Repairing Iphone 4 Dust Mesh Repair Guide

Difficulty

Easy

Steps

3

Time Required

                          15 minutes            

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• Repairing iPhone 4 dust mesh
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Introduction

Replacing a iPhone speaker dust mesh on the front of an iPhone would require disassembling the whole phone. There is an easier and much cheaper workaround for this…

What you need

Step 1

              Repairing iPhone 4 dust mesh               

• Left image shows iPhone with missing front dust mesh
• Right image shows dust meshes on bottom

Left image shows iPhone with missing front dust mesh

Right image shows dust meshes on bottom

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Step 2

• Cut out a piece of stainless steel mesh of the tea filter using a pocket knife
• Trim the piece of mesh using a pair of scissors to a size of approx. 3x9 mm

Cut out a piece of stainless steel mesh of the tea filter using a pocket knife

Trim the piece of mesh using a pair of scissors to a size of approx. 3x9 mm

Step 3

• Fold the piece of mesh longways using the plastic tip
• Use a pair of tweezers to insert the folded piece of mesh into the hole above the speaker
• Put piece of mesh into place using plastic tip
• That’s it - see the result on the images

Fold the piece of mesh longways using the plastic tip

Use a pair of tweezers to insert the folded piece of mesh into the hole above the speaker

Put piece of mesh into place using plastic tip

That’s it - see the result on the images

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Rene Jeddore - Apr 9, 2013

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This may work fine for most dirt, but with the original design there is also a cloth mesh behind the metal mesh that helps to keep finer particles out of the speaker.

This is definitely a much much much easier way to get some sort of protection in there at least. :)