iPhone 5s Home Button Einheit ersetzen

Two things - As mentioned, the replacement screen is a bit different. Mine had a screw where an empty hole should have been for the "captive screw".. a bit confusing at first. Just remove it and carry on.

Second, if you're an occasional nunce like me, you might be confused by the little tab/prong/raised guy next to the screw. After you've screwed the "captive screw" in, that thing should be hovering above it/the metal plate of the screen, and should look just like the removal picture.

Out of curiosity, what happens if the "spring contact backing" is not in the correct orientation?

I re-assembled my phone without paying any attention to this, and it seems to work OK... maybe I coincidentally got it right without trying. What would happen if the contact was facing the wrong way?

Hi Help !!! The home buton doesn't work anymore !

Hello. I lost the little 'spring clip'. My phone is working erratically. Could that be anything to do with the cip not being in place? Thanks

I am pretty sure I had replaced the captive spring wrong (didn't see the second image until I have completed the project). But the phone seems to have a perfectly working home button now.

This screw/spring combo fell off right before reassembling. Good luck and found the screw again. So my advice: Put a tape around the screw/spring or dismount them from the cable and put them in a safe place. The spare screw delivered with the display was too short.

I thought I lost the spring contact, but it actually just got rotated under the section of cable that the captive screw is attached to. The spring contact should be "captive" at the same place the screw is so it should'nt get lost too easily.

On the phone I worked on, the screw wouldn’t separate from the “captive spring.” LEAVE IT! It’s more trouble than it’s worth to remove it, Just reuse the screw it will make the re-install on the new screw much easier. Also use the tweezers to hold the spring in the correct orientation as you screw it back on.

During reassembly, I wasn’t sure wether the spring contact backing was beneath or above the cable. It is hard to see in the 2nd image in step 23.

But in step 24 the 2nd image shows that the spring contact backing is right under the cable.

So the spring contact backing goes first, then the cable and then of course the screw.

For the life of me, I cannot get this screw out. I have been using the same screw driver and nothing has been working.

I think there is one step missing here which shows a picture with the correct position of the ‘spring contact backing’. Consider the part which has a hole in the middle: the flat part is sided to top, making the round part sided to bottom. This is a clear picture of the ‘spring contact backing’: http://www.icellulartech.com/iphone-5s-h... (if the link is broken by the time you see it, type the name in Google).

I had a problem when reassembling, I removed this little screw and the spring contact from my original screen to put them in the new one, but the new one had already its own screw, soI just removed it and tried to put the screw from my original screen into the new one but it didn’t work, and the worst thing of all is that I lost the screw that came with the new screen and that’s the only one that works.

May seem silly to say this…. however it might prevent some confusion for others.

my replacement screen had a screw that needed to be removed in order for the captive screw and home button cable to be secured.

When I unscrewed it, the spring contact part moved too & the little prong rotated under the cable. I thought (mistakenly) that this was its intended position. The screw also came loose, which made reassembly difficult until I saw that 2nd photo above and realized what the orientation was supposed to be.

The order is screw -> cable hole -> spring contact -> screw hole.

The rounded edge of the spring contact should face the bottom of the phone to match up with the hole’s rounded edge. The perpendicular ‘lip’ should sit flush against the metal plate. The prong should stick up toward where the screen will be. Really, there’s only 1 possible way to put it on correctly, but without seeing the correct orientation first, or if the screw detaches from the cable, it’s kind of a pain to get them back together.

With my phone I needed to use a PH0000 screwdriver. The provided PH000 (and my own from another screwdriver set) was too large. Indeed, every Phillips head screw in my phone needed the PH0000 and not the PH000 driver.

It is MUCH EASIER if you leave the screw ATTACHED TO THE CABLE. Just gently unscrew until you are able to detach the cable. The screw will stay attached to the cable unless you pull it out, which will help a lot in reassembly. Just make sure, as you handle the cable in the next steps, that the screw doesn’t fall off!

Hello my home button only works sometimes, touch id works perfectly.

Can you give me some hint, I already opened it to see if everything seemed okay, and it does. But it doesn’t work.

I wonder were does the cable or contact of the home button are connected to. How does it work?

(usually to be able to fix smt you need to know how it should be working)

thanks for advices

CAPTIVE SCREW “SPRING” POSITIONING:

1) Line up the round part with the bracket on the back of the screen.

2) (On my SE model, at least) there’s a small lip that sits on the -left- side of the bracket.

3) With the screen laying flat, the display facing your work mat, the “spring”/little raised lever should point up towards you.

Order from bottom (closest to desk) to top (closest to you):

screen bracket > spring > home button cable > screw.

This was the hardest part of the repair for myself, using only the tools from the SE screen repair bundle.

Good luck!

My home button sticks up ‘proud’ of the glass which leaves a sharp edge on the outside rim of the button. Is there a fix for this?

Help me It dosent Work

The screw and clip came un done and i don’t know how any of you managed to get that laughably small clip and screw back together. After hours of trying, I gave up. It’s not worth this much hassle just to fix up an old iphone. You’d have to be a &&^&^$^ robot to be able to put a screw that tiny through a loop, force it into a clip, then line it up with a screw hole. All without using your fingers because your fingers are 500x the size of the head of the screw. I wish I didn’t just waste money buying a new screen and battery for this old phone.

For the love of god, is it REALLY necessary to have that super small clip on the screwdriver to be there? It popped out when i unscrewed that piece and it’s been a good hour since I’m trying to put it back its position, it is impossible, i cannot do it, somebody please respond, is it vital for it to be there? I’m getting very annoyed!

The little tab/clip that goes onto the screw must stick UP. See the extra pics. I suspect it needs to make contact with the back of the phone.

If the clip comes off the screw, put it back on the screw first. The hole in this clip has little tabs that require you to screw the screw into this clip; it will catch on the threads. THEN put them both in the hole through the plastic strip and into the phone chassis. PITA!

these are the tightest screws I've ever seen in my life. Tried applying massive pressure and just stripped the screws. Not sure what to do now

Use the #00 Philips on these screws

Went and bought a #00 when the #000 didnt work. Still no luck. About to lose my mind with frustration.

I could not get the 000 or the 00 to work, therefore I tried a #1 flat head from the kit and it worked like a charm.

Sometimes just switching to another screwdriver might help. I noticed that the screwdrivers you often get with displays assemblies are just crap. Invest in a good one.

I was successful by using a 1.5 Phillips screwdriver head from a Stronger toolkit TK-LA40-38PCS

Glad I’m not the only one I guess. Using insane pressure for such small parts I was able to get the one not originally covered by the cable out. Then the trick of wiggling the bracket loosened the other one which was somewhat stripped by my earlier attempts with 00 and 000 Phillips. What a scare

I had success using the J000 screw from the iFixit Pro kit

Both of the screws have blue loc-tite on them. Best to make sure you have the right screw driver for the job. Also, if you have the “iopener”, you can apply a little “heat”. That will loosen up the loc-tite.

these screws are impossible to get out…

With my phone I needed to use a PH0000 screwdriver. The provided PH000 (and my own from another screwdriver set) was too large. Indeed, every Phillips head screw in my phone needed the PH0000 and not the PH000 driver.

I had issue with the brand of the screwdriver. A cheap “iphone compatible micro crosspoint” screwdriver removed the outer screws with grace, but it started stripping the home button screws. Same happened for some other Chinese brand precision driver collection with PH 00 and PH 000. With one last hopeless try, I found another PH 00 in the shed (it says Japan, but no clue what the brand is), and the stripped screw unscrewed at the lightest touch. I believe it's not tightened hard but we've been using a poor screw driver without a snug fit. It's extremely difficult to tell if the driver is any good until you try it. Visually comparing the good and the bad driver I can't tell any difference at all.

Ich bekomme die schraube nicht auf gibt es da einen Trick ?

As mentioned above, coming from the left side (closer to the actual home button) worked better for me. I gently pried under the round tab on the upper left of the home button cable assembly, which was the only part not glued down.

Mein Home Button ist kaputt gegangen was soll ich ruhen und ist das schlimm