I have a small faint dark spot on my iPad Air 2 screen. That was unfortunately caused by me accidentally tearing a tiny bit of a cable coating open. A cable like this:

This open cable then burnt/heated up a small spot on the aluminium back panel of the LCD. Which now resulted into this faint dark, barely visible, spot on the screen.

I now covered that open spot up, so it won’t cause any more damage.

It’s hard to capture this on camera, but you can still see it.

My question now is simple:

Can I do anything to fix/smooth out this spot, so it disappears? Without having to replace the whole LCD?

Appreciate all the help, thanks in advance. :-)

New images:

⟐ Commented March 01, 2026 at 9:05 MST

⟐ Commented January 05, 2025 at 13:02 MST

I got three iPads lying around with various defects and I'm trying to make a single properly functioning one out of them.

• The iPad Air 2 LTE (A1567) has a near-dead battery
• The iPad 5th's (A1822) screen is cracked and loose every which way
• The iPad 7th (A2197), according to the Apple Store has a dead logic board (won't boot / goes into reboot cycle)

Far as I can tell my options are to either repair/replace 7's board or replace the Air 2's battery.

So I was wondering if the apparently different model battery from the iPad 5 would be okay to fit into the Air 2?

(Sorry if it's an obvious 'no way'. Not an expert by any stretch.)

Many thanks

⟐ Answered August 25, 2024 at 4:48 MST

I'm sure this is probably a battery issue, as it currently has 1117 cycles and is at 78% design capacity. What throws me off a bit though is that over half the time when I turn it back on, it shows me the multi-language hello screen and then says software update to 15.8.1 was successful. At first I thought this was a software issue, and it was running 15.7.9 and said as much. However after updating to 15.8.1 it still shows this screen when booting after a random shutdown.

I'm debating if it's even worth replacing the battery, given how old the device is. I've replaced the screen on this iPad before, not the most fun endeavor. I'm hesitant to buy any new Apple devices considering Apple's anti-repair practices, especially now that they're pairing iPhone batteries to logic boards.

In the meantime, I want to back it up so that I can migrate to a new device or not lose everything if I botch a battery swap. The problem is I can't even get it to stay on for long enough to do a backup. I've tried keeping it in airplane mode, and that hasn't helped. Is there anything I can do to get a backup out of it?

⟐ Answered March 18, 2024 at 9:39 MST

I fixed ipad air 2 lcd screen

Accidentally I broke the antenna things

you can see the pictures

luckily still wifi and cellular are working thank god

I'm very curios what is this antenna for?

plz let me know thanks

⟐ Commented March 06, 2024 at 4:18 MST

⟐ Commented December 10, 2023 at 7:08 MST

Pictured: the white areas are unresponsive to touch on my iPad Air 2

Background: I had my iPad’s cracked screen repaired from a third party. When I first got it back it worked fine, but now the iPad has developed dead lines down the middle of the screen as shown in the picture. It also starts to have ghost touches after I use it for too long.

Can this be a loose ribbon or something that I can fix myself with relative ease?

⟐ Answered October 30, 2023 at 15:23 MST

⟐ Commented October 25, 2023 at 10:21 MST

I installed new screen for my ipad air 2 and connect everything but i received a message that touch ID can not be activated as per attached photo... Please advice...

⟐ Answered August 24, 2023 at 13:56 MST

⟐ Answered May 30, 2023 at 3:03 MST

Can I just pull the battery from it and reassemble it? I only use it plugged in at the moment. I realize it sounds weird, but it's an old iPad. (It's in the 'old folks home' part of its life) I really don't see using it seriously as a battery powered iPad depending on the battery, so why replace it. I just want it to be 'safe' if the battery decides to swell or overrun. In other words, I can't afford to replace it, and see no need to replace the battery, but would like to keep it working. Long question, I know...

Thanks...

⟐ Answer accepted February 19, 2023 at 19:31 MST

I would like to identify a broken flex in the upper right, just to the left of the rear camera. There are 4 snap connectors here.....this one that I have broken, then 2 others and then the rear camera (extreme right). It's the smallest of these flex connectors and I'd like to identify it to test the operation and to order a replacement.

In the photos the red spot is visible where the connector has started to separate.

Can anyone help please ?

⟐ Answered December 13, 2022 at 12:44 MST

I took off the screen and checked the charging circuit and the Charge IC's exit was normal

I removed the board and applied to the battery entrance 3.7v through the power supply. Then I put the charger on.

But apple's logo didn't show up and the screen started blinking.

⟐ Answered December 02, 2022 at 23:23 MST

Any good tape out there?

⟐ Answered April 19, 2022 at 21:48 MST

⟐ Answered February 08, 2022 at 18:04 MST

What I observe, measure:

• Tablet is working but my issue with battery drain still present. 1-2hour and its 0%
• Charging current is 2-2.5A
• Touch ID is not working. Not sure if was working before. Home button function working
• Touch screen is working but during charging seem to be less sensitive
• All other components are working (display, charging, speakers, cammeras, buttons, wifi, LTE,..)
• current consuption when tablet is off is 0.65mA - I think is OK.
• when Screen is ON temperature is OK. When Screen is Off then the mettal part in left down corner of dispplay start to be extremly hot
• Also STD9307 start to be extremly hot. DOnt understad since this is GND accordign schematics. Looks like shortcut in case that Display is Off.
• I Measure MESA component (U4770). PPVCC_MAIN_MESA = 3.7-3,8V. When Screen is OFF the PP11V3_MESA_FILT = 11.3V, PP3V1_S2R_MESA_FILT = 2.5V (accordign schematics should be 3.1V), PP1V825_S2R_MESA_FILT = 1.82V.
• When Screen is ON then PP11V3_MESA_FILT = 0V

I measured MESA since shoudl be related to the Touch ID and Touch ID is not working. So thinking that causing my issue with battery drain.

Does somebody know how MESA shoudl works , when ?

if Measured voltage PP3V1_S2R_MESA_FILT = 2.5V is OK?

what casue that STD9307 is extremly hot ?

⟐ Commented January 31, 2022 at 0:10 MST

⟐ Marked as duplicate January 27, 2022 at 23:50 MST

⟐ Commented October 13, 2021 at 18:05 MST