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Broken tiny piece - what does it do?

I have a crushed iPhone 6 I'm repairing. There is a tiny piece that attaches to the top frame housing and sits between the rear and front facing camera. It is broken in half, but as far as I can tell, the only thing broken off is the plastic screw hole that attaches it to the housing. The connector seems to be grounding okay but I'm not getting wifi. I don't know if it's related or not. What is this thing and what does it do?

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This is the piece that's broken.

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This is where it goes.

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This is upper antenna tuner connection, it does not receive any signal but it changes the impedance of the upper bezel antenna to fit different wireless bands.

A hundred things can go wrong for wifi, especially with a phone with physical damage. Nobody can tell for sure what's broken, the only way is to probe the board yourself or swap parts with a good phone and isolate the failed component yourself.

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the iFixit walkthrough for logic board calls this the "angled logic board bracket"

I don't personally know if it serves a function beyond that.

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Thank you. I just got the part yesterday and will replace it today. Much appreciated.

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Hey, Rick. My bracket was also busted. I’m kinda new to repairs, and aside from this site, I don’t know where else to get replacement parts. Could you tell me where you got one of these "angled logic board bracket" replacements?

Thanks.

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