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Is my iphone 5 worth fixing? Phone is on and responsive to home and sleep/wake buttons but no display and screen wont respond to touch. I already tried holding the home and sleep/wake button for 10-30 seconds, restoring phone, and even opened it up to see if the LCD and digitizer cables were just lose. unfortunately nothing has changed. When i hold down the home button i can hear siri beep and the phone plays music when i plug in headphones and press play on the headphone controls and Itunes sees it just fine.I want to know if its worth it to buy a new front LCD for my phone or if it could be something else. Thank you in advance! I really cant afford a new phone and need it for work.
Hey Melissa, What’s the history of the device before this happened? Did it drop? Get wet? or something else? Try calling your phone to see if it rings. If you can, try to use siri to make a call and see if that works as well. If it does and it also shows up on iTunes, its most likely a bad display screen/digitizer, bad lcd or connectors. The parts on iFixit are pretty reasonable and it beats having to get a new phone. I’ve done the repair numerous times, its a piece of cake if you are at least a bit tech savvy and can follow instructions. iFixit has a GREAT guide here: iPhone 5 LCD and Digitizer Replacement Otherwise if your phone won’t make or receive calls and other things don’t work, it could be something else but I can’t know for sure without knowing the history of the device prior to/immediately before the problem occurred. Best of Luck!
It is hard to know if a new screen will help you. I’d say it is 50/50. A bad drop can damage the primary touch ic, which a new screen will not solve. But I’d say that about half the time, maybe more, a new screen will solve. I would stop in at any repair shop and just ask to borrow one for 2 minutes to rule out digitizer ic damage.
This has happened to me as well I bought a phone with a cracked screen. I replaced the entire display assembly and it works fine for a few days. Now the screen is black. I swapped it with another screen I know is good and did not fix it. I have ordered screens from iphone4parts Siri will function as I’d nothing is wrong. So I assume it’s something other than screen but I’m not sure what. I would say the piece the screen plugs into maybe?? Update Also I can’t hard reset in iTunes if I can’t set phone to trust computer because the screen doesn’t work Thanks
I have tried everything and nothing is seeming to work:( I’m really bummed I can’t afford to get a new phone is there anything else I can try?
Got same thing (I think) apple logo to black screen. Not boot looping. Not restoring.
