Hey, what usually happens is the speaker/earpiece grill gets filled with dust making it hard for the sound to pass through. Usually happens with old phones or heavily used phones. The same happens with charging ports and headphone jacks. Take a flashlight and shine inside, try to see if there is any build-up of dust. Your best bet is to take something thin and gently poke it out. Don’t go too deep, you can damage the speaker itself.
You probably “soft bricked” your phone. If like you said the phone died in the middle of an update the software may have been corrupted causing the phone to not boot up correctly. You should still be able to put your phone into DFU mode and restore your device. Here are the steps listed on iFixit: (1) Connect the device to a computer using a USB cable. (2) Hold down both the Home button and Lock button. (3) After 8 seconds, release the Lock button while continuing to hold down the Home button. (3.1) If the Apple logo appears, the Lock button was held down for too long. (4) Nothing will be displayed on the screen when the device is in DFU mode. If open, iTunes will alert you that a device was detected in recovery mode. (4.1) If your device shows a screen telling you to connect the device to iTunes, retry these steps.
Hello, There is no such thing as a storage board in phones, only a “storage chip“, which can’t be swapped without proper equipment. A better solution would be swapping the entire motherboard for a different one, which isn’t very difficult and 100% possible. The same goes for the back housing.
Hello, I had a similar issue with either Samsung S5 or newer. Bought a new screen and it wouldn’t work. Turns out the screens can’t be just swapped between different model numbers. Screen xxxx won’t work on a yyyy motherboard.
None of my iPhones seem to be charging when using a nongenuine charging cable. When the device is dead (0%) it starts charging normally, however, when the battery level reaches around 10% the device turns on and current drops to 0A (won’t charger for nothing). My power brick is 100% genuine but the cable is aftermarket one. Switching to a genuine cable fixes this issue for me. As long as the cable is genuine it works. I tried genuine cable with Samsung power brick and it still works. Not sure if this will help as you said you’re using a genuine charger/cable.
