Harder Than I Expected - E-waste iPhone X Transformed Into Something Spectacular

Phone broken beyond repair like this iPhone X? Turn it into a work of art!
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[@mirkopacchioni4158]

I know the phone is broken but it's always weird to see cut and break parts that we usually try to fix, like when looking at drop tests; certainly, however, the result is spectacular. Nice video as always.

[@007KrausBean]

This looks really great, but I agree with you that it is VERY overpriced. If their margins are not large I'm stuck seeing where the material costs are in the product that would justify a $70 price. Excellent work on this.

[@MrCooper83]

Absolutely great video! I like how an e waste becomes “art”. Been watching your videos for a while and all I can say is to keep up the good work!

[@wotererio]

I love the forwardness in your videos. Keeping youtube real. Keep up the great work!

[@theunknown7683]

6:22 I'm not gonna lie you cutting that cable kinda just felt straight up wrong. I actually winced from that. Great video Hugh. Love from America

[@kodak1587]

He literally said exactly that at 6:18 lmfao

[@dtay8913]

I could sit here all day watching you repair tech.

[@nathan_tasker]

You and me both @D Tay.

[@maddelyndancer8546]

I have

[@Zerbey]

Salt water really is an electronics killer, the inside of my kid's iPod looked similar when he accidentally dropped it in the ocean. Cool project, but I agree it's a tad pricey for the quality.

[@jindrasmutny4181]

5:10 That’s looking cool, I have never thought about how it works to be honest but man that “map” is looking crazy 😜 I love how you try to save everything from tossing away. I think I’m the same person, I’m never tossing out anything which could be savable or usable one day 😁 this picture is nice example, great video mate 😁

[@violet-kittychick]

If you use florescent paper as the backing and then blue or UV LED's in the frame and it will make the paper appear to glow XD highlighting the parts even more.. although the blue or UV LED / light source does not need to be in the frame ;)

[@Aman-786]

Your videos are not only very informative but very entertaining

[@nojopro908]

Nice I've got to say I love videos where you work on iPhones I like watching you put up with challenges and iPhones tend to supply that

[@JustinTheGamer24]

Awesome start to my morning!! Great content as usual Hugh!

[@dank8357]

Very cool watching someone else do this. About 6 months ago I created my own template and made 10 of these using original 1st gen iPhones. I’ve been listing them on eBay and only have 2 left. Making the template took a while but benefit is being able to easily edit it based on the parts phone I use. I use popsicle sticks for the housing and screen to help the surface area of the glue. I created templates for iPhone X and Apple Watch, but haven’t gotten around to doing them yet. Love the videos. Keep up the good work!

[@AbirTarafdar]

That's awesome Dan. Were you getting decent coin on e-bay?

[@lilguygamingandmore]

This is absolutely fantastic

[@johndrocky4377]

Long Time SUPER FAN here… I haven’t left many comments but I just wanted to say… THANK YOU 🙏 HUGH JEFFREYS FOR ALL THE AWESOME VIDEOS 🎥& ALL YOU DO TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT “RIGHT TO👨‍🔧REPAIR” 👏💜🔥💙🥊

[@Photoshopuzr]

It looks like Hugh got a Repair Award of the Masters.

[@prodbydanai]

Another amazing video, as usual.

[@xplore7359]

You haven't even watched it?

[@peepo2560]

Brilliant!

[@techdegenerate]

Love this

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

that's epic bro!

[@leonkernan]

If you're sending a display and phone to a Yourtuber, you'd think you'd check the important stuff is there. It's pretty sad the SoC is missing considering it's so obvious on the display.

[@audibell]

I love the idea 😍

[@Pennerman]

I love this! I recently bought two iPhone SEs from 2016. One of them is still working and I might use it for Spotify with my speakers. The other one I was given as defective, as it is stuck in a boot loop but with some tinkering, thanks to your inspiration, I switched the logic board with the working phone and there seems to be a hardware defect with the broken phone. While I could get the phone to boot up it seems to have been a corporate-owned device and the seller does not respond to my messages anymore. I was totally thinking about disassembling the phone and putting it into such a frame to put it up for display!

[@AyrisX86]

You can get past MDM lock with 3uTools

[@Pennerman]

@@AyrisX86 Thanks for the tip. Just downloaded it but unfortunately it does not support devices on iOS 15...

[@AyrisX86]

@@Pennerman oh that's right checkra1n doesn't support iOS 15 yet. You could probably wait for support, but it could take a while. (Also I forgot that you need either a Mac, or Linux for this)

[@sabersz]

That little intro was fantastic!

[@evi_elinpiani]

Awesome 😍

[@mase9975]

Simple green works great for getting rid of rust and using a dremel with a wire brush works really well.

[@DodoKing187]

when I saw the corroded parts I thought that it would also be awesome to have a completely corroded phone in the frame, like some ancient greek copper object or statue from 1000yrs ago.

[@shaham712]

Amazing.

[@DIYwithBatteries]

Ah Nicely done 👍

[@LEXxTALIONS7913]

It's expensive like you said, but the end result is very cool👍

[@re-fix9678]

thanks for video👍

[@philliprhinehardt6268]

This is a nice project.

[@mattclarenzmendoza7127]

What a new way to decorate and reuse e-waste. Another phone saved from landfills.

[@almond5892]

8:54 I think it's everything combined like GPU and CPU with the storage and ram included. Not just cpu

[@janvingst]

may i add - i dont think the CPU and NAND missing was for data recovery. i do think they went into spare parts. ^^

[@SytenixRBX]

love ur videos

[@cadenchurchill4296]

Some very interesting decisions being made here regarding the logic board 😳

[@MateusHacker5048]

I love your skills

[@androidash]

Another iPhone. I have to be honest, you come across as a real Apple fan boy. There's hundreds of millions of people out there using OnePlus, Xiaomi/Redmi/Poco, Motorola, Sony and more. It'd be nice to see a video we're interested in 😊

[@sudev]

Luv ur videos

[@hdzcecilia8]

good job

[@handlewastaken]

i love your content :)

[@xchaix]

nice phone art bro 👍

[@nathan_tasker]

Your content is always exceptional and informative, Hugh. I have always been scared to try restoring old technology in the past, but I am considering buying an old iPod, and trying to replace the front panel and battery. Keep up the fantastic work.

[@nathan_tasker]

@s92 that’s going to be the plan mate. Thanks for the feedback and advice.

[@TonyTear]

You should check out the video dankpods made on the ipod classics, theyre really informative and overal an enjoyable channel

[@nathan_tasker]

@@TonyTear thanks for the recommendation mate. Will do.

[@mistermagnifico]

That is one thick watch

[@RestoreTechnique]

What's the printout made of? Paper? I'm surprised it looked so good glueing onto paper.

[@loucop4]

I will definitely do this

[@finnjacobs]

I have the same glue! I used it for repairing a phone tho, not for disassembling it lol

[@thefuturegamer9451]

It’s very cool to have, I did buy the iPhone 5 version as it’s the last iPhone Steve Jobs would have gotten to put his input on before passing, yes I know he died right after the 4s was Revealed in 2011

[@imm311]

that is an interesting idea! God bless

[@dimitrischristou]

I’ve been wanting to do that project too for some time now

[@andresbravo2003]

Because as a living display of art museum.

[@Distilledchilled]

I would love one of these on my wall

[@sammy9860]

Just a tip: When screws and bolts are all rusted like that, using PB Blaster is your best bet, I'll help penetrate and loosen them up much better than regular WD-40 👍🏼

[@railroadfan3414]

I'm your biggest fan i watched all your vids

[@rodrigo4379]

sick video! Cant wait for more videos :DDD do more mac videos too please

[@bilog8369]

Nice video

[@ilyasg2108]

i got an iphone x from e waste today! it has a cracked screen and camera lens, and the face id doesn’t work due to dust on the face id sensor. i also got an icloud locked 6s plus 128gb and a working 64gb 6. pretty nice.

[@020progamer]

Hi, Hugh! I’m enjoying your videos. Thanks for making them! I know the minute you post a video, it’s gonna be great! Thanks again! :)

[@jackgodson259]

Nice

[@Dwall44]

Another great video hue! One question, has anyone ever heard of a brand of smart phone called Wiko? I got one Friday night from a phone repair place in a Mall in Pennsylvania and I’ve never heard of that brand before.

[@harisnaufal3259]

Its a french mobile brand afaik

[@TechDove]

Wish me luck guys, replacing a screen on a Z fold 2 today.... The inner display....

[@QWERTYQwertz852]

Good luck.

[@TechDove]

@@QWERTYQwertz852 went well. Had a small hiccup with the plastic border around the display

[@QWERTYQwertz852]

@@TechDove Great that it worked. Great work! 👍

[@TechDove]

@@QWERTYQwertz852 thank you sir. My first ever folding phone display replacement, gotta say it took around 3x as long as a typical candy bar phone and wasn't without it's issues at one point I thought I killed the OLED panel itself but thankfully I avoided a $750 mistake there, I told the customer they might be better off just getting a z fold 3 at this point and trading in their 2 but people get very attached to things

[@TechDove]

@@QWERTYQwertz852 but it's nice to know I can do this because I am typing on a Z fold 3 as we speak lol

[@davidhepworth3956]

I have bought two frames from them, an iPhone 2G and of course the iPhone 5! They arrived really fast under a week to the UK and they look incredible. They look like something Apple could have designed.

[@ivinitmittal]

🔥

[@Bean-cs6vm]

I’ve always wanted to do this

[@thomastartu9597]

Good thing by someone for once: not letting a dead phone go to e-waste.

[@over9000713]

Bruhh I literally planned on making one of these with an Xbox series x/s controller after I use parts from it for my special edition one not too long ago, couldn't find a lot of examples... And now you make one :o I'm 50/50 in limbo trying to decide if I should fix both controllers or make art with one

[@justcauesproduction]

I can feel the passive aggression from the title.

[@DavidWarrior360]

Aw he didn’t say ‘And we’re done!’ at the end

[@joeblowjo]

Even the iPhone 14 belongs in a museum cuz it's about 10 years behind Android

[@PrinzAquatic]

I think you can buy icloud locked ic board and use it as a good condition replacement, they're good as dead anyway unless you have access to the icloud

[@IntegraDIY]

KZbin should give awards like this, to phone repair KZbinrs as a thank you for saving broken phones🙏 🤔 📱 ▶️

[@neptune.37]

You could have put the title as “X-pected” 💀

[@IshaanBhave]

The layout of the pressure sensing film for 3d touch explains why apple does not let you align the icons on the home screen haphazardly.

[@finnjacobs]

Hey Hugh, I was wondering what tape you use? The red, small double sided tape. I can't find it online. I currently use liquid adhesive as a back up in case somethings up with the adhesive template, and I'd like to switch to the double sided tape you're using. If you could be kind enough to comment the brand/type or link it, that would be greatly appreciated 👍! Thanks!

[@Bean-cs6vm]

probably tesa tape available in different widths

[@Bean-cs6vm]

Hi from the UK

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

It’s like having an art collection of Phone parts and you can actually reassemble them to use it as a working phone :) (in rare cases)

[@gary_rumain_you_peons]

To remove rust, try something like Evaporust or oxalic acid.

[@andrewmolloy5095]

Just to let you know Hugh, Vinegar kills rust!

[@MrPnew1]

Thanks for the video Hugh. I went to their website to try and find the template that you said was available for free to download. Any clues as to where and how to find that please? The cheapest one that I could find was $139 USD and seemed to be pre-made ?

[@HughJeffreys]

Here's a link: xreart.com/pages/free-download-iphone-teardown-template

[@johndinhvo]

Not sure if I missed anything in the video, but why wasn't the wireless charging coil removed? There is a place for the coil in the template after all

[@sealwheel]

thank you, you and a couple other people have helped me develop my new hobby. i havent done much, but you’ve led me to saving a few things such as an old iphone 5c laying in a bin and an ipod. there are many more devices to fix.

[@f8keuser]

They sent it to you for free cause they know what you being a person who fixes these things knows the phone is beyond repairable or use the parts for reuse.

[@TedBackus]

kind of shocked a guy who repairs electronics doesnt have a drill, or a mini dremmel drill. theyre super cheap and quiet

[@plangh]

Hi Hugh, you forget the wireless charging port. Good job. 😊

[@callumbrown6121]

could you do another collection video at some point this year

[@GaryMullenhoff]

The only iPhone I would own

[@wardragons9780]

the logic board is probably the one thats available on aliexpress damaged board with no nand ........they come around 10-20$ depending on model

[@sixthousandblankets]

Huge Effrys

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

For that price, the frame should be aluminium

[@shashankbharadwaj9810]

👌👌

[@espero_dev]

Bro where do I get stuff like that like broken like land fill electronics no money

[@SAYFULLAH717]

❤❤❤❤

[@Rayanmoideenkutty]

Good for environment

[@ashrayspin]

I would love to see a Sony device for this. Especially with Japanese writings, would be sick!

[@mekabirb3688]

Turning e-waste into e-waste display. Now i know i prefer reanimating tech.

[@misirali7173]

Iphone XS display does work on iphone x?

[@jagged6373]

Is this the company who started this? I’ve seen this art on twitter or other KZbin channels or is there a second company doing this now too

[@kelbyblaske54]

Hugh, what is your daily driver phone? Is it a phone you have repaired or one that you’ve bought brand new?

[@darthraider450]

Unfortunately next week your notification will arrive an hour later for us UK folk.

[@HughJeffreys]

Nope, it should be the same. I also switch time zones next weekend so it will come out at 09:00 AEST.

[@darthraider450]

@@HughJeffreys fantastic news, thanks a lot.

[@Steve_jobs9_41]

The release date is wrong same with the discontinued date still its a good work of art.