A month ago my iPhone has started doing weird stuff. It wanted to shutdown every second. It had blackouts while being booted. It randomly lost microphone input on the headphones. It wanted to raise the audio level to the max. Ok, I thought, you need your brains wiped and so I did. I’ve re-flashed, re-loaded and re-hacked all of its OS content, but the phone still had issues. I then noticed that it did not really like being squeezed. When squeezed it immediately presented a shutdown screen as if the power button was pressed. Now, I know, there is not a squeeze sensor in it, so it all naturally pointed to a hardware failure. And then I heard a rattle. A faint rattle, just a bit when I shook the phone in a certain way. That could not be good, I thought, so I took the smallest screwdriver I had, a suction cup and in two minutes the iPhone was split open, like a black oyster shell. Lo and behold, the cause for the hardware failures was immediately apparent. A small screw came loose inside the case and fell onto an IO board, shortening it. I took the screp out, put the puppy together and voilà – no more brainfarts! Two things I do not understand thought. How could a screw inside a case, those intent in life was to tie a MB to the case, could become completely undone? And then, how could the screw not fry the iPhone guts completely while on the loose? So, I guess, electrical engineers at Apple are good, mechanical are not so much. Here is the photo of the offender.