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There were apparently 3 extremely small black boxes that I broke off of the motherboard directly beside the sim card, which controlled my Home and Sleep/Wake buttons. Is there a way I can fix this myself? Should I bring it into a phone repair store? Would a phone repair store even work on this? I came here after seeing another thread that a guy had about the same issue, but it was never resolved and I could find no answers about if it’s fixable or how they fixed it. Here are 2 angles of where they belong on the board, with circles for each http://i.imgur.com/3HexfoN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EZD3J5R.jpg
and here are the 3 black boxes between some tape to keep them from flying away. http://i.imgur.com/cbNiDPR.jpg
Edit: Thank you for fixing the images, oldturkey03! I looked up the logic board layout, and found that the 3 components that broke off were called : Q3, U3, and DZ101_RF
DILeak, see attached image for the reference designators. The parts missing/broke are: Reference Designator Q3 is RV1C001ZP DFN which is a Small Signal MOSFET datasheet is available here. Reference Designator U3 is 74AUP2G34GN SOT1115 package is a Low-power dual buffer datasheet available here. Reference Designator DZ101_RF is TPD4E101DPW SON4 and it is a ESD protection diode. That datasheet is available right here. It will be no small chore to fix those. U3 is hard to come by (I am still waiting for a few from China since I can only find sellers offering minimum quantity of 1000). Hope this helps, good luck
I’m updating this answer–at this point (Summer 2014) I’ve repaired something like 50-100 phones with pry damage. If you don’t want to send out to have the repair done, then here are a couple of pieces of advice. 1.) About half of the time people underestimate the damage that is actually on the board–before you go order your parts, probe each tiny component with a small needle. Many times they are pushed up off their solder pads and will have to be replaced. An intact component will not move if probed with a needle. 2.) Even if you have your components that were pried off the board, 90% of the time they are damaged themselves. Especially the bottom two pads of U3—this one must have all 6 pads intact. 3.) If you have lost the bottom pad on Q3 or Q7 don’t bother replacing it. 4.) The phone will work fine without DZ101_RF, however if you place this component incorrectly, you’ll have a SIM recognition problem. I would advise leaving it off if you’re just trying to fix your power + home button problem. 5.) If you accidentally tear off the pads on the motherboard at U3, it will be extremely difficult (but not impossible) to repair this defect. You’ll have to make a custom microjumper. 6.) Try not to dislodge the adjacent R20 and R22 during your U3 repair–these are required and seriously small if you knock them off. 7.) Mis-placement of U3, or if it is dislodged but not completely gone, it will cause the phone to boot in recovery mode and fail to restore–this is another symptom of U3 pry damage. Your phone will not require restoring and will boot up as normal after you replace U3. If you’d like more advice, feel free to contact me via my profile. jessa jessa
Since you’ve managed to keep the parts, just install them back. A heat gun should do the job. The only problem is to get the orientation right Q3 is a 3 pin part, impossible to install backwards U3 is a 6 pin part, the pin 1 faces 8 o’clock, the inscription faces right way up the orientation of DZ101RF is not specified, but the inscription faces right way up
This is why I’m against prying the battery. puncturing the battery is dangerous, and you can easily scrape off tiny components. Avoid touching the battery. If you have to, just use the pull tab. If the tab breaks, remove all the expensive/delicate parts first, then pry the battery second
i have the same issue but with iphone 5s could any one help or give some advice
