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Hello, I put a new lcd screen on my wife’s iPad 2 and it did good until I put a new digitizer on it. Now, I can barely see what is on the screen. What could be wrong now? Would it be the backlight that went out? Update (08/07/2016) I have also already did a restore using ITunes. I accidently damaged the power/volume ribbon cable in the repair so I can’t do a hard reset. Could this be all that is needed, I hard reset? thanks a lot for any suggestions.

There are a 3 things that I can think of that could be wrong:

  1. The brightness is set to the darkest setting. No idea why iOS does this, but sometimes after a screen repair iOS will turn the brightness all the way down. The fix is as simple as going into settings and turning it back up.
  2. The LCD isn’t plugged in all the way. It happens.
  3. A backlight filter is blown. This is extremely common with iPads since you can’t disconnect the battery before taking the screen off. One misstep connecting the LCD or using metal tools to disconnect the digi and that filter can and will blow.