⟐ Commented January 02, 2024 at 13:28 MST

I run a small repair shop, and im encountering this problem. This issue has been constant on several iPad Minis we had tried to replace the touchscreen.

Even we support ourselves on different repair shops when something is acting fishy. And they also some times rely on us when an issue they can solve.

The issue is that after replacing the touchscreen, the iPad mini will become unresponsive and will boot on the Apple Logo Screen, then the Screen will dim and become unresponsive.

We had tried a variety of touchscreens and with different suppliers. And issue persists.

We had been soldering the iPad mini touch board to the new Touchscreens, but with no luck. Only the home button works.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and know how to solve it?

Thanks for your help!

⟐ Commented November 13, 2018 at 7:36 MST

If you hold the button down the device will power on or off like normal. Just the sleep function doesn't work.

Any ideas?

⟐ Commented April 02, 2025 at 10:25 MST

⟐ Answer edited October 10, 2023 at 17:20 MST

I'm a newly started technician and I absolutely hate ipads. I always end up with problems from them!

Anyways, I replaced the broken digitizer with a new one and every thing seemed great. When I went to test that everything was working (I haven't removed the strips over the tape and actually mounted the digitizer) it started up fine.

However, when I get to the lock(unlock) bar I couldn't continue. The touch isn't working.

Home button works fine, if I put the Ipad to sleep I can wake it up with the home button.

/EDIT: I just tried with another digitizer, same problem. Home button works, touch does not.

Is the spacing between the golden 'prongs'(what is the correct technical term for them?) supposed to be there?

Link to picture: http://postimg.org/image/w39icrorj/

Thanks for any and all tips!

⟐ Answered April 07, 2023 at 1:46 MST

⟐ Commented November 22, 2018 at 2:28 MST

I hope someone can help me.

Ok i don't use replacement digitizers that are not pre soldered i think i need to hone my soldering skills before i go anywhere near that.

I always use screens with all the soldering pre done.

I'm asking as this is my last screen & this is is special present for a birthday otherwise i would just put another screen on.

I have fitted the digitizer & it all works fine until i seat the screen onto the adhesive.

Once this happens it works fine for a couple of minutes but then the screen starts to activate itself swiping through screens opening apps & typing into any text field that appears that sort of thing.

Ive also noticed the top half of the screen then becomes unresponsive also.

But as soon as i lift the screen up again it all starts to work fine.

I have a horrible feeling that where the digitizer cable is supposed to bend itself back it has kinked a bit.

I do always with any repair make sure not to trap or crease any cables this must have sprung back as i was seating the screen.

This cable has not creased badly as i hadn't started to press down fully.

Is this the issue or cold there be a way to get this solved.

Thank you in advance guys.

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⟐ Answer deleted March 14, 2021 at 1:03 MST

⟐ Commented January 08, 2018 at 7:53 MST

First of all, I am not new to repairing Apple devices, or even the iPad mini in this case. I own a repair shop in the Netherlands. A customer brought in 2 iPad mini's both wifi only versions with cracked glass. I replaced both digitizers with good quality aftermarket one's. One iPad is working fine, without problems. However the other one randomly shuts down. I already opened it again and disconnected the battery for a couple of minutes and reconnected it. After that I left it powered on during the night and there was no problem. It will still on and didn't shutdown during the night. This morning i started to use the iPad again and all the suddenly it reboots again, most of the times it bootes just fine, after very little usage it reboots.

Does any of you have the same experience, and more importantly, is there a fix?

Thanks for reading! I am looking forward to the reply's.

⟐ Commented January 02, 2024 at 13:27 MST

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⟐ Answered October 30, 2022 at 14:39 MST

⟐ Answer deleted September 01, 2015 at 2:55 MST

Changing the glass of the ipad mini, when I finished the display won't work correctly. I just displays randoms lines and the bottom of the screen is all black.

I tried cleaning the connectors and pluging it again, but no success. Any ideas ?

here's what is looks like

⟐ Answered July 05, 2015 at 6:52 MST

I've tried searching for controller boards for the LCD model from the teardown article (iPad Mini Wi-Fi Teardown), but to no success. Does anyone know if it's even possible to do this? Would it be possible to find one and ask the seller/manufacturer to put custom firmware on it? Being a Samsung display, I'm a bit surprised it's so hard to find, but it's also a very old device.

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⟐ Commented December 17, 2015 at 12:55 MST

I received an iPad mini 1 that needed a new digitizer, so I opened it up and noticed that on the battery there were a few spots with abnormal colouring. The pictures explain it better than I can. Does anyone know if this is something to be concerned about? Thanks.

⟐ Answered September 12, 2019 at 9:46 MST

Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated!

Cheers!

⟐ Answer deleted September 21, 2018 at 19:22 MST