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My phone won’t power on after finishing the battery replacement. I carefully made sure all connectors were not bend and snapped back into place firmly and evenly including the battery connector. When I press the power or home button I see a battery icon on the screen with a few red bars. If the iPhone is NOT plugged into the charger a lightening cable and lightening bolt icon also appears; when plugged in only the red battery icon shows. I’ve left it plugged in for about 10 minutes and nothing has changed. Typically when my battery is dead and i plug the iPhone in it starts up within a couple minutes. Sadly I didn’t test this before sticking the new battery in place and don’t have spare adhesive strips. How do I troubleshoot and fix this problem? Did I get a bad replacement battery or is something else wrong? This is obviously very frustrating as my phone is now out of commission!
Hi Dave, We emailed you back from the customer support email address, so go ahead and respond to that and we’ll get you taken care of. Thanks!
@cvneutron Are you seeing an uptick in issues with iFixit iPhone batteries? I’ve seen a couple of questions lately with some issues with iPhone batteries.
It can take well over 10 minutes to start off a completely dead battery. I would think iFixit batteries would come charged, but you never know. If it shows its charging(aka no lightning bolt on screen) then you should be good. Just wait like an hour and see. If still no go, then you may want to check how many amps it is drawing from usb port by splitting one of the wires apart and hooking each end to a probe on your multimeter, then measure amperage. You may also want to check voltage of battery, and or the voltage of batt. terminals on phone.
I am currently having this same problem too. What did you do to correct this problem?
I repair a lot of phones and bad batteries happen. Have purchased a couple dozen from iFixit now and just encountered the first one. Waiting to see how warranty / replacement is handled - been about 12 hours since I emailed them.
2 bad batteries now for iphone6…won’t use iFixit in the future…
