iPhone 6 plus half screen black
Out of all iPhone generation iPhone 6 plus half screen black problem most common on 6 plus. This can happen on DIY repair or unskilled repair attempt. Or if ESD safe tools or matt is not used while replacing the lcd. Or unskilled touch ic repair attempt or excessive heat while touch ic repair because one of the backlight ic lies just under the touch ic on the other side of logic board. Or iPhone 6 plus half screen black can also occur because of any of the component failure on the backlight circuit which is backlight diod, backlight coil or backlight ic. Below is the picture how iPhone 6 plus half screen black look and this came to our repair shop.
how to fix iPhone 6 plus half screen black
You might want to read some answers to this problem here. iPhone 6 plus has 2 backlight circuit. First of all you have to find out which circuit is faulty. There are two test point where you can check with the multimeter which one is faulty. Both backlight circuit consist of filter, diod, coil and ic. From our experience we hardly find filter is blown. Mostly it is ic itself but it is important to check as you don’t want ic to pull out where it is something else. See in the below picture location of iPhone 6 plus backlight circuit and its component to check.
Once you tested and figure out which one of these two circuit is faulty. Start with the testing the diod D1589 or D1501 with multimeter if it is ok then move to inductor L1589 and L1503 if both are working then IC is faulty which is backlight ic U1580 or U1502. Two test point to check which circuit has failed make sure to check while iPhone is on and turned on as in the below picture
If you have half screen black problem on any of your iPhone bring it to applefix hamilton or if you don’t live in hamilton send your device or send us query for a free quote or call 078394188
