My Problem

screen broken and rear case with too much miles.

The on/off button doesn't work and there was no volume up/down button

Oh! And the battery was almost dead :)

My Fix

excellent!

Thanks to the guide, i had no trouble to make it work.

My Advice

stick to the guide ;)

My Problem

After several years, the battery just would not hold electrons correctly anymore.

My Fix

Followed the step by step directions on this site and they are spot on. The notes on lifting connector 1 and the gold grounding are very important.

After a little struggle with the screw for the camera, the phone is fully operational with a full charge.

It was be very helpful if the screw drivers sold were magnetized to hold the screws while trying to get them back in the holes.

My Advice

I used a refrigerator magnet that is the shape of the iPhone and placed the screws I removed to ensure I put them back in the correct order.

My Problem

The front panel was cracked so bad, I didn't think I could fix it.

My Fix

I followed the slide show to the tee. I had a little trouble getting the glass off, I bought the tool set and it helped alot.

My Advice

No advise, everything the slides showed worked.

My Problem

classic problem, shattered front piece of glass on 3gs. the replacement is cheap and the fix is pretty easy on this model. note that on newer models (iphone 4, 4s) this may not be the case since the glass is fused to the display.

My Fix

this is the second time I've replaced the glass on my 3gs in about a year, so I didn't have to look at the repair manual. pretty easy.

My Advice

watch the video and follow the guide. get a few shot glasses for the screws to keep them separated and in a safe place while you work. be careful when pulling the front and back apart and avoid damaging the ribbon cables. flat end of metal spudger is the way to go on a lot of the steps - use it to pry between front bezel when taking front and back apart and also to pop out the ribbon cable connectors. be gentle with the ribbon cables.

My Problem

The plumber was just at my house about to install a new shower head in our bathroom. Naturally a part was cracked, so I had to go and replace it. The box wasn't correctly closed unbeknownst to me. So, as always, I'm in a hurry to get out the door and make it back so I can pick up my daughter from school. I have one hour. So me, with my newly injured right elbow, decide to carry a pocketbook, cell phone, sunglasses, keys and a bulky box, all in my left hand and arm. The boxflips open, Im trying to grab everything from falling, the cell phone goes face down on the tile floor and the box bounces off of it. All I think is OMG, my new phone....sure enough, I pick it up turn it over....shattered. No...I love my phone! And my husbands gonna bug, we just got the phone. Luckily it still worked. So, I asked my son what to do because his friend has cracked more than one screen. He said go to ifixit to get a new one. I ordered my new screen after about a month of keeping it in a sandwich bag (so ghetto) so as not cut my face or fingers while talking or playing words with friends....lol

I was not willing to pay $90 to have it fixed or $150 to replace it. For $42, I did it myself :)

My Fix

Pretty smoothly. I followed a you tube how to.

I was worried it wasn't going to work because after I installed the screen, I got nothing except for the quick light up, but no apps. I troubleshot on google and discovered I had to hold down the home button and the button at the top. Once I did that, I was back in business. :)

My Advice

Yes, hold down the 2 buttons when you're done. And watch those screws, they're sooo tiny. :)

My Problem

The original problem was a shattered front panel.

My Fix

The repair worked, but along the way one very small metal prong broke off and thus the "home button" doesn't work now. Argh... more work to do.

My Advice

Be very careful, the iPhone 3GS is not very durable.

My Problem

The glass of the 3GS touchscreen digitizer was broken

My Fix

I'm very familiar of repairing iPhone Original / 3G / 3GS and recently 4 so it don't take so long to replace the digitizer

My Advice

The tricky parts are :

- Removing the broken glass from the frame, don't heat so much because it twist the plastic frame, especially near the home button.

- When you're stick the new glass, align it very well to fit with the frame and home button hole

My Problem

The screen of the iPhone was broken

My Fix

Initially was a little difficult as the cristal separated from the display, after that all went smooth and ok

My Advice

If your glass separate from the display in the initial step, try to use a plastic splunder, in my case worked really well

My Problem

Although I love my iPhone 3GS, I find the front panel glass to be very fragile. That, combined with my chronic clumsiness are a bad combination. (I once had a high school football coach tell me that I had hands like feet).

My Fix

The repair went flawlessly.

My Advice

I would recommend spending a few extra dollars to buy the entire front panel assembly instead of just the glass. Using a hair dryer or heat gun to melt glue can seem like an eternity when removing the broken glass. If you're at all impatient here, you can ruin the repair job.

My Problem

My friend dropped her iPhone 3GS and the screen shattered. The touchscreen still worked so I decided it was worth fixing.

My Fix

Great! The iFixit parts and tools were just what I needed. I finished in under two hours. Using the hair dryer and scraping out the old glue were tedious, but the plastic spudger was just the right tool for glue scraping.

My Advice

Wear safety glasses while picking broken bits of glass out of the plastic frame. Do it over a piece of paper or a towel.