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Which component is responsible for connecting to the mobile network?My iPhone 5c recently started intermittently displaying “No connection” in the top left. Resetting the phone would get it to ...
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I don’t know why the instructions didn’t mention this, but I pulled it to the left and back, like the previous strip, rather than straight back, to avoid snapping.
Well then it seems not all adhesive strips are made equally. I did as instructed, even getting the strip around the corner of the battery unscathed by using the plastic opening tool, moving up toward the back along the side, slowly and carefully. But then the strip kept snapping, till I was almost out of something to grab. About 1/4 of the way up the battery, it stopped snapping and pulled out the rest of the way without incident.
Another thing - These cables can become overlapped in the wrong way and make you think they are in a different order than they should be. Eg. it’s easy to mix up the ones from step 15 and 17. You can actually unravel the cables and re-layer them on top of each other in any order, so remember this! They look like they’re one solid mass but they’re not.
What’s not mentioned is there is a little arm on that bracket - so as you should slide it to the right to remove it, you also have to slide it left as you put it back in. If you don’t, it doesn’t sit properly, and when you screw in the 4.2mm screw, the bracket will buckle inwards. That’s how you know it’s not inserted properly.
I’ve done this twice and still cannot understand why we are removing the speaker before removing the antenna on top of it. It gets in the way, and again when you reverse the instructions when you put the antenna on first and then the speaker… I’ve been swapping those steps instead.
Clearly to channel the sound neatly from the outside to the inside of the case with no interference - muffling due to something being in the way, or vibrating of the case direct contact with the mic with nothing to absorb the shock. The mic is very tiny, when you’re working with parts this small, this stuff matters. The clarity of audio you’ve come to expect on phone calls doesn’t happen by magic.
Call me crazy, but can’t I just use a thin strip of blu-tack?
The connector seemed a bit raised after re-assembling, I noticed after pressing the bracket down on in preparation for screwing in. I don’t know if it’s normal for it to have a slightly raised feeling but it was noticeable. Enough to make me wonder if it’s too much pressure on it once it’s screwed together.
And what? I tried it once and here’s a million dollars?
Oh I get it… they got him! :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlznqpBg...