I have received the new battery purchased from ifxit.

After installing new battery, what are the steps?

From what I understand,

• Charge the phone for 100%
• Leave it charging for 2 more hours
• Use the phone until it drained the battery completely and phone shuts down
• and then charge it to 100%.

Is that correct?

Thank you!

⟐ Answer accepted March 21, 2026 at 21:03 MST

⟐ Answer accepted March 14, 2026 at 15:53 MST

⟐ Commented February 27, 2026 at 3:41 MST

⟐ Commented February 06, 2026 at 9:24 MST

Replaced the battery and the SE started ok. Transferred data from the phone it was to replace and then it wanted an iOS update.

That worked fine but then it wanted to connect to iCloud to restore some other data.

For that I needed to get the password from my other Iphone which sadly had just gone flat. It was late, in fact wee hours 1am, so I went off to sleep with my other phone charging.

Next day the SE would not respond in any way.

Tried accessing via USB to MacBook no sign of life.

Tried restarts including the 15 second top plus home, no joy.

So reopened the case, that is lifted the screen once more to check if maybe the screen connector has popped off. It was secure.

Thinking maybe the battery had died or its connector has come loose I checked and it seemed secure.

Disconnected the battery and checked it has around 4 volts, still charged.

Put everything back together including the very very fiddly screen connector clip that took longest of everything to get just right and ended back where we started: nothing, no response.

Any ideas?

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

⟐ Answered August 19, 2025 at 4:35 MST

⟐ Commented August 12, 2025 at 17:52 MST

⟐ Commented June 20, 2025 at 8:51 MST

⟐ Commented June 14, 2025 at 7:38 MST

I imagine that the screen is faulty, but on the off-chance a lose cable or bracket was to blame I thought I’d ask here.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

⟐ Commented June 14, 2025 at 7:27 MST

⟐ Answer edited April 28, 2025 at 1:31 MST

Can Apple service centre replace black iPhone (multiple issues with phone) with silver one if I want silver colour? Or they will only replace it with black?

Also, what are some good places online to buy refurbished iPhone SE 1st generation?

When does iPhone SE 1st Generation become vintage? 64Gb was discounted more than 5 yrs ago while 32 GB 4 years back as per wiki. Can the hardware incl battery and entire phone be replaced after it becomes vintage?

⟐ Answered April 18, 2025 at 0:19 MST

⟐ Answer accepted March 24, 2025 at 9:26 MST

I've dropped this thing several times, so that may be involved, but I can't find anything that seems bent.

I've torn it down to the power button and removed and cleaned it; there's nothing wrong with the button itself. Could it be the Audio Control and Power Button Cable?

⟐ Answer accepted March 23, 2025 at 12:43 MST

I disconnected everything again and re-seated all the screen ribbon cables just to make sure. I had no problem seating them, I used a magnifier to look closely and ensure I hadn’t damaged any pins.

I was extremely careful at keeping track of the screws so I didn't accidentally put a longer screw in the wrong socket and thus damage the logic board.

The only thing that happen was when I first opened the case, it popped rather quickly and pulled the home button ribbon cable off. I was extremely lucky, as it had no shield over the connector, so it simply popped off without any damage. However, even if that got damaged, all I would expect is a non-functioning home button. It should still at least power on, I would hope.

I’m not sure what I can do to troubleshoot this, and would appreciated any suggestions.

⟐ Commented March 16, 2025 at 15:28 MST

Note: I have performed several hard resets but the problem seems to come back in different ways. I think it is a problem with the range of the antenna.

⟐ Commented February 21, 2025 at 16:02 MST

edit: ok, so i found what happened! The lcd screen split in half… the protective shield stayed down with the back of the phone

⟐ Answered January 30, 2025 at 13:34 MST

When I tried to charge and turn it on the phone again, regardless of the long duration of charging, my phone was not responsive at all (black screen, no haptic, no charging indicator on the screen).

I thought that the battery might be completely dead so I brought a new battery for testing.

I also have another pair of iPhone SE, the new battery works fine with another pair, but it is not working with the phone I am trying to repair. I suspect the screen causing the issue, because when I replaced the screen from another pair, it works fine.

So, I wonder, could iPhone SE detect that its screen is faulty? And when the screen is faulty, iPhone SE does not boot at all? I thought that, even if the screen is faulty, the phone itself will boot, so I can check the phone is at least working by haptic, sound, etc.

At this moment, I figured out that at least the digitizer part of the screen works fine.

⟐ Commented January 27, 2025 at 5:27 MST