When your phone battery cannot last you a whole day, it’s time for a new battery. A phone battery capacity goes slowly down as time goes by. The two diagrams below show battery level trend. When a battery is with high capacity, the percentage will go slowly down, otherwise sharply down. It’s the same case …
Among all the phone screens that we’ve replaced in the past a few years, there are at least 3 out of 10 replaced screens still have the protective film on (blue plastic on of the screen shown below). This is a frequently seen bad phone screen replacement. It takes only a few seconds for this …
One of our customers brought her water damage iPhone yesterday to our shop, looking forward to get it repaired and give it to her mother as a gift. It was a gold iPhone XS with excellent condition, but the screen didn’t show anything after the power button hold down. I was told the phone was dropped into toilet …
If a phone is often used in a damp environment, some parts of the charging port may become rusty such as the little pins are made of copper. Rusty copper is bluish-green shown in the picture below. In some cases, the pins are coated in gold to prevent rusting. Cheaper devices usually just use copper. …
How to Tell a Good iPad Repair from a Bad One? How to tell a bad iPad repair form a good one? Yes. You might have some answers for it, like from the display of the screen if you get the LCD display replaced, from the touch sensitivity of the touch glass digitiser if you …
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We successfully handled a phone battery swell problem yesterday. A lady and her son came into our shop with an iPhone X, asking if I could replace the screen protector on it. I took over the phone and noticed that the phone screen was lifted, and there was a gap between the screen and the …
It’s annoying if the phone Face ID stops working, since a lot of people with a smart phone rely on it to unlock the screen, login to accounts, do payment etc. If it stops working, we will have to fall back on passcode, which is not as convenient as Face ID. And what’s more, if …
If your battery doesn’t last a whole day, we recommend have it replaced. It doesn’t take long to replace phone battery. We got a customer’s Samsung S8 this morning which didn’t power on. The phone did charge, but very slowly. We were told by the customer that nothing special happened before this issue. There are …
I came across a fake Samsung phone. It’s a Samsung S21 Ultra. It had a broken back that needed to be removed. After all the broken bits were taken away, I was able to take a close look at the inside of it. Almost at the same time, I was sure that it was a …
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Customer might be annoyed by the message shown on his/her screen that ‘your iPhone 11 uses a non-genuine replacement screen’. Yes it is quite annoying to see this message. That’s Apple’s newest feature in its iOS 15.2 Edition for iPhones from 11 and up (iPhone SE 2020 excluded). For iPhone 11 and later, from iOS …
