Water damaged iPad Air 2 cannot turn on? We can fix it!

Unfortunately, the iPad Air 2 have some water got in from the charge interface, the motherboard is burned and badly eroded, the result is iPad Air 2 cannot turn on. Add insult to injury, the water damage is out of warranty. In this case, the APPLE's repair is expensive. Now, there are repair guide for fix this problem, you can do it by yourself or send it to repair shop.

1. Disassemble the iPad Air 2, we can found that the screen interface is burned badly and is eroded, as shown in picture 6-96. And the LCD cable interface has been burned, as shown in picture 6-97.

2. Replace brand new LCD FPC connector Socket and assemble it to normal iPad to test. Luckily, the screen is tested to be workable. Next, fix the motherboard. After cleaning motherboard, some components are missing and some solder pads are burned. After making up the missing components, measure the diode data of LCD interface. Backlight power supply circuit PPLED_BACK_REG_A has no data. Checking the circuit diagram, I know that PPLED_BACK_REG_A runs through a inductor and connects diode D8428, as shown in picture 6-98.

3. Find D8428 (in picture 6-99) in bitmap and jump a wire from the negative pole of diode to LCD interface, as shown in picture 6-100.

4 Fix the eroded circuits connected to pin 15. After checking the circuit diagram, I know that this pin is a 1.825V power supply PP1V825_S2R_MESA_FILT on fingerprint chip. The number of the chip that generates the voltage is U4750. It is mouldy and eroded. Its solder pad is dropped and cannot be soldered again. The circuit diagram of U4750 is shown in picture 6-101.

5. Because we cannot solder the chip, we have to borrow a 1.8V power supply from other places. After checking the circuit diagram, I find that the nearest 1.8V power supply is PP1V8_AUDIO of U3250 audio amplifier chip, so jump a wire from C3252.

Finally, assemble the screen and turn it on to test. All the functions as well as the fingerprint function are normal. The circuit diagram of C3252 is shown in picture 6-102.

Tips: Keep your electronic products away from water