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The power button on the iPhone 6s+ from my mum doesn’t click anymore. It still registers but the feedback is horrible. What exactly do I have to replace? Isopropyl and compressed air didn’t help. Somewhat related story: She was fine with it but now she dropped the phone in the toilet and while I have everything open I can replace the button as well. Actually getting that to work again was/is quite a bit of work. Got rid of all the water inside, no visible damage. It worked fine but rebooted by itself randomly and didn’t charge at full speed and stopped charging after a while. I thought I didn’t get everything and opened it up again. While doing that I think I broke the cable to the digitizer (touch screen not working but image is fine). Either way same result for the phone itself. Dumped a ton of isopropyl alcohol into the phone and some got into the screen (rip screen even more). Now I got out my old battery from a few years ago (replaced it with an ifixit one after the capacity got low) and DFU mode reinstalled iOS. Now it charges just fine and I think it doesn’t crash anymore. So now I ordered a new battery and a refurbished screen (rip me)… and I hope everything will work. So while I am waiting I can just as well order whatever I need for the home button.
Aye caramba. Is the home button damaged too? If not,BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN REPLACING IT. If it breaks,you lose touch forever. Just be thankful it’s a 6s. Anything later gives a problem with a new home button period. The power power button requires the whole logic board to be taken out!!!! This will be a very very difficult task for someone who’s never don’t it before. You will want to make sure YOU DO NOT get the screws mixed up no matter what. Taking screw damage is real. The little metal rings attached to the logic board that look like a bolt(silver) only go so deep,with nothing under but board. If you use too long of a screw it will dig in and destroy micro traces(wires) internal to the board since it’s like 10 layers. You should watch YouTube videos. But it requires taking the board out,and the battery. It’s one flex cable. So removing the flex cable attached to the power button/volume(this is why you have to remove battery too.) set. It’s a pain in the ass. You can use assistive touch instead though…but it has an icon on screen. This reduces the likely risk(no insult meant) of something going wrong. You’d need heat to take off the battery. You don’t want to bend it no matter what. You you will want the board out either way really to clean with alcohol. There’s no guarantee that no water got under the shields. But you can clean it the best YOU can. DISCONNECT ALL fpc connectors and clean repair very well. Have you checked the power button from the inside? My mom dropped her iPhone in the bath and it still worked(at the time about a year ago I didn’t even know how to open them.) and it survived to this day!!! It did have an otter box though. But it didn’t power on. I think the otter helped reduce the amount of water,but either way we replaced the screen after many videos and it works. Alcohol is bad to get in a speaker(on bottom of phone). This can move flux on the area and get crap into it. It could effect the speaker. Make sure you don’t connect anything to or disconnect anything from the board without FIRST disconnecting the battery.
