Awesome new part – Complete iPhone 4 Frame Assembly

If you have ever replaced the midframe on an iPhone 4, you know this is a major pain and very time consuming.  We have a new product designed to make the process much simpler and very quick. Introducing the Complete iPhone 4 Frame Assembly.

This Assembly comes with almost all of the parts that would traditionally need to be swapped over.  Here is a list of what you get:

Bezel with Middle Plate
3M Adhesives for iPhone 4 Screen
Black shield Sticker on middle plate
Battery Pull Tab and Adhesives
Snap Spring
Snap Spring Screw
Front Camera
Front camera Anti-static spacer
Front Camera Connector Port foam spacer
Front Camera Fastening Piece
Loud Speaker Anti-dust Mesh with Bracket
MIC Anti-dust Mesh with Bracket
Power Button
Mute Switch
Volume Button
Volume&Power Button Metal Spacer
iPhone 4 Phone Jeck Flex(black)
Mute Switch Bracket
Mute Switch Fastening Piece
Mute Switch Foam Spacer
Mute Switch Metal Spacer
Water Damage Indicator
Vibrator
Phone Jack Flex Connector Port foam spacer
Volume Button Braket
Volume Button Sticker
Induction flex
Induction filter lens
Sensor Hole Anti-dust Gasket
Sensor separation foam strip
Power Button Braket
Phone Jack Flex Screw
Earphone Piece
Induction Flex connector port foam spacer
Induction Flex Plastic Spacer
Dock Connector Flex (black)
MIC Rubber Cover
Home Button
Home Button Flex
Loud speaker
Antenna Flex with Feed Line
Dock Connector Flex connector port foam spacer
Dock Connector Screw

We have these iPhone 4 mid frames for both black and white iPhone 4.  The headphone jack and bottom port will be Black or White respectively.

We also have this complete mid frame in a custom black finish.  Check it out.  Imagine this with a red front and back.  Very cool.

Price Drop – Original iPhone 4S Screen Assemblies.

We have iPhone 4S Screens and the retail price is down $10 to $112.99.  We have both Black and White in stock.  These are the highest quality iPhone 4 Screen assemblies money can buy!

Price Drop on iBic™ iPhone 4 Screens with Speaker Grill

Same superior quality with a much lower price!  The iBic™ iPhone 4 Screen retail price is down $10 today from $89.99 to $79.99.  Wholesale customers will need to log in to see the new wholesale price.  You still get the same superior replacement iPhone 4 screen with the speaker grill and camera hold pre-installed.  These iBic™ Screens are the best you can get.  They are the most complete and most thoroughly tested/inspected iPhone 4 Screen available in the market today!

Black Midframe for iPhone 4 – Very Cool!

We now offer a black anodized Mid-Frame for iPhone 4.  You can replace your Silver Midframe / Antena band with a black one (we sell gold as well).  This black iPhone 4 midframe just arrived and its very cool.  It has a sort of black chrome look.  This part is only compatible with AT&T iPhone 4.  The kit includes a black sim card tray, black buttons, and black screws.

iPhone 4S Parts are in stock and ready to ship!

Our iPhone 4S parts arrived today.  We have the following parts in stock and ready to ship:

iPhone 4S Screen Assembly, Original, Black
iPhone 4S Screen Assembly, Original, White
iPhone 4S Home Button
iPhone 4S Home Button Flex Cable
iPhone 4S Ear Speaker
iPhone 4S Antenna
iPhone 4S Mid Frame
iPhone 4S Docking port

See all of the iPhone 4S Parts here.

We will take and upload pictures of all the parts by tomorrow.

Update on iPhone 4 Screens

I previously posted that we were having trouble keeping up with demand on the iPhone 4 screen (822-4144) this week and that you may experience a slight delay in shipping. But…

Thanks to a couple old friends/colleagues/competitors, I’m happy to report we have two 75pcs batches arriving today which should get us through the week. We had to pay more and wont be making a profit on them but at least we are able to fill our orders.   Our large shipment should arrive Monday to get us back on track.

Sincerely at your service.
Kyle

Significant Price Drop on iPhone 4 Screen Assembly for AT&T (GSM)

I know I told some of you that I didn’t think the price could get any lower on the iPhone 4 Screen assembly, so now, I eat my words.  The price just dropped AGAIN!  Retail is down $4 to $57.99 and the wholesale price is down around $3 to an all time low. Thats the good news.  The bad news is these iPhone 4 Screens are flying out the door and we have been scrambling to buy as many as we can while we wait for our next shipment to come in from our overseas suppliers.  We cant find enough in the states to keep up with orders so you may see a day or two delay on any orders for these right now. We should receive a huge shipment of them on Monday and be back to SAME DAY shipping.  If you need some right away we do have the high end iBic iPhone 4 Screen, which already has the camera hold and speaker mesh installed.  If you dont need black, we also have the White iPhone 4 Screen available in large quantities.

Gold Mid-Frame and Button Kit in Stock

Just In!  Gold Mid-Frame and Button kit for iPhone 4.  This is your chance to have the hottest iPhone in town.  Our kit comes complete with screws, sim tray, and all the buttons to completely replace the stainless steal frame.  We only have a few in stock but more are on the way!

How to fix iPhone 4 Proximity Sensor Issue

If you do a quick search on Google you will see a lot of posts on this topic.  When you replace the screen on an iPhone 4 there is a chance the proximity sensor will not work properly once you install the new screen, particularly if you install a different color screen. Since we talk to hundreds of repair shops on a regular basis we have some information on this topic that I will share with you here.

First, its important to know the issue is specific to the iPhone and not to the replacement screen itself.  Its been reported many times by our repair shops that a certain iPhone 4 will not work with screens that work just fine in other iPhones and they try screen after screen without success on one particular phone.

I dont know exactly why one particular iPhone 4 will have a proximity sensor issue and other ones do not, but, one of my favorite repair shops is sure it has to do with the foam that surrounds the ambient light sensor and proximity sensor.  Of the two sensors above the ear speaker, the ambient light sensor is the one on the left, and the proximity sensor is the one on the right. The ambient light sensor is used to automatically dim the screen when you are in low light conditions.  The proximity sensor is what disables the screen when you put the phone to your ear.  He thinks the foam will stick the the back of the broken screen sometimes and this is what causes the issue.  It sounds logical to me.

I think this problem has been hard to nail down because there can be multiple reasons why a phone may have a proximity sensor issue. We know Apple has recently made changes to the proximity sensor window on the latest version of the iPhone 4.  They changed the sensor window from one large opening to two smaller openings.  They have also released multiple proximity sensor related software updates over the years.

The good news is that there is always a remedy.  The four most popular ways I have heard to get the proximity sensor to work again are:

1. The Sharpie method.  For this method you take a permanent black marker and color the back side of the proximity sensor window on the iPhone 4 Screen.  It may take a few layers to be sufficient.  This works particularly well on older versions of colored screens where the sensor window looks more like a perforation.  I can personally confirm this method has worked for many of our repair shops.
2. The iPhone 4 Proximity Repair Lens.  This is a tiny lens that you put over the proximity sensor before you install the iPhone 4 Screen.  I can also personally confirm this works but it does require that you have this part on hand in the event you do have an issue.  We sell the iPhone 4 Proximity repair lens for less than $5.
3. The foam method.  If the foam pad around your iPhone 4 ambient light sensor and proximity sensor is damaged during the removal of your old iPhone screen you can try to replace it.  Some people have had success even using black electrical tape.  The goal is to make sure there is something in between the sensors to make sure they are not interfering with each other
4.  Software restore.  It has been theorized that when you restore the iPhone it resets the Proximity sensor to work under the new condition of a slightly different Sensor window.

I hope this information has been helpful. Have a great day!

iPhone 4 Battery and Antenna cable fastener

What are you calling it?  iPhone 4 Antenna cable fastener? Contact clip? Little thing under the battery connector screw?  Whatever you call it, we have it, and you should be stocking at least one of them.  This is the fastener that holds the iPhone 4 antenna cable and also makes contact with the back cover. It sits above the battery connector and attaches with the same screw that holds the battery connector in place.