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Hi folks, Just replaced a crushed digitizer on an iPad Air gen1, hurray for new things learned. However, after I did the tear down and put it back together I seem to have a few issues:

  1. when I turn on the ipad after the apple welcome logo, it goes black unless I hold down the power button to shut it off. That’s when I get the slide to power off screen. After I cancel that I get the “click home button to unlock” but that’s when I discover my second issue…
  2. the home button on my new front panel replacement doesn’t seem to work. I took it apart a second time and made sure that the slide connector and the latch are securely in place and I put that little black tape that was on the original back and still the same thing. At first it wast sticky so I thought I had just put it together wrong so I took it apart and made sure there wasn’t anything gumming up the button travel. Thoughts anyone?

the new digitizer needs shielding. check jessa’s post on her site iPad rehab where she talks about the iPad mini revealing it’s secrets to her. you should get by with just shielding across the bottom of the digitizer on the inside, cover all the copper looking area. also if you check with the digitizer up not put down, I’m sure it behaves properly once booted up. Update (01/26/2017) could be a faulty home button, for sure a shielding thing with it working properly when up. are you sure that the home button was put in right? the gold part at the end of the home button flex needs to be facing up.