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Ive broken my iPhone 6 screen and replaced it with a new one. I definitely kept my original home button in place. Upon turning the phone on Im getting purple around the edging of screen and a very small fine line vertically down the screen. It is purple on black and green on other colours, very very fine line… I thought maybe cable wasn’t in right but I’ve tried all four of the cables going from display to mainboard. Ive disconnected battery aswell and have tried to do a restore and now my iPhone is stuck in recovery mode giving me error 53. This seems to be related to the touch id but my fingerprint scanner was working fine before. Another issue is getting the screen to slot in right, its slightly raised up at the home button end, as if screen is too big for phone… What should i do now, any way to fix these problems, can i revert back to the way my phone was on 8.3

My advice is to put back your old screen, connect all the cables and put back all the screws (in their exact original respective spots), wipe your fingerprints, and take it to an Apple Store to have the screen replaced. In the process, they also replace the Touch ID button and cable since they replace the whole assembly. They won’t touch it if you take it with the new copy screen installed. This is your best bet at this point, in case you damaged the button assembly or the connecting cable. And if your iPhone doesn’t work with the assembly they provided, you’ll know something was damaged on the logic board itself. At this point, they can offer to replace the whole phone for circa 1/2 the cost of the original one. Or you can choose to refuse the repair. If you don’t want to go this way, you need a new screen assembly and a new Touch ID interconnect cable to test your phone and zero in on what’s wrong, such as:

  • Screen assembly was defective or damaged during installation;
  • Home button itself was damaged;
  • Home button interconnect cable was damaged;
  • Connectors on the board were damaged;
  • Connectors need reseating;
  • Some combination of the above OR all of the above.

Got it going, all I had to do was disconnect home button connector and reinsert it. Im almost there. I still have a bit of a purple border around the edges, kind of faded. Ive checked connectors with magnifying glass and straightened out the first one that goes on as it was a little banana shaped. Still no good… Also is there is any issues getting the display pushed on, I can’t get the bottom half pushed in properly, screen is not nice and flush on the home button half on display but its all good at the top half…

The screen is slightly coming away from the frame, what is a safe quick setting glue for this that won’t damage the lcd screen…