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Multiple Problems after iPhone 7 Plus screen replacement

I read the excellent guide on 7 plus screen replacement on this site as I'm trying to decide what to do next. I would be very grateful for any advice. To be honest, I'm considering buying the tools and parts required to fix my families phones myself, given this situation.

I had my 7plus screen replaced today. The phone was fully functional apart from the badly cracked screen. It has been returned to me with the following functionality inoperative:

1. Microphone 2. Speaker 3. Volume adjustment buttons 4. Front camera 5. Home button

After reading the guide, it seems that it is entirely possible that a screen replacement can damage fragile connections etc.. Is this an acceptable risk? Or is there perhaps something else going on caused by the screen replacement?

Thanks in advance.

Update (07/04/2018)

sorry everyone, I don't undertand the how this site works. I'm still looking for advice.

thanks

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Hi Tom Chai, thanks for your reply, I appreciate it.

I agree with you completely, I will not try and fix this phone myself, as it will probably be throwing good money after bad. I guess the point I was trying to make is that I think I could have repaired the screen myself with the right tools and the excellent guide on this site.

I have three daughters and I don't want to think about how much I have spent on official apple replacement screens over the last 10 years. That's why I might consider replacing a screen myself in the future.

The problem is that I do not have confidence in the repair shop to fix it. I'm actually trying to research the issue to find out if the phone can be economically repaired as its only 16 months old.

It may sound crazy, but I'm trying to research the problem, so that I can inform the repair shop in how to fix it. There are no guarantees with these 3rd party repairs and I don't want to give them more money unless I know, that they know, how to fix it.

thanks for your reply

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Well in that case you can open up the phone, send us hi-res internal photos so we can at least examine what may have happened during the first repair. Maybe something can be salvaged.

Maybe starting a DIY repair next time, you can let this one go or use it as practice anyway.

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DIY repair advice: Don't pick up other people's mess. Whoever messed this up for you is responsible to clean it up for you.

Restoring a previously failed repair is way beyond DIY level because it could have been tampered with from top to bottom, parts can be bad quality, repair handiwork can be horrible and generally more things get broken than fixed. It takes extensive detective work to figure out what the previous guy did and how to undo it, if even possible at all.

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