Linus

Hi, community of iFixit! So I’ve got a strange problem with one of my Wii Remotes. One of them is draining the battery...

Hm, this is a very strange problem. First of all you should make sure that the replacement screen is for your phone and not anything else than an iPhone 6. If that’s the case, it won’t be compatible. However if you have an iPhone 6 replacement display, you should make sure that it is one of high quality. Low quality replacement displays are often likely to break in a short time or give you trouble when repairing. But if you have a high quality replacement display (such as a one from iFixit) there should be no trouble. You must have damaged the connectors on the cables somehow (bent pins or similar) resulting in them not connecting even if it is the original screen or not. The last solution might be that the replacement display got damaged when it was made in the factory. If that’s the case you should contact your seller.

This could be a software issue. If that’s the case, you should probably ask Apple for help… However, if you are 100% sure that the battery isn’t the problem, there might be some issue with the logicboard. That’s possible to replace, yes but hard. And you would probably lose touch ID features as each individual home button is paired to the logicboard to the phone. And with the fact that this isn’t a physical button and just a sensor, you won’t even get the ability to click your home button unless you go through Apple which will re-pair a new one for around 379$… These issues are always hard to fix, as I usually tell most people to restore the whole phone, but it seems like that isn’t an option here… I don’t like to say it, but I’m afraid that Apple is the only way here if no genius here might have a great solution. But if a wipe and a restore is possible, I highly recommend you to hook it up to iTunes and restore the phone.

Did all this happend after a system update? If so, something is most likely wrong with the drivers - backup your data and restore the phone. However if that’s not the case, the earpiece speaker might be the problem. But before we dig deeper into that, here are some stuff you should try out: (1) Front facing camera (2) Ambient light sensor (just hover your finger over the top of the phone and your display should turn darker. If these are working fine, something is most likely wrong with the earpiece speaker. Try to replace it. However if the front facing camera and ambient light sensor didn’t work, it could be about a ribbon cable and if that’s the case, try to replace that.

Try to somehow reinstall the whole OS that your phone might be running (which means the right version of Android and for the correct device). If system files are missing, the phone will behave in a strange way. This isn’t something that could be done easily, so I recommend just going to a repair shop which will most likely do that hard work for you. If they say it isn’t possible, or will require hard work and be very expensive, just buy yourself a new phone. And remember to never touch the system files! If they are changed, the phone or even any OS won’t work properly!

The only problem that I can think of is the ribbon cables. Something to always keep in mind during repairs is that ribbon cables are extremely fragile and can be damaged even if a tiny plastic piece just scratches against it a bit too hard. My guess is that sometime during the repair, the cable was damaged and therefore the button is no longer working. You could always try to replace that. I’m not a god with these consoles, but I don’t think that it is a software issue because as I’ve understood, the other buttons are working. So something gotta be blocking the signal from the button from reaching the motherboard of the device (most likely a damaged ribbon cable or maybe a broken button). I hope that you will find a solution, and have a good day.

You could always try to wipe the device remotely with “Find my iPhone“ and another Apple device that is logged in with the same Apple ID as your phone. If that doesn’t work, hook it up to iTunes on a computer. Enter recovery mode by holding in the power button and the volume down button. Keep them that way until your phone has entered recovery mode. You can now release the buttons and iTunes should detect the phone. iTunes will give you 2 options: update or restore. Choose update, and iOS will be reinstalled without getting your data wiped. Your phone will hopefully work after this. But I recommend you to read Apple’s Help Support about problems like this to get the best answer. Have a good day.

As another person said, the most Android phones does this and it isn’t a problem. It is probably the software that causes this to happen, and it is completely normal. But if this is something new, do some research in system updates and if this feature has been added in a new version of your phone’s OS. Otherwise you shall check for programs that might be doing this and uninstall them if you aren’t comfortable with the phone vibrating when you are turning it on and off. However, I don’t think that this is too big of a deal since all Android phones that I’ve had has been doing this every time they have gone through startup and shutdown. It is probably not something dangerous like a virus. Example: A system update could have caused this too.

The bracket is there to secure the cables and make them stay in place. If the flex cables aren’t properly secured into place and the bracket is missing, you may want to get a new one. However the phone shouldn’t restart, the display should just be extremely glitchy… If this only was a display replacement something like this shouldn’t happen. However, the person that did this poor repair might have damaged the logic board at some point. If that would be the case, the phone is more likely to behave weirdly. You can always try to restore the device back to factory settings and see if that makes a difference, but doing so will wipe your data, so be careful and back up everything you want to keep. If you’re unlucky the logic board might have been damaged and replacing that would be pretty difficult and expensive…

To be honest I’m not very good with PlayStations, but USB ports actually have a very weird type of behavior when they’re broken. I don’t think that I’ve got any clear solution for this, but I’ve got some tips and tricks that you can try. Broken USB ports can in fact still charge stuff up such as controllers, although transferring data might be impossible. If your USB stick worked with several computers the problem might just be the USB ports. Do some research and see if they have gotten damaged at any point. If that’s the case, a replacement of them might be necessary. As I said previously I’m not very good with PlayStations, so the problem might also be the operating system. If it doesn’t support the files you are trying to transfer you will most likely get an error message or not find them at all. However if the PS3 doesn’t detect the USB stick at all, try and hook something else up to it (example: another USB stick) and see if that works. If that worked I don’t have a solution for your problem. However...