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I just finally brought my water damaged 6 back to life after tearing it down and cleaning everything with 91% isopropyl alcohol including soaking the board for a few hours scrubbing and blowing off with canned air every thing is working like new no problems except the carrier spot just says searching all the time now even if I put in a SIM card or take it out it never changes my question is what should I check I cleaned all the antennas is it just that the chip in the board is shot? Or is there another possible fix? I hate that you can’t remove the emi shields anymore to really scrub all the chips

Hi Jared, Glad you could bring the phone back to life. Ive had the same experience with an iPhone 5C. I would recommend that you try the following:

  1. Remove the sim card
  2. Go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings 3 . Find a different known working and activated sim card and place it in the sim card tray
  3. Turn on Airplane Mode, wait 30 seconds, then deactivate Airplane mode. I would really appreciate hearing the end result. Thank you, Michael