Another iPhone X Data Recovery (Liquid damage)

[@ststele]

This video was recorded immediately after my last video but we got severely backed up on repairs and I have not been able to finish it. But here I am! I'm going to try to go back to posting every week. Thank you all for sticking around. :-) The next videos are already in the works. Edit (2 weeks later) - still working on this weekly posting. :-)

[@danb7631]

Its good to see you back! 🖐😀👍

[@AM-dc7pv]

@STS Telecom Curious as to what was max depth that the iPhone X was submerged to? IP ratings and waterproofing of even mil-grade waterproof/resistant items usually have a maximum depth that the item will withstand and past that, water pressure compromises the waterproofing/resistance of items (e.g. seals, gaskets, etc.).

[@arshiali662]

hi its an super technique sir please can u share number thanks

[@IctmacanicBangladesh]

STS Telecom congratulations

[@gomesoft2]

On your second attempt, It shows the backup going to your icloud, not computer. :)

[@eddietait4922]

I fix iPhones on a daily basis but nothing this extreme I thought repairing touch disease was a mission and I saw this... Love the content anyway keep it up!

[@BrokebackBob]

Your bench is the pinnacle of style, who says repair can't be beautiful, and to top it off, a handsome and charming host/tech!

[@georgeodriscollvideos7740]

Hi Jason nice to see you back doing vids again you had been away for a while glad your back hope you and the family are all doing well look forward to seeing more vids soon

[@cellgaming8989]

Where the heck have you been! Miss you man!!!!

[@ststele]

It got really crazy here. We got backed up by 97 devices. I’ve got a little breathing room now. Thanks for commenting :-)

[@slam4815]

@@ststele Then we should be seeing some unboxing of some new gear, eh?

[@gyulapap4140]

STS Telecom yes I understand but we still missing you!

[@n8stechservices683]

Hey Jason Great video! Can you possibly make one about the encrypted data on a thumb drive and how its put onto another phone?

[@kingraiderr]

what do u mean it was mistaken for waterproofing?

[@wizzair_offical]

Tounsi Behi i actually don’t know, i’ve been recording underwater (swimming pool) videos many times w my X and nothing happened

[@ststele]

I only get to see the ones that don’t survive their underwater adventures. Most stories include the phone being absolutely fine until a few days or a week later. You can always see where the water seeped in gradually. Now, I have seen the Xs boiled in beer for hours and survive. It is quite a lot better than the X. The iPhone X is not waterproof and it will die.

[@nikosbiologytsiouplis1895]

what i have learned from the mechanic board splitter is that you can get better results in reattaching the two boards if you dont use the two holders. the holders bent slightly the rf board and it cant be flush with the cpu board.

[@ststele]

I never thought of that. Good stuff. Thank u :)

[@toddfirestone3089]

Good to see you! That bracket you put those two halves into is pretty cool!

[@joaopa9250]

Can you recover data from an iphone 11 pro max that wqs working fine and all of a sudden got stuck on the apple logo and doesn't reboot? Or is there something you recommend to do in order to recover the files? I really don't wanna lose my photos....Thank you.

[@thepinback]

Cool stuff and great work! Which cables/power connectors are using from your sigilent power supply to the phone?

[@jigneshvajani]

i missed you a lot brother.. was seeing your page daily for new video..!!

[@freshsnake7222]

hey jeson its good to see you back where u went man....

[@zx8401ztv]

Well done jason :-D Solder balls were everywhere and it looked so bad, i'm amazed it worked at all!!. I'm not sure about that odd looking mammal in the water, the lesser soldered fonafixa maybe :-)

[@yiannitsimplekis9894]

Glad to see you have survived Jason! Keep up the great videos!

[@TWModern]

Ive taken my Xs Max in the Ocean/Pools (fully submerged) did the same with my 7 Plus before that...haven't had any issues

[@mohammeddaas2002]

you are a great techer thanks for every things you have made

[@behnamhp5898]

Thank you man, watching this I could fix my IphoneX and save my data before giving it to apple!

[@scotts4125]

Good stuff Jason. Glad to see you making videos again.

[@jazminecastaneda5160]

Who can I send my logic board to for data recovery? Doesn’t have front part of iPhone just back piece

[@randyr.parker2698]

Good to see you back, sure have missed your videos!

[@massimilianobarresi.]

Apple logo!!!! I like very much your videos.. thanks for sharing ;) "This video is sponsored by everybody who ever said the iphone 10 is waterproof"

[@ststele]

It’s surprising how many people take them underwater. Thanks for commenting 🙂

[@sadiqfraser5382]

Omg I though you was gone for good glad to see this new vid

[@johnmatthew802]

does your apps and like basically everything from your old phone go to the new one

[@vpnrouter]

Cool work - thanks for all the great videos Jason

[@googacct]

I am surprised there was not more damage from corrosion. Given that the phone had been in saltwater, any reason why you would not rinse the phone with distilled water to flush the salt out and then follow up with a rinse with IPA to remove the distilled water?

[@ststele]

Sometimes they are horribly corroded but the X is usually not too bad. I think the real bad ones have had screens replaced or owners who submerge them for pictures. I would not want to warranty a full repair when they’re too messed up. This one was for a customer who specifically requests for the phones to not be fixed, although they still get a lot of them back fully repaired.

[@DanOfAllTrades]

My iphone 8 went diving in salt water..they can't fix it here..can you help me?

[@Jusgamez777]

Hy sts . I had my iphone x died after salt water damaged. I have showed to local repair shop they said its dead cuz of mother board issue . I have real real important data in it . I still have a hope that u r the only guy u can turn it on or at least recover my data . Is it possible to recover data if u manage to turn it on or it has to loose data after a water damage ? I have no icloud backup on this device . Please reply me suggestion

[@ipremiumelectronics9240]

Hey mate, i started broswering your KZbin channel daily hoping for a new video. Dont do this to us. We need you Jason. P.S. Great job!

[@VidanoUSA]

I have the same iPhone X and it was also salt water damaged. How much do you charge to recover data?

[@minineji7050]

Can the face ID flex cable be repaired/replaced?

[@mrmuscle7764]

Yes search it theres a video on it but its too tricky took me 8 hours

[@MrZavrie]

What are you using as a pry tool and what screwdrivers

[@Abdullah.h]

I have a liquid damaged iphone x that bootloops . Should i send it to you ?

[@informyou5975]

I wish I can one day have a daily classes at ur office .cuz really I love this job

[@unicornlocating2802]

my phone went swimming earlier today, it wont turn on and the local shop wasnt able to get it to boot back up. is this a service you offer?

[@channelforeign6387]

If I were to send your a phone how much would the water repair cost?

[@tristanskylark]

average cost of this?

[@sebialex2228]

Waterproof or water resistant

[@JuneAnne-Tifa-jz7fg]

Hi Jason! I was wondering, how come you only do data recovery for water damage? I know you do a warranty typically, but how come you don't give the option for full water damage repair like just without the warranty or sumfin? I've seen a lot of your repairs (Maybe not this one) where the phone seems like it's not in terrible condition and it would work fine. Also, amazing job on this repair, looked like it would have been a lot more difficult with how messed up it was!

[@ststele]

I’ve tried the repair but without warranty thing before and found myself mostly buried in arguments. So many people will say they don’t care how it turns out but they don’t realize what they are saying (at least, until it works for a week and something breaks). We started taking in the iPhone X and above for liquid damage repair though. They are usually not too bad but sometimes they are still too damaged to consider full repair. They have good enough odds to bring them in tho. Also, I still wind up fixing a lot of liquid damage for the sake of full repair on older models but I wouldn’t dare advertise it. :-) it’s usually when they come in and have minor issues and are not an endless game of chasing down problems.

[@likearockcm]

Here I thought texting while driving was bad ,texting while swimming whole different level.

[@ststele]

like a rock I took a pic of our teenager pretending to play a game on the fake phone in this video. Very much looks like a bored teenager sitting on his phone, while scuba diving. Funny pic.

[@Rouanoke]

Do you have an affordable microscope you would recommend for somebody learning micro soldering who doesn’t want to spend a ton on it?

[@mario29021980]

Great job!!!!! But did you back it up to your comp or iCloud??? ;)

[@mjka100]

Mario Boccaccio I was going to write same comment ;) while he was backing up the device it was marked as „backup to icloud”

[@ststele]

The backup button in iTunes always makes a local backup. :-) not sure why they even make iCloud an option in iTunes.

[@mikekuo1889]

Quick question did u do classes training thank lot

[@niraj2112]

Even I want to recover data from my iPhone X which fell in water how do I send it to you

[@johnm4962]

What do you use to get the meter and power supply on screen ?

[@AlexMercersRevenge]

What's the point of putting the motherboard back in the housing just to back up the data? Why not just back up the data once you get it up boot up on the iSocket?

[@coffeemcbee1]

This is beautiful 😍 where do I find the little chips?

[@SonuSingh-zk2oo]

Hi I am from Winnipeg, Canada my iPhone XS has water damage and I want to recover my photos from it can you do it for me. Thanks

[@LukeSky74b]

Great skills!. Very nice video. Congratulations!.

[@abugin5415]

hi, I want to ask u about the program that you are using for searching the types of the phone...thanks

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

heya nice data recovery on the new X

[@jeffeverett1599]

Awesome video, love his personality and brains!!

[@fatkat311]

You may have mentioned this but can I pay you to attempt something similar to this?

[@veterick1270]

thank yu but am still stuck with no light on 6s

[@MrPnew1]

Now you are taking the piss out of us Jason 😂 Yeah glad you are back. Louis is drowning us in Hi Hi shredder videos

[@avinash6092]

Can we recover lost data after erasing iPhone if we don’t any backup on iCloud and iTunes

[@OnYourSquare]

I don't think there is much that can be commercially done. When you hit "delete" or "restore", the data is not actually deleted. The system simply marks the data's current address as "available". So that data is technically still on the hard disk until it is rewritten. The problem is the data is encrypted. When you restored the device the encryption key changes. We can easily remove the NAND and read the binary data. Without the encryption key, we have no idea what order to reassembly them in. And to brute force guess a 128 bit key (128 spaces, each can be 1 of 19 different characters) would take 500 billion years.

[@tonylobblc5221]

If recovery you should swap cpu set to another board

[@alz283]

Do you give the phone back?

[@kinetic4644]

Hi friend, please link magnetic screw mat. Thanks you.

[@oharrellcoins5553]

how do you send the recoverd to the owner?

[@mitchcm]

Dude, where did you learn all of this? Did you attend college, to did you learn all of this on your own? I'm trying to get into this industry, and I'm shocked as to how much there is to know.

[@obelix_1971]

Finnally a new video. Missed videos

[@omgbuilders1197]

Hi my phone has error 14 .while updated it's stuck on itunes logo . Can i get my data back doing the same? please help

[@MrPnew1]

25:04 we love it when you talk IPhone dirty

[@ststele]

Pedro147 lmao! The things I forget were in my video...

[@MrPnew1]

@@ststele oh I have them all documented 😃 Now about that FREE complimentary IPhone repair. Love your work and your sense of humour Jason.

[@mathiasseiringer9886]

Why you dont use ice spray or thermal camera?

[@ststele]

Mathias Seiringer I use a thermal camera very often these days but my old viewers would much rather see me burn my fingers to find a short. ;)

[@lievenmoelants]

it seems that a lot of iphone damage is from "using in damp conditions" meaning even use it outdoors ! In that way the warranty becomes void; in my opinion that is a damn excuse to get out of warranty for their sloppy construction (see labor situation in India).

[@GregM]

Did they heat this in an oven in an attempt to dry it out hence the solder balls??

[@ststele]

I wonder if there was some foul play somehow but I’m 95% sure I was the first to open it though so they would have had to bake the whole phone.

[@GregM]

@@ststele Ya and the amount of heat required to cause all those solder balls would have affected the screen and other parts. Could if it of been a refurbished phone from Apple replaced either under AppleCare etc and that is just the quality of the work?

[@KFC66]

Hey Jason, I noticed that you did the backup to iCloud instead of a local PC backup. How in the heck were you able to put the entire backup on a flash drive? I was under the impression that even local iTunes backups cannot be moved over to a different computer because of registry issues. I would really appreciate if you could clarify this for me.

[@ststele]

I'm not sure why they give an option within the desktop iTunes application to choose where it backs up to. If that is set to iCloud, and you click the "backup now" button, it still backs up to %appdata%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup (On Windows 10). Each folder here is a backup. They can be moved to another computer in the same spot & restored via iTunes to a phone. I'm pretty sure the backup format is universal regardless of operating system or application that created the backup though... I think a 3u backup & an iTunes backup would look identical. I've never verified that though.

[@KFC66]

@@ststele very interesting about the "icloud" or "this computer" setting. Think different they said 🤔 anyways I do appreciate the feedback very much. Thank you sir.

[@Bernievids]

Thanks Apple, I have a whole holiday that has been lost to the iPhone X water resistance credentials. Chlorine water, 10 secs, 10cm depth. Can you help me please.

[@ststele]

Bernievids I would give it a 95 to 100% chance of being recoverable or fully repairable. It’s tough to say for sure without seeing it though.

[@zxfhs]

So Is IPhone X Water Proof

[@zxfhs]

Ohh Nvm It’s Waterproof But Not Salt Waterproof

[@yhantiran721]

i also have sea water damaged iphone x sir.. can u plsssss repair it? im from philippines.:( so sad

[@azazlulat228]

Hi pal I always watch your video I have problem with my iphone 7plus its stuck on apple logo and when i updated it give me error 14. Do u know how i can resolve this issue thanx

[@MacVision3D]

Welcome back jason, great video as usual man

[@letsTalkgeography]

hi man is it possible to recover data from an iPhone that has been disabled ?

[@KirbyYoung]

Hi jason, thanks for this video. I was wondering if Is there a way that my files within the phone such as messages, photos, etc can be stolen secretly by the technician? The iphone is dead and motherboard failure. But all the files are in there. Is this possible or they must really know the password and apple id? Thanks

[@OnYourSquare]

The files are encrypted. So you're safe. Without the encryption key the data is a scrambled mess of 1's & 0's. M

[@KirbyYoung]

AngryTechGuy thank you

[@nizamtelecom9282]

what is that at last liquid ?

[@servicepoint.sanoopnair4242]

Hi bro i have one data losted i phone x how to recover data pls help me

[@jimalcott760]

Good job Jason... great to see you...

[@klevrepairs]

Hey jason good to see you back my friend. (That intro was funny af) 😅😅

[@quicktechrepairz4021]

Glad to see your back brother!

[@techindia2763]

great video bro! you really have talent, thanks for sharing

[@iTCXtreme]

As always Great Video, 😊👍👍👍.

[@thinklab4598]

I have two questions for you Jason.. What are you on? Where can I get me some?

[@josephking6515]

The iPhone's wet? Maybe it is just pleased to see you Jason. You need more of these kind of "water" damaged phones because then, ♪urine the money♪, ♫urine the money♫..... Damn, where did I leave my hat and coat.......

[@HeyHeyItsJJ]

I would like mail in my iPhone X. But your website link is not working. Can tell me correct info?

[@ststele]

Sorry about that! There was an issue with the database server and I didn’t notice. It has now been corrected and the link will work now. Thanks

[@Mohd.Faiz.Arz007]

Hello sir I want your help I have iPhone 7 NAND IC was Damage Hence I can't read File . But after new ic replacement device getting on but I can't activate it if you have any Solution please help .

[@donnierobertson3088]

Great job again like always

[@yuling0513]

nice and clean work. well done

[@rodrigomaero]

Gotta love the sponsors!

[@ststele]

They really didn't have anything to do with the video tho. I just caught a good idea in their video is all.

[@ststele]

Wait... I’m an idiot. Lol I actually said who it was sponsored by. 🤦‍♂️

[@rodrigomaero]

STS Telecom hahaha guess it must be hard to keep track of what you said on every video..

[@furkan3723]

Can data be recovered from a formatted iphone ? Please help me ?

[@furkan3723]

What should I do ?

[@furkan3723]

I had 15000-20000 my photos on phone...

[@diogenescaruaru]

Good to see you back :)

[@phon-er]

love the humor and knowledge :). Did you really mean it when you said you hardly reball ? haha. Learning how to use the preheater.

[@fireyourrocketts]

Great video, no problem, I can do this at home with all those tools I do not have!! iPhone Xs is NOT water proof but they are advertised all over the internet to be IP68, which it is water resistant, then apple and everyone that works there sells it and assure customers that this thing can resist getting wet for up to 30 minutes and submerged in water to a depth of 3 meters. Here is my story; my iPhone Xs Max that I paid over $1500.00 in April 2019 was never submerged in water until few days ago I took some videos few minutes in my above ground pool, the immersion was only below the water line and I posted those videos in facebook, one is 5 minutes but only submerged for FEW seconds; minutes later it started to do restart loops; the phone last on 3 minutes and goes to restart for few seconds, by now I have done all the restores there are, which is 3 different ones, I lost cool pictures I will never be able to recover, after all this, still does same thing; have contacted apple 3 times, water damage it is not covered even if it was under warranty I am told but the water sensor inside the sim card tray is white, not red, although I can see condensation in the front camera; diagnostic shows an issue with the barometer and compass, nothing more, everything else shows good; apple is reluctant to do anything like replacing the device because they contend it is out of warranty and it does not have apple care extended; even if it did, water damage we pay they say starting at about $600.00 to repair the phone sending it to one of you guys to an apple authorized shop. It is really shitty from this horrible falling down company to advertise their product as IP68 saying it is ok to get it wet and then deny warranty to the device when it fails; their standing behind their product and what they sell have gone to pot; the only reason I decided to film in the water with the phone is because the assurances and the believe that few minutes contact with water or submerged under the water line would not hurt it; this is not what happens; I have done everything I can do to get the humidity that it obviously have inside out; have put it in rice, nothing, have yet to try silica but watching this video seems the only hope is to get it opened in a shop and of course it would not be sealed again as factory new and would I ever trust anyone telling me the phone is actually sealed after what is happening???? Well, to big problems there are big solutions; number one, the bad advertising and my story to tell to anyone I encounter about how this company blatantly lies to customers and then do not stands behind their product will be all over and that is the worst damage I can do to them in exchange for the $1500 they believe they can rob me of but last and not least I will sue apple in small claims court for my money back; they would not, can not afford to send lawyers to small claim courts, they may send a case manager and/ or a store manager who I will eat for breakfast in court for sure when he stands there and says the phone is out of warranty and I show all their videos and advertising of the IP68 rating and its meaning; clearly, I am not alone in this issue with apple; there are many more folks involved in battles and pissed off because their disregard for customer service and retail ethics values, but judges already know that by now, so to apple it is more important a piece of shite equipment that it cost minimum to produce rather than their face to the customers and standing behind what they sell you and they say it would do! but I can tell you I will not throw my phone in a drawer and resign to lose $1500 just because I believed these fraudsters bogus advertising; there are certain protection under consumer laws that Tim Cook is ignoring and someone needs to slap this asshole in his ugly face with some reality, hopefully, the court will do that!

[@TheGhostUK666]

Great vid Jason, very up beat mate...

[@Johnathan_Waters]

Can you recover data from a passcode locked iPhone 6S? Works OK otherwise.

[@itolga]

So nice that you're back, Jason! We missed you all. Great video, as always ;) Best regards from Germany

[@grdv10]

24:57 Great now i have coffee all over my screen...

[@rubberman2006]

What’s the point of data recovery if people would use iCloud backups daily?

[@ststele]

Or even Google Photos. I did another recovery today that was a full 256GB. No backups. Most of them I do just didn't have enough iCloud storage to back everything up. If Apple ever starts handing out storage like Google does, there will be a lot less data recovery coming in.

[@johnm4962]

Great video !

[@Benchandbeyond]

It doesnt help that Apple have adverts of the phones submerged in water.