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iPhone 4 Button Metal Supports/Contacts Replacements

Dear ifixit,

I've changed my bezel on my Iphone 4 to black, however the buttons on the bezel I ordered did not have the metal contacts and so I couldn't use them and ended up using the original chrome buttons, I managed to rip off the metal contact from the original bezel for the home button but it seems impossible for the other buttons, what can I do about this?

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Hi!

To help you understand a bit more, those "metal contacts" aren't actually connected to those plastic/metal parts, but connected to a flex ribbon lined throughout the phone . These can easily be peeled off and transferred onto the new part.

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The "metal contact" for the home button is useless as the part used to activate the home button is the "home button flex". As long as you have the flex and the plastic button to go on top it will work perfectly fine.

Hope this helps! :)

Martin

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Just keep working at it it will come out. Maybe try heating it up and then prying at it. Just make sure that it doesn't fly across the room when it does, you don't want to wait for a replacement for such a ridiculous part. Oh and don't stab your self with whatever your using to pry it up, quite easy to do.

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What exactly are these "metal contacts" called though? I want to purchase them, is there a link here to them?

Thanks for the help so far guys!

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The metal contacts are attached to the flex cable itself.

So what you need to replace is:

- the power button flex cable --> also has the upper mic and proximity sensor attached

- the home button flex cable

- the volume buttons flex cable --> also has the mute switch and audio jack connected to it

what you want to do is get the old cables out and try to make the buttons all clean, like nothing is attached anymore.

Look good how the cables wore attached to the buttons and attach them the same way to the buttons, that should do the trick!

Hope this helps

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