My Problem

My phone was out of warranty and the speaker didn't work anymore when I talked on the phone. It was probably water damage.

My Fix

The repair was easier than I expected and successful. It took about 30 minutes.

My Advice

Follow the steps, be organized, look out for catching loose wires and connectors when you replace components.

My Problem

I dropped my iphone and the earpiece stopped working. After 2 weeks of using the phone via speaker phone mode I got tired of the situation. Visited the apple website and balked at the $150 charge to mail my phone in to them. Googled fixing iPhone and ifixit.com came up. I easily found instructions and after reviewing them with the pictures decided to fix it myself. I ordered all the recommended parts and they came in 2 days.

My Fix

It took me an hour to slowly take apart my phone, tape down the small parts to a board and label each part by step. It took 45 minutes to put everything back together. Could not believe how small the pieces were. So glad I taped things down.

My Advice

Take the phone apart on something light colored so you can see any pieces you drop.

Tape all the pieces down and label.

I took a break every time I could not get a screw in the hole to avoid frustration.

My Problem

My earpiece speaker stopped working after dropping my phone in the water.

My Fix

It went great! My repair process took about 2 hours. I ended up breaking one of the plastic opening tools but still managed to complete the repair.

My Advice

Be careful during re-assembly. One of the bolts came off and I had to leave one screw out when I re-assembled. Luckily the phone still works fine but there may be risks in the future.

My Problem

When we made calls, people could hear us, but we couldn't hear them. Had to use headset. Big pain.

My Fix

Great adventure! Learned all about iPhone guts and tiny connector technology. The main problem we encountered was during reassembly. Had some loose bits (small nut, rubber strain relief bumper) and had to figure out where they went. The biggest problem was schmutz in the 4.8 mm threaded hole at the top of the wifi antenna/logic board. The screw would not engage. Thought that problem might be related to rogue nut (it was not). Eventually found a piece of plastic schmutz in the hole. The whole process took about 3 or 4 hours. A lot of time, but also a lot of fun! After reassembly, powered on the phone, and it worked perfectly.

My Advice

What do you have to lose? Your phone is broken, so even if your repair doesn't work, you are no worse off then when you started. Go for it.

Also, it's a good idea to tape down and label the tiny screws as you remove them. It's hard to tell the difference between the various-length screws since they are so tiny.

My Problem

Loose pockets and concrete surface for a broken iphone make.

My iphone has been a great tool over the years, but it sure takes a beating, this last slip from my pocket while playing football in the parking lot smashed the screen. Being an mechanical engineer, I figured it would be fun to see the inside of this incredibly well engineered device and get back in action bypassing any sort of apple service call/replacement phone p.i.t.a. I decided to replace my battery (life had started to go downhill) as well as the speaker at the same time. After reviewing the ifixit tutorials, I found that the front touchscreen replacement is the most invasive, requiring almost complete disassembly, so replacing the battery and speaker would be no extra work.

My Fix

The repair went smoothly and was successful. I spend a couple of hours doing this, but it was my first time running through the process. On top of that I took my time to not make any mistakes or damage any components, ribbon cables, etc. I prefer to take my time and do it right the first time. The ifixit guide is good.

My Advice

Definitely find a nice tray to keep track the tiny screws and parts. I organized them by dis-assembly step and re-assembly was a cinch. Magnetize your screw driver so that you don't actually have to hold onto a 1.2mm long screw! (just drag it one-way across any old magnet to give it some temporary magnetism). I used 99% isopropol alcohol and some cotton swabs to clean all the contact surfaces before re-assembly. The plastic opening tools got chewed up removing the screen, but I consider them disposable anyway. Unlike my automotive repair projects, I did not have any parts left over when it was back together.

My Problem

My earspeaker stopped woring, so i searched for solutions.

Alle the posts in the net meaned i should test my headphoneconnector but there everything was right. So i ordered all the stuff for fixin my earspeaker here at iFixIt and when the order arrived here in switzerland after about two weeks I chould easyly fix my iphone 4.

My Fix

I just followed the gude. It was very easy to do because erverything is well documented and there are lots of pictures to illustrate

My Advice

I love ths page! Specially that the shippment even to europe is very cheap! Tanks a lot!

The tooltech kit is perfect to almost ervery repair of electronics. After I got it I started to repair all the stuff at my place and now I'm even repairing stuff of my famely and friends! It's great