How To Replace iPhone 4S battery For Less Than $10
When it comes to replacing iPhone pieces, Apple doesn’t make it easy for it’s customers; but even with their security upgrades we have found some loose ends in their loops, so in this article we are going to share with you how we managed to change an iPhone’s battery. The part you will love most about this article is that it doesn’t take that long to replace (maximum 20 minutes), you can do it yourself, and it doesn’t even cost that much.
Since we’re talking about the iPhone battery, we’ve all reached that point where it doesn’t work for us anymore. The bottom line is, that at about an year of usage it starts to wear out and the time between charges decreases noticeable. With more time passing, it becomes annoying since you can’t go anywhere without having along your charger. By the time it gets to 18 months of usage or two years, you will see that you can’t keep it charged for more than a half of day (if the time between charges is still more than a half of day, you can consider yourself a lucky user).
Even though Apple’s brilliant engineers didn’t want to supply this gadget with a simple battery door, and they are making it harder for us to swap in a new battery when we need to, that doesn’t mean you can’t actually make the swap. As we told you before, we managed to find a loose end to this issue we confront as big lovers of iPhone. Besides that, it’s not complicated at all, and it’s even cheaper than anything you had in mind so far. So stick with us, we are about to reveal more information about this easy process.
For example, we swapped a new power package into an iPhone 4S that didn’t have more than 15 months of usage. Even though the phone itself was still working at its full potential, the battery was definitely showing signs of wear. The total time we spent during this process was not more than 20 minutes. And the price is minimal, considering that we spent entirely $8 for the new battery.
Before we move on to the actual steps of this process, I will have to mention a few things for you to keep in mind while you decide if this is the proper solution for you. Through this process you will have to open your iPhone, which will most definitely make you lose any warranty you have left. The warranty included is for 12 months, but if you decided to extend it for some reasons, you might find yourself in the situation of losing that as well. We are not sure this could work for an iPhone 5 as well, but what we can tell you for sure is that it definitely works for iPhone 4S or older versions of iPhone. But even if it doesn’t work for iPhone 5, the people using it still have at least eight months away from having to worry about that.
We will also point out that opening a gadget as complicated and compact as an Iphone, and messing around with its insides, puts you face to face with the risk of seriously damaging it. We hope that will not be the case with you, because putting it back together might cost you something more than estimated initially. Our upgrade was ok, and we wouldn’t tell you about it if we weren’t sure it works. So, keep these three things in mind, and proceed carefully.
The replacement battery is easy to find, for instance we just searched on eBay for something like “replacement battery for iPhone 4S”. This is how we found a list of top-rated sellers who were offering not only the replacement battery, but also a mini-tool kit for $8 to $10. The one we chose was just $7.99 shipped. Five days later it arrived to our front door.
The next thing we did was to search some material for this swap, cause we did not want to go blindly into something this risky. We found on YouTube a couple of videos we watched before going deeper into this matter. One especially, which we recommend: This , which you can also find it next on our page. We want to make sure you learn this procedure as well as you can before getting to work.
If you have already done your research on this issue, and you are ready to get into it, then (if you need one) pick up a desktop magnifier and a screwdriver and let’s proceed. Carefully remove the two pentalobe screws from the bottom of your iPhone, slid off the backplate and remove the two screws that are holding down the battery connector. If we didn’t do all that research before we got to work, we would have never knew what to do with that tiny little bracket which got loose as soon as we removed the battery connector.
As we reached to this point, the rest was pretty easy. We pulled out the old battery, carefully put in the new one, and screwed it back together as it was before. Being the first time we’ve tried it, it was a big relief for us, when our iPhone 4S opened and turned back to life immediately, not to mention that now the battery life was improved, just as we expected. Total success, it wasn’t hard, complicated, and we paid a total amount of $8.
Of course, if you don’t want to lose the warranty period that you have left (especially if you paid extra for it), or if you simply don’t want to do it yourself, there is always the option of hiring a service to switch the power packs for you, but that usually takes a lot of time, and it’s pretty pricy too. Hiring such a service means to have your phone shipped to them, waiting a couple of days for it to return and the price can go up to $40 or more. Instead of that, you can choose our solution, and make the swap yourself, in just 20 minutes, for just $8 or $10. Besides, during this time the phone doesn’t get out of your sight for too long.
If you’re swap went as smoothly as ours did, feel free to comment in the section below, and give to your fellow readers some tips and tricks you discovered on the way.
