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How to fix iPhone not charging – simple tips

PG AFFTON-ARNOLD — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 09:05:29 +0000

iPhone or iPad not charging? Here’s how to fix it!

Can’t charge your iPhone or iPad? Here are some fixes you can try!8 Nov 2016

If you can’t charge your iPhone or iPad, whether it’s the latest iPhone 7 or iPad Pro, or an older iPhone 4 or iPad Air, there’s a lot you can try on your own before contacting Apple for help. Sure, sometimes it’s a hardware problem with the Lightning or Dock connector or the battery, but often enough it’s a software issue that a few simple steps can fix. If so, follow along and we’ll get you back up and battery running in no time!

1. Force a restart

If your iPhone or iPad won’t charge, one of the first and easiest things to try is a forced restart. Make all the “reboot Windows” jokes you want but sometimes bad bits get stuck and need to be flushed out. To force a restart:

Press and hold down the Sleep/Wake button on the right side (iPhone 6 or later) or top (all other iPhones, iPods, and iPads) of your device.
While continuing to hold the Sleep/Wake button, press and hold the Home button (iPhone 6s or older) or the Volume Down button (iPhone 7 or newer).
Hold both buttons as the screen turns off, and keep holding them until the screen turns back on and displays the Apple logo.

2. Switch outlets or ports

Funny as it sounds, sometimes outlets or USB ports just don’t work. That’s especially true if you’re plugging into a wall or computer you’ve never plugged into before. It can also happen if an electrical or other problem occurs in your regular outlet or port.

So, make sure you try plugging into a different outlet or USB port and see if your iPhone or iPad starts to charge. If it does, you’re good. If not, keep reading.

3. Switch cables

Like outlets, cables can fail. Sometimes they get chewed up by the wear and tear of travel or even household life. Other times, especially for third party cables, defects catch up with them. If there’s no problem with the iPhone or iPad, and no problem with the power source, you need to check the cable in-between.

Try a different cable. If you don’t have one handy, try one from a family member, friend, schoolmate, colleague, or even one from a store in the mall. Just get your hands on a cable or two other than your regular and see how goes. If it works, awesome. If not, keep reading.

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I can’t hear, My speaker not working on my iPhone 7, iPhone 7 plus.

PG AFFTON-ARNOLD — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 08:11:12 +0000

We have noticed an influx of iPhone 7 and 7 plus coming in with either the earpiece and mic not working, speaker not working in short all sorts of problems with audio also rebooting in some cases to the Apple logo which is also related to an Audio problem with your iPhone 7, 7+ and this is usually caused by a sharp drop, not necessarily meaning you have broken your screen or dropped it of the top of a house, a small drop on a flat services from a few inches can cause this fault.

There is a very common fault in the iPhone 7 family called audio disease or audio ic failure. This issue usually starts with a phone taking a very long time to boot (sometimes 5 minutes) and intermittent problems with hearing people and people hearing you on the phone.

As the fault develops further the speaker phone option will be greyed out, voice memos won’t work and sometimes the phone will get stuck on the apple logo.

The fault develops due to flexion of the mother board near the sim reader, which just like touch disease on the iPhone 6 Plus is caused by tracks being damaged. The fault often develops after the phone is dropped or bent and can often arise after your screen breaks.

Solution

This can all be resolved by removing the audio ic, repairing the broken tracks and rebuilding the missing pads.

Again we recommend you check with us at Phone Geeks or at local Tech repair center to determine if its actually the audio IC.

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iPhone X XR Restore screen and Face id failure .

PG AFFTON-ARNOLD — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:11:34 +0000

“My iPhone started rebooting randomly a month ago and now it won’t turn on at all but sometimes it boots up to the “Connect to iTunes screen.”

So if you see this image on your iPhone continue reading.

Recently at Phone Geeks, we started seeing our customers coming with this exact issue with iPhone X XR XS models, and all of them don’t have any apparent damage that left our clients wondering what have might happen to their devices.

The Cause.

If you got the hint from the image, then you are correct its liquid damage again, but very minimum. No surprise the widespread idea that the new iPhones are waterproof is the culture here. When the truth is most Smart Phones are just water-resistant and not fully waterproof. and in response that makes users more relaxed around water or liquid in general when using their iPhones.

What happens is in most cases the moisture slips into the face id portion through the earpiece port and corrodes the solder electronic connections under the component which over time puts your phone on a full shut down mode and give you the restore image which can result in data loss which we try to prevent by replacing the damaged part before user click by accident on restore instead of update.

Solution.

Luckily our Techs at Phone Geeks were able to fix that issue in most cases by getting rid of the built-up corrosion and restoring the phone to fully working again and preserving both data and face id function and in top of that we add a proofing mask to help prevent this from happening again ( you are welcome apple ), and at the other situation we replaced the whole part but this will render face id not working, But you get your phone working again.

Note: this particular repair requires high skills and we recommend proceeding with caution if you decided to do it yourself.

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