⟐ Commented August 04, 2022 at 10:58 MST

⟐ Commented November 26, 2016 at 6:46 MST

⟐ Marked as duplicate November 21, 2018 at 7:02 MST

It was acting as if the digital crown was being pressed in and rotated.

I tried the usual cleaning methods as per the apple website but without any luck.

It does rotate freely and doesn't feel sticky at all, and although it does these things it is completely unresponsive.

I have to use the the side button to navigate my way round the watch the best I can.

Does anyone have any Ideas?

Many Thanks

⟐ Commented October 18, 2021 at 15:02 MST

So actually, turns out it does the same thing after a battery replacement. I have no idea what could be wrong.

⟐ Edited by author January 07, 2020 at 22:49 MST

⟐ Commented March 18, 2020 at 21:30 MST

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⟐ Commented March 13, 2019 at 14:01 MST

I read here that the only way to get the watch to work again is to ‘reflash new firmware by ibus 2...’:

http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f1023/pa...

Can anyone confirm that this is what needs to be done?

⟐ Commented June 28, 2020 at 3:22 MST

I need to know if the complete screen from Apple Watch Series 3 is the same as Series 2 and can be replace one for the other or need to remove some flex or IC from one to put in the other. Some people tell me that need to change the NFC IC.

Thank you

Hello Dan, and thank you for you're quickly answer.

Really what I need is a technical opinion and not about warranty coverage because I have many Series 2 from many customers with crack screens that need to be replaced.

But no one has big quantity of Series 2 complete screen on the market to buy. For this reason I posted the question. My supplier in China who I did buy many Series 1 complete screens (hyper-trustable) tell me that the LCD & Touchscreen module is compatible.

But, need to replace a flat ribbon cable with some component that are glued on the back side of this module, they call it the NFC IC but I don't know really if is trueIy inclusive in the Series 3 teardown description the IFIXIT team wrote this info: "Spec-wise, the display is unchanged from the Series 2, with one key difference - it now functions as a multifrequency (LTE?) antenna. We'll be testing compatibility to see if the displays really are interchangeable."

Based in this info I believe that both are compatible.

Thanks

⟐ Commented May 26, 2020 at 6:08 MST

Starting back in a couple of years ago, I got an Apple Watch Series 2. I loved it, amazing product and great compliment to my iPhone 7 Plus. However... It died a few days after I had it, this happened at work.

Fast Forward. Apple had replaced the watch over 12 times. Yes, 12. After a couple of different stores worked with me, one store manager took everything back and gave me full credit plus a nice discount on an iPad Pro, I gave up on the watch.

I purchased a Pencil for my ipad and when I brought it into work, guess what. That failed. I exchanged the pencil and I leave it at home.

A friend got me a Series 3 as a Christmas gift. I wore it for not even a week. Guess what? Yep, it died after a couple of days at work. And now I have 2 coworkers who are also suffering from some issues. 1 had several watches fail and then her iPhone 7 Plus failed. All with the same behavior. Sudden loss of connection, time would move faster, eventually a complete failure to where the device (Watch or Phone) would not power back on.

I spoke with some friends of various degrees of tech knowledge, from A+ bench techs to Platform Engineers & Computer Science degrees. Plus some simple math says the common device among the three are the Bluetooth radios?

I work for a small electronic manufacturing company. We basically assemble components and various sensor products. Quite a bit of soldering. No massive equipment other than PC's, Multimeeters, a CryoStat in our lab next door, but no heavy magnets and there's more EMF interference from desk fans.

Apple Support hasn't been much help, other than constantly replacing the products.

Any ideas? Someone did mention they worked in a plant with lots of solder/flux equipment and it messed with bluetooth radios. We don't have a lot of BT devices, a few headsets maybe but nowhere near extreme levels. Does it sound logical that the BT radio inside Apple products would fire back so hard and break them this way?

⟐ Answer edited March 05, 2019 at 7:33 MST

⟐ Answered February 21, 2020 at 12:23 MST

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⟐ Commented October 18, 2020 at 23:39 MST

I have a AW series 2, replaced the cracked screen and the force touch sensor since it ripped when replacing screen.

The force touch sensor comes with “adhesive” but doesn’t appear to be very strong. After putting everything back together within a few hours the screen already starts separating. I tried putting pressure on the watch with a heated pad but I’m wondering if anyone else has run into this issue.

Would it be advisable to use 3M tape on the top and bottom of the force touch sensor or would that cause too much clearance. ?

⟐ Commented July 25, 2020 at 7:10 MST

Also is there a way to browse the apps before you buy the watch to evaluate its utility personally?

Did Dick tracy have a camera in his watch?

⟐ Commented October 06, 2017 at 7:48 MST

so I recently had my series 2 apple watch screen replaced.

I can now no longer pair it with my phone. It fails every time and upairs. I’m on iPhone 8+ iOS 12

I’ve reset the watch and removed it from my iCloud. Still same issue.

Any one have a solution to this?

⟐ Answer deleted October 17, 2020 at 9:12 MST

I bought used Apple Watch S2 (42mm), the guy said that there’s a problem with random Siri pop-ups. I thought the problem was with dirty Digital Crown, so I cleaned it (per Apple guide, with warm tap water). It helped for a while but the problem is still there. I get random/ghost DC clicks and presses that trigger Siri and open home screen. Rinsing DC under warm water seems to fix it for a few hours. There’s also a slight mark on DC as if the Watch was dropped onto something.

So, I want to fix this Watch. Replacing it via Apple is not an option since I got it for $50 and Apple asks for a whopping $500 to replace it. I just got another S2 42mm with a cracked screen to harvest all the parts I might need during repair process. I guess I’ll have to replace DC encoder cable, but I can’t find any guides (except for iFixit Teardown). My question is: what exactly do I need to replace to get rid of ghost clicks?

⟐ Commented November 21, 2019 at 7:20 MST