According to itunes error 53 after iPhone 6 home button replacement?replacing the Touch-ID home button will always lead to the ipad being unusable after updating it. (Error 53).

My questions:

1) is this true?

2) has it always been true?

3) would taking the old home button and just replacing the cable work?

The reason I am asking: I brought my iPad to a repair service with broken digitizer and severed home button connecting cable. They told me that replacing the home button with authentic apple home button would work((see question 1). I accepted a 170€ repair and now the iPad is unusable. They threw away my original home button(see question 3). They tell me the issue is a recent one coming with an IOS update and that previous Touch-ID home button replacements have worked.(see question 2) I should wait if there is a fix in the next IOS update.

Thank you for your help

⟐ Answered December 28, 2025 at 8:10 MST

The screen on my ipad mini 3 (A1599) broke several years ago. I should have brought the device somewhere to have it replaced by someone with experience, however, after a series of bad attempts it's now in a spot where I'm wondering if it can be repaired at all.

A friend tried to replace the screen but ended up breaking a pin on the digitizer connector. The system would boot up but there was no way to enter the PIN or use touch ID, the screen was unresponsive.

I then asked another friend who is a EE if they could replace that connector. They attempted but failed, see attached image.

I'm looking for someone who can help with this repair or advise me that there is no chance of getting this system to run long enough to grab some locally stored data from it. The data is worth enough to my wife that I'm willing to pay someone who knows what they're doing to help before I recycle the device.

⟐ Commented October 14, 2024 at 12:58 MST

⟐ Commented September 15, 2023 at 10:07 MST

At first, the LCD turned on as normal, the home button worked, but the digitizer gave me nothing.

Then, after fumbling a bit, trying reconnecting both, the LCD started turning on then immediately off every time I rebooted the iPad holding both the home and lock buttons for a few seconds.

The screen only got to showing the Apple logo for a bit, then going black, including the backlight.

The iPad stayed on as it made the charging sound, and got picked up in iTunes.

I thought I had killed the display, but no, the old one also did the same thing when I tested it.

So what could be the issue here? thanks

Unlike the Mini 4 and newer, the 3 doesn't have a sleep/wake sensor that needs to be transferred over from the original screen.

Thinking it could have been the aftermarket digitizer, I tired disconnecting the home button and digitizer at the same time, then just the digitizer but got no change with the power button.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

⟐ Commented January 15, 2023 at 0:25 MST

I purchased a new digitizer, installed it and touch still doesn't work. Looking at where it plugs in, I noticed a pin is missing (see picture). Is that likely the issue and is that board replaceable?

The goal is to get some files from the device, not have a working device afterwards. Thanks for any help and advice.

⟐ Commented September 25, 2022 at 9:34 MST

This or may not be relevant, but this ipad mini 3 hasn't been used in a while.

Is it a possible a reseat of LCD is needed?

Troubleshooting

1.) I held the home button + power while connected to PC. I updated IOS first. The apple logo was never visible.

2.) Repeated same process except did a restore/factory reset while connected to PC. Apple logo was never visible.

*Once done PC / itunes detects it as new device.

Thanks in advance for your help.

⟐ Answered April 21, 2022 at 4:31 MST

I tried to plug the iPad on my Macbook, it doesn’t detect it.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you

Hello @danj et @arbaman, last time you helped me a lot with my MacBook issue (and I’m still writing from it, again thank you).

I was wondering if you had any idea on the following matter ?

⟐ Answer accepted June 30, 2021 at 19:30 MST

⟐ Answer accepted June 30, 2021 at 19:29 MST

⟐ Answer accepted June 29, 2021 at 19:14 MST

⟐ Commented May 07, 2021 at 10:46 MST

⟐ Commented January 03, 2021 at 5:15 MST

⟐ Commented December 10, 2020 at 12:17 MST

I will give an update after the repair. Wish me good luck

plus i forgot to mention that my lcd was glitching after the drop. is this a sign that the image filter on the board was damaged

I fixed my iPad mini 3 screen and there are no problems now. There aren’t any signs that anything was damaged on the board that are visible on the display. Thank you to all people who gave advice

Bad news: my ipad lcd is going nuts again. It randomly had lines making it unusable. I don't know the cause. Do you think it could be defective? Should I replace the lcd again

⟐ Edited by author December 09, 2020 at 9:25 MST

⟐ Answered November 09, 2020 at 8:13 MST

Hi guys,

I opened up an iPad mini 3 to replace the charging port and I tried to solder off the charging port, but one of the pads came off when I did this. (as seen in the picture). I didn’t apply enough heat :(

I was wondering do I need to repair it or can I solder a new charging port connector on as normal. If do need to repair it, how do I go about it ?

Thanks in advance.

CK

⟐ Answer accepted October 13, 2020 at 14:34 MST

⟐ Commented October 08, 2020 at 0:19 MST

As the iPad mini 2 is pretty much the same thing and there are many more iPad mini 2 housing options to buy available, I was wondering if I could use it for the mini 3?

Has anyone tried this?

⟐ Answered August 14, 2020 at 11:37 MST

⟐ Answered July 20, 2020 at 12:45 MST

⟐ Commented April 11, 2020 at 0:52 MST