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Released September 21, 2018. Models A1920, A2097, A2098, A2100. Available as GSM or CDMA / eSIM or nano-SIM / 64, 256, or 512 GB / Silver, Gold, or Space Gray. (Pronounced "iPhone 10 S.")

Top half screen don’t work only bottom

I’m a little puzzled, I replaced my logic board and after I was done I started it up to find out that the top half of the screen does not work. Only the bottom half works. First my camera was not working so I restored phone with new firmware but the top half just don’t work. I’m thinking screen but before i replaced the board the old board worked with the screen So I’m lost on this.

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First disconnect the battery. Not unhook the screen and check the pins on the connectors on the screen and motherboard for any bent pins. Clean the connectors with a qtip and alcohol and a soft brush. It's possible that it's a bad connection. Also verify that that the image is there buy really hard to see because of back light. Is there is a possibility that you damaged the backlight circuit when you changed the logic board.

Update (07/23/2020)

It sounds like you blew the backlight circuit and possibly the touch on that half of the screen. Did you disconnect the battery before you changed the screen? It's a common problem that people don't disconnect the battery and it shorts out the backlight circuit. You will need to take it to a repair shop who can microsolder.

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Ok will try what you said also going to try a new screen to see if that works . Camera was not working but after a restore the front camera works great now just to get the screen to work would be great . Will let you know how it turns out

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The image is there just can’t press anything from the first three rows at the top. Touch only works once I’m half way down the screen

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Came across the same issue tonight, I had two XS units and 3 OEM screens. I found that for some reason, when I swapped the screens over one worked fine on one XS (XS_A)while the other one the top 3 row of icons was dead(XS_B). Yet I could swap another screen on XS_B and the screen would work fine. This proves that the logic board was fine & when I put the supposed half dead screen back on XS_A (original paired phone) the screen worked fine. The only difference I could see was…XS_A was on iOS 13.6 and XS_B was on iOS 14.1. Makes me wonder does iOS 14 have software checks that disables part of the screen if it’s not it’s originally paired screen…

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