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Chosen Solution What are the tips and tricks to finding the most repairable laptops? If you have the money, premium business class laptops like the HP Elite, HP Z (high end workstation) or Latitude E6/7000 series and the Precision series are designed to be worked on. Some of these have the issues consumer models have like soldered RAM, but there isn’t any stupidity like soldered SSDs to worry about outside of glorified consumer models like the ProBook or Vostro....

Chosen Solution Hi! Less than one week ago I installed a new iFixit battery in my MBP (A1708). It’s been running for about a week now. I followed the calibration tips in order to maximize performance. However, so far it’s not really doing so great. Battery time isn’t very impressive, and haven’t really improved from before the battery replacement. It’s not worse, but I did expect at least a small noticeable improvement....

Chosen Solution do you guys know a way to remove management off of a chromebook? I have had my Samsung Chromebook 3 for at least 2 years and i wanted to do a powerwash. So I did that and… I accidently signed into my school account. Now my chromebook is my school’s chromebook. But I can still sign in with my regular account. But I can’t turn on Linux or be in dev mode....

Chosen Solution I need to know if it is possible to replace the speakers in these headphones, and if so, how? Jack Ryan, take a look on here. The posting by " Splosh" should be of interest. I have taken apart my own P7 headphones (which also have a dead channel) and can say that while the wires and solder points are accessible, the speaker elements themselves are glued in place....

Chosen Solution My windows phone (Lumia 920) becomes slower and slower since the beginning of this year. I was long planned too replace it as new phone and made my decision last week. I received the iPhone 6S Plus this morning and want to transfer all the contacts(1000+) from my windows phone to the new iPhone. Manual input works but it takes too much time. Is there any comfortable way to transfer the massive contacts?...

Chosen Solution Not sure how to replace keyboard, since my keyboard not typing, if i buy a replacement, i will replace it. For this model all parts described but not for keyboard replacement. I have Chrome book 2 Toshiba , model: CB35-B3340 Get back, thanks Hi @gennady46 Here’s a link to a video that shows how to remove the palmrest assembly (which includes the keyboard) from a Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3330....

Chosen Solution I changed my battery and my phone booted on when I plugged it in. Problem is that none of the sleep, volume or ringer work.. How can I Fix this?? you probably scraped the power/vol flex while removing the battery. The power/vol flex is a replaceable part, but a pain in the butt–order one and install. you can confirm that bad flex is actually the problem by first overlaying the new flex without installing it and plug it in....

Chosen Solution I need answers because I love my phone so much and it is my only phone When interacting with the buttons, does the device still make sounds or vibrate? This could be an LED Screen Failure. You can do a simple test on your phone to see if your screen is in need of replacement. Hold Power + Volume down + Home Button. That should bring you into Download Mode, if it displays then your screen is fine....

Chosen Solution I have an LG model# 47LS5700 built & bought in Dec., 2012. I had the same symptoms as above 2 nights ago while watching my 47" Smart LG LED TV, I heard a “Pop” & the TV went dark & no sound. The cable box was still on & the power light on the TV was still on. I walked up to the TV & smelled a burnt odor, so I unplugged the TV....

Chosen Solution @macnetic if it is okay with you lets start at some basics. this way we are all on the same page in the same book. Diagnostic LEDs The iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010) computer has four built-in diagnostic LEDs on the main logic board that can help you to troubleshoot the computer. The LEDs are located on the bottom left edge of the logic board (under a piece of black mylar tape) and can only be seen when looking through the lower vents of the enclosure....

Chosen Solution When you open the iPod, the first connector that you must remove. In the guide it’s called brown connector. There’s any way to repair it? Did you rip it off the motherboard? If so, you may be able to resolder it. But it’s a very tricky repair. I believe that is the headphone/hold switch connector. The iPod might function without that being plugged in, allowing you to use the iPod in a dock with a remote control....

Chosen Solution Hi. Have an iBook that originally had Panther on a 30 GB drive. I upgraded to a 160 and Tiger, and for a while, it ran just fine. Then it started to freeze after running for 8-10 minutes, no response from the mouse, no movement on the screen. I hold the power key down to shut it off; if I start it right back up, it will get past the gray (apple) screen, you hear the disk start to read, then it hangs at the blue screen....

Chosen Solution Can I install a 2nd Gen iPad Digitizer into a the new 3rd Gen iPad? If so, is it an identical match? They appear to be different parts (iPad 2 digitizer, iPad 3 digitizer). That said, I’ve scrutinized the photos from the iFixit teardowns of both the iPad 2 and iPad 3, and darned if I can see any significant differences. The metal shield around the camera appears to have grown a spring-contact on the iPad 3 to improve contact with whatever it touches, but that looks like it....

Chosen Solution I’ve been in the repair business for about 2 years now and a problem i have encountered from times to times when doing some sort of repair on the iPad Air is that the iPad wont charge or the battery starts to act out, e.g booting up with 1% batterylife and jumps to a new percent number when putting the charger in. The thing is this problem usually solves itself when i disconnect and reconnect the LCD and digitizer, but what is it that causes this in the first place?...

Chosen Solution Hi I recently replaced my front screen and back cover. All went well except that after completing this (slowly and carefully), the phone would no longer charge. I could plug it into the mains charger and it would start up and get to the grey screen with iPhone written on it. When I opened the slider, it would show me the iTunes screen. The issue is that there’s no way to connect it to the Mac, because as soon as I unplug it, the phone goes dead....

Chosen Solution I have i phone 6 and its boot looping What steps shoud i take I changed battery it dosent work Phone is not short Hi Rohit, So if your iPhone is looping the Apple logo the most likely cause is the battery. During the boot cycle of an iPhone the Phone swaps to battery power for a period of time, if your battery is faulty then it will show the apple logo for a few seconds then cut out and start again repeatedly....

Chosen Solution changed couple of batteries then Tristar and tigris but no help it does charge normal but when we remove charger and restart the phone it goes to higher percentage of charge then it drains fast, could anyone help with that. thank you You need to check the TIGRIS_TO_BATTERY_SWI line, specifically R2400/C2400 to insure that the battery info is properly communicated to TIGIRS. I would also check the SWI_AP_BI_TIGRIS circuit which consist of Q2301/R2302 to insure it is working properly....

Chosen Solution How do I turn Silent Mode ON to OFF? With the phone in standby, press and hold # on any handset. The phone prompts you to select the number of hours (1 - 9 or Always On) that you want it to stay in silent mode. To confirm press # or wait 5 seconds. Each handset will display silent mode. The phone will exit silent mode after the set number of hour or to exit manually press and hold # again....

Chosen Solution Well i got a problem with my 3DS when i recognized that my Internet doesen´t work, i´ve thought that my WIFI board is defect so i tried to open the 3ds with a ph000 screwdriver everything went fine except at the lower case part i had to remove those 9 Phillips screws and i could only unscrew 5 screws the other 4 screws were stripped because i put too much power on the other screws so that they were stripped....

Chosen Solution In an iPhone what allows it to calculate the remaining energy percentage of a battery, both in programming and parts? Also why do certain conditions affect this reading such as temperature? Mine was lost for two and a half days then turned up literally frozen to the asphalt of a parking lot at my church. the outside case and the phone itself were both frosted over and once thawed out for a few minutes without being charged decided it wasn’t dead when I tried to turn it on and powered up with 44% battery and later after it completely thawed went up to 66%....