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From their so called integrations to their outdated help center to the awful layout and poor tech stack.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

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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.

I reset my settings and updated my software to fix a green screen and I had to set up my Face ID again and I can’t it’s just stuck like that

Is there a good alternative to the JCID Programmer?

or an other way to transfer Displaydata from one to another to keep TrueTone?

Thx in advance

I once worked had a repair shop and repaired iPhones all day. However, I never knew how much should a repair shop pay a level 2 & 3 technician if I wanted extra help.

I've been using the Art of Repair Labor Calculator, and it's been a game-changer. It's given me a clear picture of what it takes to sustain a repair shop and how much our hardworking technicians should be compensated. I'm truly grateful for this tool.

I would like to know if anyone else found the AOR calculator useful since it was useful to me. If so, I would like to build it out to make it much smoother and more efficient with the help of AOR.

What do you guys think?

Let me know if I should do it with this link: https://www.fixxi.repair/labor-calculator-waitlist

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