My Problem

The silver piece broke of the mute switch rendering it useless and the phone can't be switched to vibrate.

My Fix

Repair took about an hour. I went slowly and steadily through the teardown.

My Advice

PERFECT! Take your time and be methodical and it is pretty straight forward to get as deep as you want into the iPhone internals. This repair requires the removal of a fair bit of the internals to properly reach and remove the switch.

My Problem

My iphone suddenly stopped vibrating

My Fix

Very smoth repair considering It's the first iphone I was brave enough to open. No problems with the instructions but things could have run smoother if pictures in the pdf version of the manual were in HD. Some details ar important so as not to damage sensible or delicate conections. My internet connection was not very good and that's why the pdf version was prefered.

Other than that everything went ok in little less than an hour. The big deception was that everything done, the vibrator continued not functioning and now things are dark again.

My Advice

Then again, HD pictures would be helpful... a lot!! And of course, nobody said anything about the soft foamy material under the numbers on the connectors that I almost peeled off thinking those were the connectors. Sorry!! not all of us are technicians and know what the manual is talking about. Ohhh yes!! almost forgot to suggest you people to include a pair of tweezers to hold and position the screws, which are really tiny. That was my biggest difficulty. Also a good light source is useful, especially when you pop open the iphone and have to hold it partially open to prevent breaking off the fist three ribbons on the connectors.

My Problem

3GS stopped vibrating after hitting the floor from shoulder distance

My Fix

Quite easy repair, the only hard part is to get the screws back into their positions .. Soooo small!

My Advice

Nope

My Problem

i had my 3GS in my front pants pocket at work and just happened to turn a corner too sharp and my phone was in between the stationary counter corner and 220 lbs of quick moving guy (me). after this minor encounter, the mic no longer worked, the speaker has a mind of its own and works less than a DOT employee, and at times the Home button and/or the Power button will not get the display to light up. And even before this, the vibrator was intermittent. Hence, i knew i had some problems.

After doing some online research and watching the tutorials on ifixit.com, i figured it was worth a try to repair it myself - how hard could it be?? i ordered a replacement Dock Connector, Vibrator, and spudger to perform the repair.

My Fix

I never would have attempted to do this without the help of the ifixit tutorials, and the quality of instructions and photos were excellent. however installing the replacement parts didn't solve my issues, PLUS i couldn't get the phone to charge and the Home button did not work with the new Dock Connector. I opened it back up to check all the connections were in place (they were), and when it exhibited the same symptoms after this, I decided to reinstall the original Dock Connector so that I could at least charge my phone. Being a student and in class most of the time, my phone being essentially an iText worked okay for me - for the short term.

At this point, I have reset my phone via the option in the Settings menu, and since I have backed it up on my iTunes, I have also tried to both restore it as well as restore & update it via iTunes. Unfortunately this doesn't work too well since I am having the typical iOs 5 download timeout issues, and I haven't figured out how to restore my phone via iTunes without automatically trying to update it. The crazy thing is that since I reset it on the Settings menu, it has regained some of its original functionality (but not all) so I am in a quandary about what exactly to do. I am leaning towards reinstalling the new Dock Connector again, however I am concerned that I can't find any guidance about just how much handling the ribbon connectors will handle.

My Advice

Even though I have a giant toolbox with about 14,382 different screwdrivers and various hex bits, I wish I had just purchased the #00 screwdriver with the rest of the parts, since the two other ones I have since purchased work even worse than my good #0 screwdriver that I initially used. My other concern would be using a magnetic tip to get the screws into place - does this present a problem with erasing any of the phone components? I hope not, because with my big fingers, i couldn't figure out another method to get most of the screws into place (especially the two Dock Connector screws).

My Problem

Vibrator broke once I thought I fixed it with old one.

While in there i'm replacing battery also

Contract not up yet

My Fix

Repair went well everything back together and working.

My Advice

Go for it easy to follow instructions

My Problem

It suddenly stopped vibrating one day.

My Fix

Super smooth. The guide from ifixit was amazing. Very simple and easy to understand.

My Advice

A very important instruction was missing at the end of the guide. Once you rip apart your iPhone completely and fix it back there's no way that your iPhone would switch on unless you hard reset it.

I was very worried to see my phone not switching on after i replaced the vibrator and fixed everything back in place. I had to go through some stuff on the internet to find out that i had to hard reset it for my phone to start running.