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Basically, I broke the home button flex on my OEM iPhone 7 screen (the part that goes from the screen to the logic board). I had an iPhone 7 screen lying around, but it’s not OEM, and I want to transfer the non-broken home button flex cable from the non-OEM screen to my old broken OEM screen. How should I go about doing this? Thanks :)
One question, did you tear the flex that the physical home button is attached to? Or did you tear the flex that the HB (home button) attaches to just below the screen. If you tore the flex that attaches to the physical HB, you can transfer a Non-OEM HB as many times as you want and still have no touch ID or “click to home” functionality. The HB’s are serialized and without a tactical dome switch button (the home button design since the first iphone), there is no circuit running that detects your “click”. Your only recourse is to seal up the phone as best as you can, take it to Apple, don’t mention any efforts at repair, and pay their price. When the HB fails to work for them, they can replace/reprogram the system. If you tore the flex that comes out from the LCD backlight plate and connects to the HB, you don’t have to transfer the Non-OEM HB to the OEM screen. You have to transfer the OEM HB to the Non-OEM screen.
