Our full iPhone SE 2020 Teardown is in progress, and we’re testing a lot more than just the parts compatibility! Check back on Monday to see deeper inside Apple’s most interesting recycling project yet. It doesn’t have all the fancy features of the iPhone 11 or the iPhone 11 Pro, but $400 for a phone with a long-lived processor and plentiful repair parts seems like a square deal to us. I suspect the Lightning Connector contact pins inside the charging port in my IPhone 7 are burnt. ![]() Most new iPhones arrive with zero backward compatibility, so we’re reasonably pleased with how nicely the new iPhone SE plays with so many parts that repair shops and fixers already have in their inventory. The old-fashioned 30-pin data cable/charging base must be converted into an 8-pin connector through a lightning converter before it can be used on Lightning products. iPhone 7 Lightning Connector Assembly Repair. You can’t even swap one genuine iPhone SE 2020 battery for another without triggering a “not a genuine Apple battery” service warning. And, sadly, this seemingly throwback phone has some very modern Apple roadblocks inside. The SE will connect to an iPhone 11 battery, which uses the same connector-but it won’t turn on. Turns out, although the battery looks identical, the battery’s logic board connector differs from the one in the 8, so they don’t fit together. And home buttons are still not interchangeable-you’ll need to hold on to your original home button in the event of a repair, substitute an aftermarket home button with no Touch ID, or else pay Apple whatever they ask to fix it for you.Īlso incompatible? The battery. ![]() But their orientation should be carefully observed according to the pinout diagram. Note: The lightning port is the device to which the connector end of Lightning cable is inserted. ![]() However, as with any modern iPhone screen swap, you will lose True Tone unless you have access to a screen programmer. The pinout diagram of a lightning connector is given below. And that screen should be cheaper to replace than any new iPhone we’ve seen in years. About this item NOT SUPPORT AUDIO OR VIDEO OUTPUT: Insert the male end of the iPhone 4 cable into the 30-pin female port of the adapter, and plug the 8-pin port of the converter into the iPhone 5 or other higher specification devices, and it can be used like a normal data cable (The 8-pin converter is double-sided plug-able). The good parts first: iPhone SE’s cameras, SIM tray, Taptic Engine, and display assembly (including the microphone and proximity sensor) are all swappable with iPhone 8 parts. On the right, the internals of an iPhone SE. On the left, the internals of an iPhone 8.
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