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I was reparing 2 iphone 6 plus screens. I plugged in the home button from phone A into phone B and the touch ID did not work. I switched them back to the device they belonged to and it still does not work. I then tried a full restore and recieved error 53. I then replaced the lcd shield and got the same result error 53. Help!

The most likely cause of this would be a torn or kinked cable. Typically the LCD back plate and cable are transferred to the new LCD assembly. The LCD assembly itself has nothing to do with the touch ID – the home button plugs into the cable on the back plate. It’s also possible that a connector might not be seated properly.

Put the original cracked screen back on it as well. Then restore the phone. That should work.

Home button and ribbon behind the LCD plate are not interchangeable like with the 5s home button and charge port. They are linked to the specific device for touch ID. Is it possible the buttons and plates might have been mixed up during the swaps? Damage to the cables should prevent the home function from working as well, if the home is working it would have to be a mixup of parts or if your using a full assembly and only swapping the home button that would also cause the issue.

Home buttons are NOT replaceable, which cause the error first time. the second time is just because you damaged something, maybe it’s just the connectors or bridging cables, which are easy to fix. If the home button is damaged, the phone is dead.

That’s odd because the new iOS got rid of the error 53 code

you only need 3 things to get touch id to work

  1. the orignal home button that the phone came with 2.a good cable (via home button and cable running from mobo to home button.)
  2. good chip on mother board (because home button is paired with main chip from factory) i have seen the cables go bad most often, even new ones can be bad from factory, or manufacture, ie china’s poor quality control. so i would try a couple new cables that run from the mother board to home button flex. also check home button as well some times the plastic connector breaks on the inside and will cause that issue too, but if you use the new itunes with new os download you should not get error 53 unless chip failure cause they have removed error 53 on new ios versions do to class action lawsuits. thanks apple lmao also if you have iphone 6s the cable is built into back-light housing and will cause this as well, only thing you can do on that is get another replacement screen, or swap back-light housings but that repair is expert only, mainly cause that repair is usually done in a clean room. best of luck