Replaced battery, phone turns on, screen doesn't?

If you shine a light onto the screen can you see a faint image? If so, then the LCD connector was not inserted properly. It will need to be re-seated. Try it, even if it looks fine. In these tiny devices a hair's breadth makes all the difference.

Fixed mine ordered a new screen put it in and works perfect from what I read is the cables on the screen are very delicate you twist the too much and you end up with a screen with a backlight and no image

I had this same problem after replacing the battery: all the inner parts were connected with a ‘snap’, screws were in right places, screen secured in the casing… but the screen was black. I felt the iPhone 5s heat up when I pressed the power button and home button at the same time, and the heat was still there when I plugged the charger in. Sometimes I could see a very dim purple-ish backlight when I pushed both buttons together, but the screen stayed black. I spent the whole day agonising about this, because the iPhone was working, it could turn on, it could heat up, it could vibrate, but the display couldn’t show anything. I was this close to giving up.

Stumped, I popped the screen off yet again to check the internal connections, but this time around I didn’t do the last step: pushing the screen back into place. I pressed the home and power buttons, and the white Apple logo showed up! Phone works, display also works!

I moved to push the screen into place, but then I saw the display fading out into black. Lifting the screen slightly returned it to its unblemished state. Pressing the screen down again only caused it to fade to black again. I checked and tried pressing each corner of the screen down to see what section of the iPhone was causing the blacking-out… Pressing the top-left corner seemed to be the cause. The components on the underside of the screen that corresponds to the top-left corner was pressing onto the top edge of the replacement battery.

The replacement battery is slightly slimmer in width and height to the original old battery I had just replaced. Because of this millimeter-difference, the replacement battery has a bit of extra room in its compartment. The first time I positioned it, I had it placed closer to the top, but this positioning caused this very black-screen problem. To fix this, I had to reposition the battery and scoot it closer to the bottom of its compartment. This will open up that millimeter of space the top-left corner underside-screen components needs to avoid jamming itself into the top edge of the new battery.

From there, it was just a matter of pressing the screen closed and turning the phone on, no black screen anymore!

Hope this helps anyone who needs it.

This is almost certainly just a mis-seated LCD connector--extremely easy to pull it up on the iPhone 5.

Follow instructions for removing LCD screen, then reverse them and see if it is solved.

Jessa

Jg scoot this happens when the screen is defective had it happen before serveral times and a new screens sorts it

I'm having the exact same problem. I've replaced the screen, re installed the original battery, tried another battery, tried 2 more different screens. I even restored it with iTunes. NOTHING WORKS! I can't see how this could happen from simply changing out a battery. All connections look good and clicking in as they should be. FYI: all my parts are high quality from etechparts.com

Hopefully someone can help me with this matter...thanks in advance

Woodzyvision

I know its a long shot, but there is a protective film on the _inside_ of the screen. I forgot to remove it from my I pad and touch wouldn't work. It was fine after I removed it.

I'm having a similar issue. Replaced the screen and had a little backlight in the bottom right corner. And now nothing at all. Faulty screen?

im having the same issue tried multiple times to fix im taking it to a repair shop tomorrow! its frustrating

I replaced the battery in my iPhone 6 and had the same problem - backlight only. I re-connected the LCD screen and got most of the screen to work (the left third didn't). I took the screen out, air dusted the screen with moisture free gas, sprayed the screen connectors with electrical contact cleaner, then air dusted the contacts again. It worked!

several times i disconnect and connect the ribbon but still does not work at all...

I replaced my iPhone 5S battery and when I turned on the screen was black but a faint back light with apple logo was showing. You have to put it under the light to see the faint back light.

I knew I had put the screw at the wrong places.

2x 1.7 mm Phillips #000 screw

1x 1.2 mm Phillips #000 screw

1x 1.3 mm Phillips #000 screw

I reassembled the digitizer three times and with screws at the proper place and screen was still black.

In the end, the problem was really caused that a ribbon attached to the digitizer got ripped while I was pulling the screen perpendicularly to unscrew.

Thankfully the phone worked again after I replaced with a new digitizer/lcd screen. Even though I had put the above screws at the wrong places earlier, it didn't make permanent damage beneath.

i have a problem as well after i have changed the battery, i changed everything by instructions and after i was done i connected back everything very firmly and when i tryed to turn on the phone nothing came on, not even blacklight or the apple logo..... stuck at this moment need answers and help