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Is it possible to replace the touch ID sensor color? I would love to have a white or gold iPhone 6+ with a black front. From my understanding, part of the Touch ID button is linked with a serial number to the A7 or A8 chip, so I am not sure if this would work unless I had a white button on the black face of the phone.
I personally ended up doing this on accident. Bought another iPhone to increase my memory (Stupidly bought the 16gb) I ordered a White phone to match mine, but the one that came in was black. I didn’t feel like waiting to ship it back and then have Gazelle ship me a new one, so I swapped the motherboards. After this I realized the touch Id wasn’t working, so I tried a factory reset. This bricked both phones. (Error 83 in iTunes I believe) In a last ditch effort I swapped the home buttons back, restored and they worked perfectly! 4 hours of repair (and frustration) later, I accidentally have a 64gb White iPhone with a black button and 16gb Black iPhone with a white button. I’m not sure how I feel about this combination yet, but I guess if anyone steals my phone, I’ll know. And it’s unique. If anyone wants pictures of how these look swapped, let me know!
No it is not possible unless you give up Touch ID altogether.
UPDATE: DO NOT EVER ATTEMT TO REPLACE THE HOME BUTTON. Recent experiment indicates that for iphone 6, if the home button sensor chip is damaged or swapped, the phone will not pass through the software restore/update process. So unless you keep the original and functional Touch ID, you will have a phone that is going to brick any time.
The only touch i.d that will work is the stock one
Hey Tom, I just did my first iPhone 6 LCD replacement, and I think I also broke the vinger print function. How do I prevent this from happening in the future ? What action is the most delicate to perform that could damage the fingerprint function ? Could it be that this happend when i was peeling off the home button connector that is attached to the LCD shield ? ( Like you can see in step 32 iPhone 6 Plus LCD and Digitizer Replacement ) Or witch step is the most dangeres or delicate ? Those from step 23 to 29 ? I would really like to know how I prevent this kind off situations in the future. I would really appreciate it, if you would look trew these steps and could help me preventing to do any damage at all. If there went something wrong i think it would be by performing step 32, I was really careful with it but the connector wouldn’t come lose off the LCD, think I will be using my opener in the future to loosen the adhesive with some heat. Thank you for considering to answer this. Best regards Koen
Than it would definitely be stap 32 by lifting to home button cable of the front panel. Fixable and cheap is wat i wanted to hear ;-) Thank you very much for your time Tom !
Yes, you can, but lose all the function the sensor Touch ID, only works like a button home…
You can change your display color on your iphone, but I would not mess around with the home button. It is linked to the board and if you update the software with a different button or a damaged one it could put your phone in error 53 and potentially brick your phone. So if you do change your screen keep the same button!
i got white grey i want black grey
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Could someone answer this question for me please. I bought a 6, the guy repaired it and didn’t know what he was doing. He ripped the flex cable that goes on the lcd shield. Where the home button plugs in. It functions as a home button fine. If I purchased another lcd shield would the Touch ID work? Or at the least would the double tap to shrink the screen work?
Ah I replaced the lcd shield. Touch ID still doesn’t work :/. Really stumped.
No probs , if any thng hppns but Touch ID should wrk prprly
Yes I we’ll work I try 1 hours go but I have changed with steel backside of screen than is work perfectly I change screen color with home botton in iPhone 6 first didn’t work in both mobile after I change backside with steel is work perfectly for any more information my Kik waled1987
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