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[Jessa_the_Professa]

You could rule out tristar first, but this is likely bad NAND. You can replace the NAND if you have the right reader to transfer the serial number to...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

Replace backlight diode and coil, then you’ve rebuilt the whole circuit. Tell us which one was the failure. (These phones all use the same diode and...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

mic 1 is on the charge port

[Jessa_the_Professa]

"known genuine one" The only source for a known genuine part is another working iPhone, and even then, you might damage the part removing it....

[Jessa_the_Professa]

RE: ZXW. I just downloaded it and installed it on a new laptop. It works, but it is a pain. you have to first set a folder as a windows defender exception...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

ZXW--never use the built in updater. Whenever zxw makes a new version it breaks the old ones. Go to their website, download the latest version into...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

Great job!

[Jessa_the_Professa]

look up i2c4_sda line in iphone 8. This is the eeprom signal, and it lives within trinity in the iPhone 8. You are correct--trinity can not be replaced...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

if you had water under the shield by NAND then you also had water under acorn. You'll have to replace it and rework any corrosion/missing/damaged pads...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

For correct diode mode measurement on 2020 SE you can use zxw. Phoneboard is okay, but not as good as zxw. Pin 31 is indeed ground in SE 2020
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[Jessa_the_Professa]

Apologies, I missed your prior update. To look for heat with a full short on main, do exactly this.
1.) Solder a wire to the vdd_main test point...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

Apologies--I had typed out this response yesterday but it doesn't appear to have posted on the thread due to a network error.

[Jessa_the_Professa]

Great, you figured it out! You can just use a tweezer to pull the data pins out slightly from the inner middle plastic to rejuvenate the connector.

[Jessa_the_Professa]

Looking at your photo, both of those mosfets are "rough" I would not use them. I would just jump the gas gauge lines across the mosfet and...

Hello Jessa,
Could you please respond to my last post on the following
https://forum.ipadrehab.com/forum/ip...-repair/8152-i...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

For some older phones and older iOS there are exploits here and there that can bypass disabled if they are on older iOS versions. Do not update the phone...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

On boot— you see a dim Apple with no backlight? Or you see the full brightness Apple logo that then goes dark?

[Jessa_the_Professa]

It isn’t recognized because it is disabled. If you boot it into recovery mode it will be detected and then you can restore (erasing data) then set...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

Hey there,
welcome to the forum. The phone you have is referred to as “2020 SE” and it is quite like iPhone 8. There is no schematic outside...

[Jessa_the_Professa]

The common fault would be the 1v8 image filter (often damaged at the same time as backlight) or short on LCM reset from plugging in the wrong screen....