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Repair information and guides for the iPhone 6 that was released on September 19, 2014. Model Numbers: A1549, A1586, and A1589

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replaceing iPhone 6 accelerometer

When ever i open my compass it just spins like crazy, it dose not stop moving. same when i am in maps my direction is constonally flipping around. it was in watter but i took it to CPR cellphone repair (in st louis) and they replaced the screen, gave it a watter damage cleaning, and a new power flux.

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Who the heck charges anyone. $60 to not fix a phone! Bga work is not something you "try"

This problem is not necessarily one specific ic--use a multimeter to see what exact line is down on your board by comparing to the schematic and a known good board. Water damage can affect an ic, but more common is a short on a capacitor serving that ic

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this totally worked ..Thanks so much

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It sounds like the gyroscope is the issue and not the accelerometer. This is an IC soldered to the board, unless you have the equipment and some soldering experience I would not attempt to repair it.

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that component is kind of notorious for dying in water damage phones, maybe as much as 60% of recovered water damaged iphone 6 turn out to have this problem.

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I have some experience with soldering.. How much dose the part cost?

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Old turkey is correct iPhone 6 uses two accelerometers and one of them is a combo with the gyroscope. What I meant was the error you are seeing is caused by gyroscope (most likely). If the gyroscope were the issue you need the MP67B and it should be in the $15-20 range here in the U.S.

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If no underfill you can reflow like galloham mentioned. Use a heat gun the very least preferably a temperature regulated hot air station

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I got a water damaged iphone 6 today. Corrosion was bad on the board. After water damage treatment gyroscope was bad. Good news, no underfill on this one so I tried reflowing it and it did not work for me. Customer did not want to pay $100 for me to replace the ICs so... Ill never know :)

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rythqu, the iPhone 6 uses a InvenSense MP67B 6-axis which is a combination of the gyroscope and the accelerometer. Having experience with soldering may not be quite sufficient since this is a LGA package IC . BTW, according to Chipworks the iPhone 6 series uses 2 accelerometers. The one right besides the InvenSense is a three-axis Bosch BMA280 accelerometer.....As for cost and where to get it, I'd suggest a good internet search and choose something that is close to you etc.

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Replacing if fully is the last thing that I would want to do, that would be a lot more in depth then I could handle my self.. The cpr stole told me that it would be 60$ and their would be no guarantee that they could fix it(they said that they can't order it but I found it online), so I was hopping that I could just fix it my self

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don't try replacing the IC yet.. just heat up the gyroscope IC/ accelerometer IC then try to see the result..

i had this Problem once after repairing a water damage of an Iphone 4s heating up those two ICs solved the problem thou i dont know which one was the problem.. you can try one at a time or both at once.. Good Luck

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How would you re omen heating it up? First thing that would come to my mind is a hair dryer but I feel that is wrong

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hair dryer will not provide enough heat at appropriate time.. u should use heat-station or heat-gun with a small diameter heat flow and center the heat on only those ICs for just 5s..

something like this should be good http://www.5thpostulate.com/pr/solder-re...

but u can try with the hairdryer and make sure other parts are not effected.. and i am sure the time will be loger myb 15-20s

i used head-gun-station

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If I was to do it my self, would I need to take it fully off or could I do it with just the screen taken off?

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all detachable parts should be off the main board.. and battery is a MUST TO DETACHED

and careful is needed

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Hello, I have the same problem, my phone droped in watter and my gyroscope/accelometer is very slow. When I open compas it hardly turns and when I want to use as vertical or horizontal level, it's very slow and evry time it's more inacurate. So I belive that the IC (Gyro and Accelo) are problem, where can I buy the chip for iPhone 7.

Can you provide me with any links where are the solutions, I can't finde anything :/

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