In comparison, the same size 1st Gen screens are practically given away, selling for around $150 to $200. What makes the 2nd gen prices go from outrageous to absurd, is the cost of the 3rd Gen screens. These are the latest models and you can find them for around $300 and sometimes less!

What’s going on here? I’m hoping the prices come down to earth, but I’m not holding my breath, given the equally absurd prices for older Retina MacBook Pro displays.

⟐ Answer accepted December 11, 2025 at 14:38 MST

Can I just buy a pre-soldered board and transfer the home button without any problems?

⟐ Answer accepted December 16, 2019 at 5:33 MST

⟐ Commented February 24, 2024 at 17:32 MST

The update did a hard reset, I could download diagnostic as battery life was to low, It said the Device is in excellent condition and can’t explain whats happen and its out of warranty so cannot be replaced.

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⟐ Commented March 26, 2022 at 10:37 MST

swapped a screen on ipad pro 12.9 (2nd ipad pro 1st no probs.

followed all of the usual steps and took great care in my workshop as usual however I now have no power and no response when plugged into iTunes.

i have tried to disconnect battery for 30 mins or so.

checked all soldering and connections second part still nothing.

can't find schematics or any info anywhere. customer device :(

thanks in advance.

⟐ Commented November 03, 2019 at 10:07 MST

I have successfully replaced batteries for various apple devices including iphone 5s, 6s+ 6+ and ipad air 2.

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⟐ Commented February 01, 2019 at 6:09 MST

I have an iPad Pro that my brother gave to me (he bought the new one) and have been using it happily for over a year.

I'll say straight up that this has not been dropped, knocked or gotten wet. I am very anal about my gadgets. I don't damage things.

Suddenly the other night it froze while my wife was using a planning app (5D something) and the whole screen was green and magenta blocks and lines.

I did a force reboot of it and now it's stuck in some kind of boot loop.

It goes like this:

The iPad goes to the normal Apple logo screen. There are no glitches or artifacts on this screen. It looks as normal. It goes to the black screen and back to this over and over.

If I hold the sleep and home buttons down it starts to do what you would expect when doing this and resets and then goes to the apple logo again except this time you get the loading line under the logo for a second before that disappears and the whole screen gets covered in lines and blocks. These can be blue, magenta, green or black (so far, maybe it can do other colours).

I've forced it into recovery mode using iTunes and I've let the battery go completely flat.

I repair things regularly but have no experience of Apple devices, and from what exp I have had I've found them far too much trouble to bother with but I got this for nothing and I actually like it.

Chances are it's totally borked but if anyone has seen this or has any idea how to fix it I'd love to try. Seems to me like it's not a bad connection with the screen because the initial Apple logo screen and the screen you see when the iPad needs charging all look fine.

Am loathe to take it to Apple as I'm sure the answer will either be "It's out of warranty so tough luck" or "Nothing can be done, buy a new one".

Very comfortable with opening things up and soldering etc. so happy to try that.

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Regards, Sam

⟐ Answered July 23, 2024 at 5:23 MST

⟐ Answered November 09, 2020 at 9:25 MST

Well I was carrying the ipad inside my back pack accidently dropped my backpack and it had that logitech case with keyboard. which did not protect it. I opened it there were huge spider webs and one big hole on one side. Still works, turns on, I can write on it. But I want to replace the screen for him since it was my fault. So my question is if I try to fix it myself is there any soldering that has to be done? I have fixed macbooks and iphones but soldering is not my thing. I wanted to know if there was another way to fix it or is that a must do step. Thank you for reading my long post. And hoping for a quick reply. =D

Forgot to mention the glass is shattered

No soldering needed. I saw this video that it said if you don’t know how to micro solder stop right here and get it repaired somewhere else. Also if I get the screen here would be an Apple refurbished or third party? Worried about the True Tone and range of colors.

⟐ Edited by author July 31, 2019 at 4:48 MST

It has a small less than an inch crack in the top right corner which is where I think the ghost touch is coming from, it effects about one inch down and goes to the mid point of ipad, I normally throw up split screen and an app that it can play without distracting me from my work but I'm hoping to get it fixed soon

Wondering if this a digitizer issue, a wire issue, or a faulty processor?

⟐ Answered June 04, 2019 at 3:34 MST

I will be pulling the Screen back off to double check my connections for the screen. I did noticed that the step for the battery was missing when disconnecting everything So I had followed the instructions from the Battery replacement and had it disconnected when doing the swaps. Once I get it tore apart more Ill update this as well. Thanks for the advise

⟐ Answer accepted October 12, 2025 at 23:17 MST

⟐ Answer accepted February 27, 2023 at 19:07 MST

I found a program on the internet that does diagnostic repairs and what not. I had the iPad connected to the computer and tried to put it in recovery mode and the screen goes brighter (a faded white screen with a black border) and the program did recognize it was a ipad pro 12.9 2nd gen, but iTunes does not recognize it. So I'm not sure if that means anything

Everything was working just fine before my screen went black. The touchscreen, home button, sleep/wake button, its fully charged 100%, etc.

I can still see a faded back up light when I press the home button or sleep/wake button when the room is pitch black. I went to the apple store and they said it wasnt giving off charge only a 1/10th of the power.

I'm not sure if it's the ipad is dead or display is gone or maybe i0s problem?

⟐ Answer accepted November 07, 2022 at 12:15 MST

⟐ Answered October 12, 2022 at 23:39 MST

The whole thing is bent, but not badly bend like a '>' but more like it's curved a bit. The screen is visibly unattached at the port. The screen is cracked too, it became lines. But it still could turn on and charge (I was only testing the charging port, I let it die after).

I really want this thing fixed, I have many unsaved stuff on it.

Is it possible just to change the body out and retreats the brain, then put the brain in a new body?

I have no idea how these are built or how they work.

⟐ Answer edited September 22, 2023 at 15:35 MST