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My first DIY phone fix made me a self-repair believer

The art of smartphone maintenance.

You can buy spare parts for the Skyline on iFixit’s website, follow along with detailed repair instructions, and pick up the tools you’ll need for the job. I bought the kit as a kind of insurance; I’d been in touch with iFixit to get some replacement parts for the Skyline for testing and wasn’t sure if a T3 was coming in my shipment. California’s right to repair law, which went into effect over the summer, has surely helped push phone makers to make parts and documentation available to more consumers.

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