One of the challenges we hear from repair shops is how they can get their name in front of potential customers. With the emphasis on digital marketing these days, it’s easy to forget that some good old fashioned facetime (not the iPhone app) can...
If you’ve performed screen repairs on OnePlus devices, you’ve likely run into fingerprint scanning issues post-repair. It can be frustrating to tell your customers that they will lose the fingerprint functionality on their phone, especially if...
In 2020, the United Nations found that 53.6 million metric tons of electronic waste (or e-waste) was disposed of in that year alone, which was a 21 percent increase in five years. In 2021, e-waste continued to grow, with the Waste Electrical and...
Update: 3/21/2022Lockdowns in Shenzhen and Dongguan, China, have been lifted after a week of COVID-related closures. This was part of China's zero-tolerance policy to lessen the spread of the virus. The electronics market and many mobile repair part...
We’ve been keeping an eye on the chip shortage all year long, and while things haven’t been moving all that quickly, it doesn’t mean that things haven’t been moving at all. If you Google “chip shortage”, you’re sure to find a number of...
Over the last few months, the world has been navigating its way through a global semiconductor shortage as a result of fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m sure the end of that sentence is something you’re sick of hearing, but the...
The cell phone repair industry may still be male-dominated, but women are making their mark. We talked to three women who built successful multi-location repair businesses to learn how they got started, their experiences as women in tech, and...
If you have experienced touch issues after installing a new display assembly on the iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, XR, or 11 (non-OLED models), the problem may not be a defect, but instead a compatibility issue.Touch issues and why they’re...
COVID-19, the particular strain of coronavirus that has been in the news lately, has quickly turned into a global pandemic since the first cases of the virus popped up in the beginning of the year. With over a thousand confirmed cases in the US...