How often do you damage a chip on your motherboard? Or need to replace non-capacitor parts on it?
This is such a problem because it's stuck to the screen, and people need to replace screens all the time.
This is such a problem because it's stuck to the screen, and people need to replace screens all the time.
I co-own a repair shop. We have known about this for a while. We won't replace home buttons for this reason. But we replace hundreds of screens a month with no issues.
Yes, we have had people come back with Error 53; that's how we knew it existed a while ago. All of them had either had their home button replaced or water damaged. We were able to successfully recover one of them after the Apple Store told the guy there was nothing they could do. It was a water damaged home button and we were able to clean the corrosion off of it by soaking it overnight in a special solution. It came back the next day. If your original home button stops working, though, you are screwed.
FWIW, I've lost 2 chromebooks to TPM failure in 18 months.