"If you've been in this business for a year or more, you must have noticed by now the ratio of iPad 2's with LCD color problems compared to iPad 3-4-5 altogether.
The difference? Mainly the infamous iPad 2 display cable.
9 out of 10 times, I need to clean and reseat the cable ON BOTH ENDS. 1 in 10, the cable needs replacing. 0/10 I actually need to replace the LCD because of the blueish or reddish hue."
"I've stumbled across a dumb one today, not sure how many know it. So here it is:
It's about iPhone 5S battery replacement. To remove the old batteries, I used to try the iFixit guide approach (I'm quoting them, step 25 of the battery replacement guide): ""Pull the outside battery adhesive tab straight up and carefully around the corner of the battery."" Right at the corner, the tab would be severed, and I often ended up heating the back of the phone and struggling with the battery to remove it.
But today I received an iPhone 5S with severe water damage.
I removed the screen, disconnected the battery, and took out the logic board. Once I started the water damage treatment on the board, I went on to remove the lightning dock connector, to clean it. Then I said why not remove the battery, since I'll probably need to replace it. So I pull out the adhesive tab, cut it in half like instructed by iFixit, and accidentally pull on it straight back towards where the lightning connector used to be (instead of around the corner). The adhesive tab came out entirely, without hassle.
I tried the trick on the 2nd half of the tab, and it also came out in 1 second.
I was happy like a child with a new toy for having finally cracked the adhesive tab trick of the iPhone 5S battery!
Let me know if many of you knew that trick (or not), because I feel really dumb for not having figured it out before, and I'd like to know where I stand! :)
Now let's hope I'll be able to successfully repair that water damaged board :)"
When replacing an optical drive on a PS4 you have to take the daughterboard off of the old one and install it on the new one. The motherboard and daughterboard are matched together and there is no way (that I know of) to put a different optical drive in unless you have that specific daughterboard.
I also learned, at the same time, that there are two different kinds of daughterboards and you have to have the correct one for the matching optical drive."
Galaxy glass repairs, paint a border of LOCA at the top and bottom and set with the lamp, couple of layers. This will create a seal better than tape, so you dont get any leak into the camera lense/home button area.
