I replaced screens before on two different iPhones. The last one I did yesterday made all of the pictures delete. I have taken it apart and put it back together again to make sure all is right. I do have a tiny, tiny piece of black looks like almost like what would cover a wire or something that is tiny that came out somewhere in the process and that has never happened before. Do you think that's the cause? Anyone know what to do? There were tons of pics and videos on iPhone and now nothing. Downloaded an app to see if it would view pics on there and nothing. Reset it and all that. Still nothing. Anyone know what part in the back stores pics so I can carefully examine that?
"No matter how you lost iPhone pictures, as long the space has not been overwritten, you can recover the lost pictures. To be brief, here are 3 methods for you to recover the pictures:
1. Restore deleted or lost pictures from iTunes backup
2. Retrieve deleted photos from iCloud backup
3. Recover lost pictures from iPhone and other iOS devices directly without any backup
Holly, the iPhone safes its contents to a NAND chip. Your screen repair should not have deleted those. The images/videos etc are usually deleted by accident due to a restore etc. If you have a recent restore from that iPhone, you can try and recover the files from there. Of course there is also some commercial iPhone data recovery software that might recover some of this. Ultimately, the last thing at this time to do, is to install other apps onto this phone. Any chance of recovering anything will decrease due to these apps etc. possibly overwriting remaining data. I do not believe that "tiny, tiny piece of black looks like almost like what would cover a wire " this is related. You may want to consider posting an image of the part with your original question. That way it may get identified. Hope this helps, good luck.
"OK so here's the deal with the whole ""pictures are gone / missing after iPhone screen replacement"" situation.
It's nothing that the techs are doing so far as I can tell to date. I'd love to know what is causing this so if anyone has a theory, please chime in.
Now, with that said, we had never had this issue before after well over 3,500 repairs. Until recently. We've had this happen to 2 phones in the last few weeks. And believe me, we are professionals, so I don't know what to make of it.
But here's the good news. The customers (or your) photos are still there. It's just that the camera roll preferences are trashed or screwed up. Here's how we know.
As mentioned above, Funbox is a solution. But we bypassed that because we use Phoneview for our data retrieval. Or iExplorer. I think you have to pay for both, but anyway........ when we plugged the customers iPhone into Phoneview, all of his pictures were there. So until we can find a cause for this issue in the community, you will need to use one of the 3 above mentioned programs and backup / copy / extract all of those photos to a safe place (like into a folder on your desktop), then re-synch them back to your iPhone.
Yes a pain, but hey, you just got your pictures back, no?
On another note, why not just restore from iCloud backup? Oh, you don't have any backups? **SLAP!**
Learn this lesson now and go turn on iCloud backups over WiFi in Settings>iCloud>Backup and Restore. Now! Because if you had last nights backup, we wouldn't even be discussing this right now.
Hope this helps, and please, CONTRIBUTE YOUR FINDINGS about this issue.
Thanks.
P.S. DO NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE POST BELOW BY IVY. NOT ADVISED AT ALL."
There are many way to recover deleted photos from iPhone in Internet, but if you really need to recover photos enen if you replace a screen, recovery tool is the best choice.
"That piece is a bumper that goes on the top left corner of the mainboard, and prevents the digitizer and LCD flex cables from coming into direct contact with the sharp corners of the mainboard.
Please keep us posted on the loss of photos. This just happened to me today on an iPhone 4s repair, no restore, nothing otherwise notable, but my client complained of photos missing."
