Replacing iPhone 3gs battery.

[DrR]

Anyone done it themselves? Can get genuine batteries for £10ish.

 

[Gavin.]

It's not an easy task and I managed to break my mums 3G and I am good at taking thing to bits and repairing them lol

 

[DrR]

Looks easy on the vids? What trouble did you have? I'm usually good at things like that to.

 

[Mot!]

From memory, the battery alone is pretty easy to change.

You can pick genuine items up for £5 or so. Well worth popping a new one in at 18months+

 

[Gavin.]

Looks easy on the vids? What trouble did you have? I'm usually good at things like that to.

The main issue was the connection for the earpiece and sensors on the logic board. It looks like is has a little white flap that lifts up so you can pull the ribbon cable out, DONT lift the white bit! i managed to break the connector and bend the pins in the process, it now need sending away to have a new connector put on.

It is the small white connector on the left of the board, the actual bit that lifts off to release the cable is the small black piece and unless you have really steady hands it isn't going back on.

The battery is right under neath the logic board so it has to be taken out too.