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I bought a $73 iPhone 6 display replacement to fix my phone. I followed the guide all the way down to the last step except I cannot take the LCD shield plate off because it has 3 stripped screws. No I did not strip the screws. Matter of fact, every Phillips 00 and 000 except ONE, did not work. I had to use a 1.0 flathead bit to remove these screws. My bits are good quality so the screws on this phone must have been cheap. I am making myself physically ill right now. The rubber band trick did not work. Using a flathead only broke my bit. Now I have tried a drill but I drilled all the screws flat. They aren’t coming out, not even metal shavings. Please help I am out $73 and my phone is in pieces.
And this is why I keep a wiha Phillips head screw on me when this happens. Always helps with stripped Phillips plus screws. Well it’s drilled flat now so I think the only way is to drill them out extremely carefully..
I had the same problem. I solved it by taking a wire cutter to the whole screw socket. I had to cut one on each side of the plate. Overall the phone worked just fine. i did go back and add a layer of adhesive to the outside of the phone just under the screen. The Iphone 6s has this tar-like rubber adhesive thats very hard to seperate. So i ordered it off amazon just for insurance even though the phone snapped right together and works as new!
I had pretty much the same issue. all of the screw were coming out fine. I get to the shield plate and theyre wayyyy over torqued (too much lock tite?) and (I was being INCREDIBLY careful, and Im pretty good at this kinda stuff) within 1 or 2 turns the screws started to strip. no way to get them out. So Im trying to understand the solutions you guys proposed here. You cut off the tabs? what holds the shield plate in?
