Is there any way to repair the LCD backlight cable?
This is definitely a long shot, but I figured I'd see if anyone had some creative solutions. I salvaged a replacement LCD/Digitizer/Touch Screen for my first gen iPhone. The problem is with the LCD portion. There's a small ribbon cable along the right side that is severed and barely hanging together. I'm guessing that one of the ribbon wires is for the LCD and the other is for the backlight because I'm able to tape it in place just enough to get the LCD portion to work and everything works except the backlight. I have an extra cable laying around and was wondering if there was someway I could attach the two similar to attaching two wires together without having to actually remove the connection to the LCD because I know there's pretty much no way to mess with that connection without destroying the LCD. Probably gonna have to just replace the entire thing...
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Have you any Photos to show what you mean? Sometimes if you follow the flex you can find solder points in the early apple devise so you may be able to get creative. I haven't fixed one of these in ages so can't remember the exact layout
door pollytintop
I'll take some really quick. I can follow the wires easily theres only two and they go to two solder joints on the LCD connector at the top. One is completely severed and the other is dangling. I don't think I can solder them because of the plastic
door nah
Eh, unfortunately my camera sucks and I really couldn't get a clear enough picture since it's so small. You can kinda see where it's ripped here:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/43/...
and I drew over where the wires are in red here
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/688...
The part doesn't seem to be an exact OEM but I can get it to boot. At this point, it doesn't even seem worth it to pay the cost of shipping to return it.
door nah
if you've got a lowish watt soldering iron and some flux/solder I'd be tempted to see if you could take the old one off (I know it's on plastic but I've had success doing similar work on plastic parts with solder.. the solder is actually just a blob on top of a metal tab in the plastic so as long as you're careful) i think as a lasting repair this might be a good option. I have heard of people using a special pen that "draws" the metal inside the ribbon flex... you do have to scrape some of the plastic off to get to the metal and then "bodge" it to the other part of the flex. perhaps someone on here knows more on the pen and could be more help.
door pollytintop
well the problem with just replacing the cable is that its attached underneath to the LCD. I opened my broken one up just for curiosity sake and totally destroyed the LCD because they're all one piece.
door nah
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