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⟐ Commented December 08, 2021 at 10:06 MST

⟐ Answered October 12, 2021 at 10:15 MST

First, I’ll let you know. I am not a fixer, a hobbyist, or technologically savvy at all.

I recently purchased a new front glass for the Galaxy S9 and the Iopener from IFIXIT and have followed all the steps to replace the front glass via their instruction page as well as their youtube channel. Things were off to a rough start with removing the back glass, but eventually, I got it. I followed the subsequent steps and now I am at the final step attaching the front glass.

I can not figure out how to attach the wire strip that comes off the front glass. Is it magnetized? Did I miss a step? Is my phone more damaged than I originally thought? How do we actually connect the front glass to the phone?

I am starting to think that this was a venture too big for me and just waster $200+ dollars to save $70 and now ultimately will have to go buy a new phone.

Any assistance/hope that can be offered will be greatly appreciated.

-Cortney

⟐ Answer accepted November 08, 2022 at 5:03 MST

On the guide it is mentioned that if the frame itself is damaged/dented, it could lead to the new display damaged as well. The S9 I'm going to be working on has had some damage and I'm hoping if anyone here could give me some advice on whether I should go ahead without getting a new frame or replacing the frame and the screen.

I've included photos of the display and frame with and without the screen being on.

Display images:

Thanks!

⟐ Commented April 28, 2022 at 6:11 MST

⟐ Answered January 16, 2020 at 13:29 MST

I tried almost everything.. Tried reseting it i tried booting it into safe mode…

But still nothing

Any other tips before i perform a factory reset.. Which i really do not want to do

⟐ Answered April 17, 2019 at 0:14 MST

I have the following issues in case anyone knows what is the problem:

1. Front & rear camera are not working
2. LED notification does not work
3. Phone overheats when charging (turned off)
4. Phone overheats more while on, and drains battery very fast

Has not been dropped or disassembled, it all started after I found it with totally empty battery despite it was on the charger.

Appreciate any ideas since I am away from home on business and I don't have access to my tools to disassemble and check source of overheating.

Thank you.

⟐ Answered October 27, 2025 at 22:59 MST

As of yesterday I am having some issues with the display of my Galaxy S9. My screen is super washed out and dark and tinted yellow/green. It sometimes goes back to normal, but will randomly give issues again as I use it.

I did have a spill a couple of weeks ago, after which I immediately powered the phone off and cleaned all of the ports with electrical contact cleaner. Then I let the phone dry out for around 3 days. It was working fine after that until yesterday.

The issue:

• Screen is washed out / yellowed, not very bright, sometimes flickering.
• Using the brightness slider makes the screen even worse.
• When powering the phone off, it shows the Galaxy S9 logo with a normal screen, and midway displaying the “Samsung” logo, it turns terrible again.
• The screen looks normal in screen recordings and in screen mirroring, so I don’t believe this to be a graphics issue.

What I’ve tried:

• Leaving the phone off for a few days in dessicant.
• Restarting the phone in safe mode, didn’t seem to help.
• Uninstalling recently installed apps, didn’t help.

In the past 2-3 weeks, there has been a number of reports about a similar screen issue with the S9. This is leading me to believe it may be something related to firmware or software updates, rather than related to my spill.

My phone is getting quite old as I purchased it on release. I was looking into replacing the battery and fingerprint sensor anyways, as they are both quite used. I figured I might as well get everything done at once.

I found this video on YouTube which shows what I believe to be the same issue - https://youtu.be/k8ybjAjardI - in which the solution is to replace the display flex connector of the screen, rather than the entirety of the display.

Can somebody explain to me where to get that part, and how exactly to replace it? The video is quite confusing, but the part is supposedly quite cheap compared to the screen. I’m not exactly sure what’s going on in the video.

Thanks for any tips and help.

⟐ Answered February 21, 2023 at 13:08 MST

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⟐ Commented January 10, 2025 at 14:22 MST

Please Help 🙏🏼

⟐ Answered October 06, 2024 at 23:26 MST

i’m just about to order samsung s9 lcd

there are 2 difference lcd 1. s9 lcd 2. s9 lcd service pack?

anyone know what is the difference? thank you

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⟐ Commented May 07, 2024 at 6:50 MST

⟐ Answered August 30, 2023 at 4:02 MST

⟐ Answer edited August 07, 2023 at 23:05 MST

I fixed my girlfriend's Galaxy S9 with parts from InjuredGadjets.com. I got a new display+frame, and a new battery since hers was shot, barely lasting an hour on a full charge. Ever since I fixed it a couple months ago, her Google Maps is unable to navigate due to a lack of a GPS signal. The marker/arrow that indicates us/our vehicle turns gray and the app says "Searching for GPS". Eventually Maps will just give up and verbalize "GPS signal lost". We've tried wiping the cache, both from the partition and the app itself, force stopping Maps, starting the S9 in safe mode, and I even tore the phone down again and made sure ribbon cables were seated and re-seated them. Still nothing.

Am I missing something here? Maybe I missed a ribbon cable somewhere? Do the antenna cables have anything to do with the GPS? Her data signal is fine, and she can still make calls.

I also read that sometimes 3rd party batteries can cause this issue. Is that true? Maybe that's the case. The battery is an XCap or whatever.

I really appreciate any guidance on this. The initial repair of the phone was easy, but this issue definitely should get fixed. Last week there was an accident on the road and she struggled to get home from work because she couldn't use Google Maps. Usually I'm the one who drives us around and navigates using my S10e with Android Auto, but this should still definitely get fixed in case of an emergency.

Thank you for your help!

⟐ Answered May 27, 2022 at 8:43 MST

Short version/TL;DR: Headphone jack is screwed - left channel works perfectly fine, right channel comes out distorted, clipped or completely cuts out depending on the gain of the track playing, and how high I have the volume turned up. I've tried everything software & hardware-wise I could think of (that was easy enough) to solve this issue, but unfortunately it continues to persist to this day.

Long version:

I have a Samsung Galaxy S9 that I've owned since June 8th, 2019 (so, well OOW). And it's an excellent phone. I don't think I'll ever be able to part with it. It does everything I could ask from a smartphone...or did..

In late August of 2021, I was hooking up my secondary 2.1 stereo system driven with a Fosi BT20A amp. I can't remember if the amp was on or off; but it was plugged in, and the volume was turned all the way down. I do however recall plugging in the RCA inputs via Y-splitter on the back of the amp, but upon plugging clumsily I had the left (white) male RCA plug touch the negative side of the binding posts (which are plastic and already had insulated wire hooked up to them, so no way they could've made electrical contact with the RCA), then corrected myself and plugged that RCA into the left side input of the amp.

Then I plugged the 3.5mm end of the input into my S9's headphone jack, and proceeded to play a selection.

The right speaker didn't produce any noise, or it did but came out distorted and was very quiet. There is no balance control on the amp, and I never adjusted any settings I already had set in my phone. The last time I hooked up my phone via headphone jack, my temporary system was working fine. Heck, even the day before I had this strange, dark and mysterious issue, my wired earbuds were working perfectly fine.

Today, the issue continues to persist although I have been using Bluetooth earbuds, or with my stereo system, a bluetooth receiver to compensate...it hasn't been the same ever since.

The issue I've been having with the headphone output on my phone is quite frankly, rather odd. When you plug in earbuds (like I do), the left channel plays perfectly fine, but the right channel is reduced in output either by 1/5, or by 1/2 the volume of the left depending on how you plug the headphone jack. And if I turn up the volume between 11-13/15 notches, the right channel starts to distort or even clips depending on the gain of what track I have playing. Beyond 13/15 notches the right channel will then clip hard and completely cut out, while the left channel remains unfazed by this issue and continues to play without ANY distortion. Again, as a recap, this was NOT an issue in the past.

I've tried everything I could think of to resolve this issue...hard resetting my phone, adjusting EQ settings, switching between mono & stereo, using the balance control, trying out different earphones that worked fine, cleaning my headphone jack & male plug on my earphones. Heck, I even went so far as to replace the headphone jack on my S9 with an iFixit replacement jack after the issue had started...NOTHING helped to this point!

BTW the internal speakers & earpiece in my S9 work perfectly fine. In fact I barely ever used them since I got the phone.

I've discussed this issue with the folks over at r/Galaxy S9, as well as on the discord r/techsupport server. But they weren't really all that much help.

This particular S9 has a lot of sentimental value to me, especially since I convert tracks into mp3 files to play them that way, and I'm just about reaching the 500 tracks milestone under downloads. Some of the tracks I have are from sources that have since been deleted from YouTube, and others are particularly difficult to find or reach. I also really dislike the fact that phones have notches & pinhole cameras on the screen nowadays, and they lack a headphone jack. I also particularly dislike the idea of using a dongle, since I'm the kind of person to charge my phone while having earbuds plugged in at the same time...really though, such solutions are a big No for me.

One solution I'm thinking about is buying a parts/donor S9, and swapping the headphone amp IC (wherever that may be), but I'm hoping it could be something as simple as a corrodeydoodle trace on the pin connections? I have no idea...

So PLEASE iFixit, help me surcease this strange, dark and mysterious issue for once!

⟐ Answered March 21, 2022 at 20:26 MST

After putting it back together, my screen has a bunch of LEDs near the bottom that won't display blue colors at all.

If I'd have to guess, I might have heated the screen too much when trying to remove the back cover/battery.

Question is, does anyone know any way (dumb or risky to the screen itself) to try and fix this situation other than buying a new screen?

Thanks.

⟐ Commented February 18, 2022 at 7:33 MST