You might recognise this situation. You’re a repair business offering your customers top-notch screen repairs using refurbished originals rather than the cheap but low-quality third-party copy screens many of your competitors use. You know that once they’re in the door– or even in contact online- and you have the chance to explain the difference, the vast majority are willing to pay a little extra for higher quality originals. (Particularly once they’re aware that many of those competitors are so cheap because they only fit copy screens but avoid drawing customers’ attention to this!)
We have a new article that we hope those of you sending screens to us for recycling will find useful.
Note: If you’re simply interested in having your iPhone X fixed, you don’t need to read this entire article! We offer repairs UK and Western Europe-wide- to find out more contact us here. You can also visit our stores in Dundee (Tel. 01382 22 66 26) and St Andrews (Tel. 01334 47 88 66).
What Exactly is the ALS Sensor?
ALS stands for “ambient light sensor”. Basically, this is what the iPhone uses to detect the levels of ambient light, then in turn adjust the brightness of the screen to match those conditions.
(Note; This article has been updated to include useful post-launch information and images. You can view the original version here.)
Introduction
As we’ve already mentioned elsewhere, Apple has announced the release of three new iPhone models- the iPhone XS (“Ten-S”), the iPhone XS Max (“Ten-S Max”) and the iPhone XR (“Ten-R”). At the time of writing the XS and XS Max are imminent, and the XR will be out towards the end of October.
In this article, we want to focus mainly on speculation regarding the iPhone XS, Max and XR screens as well as other potential repair issues.
When trying to identify if an iPhone LCD is an original or copy, many people are look for the presence of the Apple logo. However, if you look closely you’ll notice there are quite a few other markings that can tell us a bit more about the origins of the LCD.
Although externally and internally the iPhone 8 and 8+ mobile phones are very different to the iPhone 7 and 7+ respectively, the LCDs look very similar. If you have a box full of screens waiting to be sent off for recycling or refurbishing, here is a quick way to identify those screens.
Introduction
Have you ever installed an original refurbished iPhone 7, 7+, 8 or 8+ LCD into your customer’s phone only to find that the touch isn’t working? Or perhaps the touch was okay when you checked it, but your customer still comes back the next day saying it has stopped working? It’s easy to blame this problem on a faulty screen, but it may not be as simple as that.
We’ve now added a new page- “iPhone LCD Refurbishing“- that goes into the specific details of iPhone refurbishment in more detail; what we offer you, the details of what you need to know and much more. Let us know what you think!
