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After having trouble with charging his phone, my friend ordered the part to replace the headphone/lightening port on his iPhone 5s. After connecting it all correctly and following guides etc we put the phone back together, and instead of charging the phone doesn’t register anything (the screen still works with the ‘out of battery’ icons so we know it’s still functional) but it now makes a quiet popping noise when you plug the charger into it? Tried to check if we’ve missed anything so opened it up a further two times but after double checking every connector we touched, as well as everything next to what we touched we can’t find the problem. Any help would be great. Thanks.
NOTE: what kind of issue did you have with the charging? I’ll make an assumption to get you started: assuming the phone used to charge before the attempted repair, I would try 2 simple steps before moving to more advanced troubleshooting: 1-Cleaning: 1-a- Disconnect the battery, clean the battery connector on the board with 90%+ isopropyl alcohol and a soft brush. 1-b- Disconnect the charging dock connector, clean the connector on the board and the cable itself with isopropyl alcohol. 2-Power cycle: 2-a-Reconnect the charging dock connector, do not yet reconnect the battery; 2-b-Press and hold power button for 15 seconds, re-connect battery, start the phone and/or re-charge and start the phone. If nothing changes, I’d put the old connector back in and test the phone. If the phone charges and works as it used to be, then the new connector is defective. Again, this is assuming that the old connector used to work before and the phone used to charge! If the phone used to charge and doesn’t charge anymore, you may have pried something off the board during the first repair. Let us know where you reach with the above steps and/or explain more what the initial problem was, in order for us to better troubleshoot the issue.
