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Enlarge / The iPhone 6S is the new baseline for iOS 13. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Apple has posted notice of a new repair program to address an issue that prevents some iPhone 6S and 6S Plus phones from turning on. "Apple has determined that certain iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus devices may...

Enlarge (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images) Apple has been a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to iPhones and independent repair shops. Earlier this month, we discovered that people are running into problems with third-party iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max repairs due to...

Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images | Getty) If your new iPhone needs a new battery anytime soon, you may not want to bother replacing it yourself or heading to your local third-party shop. Thanks to a change on Apple's part, you'll be basically left with a permanent warning message if you do...

Follows months of mounting pressure, recent surge of mainstream media articles. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/...pair-for-free/

Enlarge / Manufacturers would prefer it if iFixit guides (like the one pictured on a Motorola Xoom from 2011) didn't exist. (credit: iFixit) Kelsea Weber is apologetic for being hard to get ahold of. “We were all busy tearing down the iPhone XS,” she says. A few minutes’ conversation with...

I bought a copy of Ready 2 Rumble: Round 2 yesterday, but my DC wouldn't read it due to a small, but deep scratch on the disc. I attempted to repair it using a CD Cleaner that has fixed minor scratches on other DC discs, but this time it didn't work. So I visited my local Gamestation (UK) who...

Just wondered if anyone else cleans everything that they buy? I always give my games and hardware a thorough clean to make them look all spick and span again (at least, to the very best I can get them). Also, does anyone buy spares or repairs from ebay and dissect them to get them working again...

my Slim's UMD drive and screen both shat, so my friend's giving me his broken Slim, but his case is bent up, so I'm going to be doing massive renovations. I'm going to take his UMD drive, and screen, and put them in my PSP, but I'm fairly inexperienced when it comes to this kind of thing, so...

Seems my faceplate is cracked and I am missing a screw in my psp1000 model (the one behind the analog stick), so I'm going to just get a new faceplate and screws (the missing screw might explain the issue i had with the analog stick before). Any sites that are recommended to get some of this...

Evening all my psp has gone tit's up :'(! it was placed in the wife's handbag and a can of antipersperant was in there and the psp got covered in it! now when i tried to play tiger woods 10 the other day the character was in a constant backward position! so i exited the game and entered the...

I've gotten into modding, and been trying my hand at refurbishing PSP but I'm kinda stuck. I had my own PSP which has worked for a bit now, it was hacked so I value it greatly. My friend ended up going through two PSPs. Both PSP got beatten up and had their screens cracked. I found...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lir1HCupK9Q Need to learn how to repair a Nintendo DS Lite? Here is part 2 of a detailed tutorial explaining how to do just that, enjoy. [URL="http://supermodchips.com.au/"]