I have found out that the connector can be replaced, but will require micro-soldering. At this point it’s more or less practice, because he’s gonna just buy a new phone if I cant fix it, but it would be awesome to get it working again.

I was wondering if anyone here has any input on the difficulty/requirements of this job, because I can’t seem to find anything about it online. I guess my main questions are: will I need to open up the “sandwich” of the board to replace this connector, and what type of solder should be used for this job? Also if there’s anything else I should look out for or be careful about to do this job successfully.

Thanks :)

⟐ Commented April 02, 2026 at 23:15 MST

⟐ Commented April 02, 2026 at 5:22 MST

The issue popped out of nowhere too, it worked one day, went to bed and it stopped working the next.

Other than that, the phone works fine, but trying to look at the panic logs didn't provide anything of use either

Lemme know if you have any solutions to this!

here, idk if that’ll help

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I have iphone 7 (A1660) with (NO service) problem , I tryed use ipcc files but carrier still Not Available, so I update to IOS 12 and now I stuck with activate issue(there is still no service,Even with use different sim cared), it saying Unable to Activate An update is required to activate your iphone. image below

I Noted when I eject the tray of sim cared, my phone do’s not say (No SIM card inserted ).

pleas help me!

Thank you before!!

Ibrahim

⟐ Answered March 31, 2026 at 22:48 MST

I had put it on assistance to fix the power button, he came fine. 2 months post i accidentally dropped him in a pool and he instantly turned off. Another guy tried to replace the battery and flex cable but didnt worked.

Heres the panic full

"panicString" : "panic(cpu 2 caller 0xfffffff01e0e9264): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from thermalmonitord (2 induced crashes) \nservice returned not alive with context : is_alive_func returned unhealthy : current 37fffffffffff, mask 1ffffffffffff, expected 1ffffffffffff. SD: 1 BC: 1 RC: -1 BS: 2, Missing sensor(s): Prs0 \nservice: backboardd, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 19, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: SpringBoard, total successful checkins in 169 seconds: 17, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: mediaserverd, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 18, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: audiomxd, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 18, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: logd, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 19, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: thermalmonitord (2 induced crashes), no successful checkins in 196 seconds\nservice: runningboardd, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 19, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: wifid, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 19, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: configd, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 19, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\nservice: CommCenter, total successful checkins in 196 seconds: 18, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago\n\nDebugger message: panic\nMemory ID: 0x6\nOS release type: User\nOS version: 21E237\nKernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Fri Mar 8 23:26:31 PST 2024;

⟐ Answer accepted March 31, 2026 at 20:57 MST

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True Tone is off and no night shift on

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Today I was taking a picture at a white background and I noticed this dark shape on my camera. I thought that it was dust or something on my lens and cleaned it carefully with some cotton and some cleaning substance for lens and they looked clean with no scratch or anything. When I opened the camera app again, the spot was still there. I never dropped my phone in water or anything. I dropped it from like 40cm on its face, but it's been like a month since then and i checked my old photos. The spot wasn't present.

Definitely it's something in there. When i zoom in, the spot gets bigger. When i zoom out, it immediately disappears, no matter the zoom out value under 1. Also, in portrait mode the spot isn't visible.

What can it be? A friend of mine told me that it can be a software problem but i doubt…

Thank you!

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I'm thinking that I will try to clean up this corrosion before trying to plug it in again, but I'm not sure what sort of tool to use. Are we talking isopropyl alcohol and a Qtip, or is there some other accepted approach?

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