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Screen/Digitizer Replacement

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iPhone 5s

iPhone 5s LCD and Digitizer Replacement

iPhone 5s LCD and Digitizer Replacement

30 minutes - 1 hour

Moderate

My Problem

The left half of the screen on my girlfriend's iPhone 5S was unresponsive and had light vertical lines.

My Fix

The repair went smoothly but thinking about it after the fact, the whole effort in step 25 of the guide which has the copper adhesive backed connector being removed from the large metal shield plate that goes over the back of the screen. The whole plate gets transferred to the new screen/digitizer assembly along with the home button, camera, etc... so why should it be removed? All that step does is make damaging the fragile cable assembly much more likely.

My Advice

Remove step 25 from the guide and add more specific detailed pictures of the proximity sensor and camera area. The holders they sorta snap into came on the new screen assembly but I couldn't tell that from the images shown so I removed them from the original assembly, then had to remove them from the sensor and camera to be able to fit it on the new assembly.

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