Hi guys, David and David here from upphone.com and payetteforward.com, and in this video,
we're going to explain what to do when your iPhone won't turn on after a screen replacement.
It's gonna happen for any number of reasons, but when we make videos we like to start with
the simplest fixes first.
So first step hard reset your iPhone.
On an iPhone X, XR, XS.
XS Max, 8, 8 Plus: press and release the volume up button, press release the volume down button,
and then press and hold the side button on your iPhone until the Apple logo reappears
on the screen.
Yep.
You may have to hold down the side button for 40 seconds.
Do not give up.
Yep, iPhone 7 and 7 Plus: it's the volume down button and the side button.
Press and hold those simultaneously.
And iPhone 6s and earlier, Home button and power button simultaneously until Apple logo
appears.
The next step is a DFU restore.
Even if your iPhone looks like it won't turn on you can, a lot of the time, still put it
into DFU mode.
To do that, watch our video on how to DFU restore your iPhone.
We have different one's for different iPhones.
Card above, description section below all the links you need are right there.
So DFU restore, hard reset, didn't work.
Let's get down to the actual nuts and bolts of your iPhone.
So the first thing to check is is your iPhone turning on actually in the screen is broken?
Like let it turn on, flip the vibrate switch on the side of your iPhone.
If your iPhone is actually vibrating, then your phone is on and the screen isn't working.
If that's the case, then you have to reseat the connections of the display inside your
iPhone.
Just disconnect each cable from the logic board and reconnect it.
Cross your fingers.
Hopefully it works.
Now one of the things that we found from personal experience really is that it's very important
to disconnect the battery before you try to do a screen replacement.
Even if it seems like you shouldn't have to, right, because there's current going through
the phone and it's very easy to short something out.
The other piece of it, which is the unfortunate thing that happens, sometimes is that the
pins as you have found out when you reconnect replace screen on the logic board, that's
very sensitive.
So sometimes you can bend those pins and then you'd have to try a new display or you have
to you know, the logic board could be fried, but a lot of the time the replacement screens
that people buy aren't the highest quality.
So sometimes it's a good idea just to buy another replacement screen on Amazon or wherever
you bought it you and try that one on your phone.
Yeah we'll give them a link to the Amazon screen replacement stuff.
There's lots of good replacements.
Just read the reviews.
Even at Apple, sometimes we get a bum part out from the Genius room.
We have to send it back, try another one.
So I would recommend reopen your phone, reseat all the connections, disconnect the battery,
reconnect the battery, disconnect the display, reconnect the display.
Make sure you're following the guidance on ifixit.com to make sure that everything ended
up in the right spot because one little misconnection in here and there can be a problem.
If your phone is completely dead after you've tried all of this, it's probably a problem
with the logic board of the phone and you need to get the phone repaired.
Before you go to Apple with a replaced screen, get rid of the replacement screen.
Put the original screen back in your iPhone, even if it's cracked, right, because Apple
won't touch a phone at the Genius Bar or give you an out of warranty replacement cost price
if it has a third party part — a non-Apple part has been installed on the phone.
So sometimes people come in to the Apple Store and they have a third-party screen.
The thing we would say we can't help you at all.
So they be on the hook for an entirely new phone.
And you know, if you're on the hook for an entirely new phone, maybe you want to think
about upgrading to a new phone.
You can use our cell phone comparison tool on upphone.com compare every phone, every
carrier, and if you switch to a new plan while you're at it, you might save a lot of money.
Totally.
There's some great deals out there right now.
Yeah, so that's what to do when your iPhone won't turn on after a screen replaced.
Yeah.
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