I looked briefly for a replacement for the thin rubber strip outside of the screen to frame that looks like it's mostly for dust/water resistance. Does anyone know if i can purchase this separately or if it's with a screen or frame replacement? I do not work in phone repair anymore unfortunately so I'm out of the loop on anything repair wise with the new flips/folds. Thanks in advance.

I have a few old videos of my kids I would love to clean up, they were sent from an iPhone to an android and they are extremely pixelated. Is there any easy fix im missing? Or am I going to have to pay for a video editor app.?

Can someone please help me get a password back without deleting all the data off my phone???

When I plug in my phone it only goes up to 0% maybe 1% but that’s it. I have to use a good extra charge, charger to even get it to go past the Apple logo start up without just shutting down again. When I am able to put my pin in and open up my phone everything works but yk kinda slow cuz it’s low battery, but then exactly 3 mins in it shuts down again. So it’s a cycle of starting up, 3 mins work, shut down. The tech guy I took it to says it might be best just to buy a new phone, because this “3 min rule “ means the motherboard is messed up, but I’m thinking it could also just be the need to replace the battery. I have to say I did drop my phone a while back and did get the battery removed and a 3rd party battery installed. This was around 5 months ago.

What’s y’all’s thoughts? Appreciate any feedback

Hi everyone, I started having this weird issue a couple of months ago where my phone wouldn't charge. I experienced this issue a couple of times back in September. Tbh, I called Apple Support on September 28 and I told them the phone wouldn't charge. I mean, I usually charge the phone using a surge protector and I remember that time the phone wouldn't charge when connected to one of the surge protector's outlets, then I switched to another one and the same. So I finally plugged it in to a wall outlet and it took a few minutes and finally started charging. However, unfortunately Apple wasn't of much help, as the only thing the agent did was run some diagnostics and once finished he said everything was fine according to the results.

After that, everything went back to normal and the phone didn't have any charging issues until last night. In fact, last night the phone's battery percentage was 14% and I plugged it in to this surge protector like I always do and I went to watch TV and left it charging. Whereas, 30 minutes later I returned to check the battery's percentage and it was still on 14%, then I tried switching it to the outlet next to it and the same. After that I plugged it in to the wallet outlet and after a couple of minutes it started charging again.

I don't understand why a Phone won't charge at times and other times it does.

On the one hand, earlier today I did some tests and tried charging it again by plugging it in to both this surge protector and the wall outlet as well and it charged with no issue and I'm really confused as to why I experience this issue at times. On the other hand, another thing I've noticed is that it often takes a coulpe of minutes until it starts charging, when it used to switch percentages quickly. For example, let's say the phone is at 58%, then when I plug it in, be it a wall outlet o surge protector, it takes a bit longer for it to switch to 59% and I don't know why.

For more details, my phone is an iPhone SE (2022). It's on iOS 17.7 and currently battery health is 87% (I bought the phone in early January 2023).

Any advice would be helpful, thanks in advance and have a good day.

I forgot to mention english isn't my native language, I apologize for any mistakes.

Hello everybody,

first post here :) So i organize a little repair café every week at the school i work at. Naturally, most students come in with broken phones. Last week, a student came in with his iphone 11:

- Broken display (a lot of stripes, you can only see fragments of the image)

- The phone turns on, but does not seem to get past the apple logo (as far as i can see in the fragments shown...)

Question 1: A new display costs only 24€ for the iphone 11, which seems worth it to give it a try. But it's definitely not worth it if it's not only the display which is broken, but how can i know? Is there any way to test if everything else works before changing the display? How would you go about this?

Question 2: Another problem is that, according to the student, the rear camera does not work, which unfortunately is a more costly part (around 30-35€), which makes me question if a repair is worth it. Are there maybe known issues + solutions with the camera that i can try before replacing it?

I gave them a chance, despite the price. I had an account created and rapidly discovered that it’s not what it’s made out to be. It’s absolutely garbage.

From their so called integrations to their outdated help center to the awful layout and poor tech stack. I just don’t understand how they are the “go to” for repair shops.

It’s a true testament of what an insane amount of marketing and advertising dollars can do. There’s no other explanation.

Can someone make this make sense to me?

So, i think i have some spyware in my phone and idk how to get rid of it, so how can i get rid of it, my phone gets spammed with random numbers, my phone restarts sometimes and sometimes when i grab it, it randomly vibrates and idk why, how can i solve this problem, can someone help me? I have an Android

Can I just connect it to the old battery and power it up? How does it work?

So there is a device currently connected to my iPhone. I have never owned a iWatch. This is the second time I’ve noticed one connected to my iPhone intercepting my texts and information. But I just disconnected it like a fool without trying to figure out the culprit. What should I do? I discovered it this time through my shortcut app. I think they know i know . As soon as I saw them ) through maps they been going about the next town over a bit erratic. Someone help me out, please.

Update: the iWatch app doesn’t show one connected. And I only can see the device (iWatch) in the shortcut app.

Did a display replacement on ipad and everything worked fine , charging and display were in good order. later customer mentioned it wasnt charging past 1%. It is now only showing battery symbol and not going past. tried several chargers. used a guitar pick on battery after i noticed it was never unplugged so i unplugged it. still not booting, and the read on charging is not great. any ideas? i really dont want to replace an entire ipad.

update: changed ports still showing battery symbol. did not notice any bent pins underneath the battery connectoyr

Hi everyone, as title says, I need to have a custom notification sound, preferably an mp3 with annoyingly high volume to wake me up when I sleep. I am on-call during nights couple of times a month, however, Outlook App notification sound is not loud enough... I tried to set up automation and as I understood it would only work on IOS default mail app. Would anyone know a fix to my problem? Thanks in advance!

Can I convert my apps to zip files? I want to use less data if I'm not using the app. I don't want it to load. Is it a tool I can use? Thanx

Hey all, has anyone here taken the Level 2 online test out exam? I cannot seem to break a 75% grade. Am I just stupid? What am I missing?

I need to film hours of content on my phone, however I do not have the required space on my internal storage. I Just bought a Samsung reversible USB type C flash drive with 256GB on it. However due to not having space on my phone I cannot film the video and then move it to the flash drive. Is there a way to automatically save videos I take to the flash drive when it is connected?

Hey everyone, I was cleaning out my brother's room (he passed away a while ago) and found a bunch of old tech stuff, including an iPad Mini 2. I managed to get it working, but now I'm stuck on the Activation Lock screen. I don't know my brother's Apple ID or password, so I'm at a loss. I've tried everything I can think of. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Is there any way to bypass this lock or am I just out of luck? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I recently purchased a new phone. I downloaded a load of content to listen to on a long journey, however I was unable to access this content and received a message that although I had downloaded it, it needed WiFi to stream it from another device? Can anyone explain how to rectify this? Thanks

Hey guys, I’m going overseas soon and wondering what happens with IMessage in my situation. I’m gonna be using an E Sim so I’ll have data and or wifi.. can I still use iMessage?

After using Nexus for close to 6 years, no other android phones came close to it so settled for any Android phone (OnePlus, Realme) but I want to upgrade my gadget. It's been 2 months and I still can't take a call on Pixel or iPhone. I can use some Gyan here!

Why is it tough to impossible to send pics & videos from iPhone to Android? I have WiFi, MMS & SMS enabled, cell data on…so frustrating.

I sent a picture using the “send as text message” option and now it won’t let me back out. I tried turning off and on my phone and going to settings and turning off and on the switch for “iMessages” in settings and turning it off and on each time. It doesn’t work. Help???? I looked this up and there’s nothing on this. It’s only on a single contact, who also has an IPhone.

Anyone please help I need this fixed!!

#FCC proposes rule to unlock all phones within 60 days of activation: https://nwida.org/fcc-proposes-60-unlock-rule?ref=r4

hi so i woke up this morning to my phone screen looking like this, purple/pink glitching. i have a feeling it might be jus the screen itself because i am still able to receive notifications along with my alarm that i can't shut off because it's going off every 5 minutes. i am worried because my icloud isn't backed up and this is where i work from as well. it's been dropped a few times in the past year or so but nothing crazy just a few cracks on the screen. i need help asap with this if anyone has advice.