How To Fix an iPad Home Button. Torn Flex Repair. Soldering Tutorial.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ย. 2021
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Learn how to replace the long home button flex on an iPad.
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In this video, we’ll show you how to:
✅How to fix a torn iPad 5, 6, 7, 8 Gen Home Button Flex
✅How to desolder the long portion of the home button flex.
✅What to check for on the replacement flex
✅And more!
If you have an iPad 5, iPad 6, iPad 7 or iPad 8, you'll notice that these all have Touch ID, which means, if the home button flex gets torn, you cannot simply just replace the home button, otherwise, you'll lose Touch ID.
But if the torn flex is on the long part of the flex, you have a chance to actually fix it.
The process is simple. Very similar to an iPad charging port.
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Buy Replacement Home Button Flexes here:
▫iPad 5/iPad 6 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/home-button-flex-for-ipad-5-ipad-6-2-piece-soldered-white/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
▫iPad 7/iPad 8 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/catalog/product/view/id/28809/s/home-button-flex-for-ipad-7-ipad-8-ipad-9-2-piece-soldered-white/category/1034/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
Hello, can you tell me if a magnifying glass is enough or do I have to have the microscope
You need a microscope
Can you tell one please thank u very much for all. Im a beginner. Thanks from france
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Thank you . another question at what temperature to desolder and what temperature to resolder the flex
I was repairing my iPad screen couple of months ago and I broke the touch ID cable.
I kinda game up on the iPad. Then I saw your video and I ordered everything on injured Gadgets like you said. This website is incredible, I ordered over 350$ of parts. Broken iphone and mac.
Everything arrived in a week. I then proceeded on followinf your tutorial. At one point I thought I broke the cable where I did solder it. (Didnt use a microscope and no major practice at soldering.
But then I tried it anyways and it works!!! I repaired it an hour ago.
Thank you so so much! Instead of spending a lot of money, i spend only $3.14 on replacing the cable.
Amazing! Now ill repair the flexgate issue on my 2017 macbook pro.
Love from Mauritius island 🇲🇺
Nice job! I always enjoy your videos! Thanks
Keep making videos!! You make videos other channels don’t and you explain it better!! Way better Than listening to background music and watching a video trying to figure it out.
Wow, thank you! Appreciate your feedback!
Ya, he explains the process in great detail. this channel is Awsome! comment for the algorithm
Thank you for helping the algorithm!
Cool. Did not realize these can be unsoldered. Thanks for the video!
No problem! 🙌
Thank you for your videos. Very helpful!
Glad you enjoyed it!
thanks for the good work jesse
Appreciate it! 🙏
iPads are the bane of my existence. Thanks for the video Jesse!
Thanks 🙏
great video. comes in handy.
Appreciate it! 🙏
Another great video Jesse.
I appreciate that!
I would say 10/10 🏆
whats the temperature for soldering and desoldering? im still learning
😬 awesome
Thanks!
Are the home buttons from mobilesentrix also 2 part soldered?
Do you have any video on iPod home button connector? Appreciate if you can do one or share if you already created
I do not. Sorry.
@@VCCBoardRepairs thank you much for your quick responding 👍btw I didn't mean iPod, I mean ipad 8
Thanks for this! I am tempted to try, but can I ask your opinion: if the home button is hot, the battery drains quickly and Touch ID cannot be turned on - is this a broken button, cable or maybe dirty connections?😊
Could be the home button is shorted. I'm not sure.
I ripped the solder points on the original home button and I wonder if its still reparable. If you have any social media please link it to me because its a lot easier to explain visually the problem.
You can post in my group: www.vccboardrepairs.com/vcc-fb-group
Would it be possible to get one of the one line Flex cables (the one with the fake solder joints) and just cut it after the joints and solder over it? Or do you think the joint arent even connected
possibly. not sure.
My cable broke and the home button and Touch ID is no longer recognized when it's plugged in... the tape peeled up on this exact portion and pulled two of the contact points with it and severed the connection I'm assuming. So the first 2 rectangle solder points to the right near the silver chip pulled up, and ripped a few of the solder lines that are going downward. The "top" layer of the cable coming from the home button ripped halfway underneath the solder points. Should I be able to just solder these connections back together??
You'll probably have to run jumpers to reconnect the severed connection
Hi Jesse - quick question: Is the microscope camera you're using the exact model as the one in your "Recommended Soldering Gear" list?
I'm currently using the Mechanic DX-340 microscope camera
@@VCCBoardRepairs Thanks for the speedy reply - have a nice one. 👍
@@VCCBoardRepairs Where did you get it from - MobileSentrix? Cause they seem to have a mixup in their listing (listing reads DX-340, but illustrated image shows DX-230....description has both 2300 and 3400W represented), and Injured Gadgets has a 38MP FHD (brand: unknown).
Hi Jesse, thanks for the video. I am actually in Australia and I find it really difficult to find a replacement home button that is in two pieces. I tried the link that you put there and it came up with an error. Do you know any good website that I can buy the replacement home button from?
Ah, it looks like the links are broken, but I have fixed them.
Buy Replacement Home Button Flexes here:
▫iPad 5/iPad 6 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/home-button-flex-for-ipad-5-ipad-6-2-piece-soldered-white/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
▫iPad 7/iPad 8 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/catalog/product/view/id/28809/s/home-button-flex-for-ipad-7-ipad-8-ipad-9-2-piece-soldered-white/category/1034/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
@@VCCBoardRepairs Thanks Jesse
Hey, I came here hoping you could give me some advice. I’m new to repairing devices. Right now I’m trying to replace my digitizer for my IPad 6. Problem is, I used alcohol on the tape connecting the two flex cables. I thought it was extra adhesive to keep it secured onto the digitizer. When I finally got rid of the tape. My two flex cables detached. Can I still repair that?
This is a great question you can post in my Facebook group. Posting pictures of the issue will also help us figure out exactly where your issue could be
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So your saying if you broke the cable where the number is your screwed right at 7:56 right I'm screwed
basically. yes.
where to find the new flat? all i've bought are a single piece, not two pieces soldered together..
You can find the 2 piece home buttons here;
▫iPad 5/iPad 6 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/apple/ipads/ipad-series/ipad-2017-9-7/home-button-flex-cable-for-the-ipad-5-2017-ipad-6-2018-black/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
▫iPad 7/iPad 8 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/apple/ipads/ipad-series/ipad-10-2/home-button-flex-cable-for-ipad-7-10-2-ipad-8-10-2-gold-2-piece-flex-cable-that-can-be-unsoldered/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
Hi can you please help me? My Ipad7 Screen broke and I got a replacement with a new home button. When I installed it and power it on, the the iPad keeps inputting the pass code by itself until the iPad locks me out for a day. When I go back and power it on, it does the same thing again and says it can’t communicate with the home button and I should go to iTune. I tried changing the home button but it does the same thing.
You need to have the digitizer plugged in
Or the digitizer is bad
Or you damaged the digitizer connector
@@VCCBoardRepairs thank you very much for your reply. Do you have a video on the digitizer
Can the IPad Pro 9.7 be done like that.
Unfortunately no. The design is different
Jesse! I really forked up! was practicing on an old ipad air touch id cable that had torn near connector end. i followed all instructions EXACTLY and as i started to desolder from the left, the pads started ripping out from under the cable! they stayed cemented in place to the bottom piece of flex! WTF?! already destroyed i know. but how on earth can this be done?? i was so careful!! any advice appreciated!! im now afraid to work on the customers torn touch ID! :((
Maybe that cable was already bad. Keep practicing.
@@VCCBoardRepairs Wasn’t a bad cable!! I just didn’t realize how intricate this kind of soldering work is! I think I made the mistake of not using alcohol to separate the adhesive at the top of the cable first because that was acting as tension on the cable when I was trying to separate the two. Anyway I was able to get the two separated but not without more pads pulling loose and now I have a cable with most pads torn out except for two on the end and I don’t even know if I can run a bypass on the ones that are torn out. Cable is completely destroyed and I feel like crap! :((
I accidentally pried off the connector from the motherboard so the home button has nothing to plug into. It’s stuck on the other end of the home button flex… There are two prongs on the board… can this be fixed? I need a new home button connector attached to my motherboard. Thanks
Yes, that's definitely repairable. if you're in the USA, send me a message for a quote: www.vccboardrepairs.com/contact-us
Where did you buy the button from? I can’t find it
The button itself?
I linked to the one replacement flexes I used in the video description.
▫iPad 5/iPad 6 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/apple/ipads/ipad-series/ipad-2017-9-7/home-button-flex-cable-for-the-ipad-5-2017-ipad-6-2018-black/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
▫iPad 7/iPad 8 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/apple/ipads/ipad-series/ipad-10-2/home-button-flex-cable-for-ipad-7-10-2-ipad-8-10-2-gold-2-piece-flex-cable-that-can-be-unsoldered/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
@@VCCBoardRepairs the link doesn’t work, I need the whole cable with the button
@@NutzAboutBolts Ah, yes the link is broken, but you could have searched their site for them.
Here they are:
▫iPad 5/iPad 6 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/apple/ipads/ipad-series/ipad-6-2018/home-button-flex-for-ipad-5-ipad-6-2-piece-soldered-black/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
▫iPad 7/iPad 8 Home Button Flex: www.injuredgadgets.com/apple/ipads/ipad-series/ipad-8-10-2/home-button-flex-for-ipad-7-ipad-8-ipad-9-2-piece-soldered-black/?acc=3d2d53e5abcd70e24cc444935b88e6ac21
@@VCCBoardRepairs Are they the one's where I can de-solder them?
Yes
What happens if I accidentally tore the other side out of the home button
Then it's game over. Not practical to repair
Definitely a10
Thank you 🙏
What I don't get is why 3rd parties don't make these arms. I have had to buy original buttons pulled from a donor before just to get the arm.
I would assume there's not enough demand for it?