Dead iPhone?

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Hey,

I have an iPhone 7 which I never felt the need to upgrade, everything was fine, battery still at ~87% original capacity. Last night I put it on charge and this morning it just seems completely dead (black screen).

Tried multiple chargers, connecting to PC, hard reset, dfu mode, but there's no response out of it at all.

I'm going to replace the battery but tbh I doubt it's actually the battery at fault here, going from 87% capacity to not even being able to show the charging logo seems unlikely to me. Anyone had their iphone suddenly die like this? Any ideas which part likely failed?
 
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Do you know if it was just the normal hard reset button combination (vol up, release, vol down, release, hold power) or something more fancy than that?
 
As expected the battery replacement didn't work, tried every kind of recovery I could see online without luck so I guess it's dead enough to not warrant repairing :p. Looking around it seems to be quite a common issue with the iPhone 7 of the logic board just dying
 
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