The power button on my old iPhone 4s (ok, I suppose I should retire this phone for something a bit more modern, but the obvious Apple upgrade in near $1000! so I am looking at China androids. Anyway) stopped working.<\/p>\n
The Internet says it is the surface mount cable strip under the button that is likely to go wrong. I ordered one that included tools for about $5 from ebay. I ordered a new battery for another $7 at the same time as I was going to be opening up the device.<\/p>\n
It was an exceptionally tricky repair. Much harder than replacing a laptop screen or anything except maybe when I tried to surface mount solder some RAM chips to a Palm Pilot back in 1998 (I failed, and wasted $50 worth or chips back then).<\/p>\n
Luckily, I was a bit better this time, but the internal design is pretty close to impossible to repair, as if Steve Jobs said make it hard so it can’t be repaired, just replace.<\/p>\n
If you are brave, there are directions to fix it here:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Guide\/iPhone+4S+Earpiece+Speaker+Replacement\/7320<\/p>\n
and here:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Guide\/iPhone+4+Power+%26+Lock+Button+Replacement\/4332<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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