This is a digitizer replacement we recently carried out on a customer’s Asus touch-screen laptop. They’d damaged the digitizer (the part that senses touch and movement) while out travelling and were desperate to get it fixed. Read More
The Important Points
- Apple received bad publicity when users realised iOS was intentionally slowing down older iPhones with ageing batteries.
- Models involved are the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, SE, 7 and 7 Plus.
- Worn-out batteries struggle to meet the higher demands of iPhone CPUs and GPUs running at top speed. This increases the chance of crashes.
- Apple’s workaround was to spread out workload and cut down on other uses of power when iOS detects the battery isn’t up to the job.
- The only real solution is battery replacement.
- Apple offers this, but as of January 2018 there’s a shortage of replacement batteries until March or April at the earliest.
- At Disc Depot St Andrews, we can usually fit replacement batteries for recent iPhone models the same day! Read More
Key Points
- Insurance can be made to look cheap when paid monthly- however, it can add up significantly over time.
- The payable excess and deductibles on some policies can make many policies much less competitive than they first appear.
So, Apple launched iOS 11 just over a week back, and already one (apparent) issue with it is giving some people problems. Specifically, after upgrading to iOS 11, their screen stops responding correctly to touch, is generally glitchy and unusable, or the touch stops working completely. Read More
If you’re experiencing problems with charging your iPhone or iPad and you want to know the possible cause- and solution- check out our newest article. Read More
(NOTE: This article is aimed at more technical users and goes into more detail than most people will need. If you’re simply looking to have your iPhone or iPad fixed, please see “Get Your iPhone and iPad Charging Problems Fixed” instead.)
Unofficial and Fake Cables- How They Can Damage iPhones and iPads
This article is intended to provide a brief overview of a very common cause of Tristar IC (charging chip) problems and failure- specifically the use of unofficial or fake cables, and the reasons they are a problem.
This is a relatively in-depth article. If you’re not interested in the detail and simply want your iPhone 8 or iPhone X repaired, contact us for further details, phone 01334 47 88 66 or visit our shop at 1 City Road, St Andrews. We also have a Dundee branch.
Introduction
Apple’s September 2017 keynote was the inaugural event for their newly-opened Steve Jobs Theater, a new 1000-seat auditorium at the Apple campus. As the leaks had suggested, there were indeed some interesting announcements, including the iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, a next generation Apple Watch, a 4K Apple TV and last but not least, iOS 11.
Since this article focuses on repair issues, we’ll be concentrating on the two models most likely to concern us, the iPhone 8 (and iPhone 8 Plus) and the iPhone X.
One of our customers brought a Western Digital portable external hard drive to us since their PC wasn’t recognising it.
Typically, with symptoms like this, the most likely cause is the that USB interface is broken or not working, rather than a fault with the drive itself. (This is the most common cause of failure with external USB hard drives). Fixing this used to be a quite straightforward, because most external hard drives were really just internal SATA ones (either 2.5″ or 3.5″) inside an enclosure- essentially just a case with a SATA-to-USB interface board. You could open the case, unplug the internal SATA drive from the faulty USB interface and put it in a new enclosure which can be bought for under £10.
Introduction
We get a lot of people asking us for the cost of a screen repair for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy S7 Edge, Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8 Plus phones. Unfortunately- for reasons we’ll go into later- replacement AMOLED display units are very expensive, and this has to be reflected in the price we charge.
On hearing this, many people understandably point out that it’s only the glass that’s damaged- not the AMOLED screen itself- and want to know whether we can replace that alone.
Unfortunately, the bad news is that we can’t. We’ve written this article to explain why.
