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Tenda HomePlug wireless kit and packaging.
Typical home and small office setup for the two HomePlug units. (Adapted from Tenda instruction sheet).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.
Standard USB 3 “SuperSpeed” cable
Mini USB cableIf you’ve ever been shocked by the price of USB cables in a “big name” store, don’t worry- the prices in our St Andrews store are far more reasonable!
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.
