Author: Ewan Spence / Source: Forbes
This weekend saw coverage of a potential flaw in the design of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. The issue is an audio one, starting out with microphone issues that potentially result in the iPhone being stuck in a boot loop as the iPhone’s hardware is checked – leading to the nickname of ‘loop disease’
Speaking to Motherboard’s Jon Christian, two independent iPhone repairers discussed the problem that has seen the audio chip come away from the iPhone’s logic board:
Jones [Jess Jones of iPad Rehab] and Cerva [London-based repairer Federico Cerva] disagree about what causes the loop disease.
Cerva blames small drops that cause the pad to become disconnected, while Jones suspects that it’s due to the phone getting repeatedly bent during use.But the fix, Jones and Cerva agreed, is straightforward: they remove the audio chip, then solder a small segment of wire underneath it to repair the connection. Cerva can complete the repair in just 15 minutes, he said; Jones said that a qualified shop should be able to carry out the repair for between $100 and $150.
If this all sounds just a little bit familiar, then cast your mind back to the similarly named ‘touch disease’ issue that affected the iPhone 6 Plus. Here, the iPhone’s display would stop registering touch events, or show a grey bar across…
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