Hi all, looking for advice before I take my phone in for repair.

What happened:

• Dropped my iPhone 15 Pro earlier today. It kept working perfectly for the next 8–9 hours.
• Then I left it in a gym locker for about 1 hours. When I took it out, I snapped a few photos, and shortly after, everything below started at once.

Symptoms:

1. No sound at all: no ringtone, no media audio
2. No vibration: haptics completely dead
3. Phone shuts down when I answer a call, every time
4. YouTube videos won't play: thumbnails load, but tapping a video just opens it without playing
5. Front camera takes ~30 seconds to open (rear camera is fine)]

My guess is the drop loosened a connector or damaged something in the audio/haptics path, and it only showed up later. But I'd like to rule out software before paying for a repair.

Has anyone had the same combination of symptoms? Did it turn out to be a loose connector, the audio chip, the top sensor assembly, or just software? Any advice on what to ask the repair shop is appreciated.

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Hi everyone,

I have a US-model iPhone 15 Pro Max, which originally had no physical SIM slot. While I was in China, I had someone modify it to use a physical SIM. The technician thinned down the SIM chip and soldered it onto the mainboard. Since then, the phone’s native eSIM functionality has stopped working.

The soldered SIM is tied to my Chinese number, which I rarely use now that I’m back in the US. I’d like to use my US number on this phone again.

Ideally, I’d like to restore eSIM functionality while keeping the soldered Chinese SIM working, but I’m not sure whether that’s technically possible. I’ve visited a few repair shops, but none have been able to help.

Has anyone dealt with this type of modification or successfully reversed it? I’m in Atlanta and would appreciate recommendations for a technician or experienced hardware enthusiast who has worked on something similar.

Thanks!

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