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Since a couple of months the iPhone had an issue, the earpiece speaker was too low, no matter that I had all the volume up it was pretty hard to listen to the one talking on the other side. I started to use the phone with the speaker in order to have conversations but I don’t like that way, mostly because sometimes I can’t properly listen and there is no noise cancelation meaning that if there is plenty of noise is quite probably the other person won’t listen to me right.<\/p>\n

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So, following the forums “the experts” said that is probably that the earpiece speaker was damaged by water. I remember one day I was cleaning my house with the bluetooth headphones and my iPhone in my bags, and it got sweaty. So quite probably it was water damage, and I had to take the iPhone to the repair.<\/p>\n

But to be honest I don’t trust the little repair shops here, I trust one guy but he wasn’t so sure about he could do it, I’m pretty sure he have the skills but maybe he didn’t have time.<\/p>\n

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So, I ordered the part and got an “Apple repair bundle” that have the screwdriver, some heads, the plastic picks and the suction cup. Having all of that, I just went to ifixit to follow the instructions to replace the part.<\/a><\/p>\n

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At first I was afraid that this would result in more damage than benefit, maybe cracking the screen, or probably breaking the mainboard, but I was able to replace that part. To my surprise… the damaged part was not the earpiece speaker ?<\/p>\n

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After replacing it I started assembling the iPhone, but I stopped after connecting the screen and the battery, then started the phone and made a small test with the “Voice memos” app: Open the app, record a memo and listed to it in the ear speaker. I wasn’t able to listen to what I was saying.<\/p>\n

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Then, I review the piece and it was in good shape, so I started to clean the black piece in the screen that protects the speaker. Turns out that it was just dirty, probably my sweat plus the dirt mixed and created a layer in that small holes. I used isopropyl alcohol, a used toothbrush and a hard piece of metal (the flat screwdriver) to scratch it from the inside and brush it from the outside, after it was clean I reassembled the phone and voil\u00e0!. Then finished assembling the phone and there it is.<\/p>\n

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