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Hi , will an iphone 6 work with caps . C1251 , C1260 and C5202_RF missing ? Also if the antenna cable attached to the rear shield was broken am I right in thinking there would be no cell signal ? I think someone may be trying to rip me off ..
There are three issues here: Will the phone work without these caps? Yes, the phone should work without these caps. They serve a purpose and ideally should be replaced but from a testing purpose, the phone will work.Why are these caps missing? C5202_RF is next to the WLAN IC and is a typical corrosion spot on water damaged phones. The other two capacitors are also on PP_VCC_MAIN. This leads me to believe that whoever had this phone either repaired a water damage condition or tried to repair it without success.The antenna cable was damaged. Either way, this points to previous water damage and the fact that the antenna cable is damaged and components are missing also points to a repair that is of questionable quality. If your phone works now, I would be concerned by latent issues that may crop up in the future as this phone was probably not properly decontaminated.
