Fixing a dead iPhone for data - The last tech will want to HURL!

[@DarrenSteele-mx3ks]

The "Other" tech is thinking "I'm going to work for that STS guy! lol

[@randyr.parker2698]

Sure glad to see you back making regular videos, REALLY enjoy watching you work and your thought process. 🙂

[@ststele]

Thank you!! I really enjoy posting. 200 something videos later, I think my anxiety is letting up a bit. Lol 😀 more coming.

[@randyr.parker2698]

@@ststele You do a great job, don't be nervous! 👍

[@sparkie5571]

me too, can never get enough of em while working!

[@pldaniels]

Most likely a full charge job for me ; as they say, you're charging for the years, not the minutes. You found what others didn't and it wasn't just "pure luck", the experience from years of working on these things helps in so many ways that cannot be clearly defined. People are paying for the outcome, not how you got there.

[@ststele]

Very true. This one was invoiced for the "no power" repair + a bit more for creating & storing the backup. Glad to see you here Mr. Daniels!

[@sharfazhameed6382]

Live the inspection process. Jason is my number one tech, live his videos. I wasn't receiving Jason's videos and I was bored n not getting educated on the trade, now thank God I am receiving now

[@davidstrider2007]

Nice to see you back posting again Jason! You always have top notch videos. Thank you.

[@SCL_ELETRONICS]

The Thermo-Cam for the Win....Nice to you posting regular Videos!! Nice Job, Great Video as Usual!!

[@ststele]

Thank you! Not sure how I ever lived without a thermal camera! Glad to be posting again.

[@call2pop]

That microscope must have paid for itself 100 times over. Great diagnosis and fix… thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@josephking6515]

Paul Daniel's FlexBV v5 can pay for itself after using it on just one repair and yeah I gotta agree about the microscope.

[@ststele]

Yes, many times for sure! Thank you for the compliment & comment. :-)

[@tonyarcher1997]

One of the many reason I always choose STS for any and all micro soldering repairs is how honest and fair you are. Most shops would bill that as data recovery charging to much IMO. Went as far as doing an additional external backup just in case. You are a rock star my friend and your so humble to boot! You set an awesome standard in this industry and are easy to learn from as well as a great inspiration. Thanks Jason. Your amazing kind sir.

[@ststele]

Hey, thank you Archer & Sons! I really appreciate the business & good words.

[@TheRadioShop]

I really enjoy your style of videos. Glad to see you making more of them.

[@ststele]

Thank you. I really appreciate the comment. I'm glad that people watch! More coming soon. 😀👍

[@AnthonyRBlacker]

6 minutes in, I love LOVE how absolutely clear and concise you are with your words. There's NO reason to panic. Voltage tells the story, if there's power draw where there shouldn't be, there's an issue, if there's NOT, there's an issue but a different one. It's not hard to work backwards from a fault, but being cool calm and collected is 100% the ONLY way to do it. I love the way your work, you see things the same way I do. Must just be a true electronics geek thing! Thanks so much for sharing these projects - and saving people's data!! edit: Ha! As soon as I saw that hacked cap in there I knew you couldn't leave it alone. I couldn't either, even though NOBODY will EVER see it, HOW could a TECHNICIAN leave it like that?? That's some serious hack boogey work. Thank you for fixing it!!

[@ststele]

I really appreciate the good words. Thank you for watching and commenting! 🙏

[@rob2049]

Love your videos Jason!

[@smcwainjr]

"I'm just a little bit jittery today" while sipping on some coffee. 👏🤣

[@drewherbi]

I did cellphone repair for 3 years, taught myself how to read schematics and microsolder, had some good repairs for data and the obvious stuff like the flex issues with touch and audio ICs. I have an interview for a camera company as a repair tech this week and am really hoping I will be able to get back into the repair space. Ive watched you, jess (actually went to NY for her board repair school after I started soldering), and louis for years. Hopefully I can make a channel for dslrs and mirrorless cameras soon

[@nickw2725]

How was Jess's board repair school? Did you find it worth the money and did it give you the skillset to fix stuff you think?

[@drewherbi]

@@nickw2725 tbh, if you can troubleshoot based on schematics you wont learn much. If you are new to seaking a path to data or uncomfortable microsoldering, it's worth it

[@steveng5503]

Jason! It’s always great to watch your videos. Nice real world repairs. Hope to see more.

[@ststele]

Thank you! Yes, more coming. 👍

[@dave7010]

Hi Jason, hope you and your Family are good.I love watching your videos. I am sure you are helping so so many people with all you do. as a teacher your amazing and as a comedian..,well i love your sense of comedy. Honestly you cheer my day up, so thanks and cant wait for the next show. What you do for people is admirable.👍👍 you just made another customer very happy.

[@ststele]

Hey, I hope you are doing good too! I read this comment when it first came in and it put me in a pretty good mood. I'm thankful to have such kind words in the comments here & glad you like my content. Today was a really long-ugly job that wound have been unrealistic to record. I will be posting again really soon! Thank you! 🙏

[@fredscratchet1355]

Nice job Jason, I can't believe how these so called "professionals" can murder a board so easily, it was totally mutilated. Thanks to your skill the customer can get his data back.

[@ststele]

Thanks :-)

[@APSuk2]

Was having heart palpitations when you was reading out the customers note, then you see the state of the phone with prior tech damage and you think the worst. But everything was down to a bent pin in a connector! You make this look well to easy Jason, soldering back on that cap looked like a walk in the park 😆 Hard sometimes to grasp how small some of these components are when you look at everything under a microscope. Was repairing an Apple watch yesterday and whilst removing a screw with some tweezers it pinged off somewhere, I looked for a good 45 minutes but I don't think I am finding that screw again or I will once I have built the watch completely back together again 😆

[@ststele]

That screw is in the 11th dimension now. lol :-) You're likely correct - when you no longer need it, it'll turn up stuck to the bottom of your elbow or something. thank you!

[@PhoneRepairRO]

Ready or not, here i come! Hallooo Jason!

[@ststele]

Hallo!

[@luifix9325]

hello jason, thanks alot for making this videos, it realy means alot ...... I've been watching your videos for 2 years now and i have realy learnt alot from you.... Today i bought my first microscope and I'm really excited about trying some your techniques (on practice boards obviously )😊... keep up the good work, I'll post an update after a few weeks of practice......shoutout from KENYA ✌️✌️✌️

[@ststele]

Hello! You're very welcome. Thank you for watching my videos for years now! I've found the microscope useful for so many things even outside of repair. I hope you are successful & look forward to hearing about it! I'll be posting again soon. 😊

[@luifix9325]

@@ststele I sure will

[@jimalcott760]

It’s great to know the customer will be happy with the repair. Nice job….

[@ststele]

I hope so! We actually just shipped this out yesterday so they wont have it for a couple of days. Thank you!

[@Packrat1947]

Thanks!

[@ststele]

Hey, thank you! I really appreciate it. 🙏

[@johannesdesloper8434]

Actually I hate those phones, but I like fixing stuff and it's fun to see you work. Cool you produce more lately.

[@josephking6515]

I had an iPhone 3G when they first came out and I have to admit that I was impressed but what I did loathe was how awkward they made it to transfer files off or onto the phone. I did *not* like iTunes and apart from an old MacBook I had to get so I could familiarise myself with the software (I did IT support and some idiots had MacBook because _they are shiny_ and that was the number one reason given) I have *never* and *never shall* own a crApple product ever again.

[@ststele]

Thank you for commenting @johannesdesloper8483 & @josephking6515! Here we are with the iPhone 15 and transferring files to and from an iPhone is still just as awkward! Even worse, unless it's a 15 *PRO*, the USB-C is throttled to USB 2.0 speeds like the lightning models! It's like a big giant middle finger to the regulations that forced them to use USB-C on iPhones to begin with.. So if a customer doesn't spend the extra $ for the Pro model, it's still USB 2.0 --- this was new 23 years ago! :-o

[@imm311]

Excellent work! God bless you and yours! Praying for you. If there is anything i can help you pray for I would be happy to.

[@ststele]

Thank you!

[@sodderbridge]

Shops usually tighten those long screws with 3/4" impact wrench.

[@ststele]

Lol! Yep. They are determined to make it work so they tighten those suckers down real good.

[@rickchowsr2532]

Excellent Jason I’m glad to see you take the time

[@ststele]

Thank you! Glad to be posting again!

[@alleycat300669]

Nice work Jason ! please keep making your great content . You certainly have to "expect the unexpected " working with these faults !

[@ststele]

Thank you! More coming soon.

[@fixthisone]

For an instance such as this, do you still charge a data recovery fee? I’ve had ones in the past similar and I usually just charge no power fee since didn’t take much time. Curious your approach. Thanks!

[@ststele]

This was no power fee + a little more for the "to be safe" backup. It does depend on the situation though. Some people would want full blown "data recovery" no matter what. Many times I've tried to downgrade from recovery to repair in similar situations and the customer is distraught as they've already almost lost their data and want the full recovery service. Those customers sometimes even offer to pay more even if it has been easy. Flat rate recovery service is rough on ones conscience with devices like this for sure.

[@FixTechStuff]

My first long screw damage was on a Toshiba laptop, it went right through the board where the CD drive was, I stopped when I heard the crunching, but it was too late. Funnily enough everything still worked fine. I've done it one other time on an iPhone 6 I think, only just slightly and got lucky with that one too.

[@Alex-kp3hr]

Good job diagnosing.

[@dduca73]

Suddenly I need to have a faulty iphone... Keep it going!

[@TokyoChanSan]

wonderful see you making content again!

[@paddysfixes]

nice fix of this nasty failure. and it shows one more time, how helpful a IR-cam can be.

[@_EmptyBox_]

Troubleshooting can be such an amazing process. There is a feeling when you notice something so simple, yet had the power to completely disable a device. How do you charge for this type of repair, indeed.

[@UsatMVS]

Enjoy your channel so much!

[@TY-ob7fz]

I am the purveyor of happiness 🥳. Nice job Jason 👍.

[@ststele]

Thank you! Happiness is good. :-)

[@johngregory662]

Great video. Live confidently and peacefully

[@MatthewSuffidy]

I would have transferred out the data before messing with anything else in there. A lot of grief comes from people not backing up data, but apple kind of fixed this with cloud storage. I have 2 Linux mostly pcs on a gig network. I copy 2 folders to the 2nd every now and then. When the folder gets full I burn cdroms and put it in a stack with a file listing and the unique name of the rom. I have a 5C, a 6S, and an 11 PRO. I did not update the IOS on the 6S because I mostly use the 6S to take pictures. What happens is it connects to my router through wireless and I mount a PC share folder. Then in 'photos' on the iphone I save into files and select my windows share (using linux). Then all the pictures and movies show up on my pc. In all newer versions of IOS you can't copy pictures to windows shared any more just for your protection. In that case like in the 11 pro, In the 11 Pro I create a folder on my phone, copy all the pictures to that folder from photos. Then I compress that folder to a zipfile and share it to 'Tapmedia File manager'. The I use that app's web sync to share it over wifi tcpip.

[@ststele]

Very good point here. Also my setup is quite similar. I transfer all devices to a file server and then back that up. I was using Google drive for a long while but didn't like not having control of my own data and got sick of getting ads based on videos that I had literally just synced. How in the heck can they process all that data??!! Now everything I have is hosted by Linux virtual machines owned by me. Most run on a hypervisor in a rack in the next room. Very much love that 👍😀

[@josephking6515]

@@ststele Yeah, *Control of your own data is king!!*

[@kevinbarrett5396]

Thanks for the video Jason loved it

[@ststele]

Thank you for commenting!

[@ozgard7035]

I've been looking for your charging tester for a while, and I don't seem to find it, can you please share the model? Thank you Sir !

[@scousewillo62]

Great fix. He should be happy

[@TheCod3r]

Don't worry Jason. One day the world balances out and stupid people tend to go away

[@ststele]

LOL! Natural selection. 😁

[@jdarmst]

Ok so what the heck are you using for power monitoring? I can't find it and it doesn't seem to be listed in the description.

[@ststele]

That's a USB current meter that I got from Union Repair some years ago. Unfortunately it looks like they quit selling it.

[@daviddenson3324]

Can you tell us what that device is that looks to have a name of : IOMHz ??

[@ststele]

This is a USB current meter that I got from Union Repair some years ago. Unfortunately it looks like they are no longer selling it or any equivalent model.

[@antebellum45]

Well.... colour me impressed!!👍🏻👍🏻

[@transformateur9969]

Thank you, can I know where to get a charger like yours please?

[@ststele]

This is a USB current meter that I got from Union Repair some years ago. Unfortunately it looks like they are no longer selling it or any equivalent model. Thanks for commenting!

[@johnmorgans7919]

A nice easyish repair pays tinge bills nice work love your videos keep them coming

[@ststele]

Thank you! More to come. 👍😀

[@FPRESLEY1]

And THIS friends is why you regularly back up your data

[@kg4muc]

Just curious. Do you have a link to the tool you use for opening iPhone cases? Anything has to be an improvement over what I’m currently using. Thanks!

[@ststele]

In this video I'm using a very old and very dull xacto blade that I've had since I was probably 13 or 14yrs old. Not sure what # the blade is as it's too rusted to read. On newer phones and better sealed older ones, I use the Refox RS50.

[@kg4muc]

@@ststele Thanks for the info! Using an exacto blade myself but always afraid it would be sharper than I think and damage something I’ll look into the Refox 550

[@YeahNoTellTheTruth]

What power monitor are you using back there?

[@ststele]

This is a USB current meter that I got from Union Repair some years ago. Unfortunately it looks like they are no longer selling it or any equivalent model.

[@labibleatarilesitedesatari6724]

You are simply a lovely guy! I love your vidéos! You're good! But ? Where did you found boardviews for lasts iphones ?

[@ststele]

Thank you much for the compliments! Unfortunately I only have offline board view files up to X for iPhones. Thankfully I use this software for a lot more than just iPhones tho! I still turn to ZXW if I don't have and cannot find a board view tho.

[@ststele]

I realize I didn't answer this question! Most of the iPhone files I do have came from badcaps.net :-)

[@labibleatarilesitedesatari6724]

@@ststele cool! thanks!

[@kobs9636]

what is the tool you used to see the waveform?

[@counteldamar5135]

Oscilloscope....?

[@kobs9636]

@@counteldamar5135 the one he's using for charging. to see the voltage.

[@ststele]

This is a USB current meter that I got from Union Repair some years ago. Unfortunately it looks like they are no longer selling it or any equivalent model.

[@christianbryce]

Ggs Jason!!!! 👊🏽👊🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@vernonland5987]

Great channel!

[@jimmythecricket25]

Another great vid, keep em comin 😊

[@aceace5457]

hows it going by the way your pool you dont use that robot to clean any more is it still alive lol see i really like your vids the go back a long way enough so all the way to the beach lol.

[@ststele]

Yes a long way back for sure! Would you believe me if I said that pool vacuum was water damaged within 2 months and died!? Visible moisture through the LEDs that I thought would be just a module but nope, the moisture behind the LEDs is inside the “sealed” case! Yep, a liquid damaged underwater appliance. I’m planning to take it apart and fix it soon but not likely on KZbin. That video actually hurt the channel. The only way I could do worse is to post the releasing of a live rat. Lol!

[@aceace5457]

Why don’t you complain to the company or better still order a new one and say it arrived damaged lol

[@hawaiisidecar]

Well done!

[@ronlevin2339]

There was no "unknown battery" error message as well ?

[@ststele]

I believe that starts with iPhone 11. I don't replace many batteries though!

[@haakmeer]

great job again

[@cdarting91]

Have you ever done a video of an old junk logic board to show what it looks like when long screw damage is done, like actually putting a too long of a screw in the hole?

[@thomastheman7331]

Thumbs up. How do you know so much? Love your videos,even though I only recently discovered you.

[@ststele]

Thank you! Glad you found my channel. This is mostly just from hands on experience and KZbin. :-)

[@thomastheman7331]

I've changed a few iphone/ipod batteries. with varying degrees of success, but never imagined what you do is possible. Thanks for what you do. Amazing to watch. I am glad I found your channel too. @@ststele

[@farouqeaden6515]

Yes more video please!

[@RalphVB]

Kinda made me think what just happened to me. My dad called me to ask me if I could take a look at his new TV. He couldn't get any channels to watch. He has a tv box hooked up to the tv and he was trying to change the channels via the TV remote lol. He also had a huge facepalm moment. Kept appologizing to me

[@ststele]

LOL! This reminds me of my IT days of going from business to business & house to house. Sometimes I wondered how in the world they would pay me for this?! I always charged a 1 hour minimum tho. :-)

[@Abdulazizakamreat]

I think the , termenal camera is save you a lot of time , good content , and thx

[@ststele]

So much time saved using a thermal camera. Thank you!

[@Victor-ez7fl]

Really this phone was taken to another shop 🤣

[@joelkist6493]

Nice job...

[@tinustrekeend]

iPhone 10 en you showed 6 vingers😊 but respect for your skills!

[@tomjones8345]

Wieder ein geniales Video.

[@ststele]

Danke sehr! :-)

[@seanwright9947]

What is the name of you usb oscilloscope/charger?

[@ststele]

That's a USB current meter that I got from Union Repair some years ago. Unfortunately it looks like they quit selling it.

[@seanwright9947]

@@ststele thanks

[@seanwright9947]

I found one on amazon. It says it has ripple measurements. I was looking for oscilloscope. Hopfully it works.

[@ststele]

Awesome! It may be better than this one. This one freezes up from time to time and has to be rebooted!

[@stillraven9415]

Is it me or do you get blame my f-up on a repair shop vib from a lot of these phone repairs explanations.

[@dsat1908]

Three words: You are good

[@ststele]

Thank you!

[@sajidtech4510]

Nice work❤ Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 5:18

[@snozking]

nice work

[@Foxx_69]

Hahaha. Jittery.. hmmm! Good job!

[@mistsemy1522]

Great video👍

[@ststele]

Thank you! 🙏

[@bestbuildpc]

They use a timing belt screw for sure! hahahah!

[@ststele]

LOL, yep! When a phone arrives from another shop with the parts and screws in a zip-lock, sometimes I am tempted to send it all back in the same bag only include 1 drywall screw just to see what they will do with it.

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya, 1 more happy costemer well done

[@ststele]

Thank you! And I hope so.. this phone shipped out yesterday so the customer wont actually have it for a couple of days.

[@yaughl]

Need to recover 7,000 pictures? Just get them from your backup. If it's not backed up, it's NOT important!

[@SidneyCritic]

Well at least you know you are too good at the job when they start sending tampered junk like that, ie, no one else was smart enough - lol -.

[@ststele]

LOL thanks.. I've been putting some effort into weeding out the overwhelming number of prior repair attempts that we used to bring in. Receiving almost exclusively prior attempts dang near ruined me!

[@zx8401ztv]

Well that was a bit EEEk, Shame the other people made it worse 😞 But it just needed your careful touch, alive for photo transfer :-D Ive never liked smart phones, i stick to my ancient relic Sony Ericson from about 1998. Never fails, a tiny screen and it has never failed ever. If you dare to pass wind near a smart phone, they brake lol. Ooow well done :-D

[@ststele]

I had an Ericson T616 back in the day. I think that was my first ever smart phone! The more I work on new electronics, the more I like the old stuff! The younger me never understood nostalgia but now I do.. I guess I'm starting to get old! lol thanks for commenting :-)

[@zx8401ztv]

@@ststele That T616 phone looks so similar to my k800i. While you still have a bit of silly ness you will never get old. Stick your tongue out at the misses, she might let you live lol . Ill shut up now.

[@TheM0nkeyBomb]

7:49 it is really nasty

[@ststele]

Oh man, sorry to hear about the trouble! I'm worried I'm not the best person to ask for this. Although I do work on a ton of Samsung phones, I have not ran into this issue yet and it sounds like it may be very tricky to solve! The getting warm thing is likely normal. The cellular service issue is something that I likely could solve but would need to troubleshoot to figure it out. If it wasn't for the impact that seems to have triggered the issue, I would go after software problems first! I'm hopeful it may just be a dislodged/shorted component inside if you would like to send it in. It would be best to register on our website for that: www.ststele.com/mail-in

[@AntonioWengratt]

Hey Jason!

[@ststele]

Hey 👋

[@AntonioWengratt]

@@ststele That’s a nice one. I really like your videos cause it just, looks like the ones I’ve got in my bench. Not always easy things, not always things we found on KZbin videos or online courses. Even this is not a hard one, definitely is a trick one. Thanks for another good video, Jason! And good to see you back, bro!

[@Andreas_Straub]

One more phone user without a regular backup ..... why don't people learn too turn on the backup?

[@josephking6515]

Imagine if the owner had had the foresight to maybe back up his *7,000* photos as or just after taking them...........nah, silly me, that would never happen. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@robertmccully2792]

Anything can be fixed, just need smart minds or big dollars.

[@MattyEngland]

D pics, or T pics?

[@ststele]

LOL - did not look!

[@MattyEngland]

​@@ststeleLol, probably for the best 😂

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

7000 photos? thats a entire life O.o i clear my phone from time to time and at most i only have 130 photos or similar. the old photos is saved in a external storage space.

[@ststele]

Yah! They actually get to be quite a bit larger than this too! These little devices are just magical until they fail.. I can't imagine trying to keep my life's collection on one device. I empty my devices every week or even more often!

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

@@ststele the downside is that i have approx 30-40K pictures and photos i need to sort and remove copies and so on.. It makes my nas go down on hes knees and pray for mercy (and crash after a while) when i load that folder too many times. Its at least 14 years of backups and saved pictures and photos. But the upside is that i can move that folder to any device or HDD that can handle the size, so its easy to keep it safe.

[@jackbauer2698]

Ahh iPhone lol. With Android - takes out SD card with all the photo. Puts it in new phone. DONE.

[@ststele]

Lol, yep. Or even setup to sync to a local file server automatically or any other method one chooses because it's Android and has that freedom! Apple is a pain in the neck to setup such automated backups and only works if you leave an app open to do it (ie Google drive, Dropbox...). I much prefer Android for mission critical stuff.

[@jackbauer2698]

@@ststele get you work thought! Plus you help a lot of people :)

[@tejaskhokhar9359]

Can you recover data from an Android?? My local repair guy tells me that my cpu is dead. Can you recover from an encrypted emmc? Please im literally dying, it had 49K photo/videos.

[@ststele]

I'm really sorry to hear it. We can't do it without a working CPU on the newer models.

[@tejaskhokhar9359]

@@ststele Is there gonna be any technology in future which might do? Any possibility of that happening?

[@tejaskhokhar9359]

@@ststele will be really glad if you reply

[@tejaskhokhar9359]

@@ststele Sir?

[@ststele]

@@tejaskhokhar9359 hey sorry I didn't see notifications for your previous replies. I think it is worth keeping the phone in a safe place in hopes of it one day being recoverable. It may be a good idea to check with some other data recovery businesses to see if they could help. I'm really sorry we can't help when not having a good CPU.

[@oblioi]

:o)❤

[@filda2005]

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