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I just did my first ever phone repair and replaced the screen and battery for an iPhone Xs max, during the process I pulled up the battery and broke the Wireless charging Flex, causing repeating reboot, my question is I really don’t want to replace it or is there some kind of soldering repair type thing I can do to imcro repair instead of replace the whole thing?.can do I like add some copper to the broken cabke? I’ve never don’t Solderin/micro repairs before but I figure if I’m going to be repairing phones then I will have to learn someday, so might as well be now, so can I micro repair this and if so how and what tools will I need?
Hi @natedawg22, Unfortunately, that level of damage is best left untouched, and the wireless charger replaced. In theory, you can micro solder a repair, but not really viable on the wireless coil.If you want to learn micro soldering, get a cheap broken device off eBay or Facebook marketplace and just go to town on it (after watching some videos or something). Note: The smallest jobs is next to impossible to do without a quality microscope and A LOT of patience. You’ll need a hot air rework station if you want to really start micro soldering.
This is not why your device is rebooting. You first need to figure out the actual cause. And to do that, we first need to understand what you mean by “reboot"Style 1: The phone shows an apple logo and then dark screen—but it never actually boots. If so, then this is what a phone will do when it is not connected to a charged battery. Troubleshoot on a DC power supply or a known good charged battery. Style 2: The phone will boot, but only stays on for 3 minutes before rebooting. This is the symptoms of a sensor error–and in your case the missing sensor is likely in the charge port or in the connection of the new battery to the battery connector data pins.The flex that you’ve damaged is not important for the boot up sequence or staying on for longer than three seconds.Learning to microsolder is rewarding and fun—we teach a course every month here at iPad Rehab, however flex repair would not be a successful place to start learning microsoldering. Work on working devices when you are starting out. Learn to reball and replace easy bga chips and charge ports first.Jessa
