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Repair and disassembly information for the second-generation iPhone SE that was announced and released in April of 2020.

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Kernel Panic after housing replacement

Hey everyone,

Recently I posted about a housing replacement causing mic1 kernel panics in my iPhone SE 2020.

This first started when I purchased a new housing,battery and screen for my mams old SE 2020, however once I completed the repair process it was kernel panicking every 3 minutes.

I assumed it was an issue with that phone and left it for a few weeks.

Coincidentally my friend also has the same phone and was in need of the same parts so I said I'd fix it for him. I was very careful removing everything, using IPA to weaken adhesives etc however the same issue persisted.

I assumed maybe I broke the charging port when removing it, although unlikely in both phones and the same goes for the logic board however I was very careful with them too.

And what makes it even weirder is when I moved the parts from the original SE into my friends old housing it works perfectly??

So is it the housing causing the Kernel panics? is it the wireless charger possibly? I scuffed that up quite a bit when putting it in the new housing and then removed it once I suspected that but same issue occurs (Not sure if lack of qi charger causes kernel panics).

I'm very confused by it all. Any ideas?

Thanks

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This is an odd issue you are having. Without having the device disassembled in front of me it is very difficult to fully diagnose. However from your description I can hazard a guess that some part in the phone is grounding where it shouldn't. In other words, a protective film, cable casing, or PCB layer has been compromised or is missing and is shorting to another component or frame of the phone. With modern devices voltage/amperage being so closely monitored a short can cause kernel panics or random shutdowns depending on the severity and location of the short.

My recommendation is to verify that there are no differences between the two frames when looking at the black insulating layers. Damage to these layers could be the cause.

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