Replacing the screen on your iPhone 4
SUCCESS, the phone turned on and booted up. My apps were working and everything seemed fine until I noticed “No Service” staring at me from the upper left hand corner of my iPhone screen. I had just spent almost my whole night on replacing the screen only to break something else inside the phone? It didn’t seem fair. I took off the back of the phone and started taking it apart for the third time.
After removing just a couple of screws, I noticed a connector that I missed. Some googling told me that it was the antenna. It seemed like that was the problem, but those extra pieces I had left over had me worried that I had actually just ruined my phone. I hooked up the antenna and turned on the phone. It turned on and my service was restored. I had successfully replaced the screen on my iPhone 4.
So what did I think of the experience? It was awful while doing it. It was so stressful seeing my phone lying there in pieces. I really thought I was going to ruin it. Now that I’m done, I’m proud to be able to say I can replace the screen of an iPhone. My advice to anyone wanting to try it? Hire someone else to do it.
P.S. – If you’ve cracked the back of your iPhone, replacing it is incredibly easy. You just remove two screws from the bottom and the back slides off. Replacing the battery is also very easy. There are two screws holding the connector in and once the back of the phone is off, you can get right to them. Any further than that and it gets scary and stressful.
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carter:
October 10th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
wish could say i kno the feeling, purchased a screen n digitalizer from e bay organized the teardown in ocd fashion enjoying it to untill i noticed the vibration motor screw rounded off after a few gental screws so i still have a cracked screen
Andy:
March 21st, 2012 at 9:18 pm
I did a screen replacement and found that my screen was either badly designed or for another carrier because the tabs on the side of it that bolt it to the phone didn’t fit. I didn’t feel like waiting another month for the correct screen to come, and the screen looked identical out side of a couple of the tabs so I improvised and broke them off with a pair of pliers and thinking that I would purchase a good tight fitting case for it to make up for the missing screws. I also had the same problem with pinching the ribbon. I don’t know if the ribbon was damaged or if the screen just isn’t compatible but now the Phone works and will even ring when you call it and th screen lights up but is black, a guy at a local cell phone accessory store that does the repair told me that you sometimes have to reset the screen by holding in on the power and home buttons, No luck. Don’t ever try to do this repair, it’s a pain in the a$$ and it’s easy to botch, just pay someone else to do it if you can.
Jessica:
May 1st, 2012 at 6:32 pm
I found myself relating to EVERY word you said except, during some tear-down and reassembles I have found myself with TWO broken flex connectors.. absolutely NO idea what they go to, google is no help. and my phone won’t work :/ any advice?
John:
August 7th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
One day I was running and I found an iPhone 4 lying on the ground with a COMPLETELY shattered screen and the LCD was almost leaking. So I called apple and told them what happened and they said I could keep it because The previous owner had gotten a new one and never labeled it as stolen property. I ordered the screen and I did the exact same thing that you did to replace the screen including the folded wire but when i turned the iPhone on it just lights up. No unlock icon or anything. Has this happened to anyone else’s screen? If so how do you fix it?
iphone screen replacements:
August 11th, 2012 at 3:16 am
Thanks for your post about your iphone screen replacements. Great information.
Jordan:
October 11th, 2012 at 5:42 am
I’ve recently done an iPhone screen replacement the first one I got off eBay was just the glass (I’d realized this after I took the phone apart) so I’d be phone less until the proper LCD arrived. Anyway it’s together and everything but instead of a working screen when I turn it on it comes up with lines running down the screen. Typing this into google brought up this article. Perhaps you can help me??
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Michael Gonzalez:
January 20th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
You guys are all dumb, I do this repair all the time, it’s incredibly easy if you just follow instructions and buy a screwmat to keep track of all the screws
rachel:
May 2nd, 2013 at 3:52 am
I’ve just fixed the back of my daughters iphone 4s but the two little screws won’t go back in. Will this cause any problems. The back on very tight with no movement. How can I keep these screws in place ?
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December 10th, 2013 at 11:04 am
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