IFixit Guides will help you make minor repairs to your gadget

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Hook hands, a humanitarian mindset, lack of instructions - all this is not a reason for frustration and parting with money for paying for minor repairs of a failed gadget. Smart iFixit will help you save money by providing you with a detailed guide to disassembling and replacing parts of a smartphone, game console, PC, Mac and even a car.

Who are iFixit

Even if you don't count yourself among the crazy techies, you still heard about the guys at iFixit. Since 2003, the community of enthusiastic engineers has been publishing open source disassembly and troubleshooting guides for a variety of gadgets. The online guide aims to reduce consumer electronics waste by fixing and restoring it. After all, the disposal of electrical equipment in accordance with all laws and regulations is a time-consuming and costly undertaking, ignoring the principles of which negatively affects the environment.

Most of the significant novelties from the category of smart technology fall under the scalpel of "surgeons", and this or that assessment of the maintainability of a "trepanned" device becomes a news occasion for the most popular Internet media.

Under the wing of iFixit, students of technical universities in the United States work freelance, and the material is thrown to them by large network resources and … caring fans of the online guide! Yes, yes, anyone who has a faulty device at hand can donate it to a good cause. Volunteers will definitely sort out your gadget and submit a report to the general public court.

But that's not all. Each site visitor can roll up their sleeves and make their own review of the missing device or make a change to an existing guide. Moreover, for beginners, comprehensive information support is provided, ranging from recommendations for competent photography and ending with the principles of using a multimeter.

It is important to note that you can reach out to the friendly iFixit community with your questions and they will try to answer them. The number of questions already asked is approaching 55 thousand, and, of course, there are even more answers. In addition to this, on the resource pages, you can order any professional tools for the repair of equipment, as well as buy the necessary parts.

For example, for the iPhone 6 Plus, 25 step-by-step instructions were developed, 42 solutions were found and 17 spare parts were offered for purchase.

Such a simple and friendly policy made iFixit an indispensable assistant for those who can make an effort, read the instructions and try to bring their gadget back to life.

Most recently, the iFixit team launched a new section for repairing Android devices, which prompted me to write this article. But we got distracted, so I suggest taking a look at the pages of iFixit.

Online guides

According to iFixit, the resource has accumulated thousands of step-by-step video and photo instructions for a wide variety of device types: Mac, PC, tablets, smartphones, cameras, game consoles and cars. But this does not mean at all that you will definitely find a guide for replacing a non-removable battery, screen or motherboard for absolutely any gadget. It is expected that the repair of popular gizmos is well-scheduled, and slightly less well-known ones can boast of single manuals or just a base of answers and questions.

There should be no complaints about the completeness and clarity of the manuals themselves: close-ups with an emphasis on small details are supplemented with a text description of the actions. As you may have noticed, the rudiments of Russian localization are visible on iFixit. Let's hope that one day the site will receive a full translation.

The iFixit knowledge base is also available through the Android mobile app. It's well structured and still informative.

Although at the first acquaintance, you can get confused in the categories of devices, among which there are glasses, watches, kitchen appliances and the most unexpected devices, for example, lawn watering installations. In general, it is better to use search.

Conclusion

Guides from iFixit are a good help for minor repairs (replacement of parts) or assembly of a wide variety of equipment: from electric guitars to drones. But, of course, the instructions for smart gadgets such as smartphones and tablets are of more interest. They usually cost a lot of money to fix, so why not try to twist the screws yourself?