iPhone Repairman (a post by John)

So it started 3 weeks ago.  I was dropping off the boys at school and walking back to my car.  I was not paying attention, carrying some assorted papers from the school when I tripped.  Ready?  Cause this is where it gets good. As I tripped, some of the papers in my left hand were about to fall but in my right hand I was carrying my iPhone. So what do I do?  That is right.  I dropped my iPhone without thinking, grabbing the papers and remember feeling the relief that the papers were OK.  Relief followed by "wait, what was that sound...".  Ah, the classic sound of breaking glass.  Yes, Ladies and Gents, I just smashed my iPhone to save a paper from touching the ground.  Wait...it gets better...

I call the Apple store to see what it would cost to fix the shattered glass, $200 Dollars. Well I am certainly not going to pay that since I can buy an entire used iPhone for less. Shady online dealers want 75, but why even pay that when I can buy the glass and do it myself for $15 dollars! So, I purchase the glass and receive it yesterday. After watching YouTube clip after YouTube clip of do it yourself, I am feeling pretty secure in my  iPhone repairmanship.  I meticulously take apart my prized toy screw by screw, and did a fine job of disassembling.  Well fine might be a stretch, but the job got done in an hour and a half.  We'll just ignore that the YouTube guy did it in 13 Minutes.  Moving on.  I am putting the phone back together piece by piece and am almost finished as I put the new glass in and think to myself...This looks great! Wait...where is that other ribbon cable at?  Insert defeated oh no.  I had sealed one of the ribbon cables under the glass in the adhesive tape. No problem, I can fix this.  Enter hair dryer, warming the glass so I can separate it and retrieve the ribbon.  I go to lift the glass and it is coming up enough that I think I can pull the cable out and out it comes! No longer stuck to the glass and...no longer attached to the iPhone... Yep I had successfully re-broken my iPhone before I could even assemble it again. That takes talent. So now I have re-ordered my glass kit again. $35 Dollars and 3 weeks later, I still have a broken iPhone. Classic Move for a guy. Tries to fix something he is not qualified to fix in the first place and only wastes money or makes it worse. I am the double threat as apparently....I can do both.