iPhone Short circuit- Repair iPhone 7 won’t turn on failure

The iPhone 7 short circuit and causes iPhone 7 won't turn on. The trouble details are that the iPhone 7 fell into water, after we clean up the water, press the power button, it doesn' t response, we need to repair it. 

For water damaged iPhone, first we need to check the exterior of the iPhone, generally，the part that have been in the water is easy to damage. After appearance has been detected，we need to connect it the DC power supply to check the iPhone status. 

Connect iPhone motherboard to DC Power supply, no leakage, press the iPhone power button, the current jumps from 200mA, this failure mostly is caused by power supply short circuit, it also can be measured, just check the several power supply circuits that is output by the main power supply.

After measuring these power supply circuits, we can identify where the short circuit part is.

When measured the PP3V0_TRISTAR_ANT_PROX this signal, we found it is short circuit. This signal is reached to these place and USB, we can check it on iPhone 7 schematic diagram.

Directly remove the USB, and then measure the iPhone data again, but the iPhone still short circuit.  For water damaged iPhone, we need to observe iPhone exterior more carefully, and the customer has been repaired this iPhone before, put iPhone motherboard under the Trinocular Stereo Microscope and then continue to observe it.

We found there is a damaged chip, it's probably the damaged chip that caused the PP3V0_TRISTAR_ANT_PROX to short-circuit. Remove the inductance attached to it， after remove this inductance, we found the resistance value of PP3V0_TRISTAR_ANT_PROX is back to normal. Now, install the USB.

Press the iPhone power button, now it is normal, but the iPhone always stuck on white Apple logo and won't enter the IOS system. The current tested by DC power supply is to 2A and then down to 200mA and then stop, we suspect it is caused by iPhone audio problem, the current is normal, but it down to 200mA and won't move. 

After detected, there's damage on both sides of the audio, use QUICK 861DW hot air rework station to remove the iPhone audio IC and replace the new one.

Finally, press the iPhone power button, the iPhone is turning on properly,  after get into IOS, test all functions on iPhone, they works well! The iPhone 7 won't turn on failure has been repaired!

Detailed Solution for iPhone 6 won't boot after dropped into water (short-circuit)

If the iPhone dropped into water, then you must have the idea that the iPhone motherboard is damaged.  Moreover, the iPhone won't boot. After water damaged, the most common phenomenon is the short circuit on the motherboard, and there has two cases. Let's take iPhone 6 won't boot after dropped into water as the  an example.

 

The water damaged the iPhone 6, now the problem is that the iPhone 6 won't boot.

First of all, we need to disassemble the iPhone, take off the iPhone motherboard, and then measure it with DC power supply.

Case 1

When supply power to measure the iPhone motherboard, there is large current alerts on DC power supply display screen, which means that there is a leakage phenomenon. Generally, when powering the motherboard and then it shows power leakage issue, the Rosin method is the best choice.

Use Fluke 15B+Digital Multimeter to measure the diode data for iPhone battery interface positive, the data is normal. Continue to measure the diode data for main power supply VCC_MAIN circuit, finding that the diode data for this circuit line is too small, which means that there is a short circuit here.

Smoke the iPhone motherboard to white with rosin, add voltage on VCC_MAIN, after for a while, we found a capacitor is shorted.

With the help of QUICK 861DW rework station and tweezers, we remove it smoothly and quickly. After remove that capacitor, measure it again, the data is normal now.

Install the iPhone to test, the iPhone 6 can be turned on smoothly.

Case 2

When the iPhone motherboard is being measured by powering, it won't leak, but when we press the iPhone power button, the current stuck on 200mA. Obviously, a load on the iPhone power IC is short-circuited.

Use multimeter to measure the resistance of each output grounded on the iPhone power IC, when the PP1V8_SDRAM circuit is measured, we found the problem, the PP1V8_SDRAM circuit is shorted, because the data for C1243 is too small.

Put iPhone motherboard under the Phone Repair 7-45X Trinocular Stereo Microscope, and then apply some rosin on motherboard, and then use Quick 861DW hot air rework station to smoke it, till the motherboard turns white.  Increase the voltage in the C1243, after a while, we found a capacitor is shorted.

Remove this capacitor as usual, and then measure it again, now the data is normal.

Assemble the iPhone to test; now the iPhone 6 can be turned on smoothly. After get into IOS, test all function on iPhone, everything works well.