I got an iPad Mini 4 Celluar version here for "charging port". Tristar tester passes port & passes tristar. The battery has also been replaced.
So when the battery is dead (low battery state), it will charge normally at 1.8A or so. But once it boots, it drops down to 0.0134A via USB. Since it's not charging, it is stuck at 1% and basically reboots every few minutes.
This is the telltale sign that PMIC is bad. This is really common on iPad Air 2 and Mini 4.
So the tricky thing with these Mini 4, there seems to be 2 versions, according to Mobile Sentrix
343S0674 "4G version"
and another that is "blank" - "Wifi version"
The original PMIC on the board was blank.
But the MS listing said the one with the markings was for 4G. This Mini 4 is 4G as well.
I installed it & no power. It would draw like 60mA via USB (with no battery) and just hang there. This is not normal behavior for no battery.
I tried another one, just in case it was defective. Same thing.
So I went ahead & decided to install the "blank" PMIC, which is labeled as "WiFi". Sure enough, it is now booting & charging properly. Also, WiFi is working! In the past, wrong PMIC on Air 2 has caused WiFi to be grayed out. So I was expecting to run into that being this is the "wrong" PMIC.
Cellular function works too!
My question now is.. what PMIC do I use for the Mini 4 WiFi version? Lol
I have done several PMIC replacements in the past for Mini 4 and Air 2. But I never really tried to keep track of which version i used for which. This post is basically to help me document this somewhere, so I know for next time lol
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Panic log read 0xa1
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