display cable in unibody MacBook Pros I find often the backlight does not work. I take out the cable, use a little contact spray on the contact and cable and insert it and it always works. Make sure the little retaining flaps are pushed down. A good investment is contact spray, technical alcohol and a air spray can. They always come in handy.

  • Answer to: How do I reconnect the speaker cable?

    The speaker connector is attached directly to the contact. You should pry it up in the back end. To put it back push the front end of the connector down and push the back of the connector down into place. When you first have opened the iPad I would buy "connector spray" which I always use on connectors on i.ex. iPhone 4 to be sure there is good contact. Use it lightly on all contacts like this.

  • Answer to: After Installation Mac OS X CD1 after restart not respond

    Try to restart with the option (alt) key pressed. Do you get a choice to select the internal HD? What version OS X are you installing? If you can it seems something went wrong with the boot partition. Try to start from the HD and press the shift-key. It then should start without extensions. See it that helps. Otherwise start the machine holding down the keys cmd + v. That gives you a black screen with a lot of text and see if something is happening on the screen. At one point it should stop. What is then the last text that appears on the screen? This should at least let you know where it is halting.

  • Answer to: How to align small metal bracket

    The bracket has a small hole for the proximity sensor (I think). Take a look at http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/lftXchsPppTlFraq.l... Just fix that centered under the hole on the bracket and line up the rest with the edge of the glass. If I heat up the old glass I can often remove the bracket with the adhesive and reuse it. Just push it firmly down when you have aligned it and hold in place until it seats. Be careful so you don't bend the bracket. It must be perfectly plane.

  • Answer to: No backlight

    Try to check your LCD connection that no pins are bent. Reseat the connector. That connector is very fragile and always be gentle when seating the connector as you can bend pins. Take a look at why I once lost backlight on a 4g Touch: https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/943721/1... If it looks ok I would try to do a software reset. A lot of times you loose backlight or white screen if you reassemble and accidently have switched it on.

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  • Installing iPod Touch 4th Generation Front Panel

    Take a look at the post http://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/55811...

    That will give you some advice as to what to move over from the broken screen, metal bracket, home button and small sponge spacer on the tip of the digitizer connector. Also how important it is to use new adhesive. If after assembling the screen bulges on one side (top or bottom) take the time to dissasemble and check that everything is in place (flat) and like jonathan writes, the digitizer cable is folded.

  • Installing iPod Touch 4th Generation Front Panel Replacement

    Hi, take a look at my post here to make sure you have moved over old parts from the broken screen assembly because these are not included when you buy a new part:

    '''http://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/55811...

  • Installing iPod Touch 4th Generation Front Panel

    The antenna cable will almost always stick to the digitzer and often the glass is broken there. You can use a knife to pick out broken glass around the edges elsewhere but use ONLY PLASTIC tool to separate the antenna cable from the old digitzer. This cable is very thin and a metal tool can easily cut the cable which you cannot then repair but must buy a replacement.

  • Installing iPod Touch 4th Generation Front Panel

    Here is where you take it easy. Two things can be broken here.

    -Use time to carefully separate the bottom left part of the midplane. It sticks to the speaker which you tear the speaker leads if you are to hasty to lift it up. And remember the mid plane must not be bended up here since it needs to be 100% aligned so the new digitizer does not bulge here when in place.

    - The second picture. The black visible adhesive sticks to the volume cable. Use time to carefully separate the mid plane here so the cable is not ripped when you lift up the midplane. Pry a plastic tool like the picture or/and a spudger slowly in until you see/feel the midplane loosening. A broken volume cable is no fun.

  • Installing iPod Touch 4th Generation Front Panel Replacement

    At this step is when you should test that the touch and LCD are working before you assemble back the parts. Be very careful when you plug in the cable for the LCD before you assemble the iPod. I have several times bent a pin on the contact on the motherboard. This could make the display white.

    If you see a bent pin on the LCD contact on the logic board you must carefully bend it back with a needle. If you break a pin you are lost and you need a new contact. And finding someone who is skilled to solder it!

    So do not use any force to get the LCD cable into the contact. Gently! Now if the screen still is white and you are sure the contact is not damaged, do like @mcbohdo and do a total reset of the iPod.

  • Installing iPhone 3G Dock Connector

    Take a look at the small spacer just below the "4" connector. Some dock connectors out there do not have the small spacer. I experienced a couple of times that the (4) cable had popped out of the connector after using the phone for some days. The cable is a little stiff. The small spacer helps press down the cable onto the connector so it doesn't jump out.

  • Installing iPod Touch 4th Generation Front Panel Replacement

    Remember to move the metal latch at the top of the screen to the replacement screen. I had to use this to keep it in place or else the screen bulges at the top. Also there is no notice about adhesive but I bought new adhesive to keep the new screen attached.

    This iPod is one piece of fragile electronics. I agree everything about the 4th gen. iPod Touch is extremely difficult!