You won't believe this & what I did to recover her iPhone!🤯

[@smcwainjr]

The Bob Ross of tech repair is back at teaching us how to be humble in stressful work. I dig your content.

[@Annowins]

So proud you got the motivation back to record video’s!!

[@Slydder68]

Great. Just friggin great! now the prices on clamps are gonna go through the roof and you're to blame. nice one Jason.

[@ststele]

Lol! I will be able to sell mine for $100 😂

[@TheHackysack]

Running into these "silly" things that we beat ourselves up over... it actually helps us to refresh our memories and to stay a step above the rest. I'm a software guy, but I 100% feel you on this one. Edit: Also, publishing your mistakes is one of the reasons I consider you among the best (and you would be first on my list, if I were to need this sort of service).

[@ststele]

Thank you!

[@opelmantamechanic8438]

Now that's the real world of repair right there. Very relatable. Great video .👍

[@tonyrgnash]

Hi Jason, sounds like an interesting repair job. loving the regular content. now onto the video

[@ststele]

Thanks. I will post an actual repair soon! Had to get while the getting was good on this one and seeing what I finally found at the end, I'm glad I did!

[@tonyrgnash]

@@ststele that was mad, but those clamps are diamond.. I have a couple of sets of the plastic ones and some metal ones with a bit more clamping force. Great job getting the data though, the customer will be happy.

[@gharrington6484]

I have a similar issue whenever I do a repair for friends or family they seem to go wrong! Any other time, they are fine. Enjoying the videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@klevrepairs]

Jason as always with his humor. I always liek your work and flow of talk my friend. great repair

[@JosephHughes]

I was sweating so hard during this video, and now am laughing out loud. I am so glad you were able to recover the data off of it. Where can I buy me some of those clamps???

[@ststele]

It’s a miracle this didn’t need a full swap. I did however just find what I think are the same clamps. They’re quite pricey though! 🙂 www.amazon.com/Professional-Plastic-Backdrop-Photography-Improvement/dp/B08RXW32H4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?crid=1MR5Q00WXHLAK&keywords=plastic+clamp&qid=1701303806

[@northwestrepair]

This video will get LOTS of view.

[@woollysoxx]

Ive got some of those clamps, they come in useful as you discovered, Nice work, Jason

[@CarlyleD]

Wow...sometimes being lucky does the trick. Glad you got it booted and backed up for the customer!

[@zx8401ztv]

Amazing recovery of the data Jason :-D That cheap clamp was so handy in that case. Worth every Dollar :-D I would purchase a few more, Just in case they change to a different design or discontinue them.

[@ststele]

Oh, I have several of them! :D Thanksss

[@joshron99]

If I ever need a life or death major operation, I hope this guy is the surgeon.

[@iFixer_Repair]

Needs must! The clamp did the job! Well done once again!

[@xxDADDYDAYCARExx]

That’s the universe trying to balance itself???? A win is a win 👍👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@PhoneRepairRO]

Nice one Jason! I had one 12 pro few weeks ago that was not coming on. Was coming on only when you promt to boot with a charging cable! The problem was FL10130 dead or partially disconnected... Changed the case, flex, all things, till i took multimeter and saw that i dont have 1.8v on power button... LOOOL what a day was that....

[@ststele]

Thanks.. Nice win for you!

[@randyr.parker2698]

That person/owner got LUCKY!!!! LOL!

[@Annowins]

Goodjob! Keep the good work going!!

[@ststele]

Thank you! 🙏 will keep on keeping on! 🙂

[@haakmeer]

Jason The Phonemaster with the Clamp

[@TheCod3r]

Damnit Jason, you could've cut 1s out so it's 20 minutes long. 20m 1s fucks with my OCD 😂

[@chosipian]

it is better to be lucky then good 👍👍👍 Love your Videos!!

[@TY-ob7fz]

For laughs and giggles need to see a boot flying overhead when you utter “BOOT !!!” 😮

[@muka_32]

9:10 the laugh always gets me 🤣

[@OhWowItsAzza]

Magical clamp wins the day!

[@mobile_deep_fix_finland]

I believe in a miracles, where u from you sexy thing, (you sexy crack, you) By hot chocolate. That old song starts ringin in my head 😁 Good video as always Jason! Greetings from snowy Finland.

[@ststele]

LOL! Thank you!

[@qwedkedofficial8514]

Hey I see Your Blue Mat Pad looks like its little bitty burned i suggest that give a try to red mat pad just place it on top of that burned place on blue mat i tested red mat it doesnt leave burned marks Much Love From Pakistan Appreciate every second you put into making this video ❤❤❤❤

[@keithnsearle7393]

Lucky man, lucky man.

[@christiancarter7563]

Wow. What a interesting one. The fact that you got data off of a cracked board with a clamp, wow.

[@ststele]

Yeah, that's what I thought! If I had seen the broken board first, I probably would not have even considered a clamp.

[@christiancarter7563]

@@ststele yea. Glad you got the data! Sometimes the weirdest things work!

[@calavanjodigger1485]

Yeah it is crazy what will work sometimes ..my SSD in my Macbook Air died ...no bootup ..after trying for 3 days to get the thing to boot I tried the old trick that would work game cartridges back in the day ,which is putting them in the freezer for a hour ..sure enough the macbook booted up and i was able to back it up and put in a new SSD

[@diyeverything9669]

This was a very cool fix. 😎 😊

[@danielson101]

mabe it bent enough so trace keeps touching?

[@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse]

Now you have a STS logo embezzled clamp in your sales page 😆

[@dazatherton5737]

A 50 cent clamp would probably put you out of business 🤣🤣

[@ststele]

Lol!!!

[@MatthewSuffidy]

Well it seems to me there are 2 levels of objective here. 1 is getting the data, which the clamp maybe made possible, the other is a working phone. Don't know if it is possible to repair that board, but I am guessing it is not worth the trouble. Would you be back the the chips transplant to another 12pro top board?

[@ststele]

Data was #1 goal for sure. I will do full CPU / top board swaps on these for data only. For me it isn't worth the trouble for a fully functional phone though as it's easy to get into a lot of troubleshooting!

[@addehashi]

i love your videos you are my idol❤❤

[@ststele]

Thanks. I’m glad you like! 🙏

[@deuspax]

once you said phone fell on the floor I thought - a partially detached chip or the board is split You can call this video - iPhone karma - it was the very lucky moment and place all those micro things to line up - miracle!

[@ststele]

Yes indeed! This was intended to be a lengthy troubleshooting + top board swap video. Nope, just a cheap plastic clamp. LOL

[@CommorancysGaming]

To be fair, your $.30 clamp did temporarily fix the problem by aligning the crack perfectly. Obviously, once you closed it all back up, the crack unaligned and it went back to nonfunctional. There’s no real way to fix a cracked board like that without rebuilding the whole thing with a donor board. That assumes that component pairing issues don’t present.

[@dalewendorff7767]

Richard Dean Anderson would be so proud. #mcguyver

[@dennispowell7719]

Hi Jason I have a 12 pro that has a short on pp1v06 and the 06 lines of cause they both go to the cpu and I believe those 2 lines are shorted together as both lines seem to connected to each other when I've tested in continuity mode black probe on pp1v06 and red probe on the 06 lines my long drawn out question is are these lines related to the ram your well experienced thoughts on this would be very much appreciated thank you

[@Foxx_69]

Lol! Isnt electronics fun! Good one!

[@johntunstall4835]

costs.. The Graybeard engineer retired and a few weeks later the Big Machine broke down, which was essential to the company’s revenue. The Manager couldn’t get the machine to work again so the company called in Graybeard as an independent consultant. Graybeard agrees. He walks into the factory, takes a look at the Big Machine, grabs a sledge hammer, and whacks the machine once whereupon the machine starts right up. Graybeard leaves and the company is making money again. The next day Manager receives a bill from Graybeard for $5,000. Manager is furious at the price and refuses to pay. Graybeard assures him that it’s a fair price. Manager retorts that if it’s a fair price Graybeard won’t mind itemizing the bill. Graybeard agrees that this is a fair request and complies. The new, itemized bill reads…. Hammer: $5Knowing where to hit the machine with hammer: $4995

[@beamertv1978]

Hey Jason I have a 2017 MacBook Pro that won’t charge I replaced the battery myself and it turned on but still wouldn’t charge

[@НиколайМельников-ы6б]

Like a repairman to a repairman: in war, all means are good. The main thing is the result, and then at least nail it😂

[@mrsemifixit]

Don’t need bottom board with NFC circuit to unlock with passcode?

[@ststele]

Thankfully the iPhone 12 and 12 pro has all of the nfc needed for passcode to work on the top board. Is handy 😊

[@mrsemifixit]

@@ststele What about the iPhone 12 mini?

[@irepairitall]

check repair wiki:which iPhone sandwich boards will boot with just the top layer only. @@mrsemifixit

[@aceace5457]

wow lol that clamp and your witty hands made that look so simple , lol , good work lol ,

[@addehashi]

can you do us beginner lesson videos plz

[@_EmptyBox_]

Definitely a great investment. Saved you a time consuming Nand swap. Would you have considered the repair had you had seen that crack earlier?

[@ststele]

Yes for sure. If I had seen the crack early on I wouldn’t have tried a clamp though. I would have went straight for swapping the cpu, nand, logic data and nfc over to a donor board for recovery. Got very lucky with this one!

[@_EmptyBox_]

Very lucky, indeed!@@ststele

[@twistedinsane3026]

Creativity 😊😊😊

[@repairtechnician4666]

Hi. Please make videos little short. 8 - 12 min. Good luck!

[@MicroMageRepair]

Good to see I am not the only one who misses obvious 💩🤣

[@tutos3616]

hey Jason, where can i get some Data Recovery Clamps? lol

[@ststele]

This clamp has won many battles. I will sell it for just $199.99.. hehe :-)

[@RalphVB]

@@ststele That's a steal!

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya, sometimes a 30 cent clamp is all you need lol

[@ststele]

True story - that same clamp is now on a 14 series board to stop reboots due to the nfc/charging coil! I’m almost in complete shock.

[@TheElectroman2010]

This was a weird but very interesting problem, have you ever saw a crack that big on a board before??

[@ststele]

Oh yes! They're normally much more obvious - some of broken all the way in two pieces. If I had seen the crack in this board early on, I wouldn't have even tried a clamp. It would have been a full top board swap for data.

[@ShaggyCZ]

Sometimes, you fix something just by buying a $0.30 thing on a very expensive phone

[@eddiekilby]

I bet if you hadn't already recovered the data when you took the clamp off it would never boot again.

[@ststele]

LOL, yeh, very likely true. If I had seen that crack in the beginning, I wouldn't have even tried the clamp!

[@rey_card]

I need that clamp so I can fix my cracked windshield.

[@RetroFix]

Pressing record on something before doing this kinda work almost always seems to make things go south or there’s very strange behavior from the devices. 🤔 😂

[@ststele]

Very true indeed!

[@timothyodonnell8591]

What's the saying . . . . I'd rather be lucky than good?

[@amldesh]

Onec i recovered a Cracked MicroSD card like that...

[@Green_House]

Lysdexia? 🤔

[@chandanbaroi9606]

Sir i want to go your country for working mobile repair. I am from India

[@ststele]

Getting to be a tricky business here unfortunately! Apple is doing all they can to make repair inconvenient.

[@Alex-kp3hr]

Yeah, but you did not remove the spacer and try to boot.

[@ststele]

Hmmm yes true!

[@Ed31003]

Dr. my phone has the clamp

[@ststele]

LOL!! Good one!

[@mirceaalicu]

You can get lucky only once 😂

[@paulodagraca3469]

Just amazing 30 cent huh 😂

[@joelkist6493]

Probably cold solder

[@ststele]

I was thinking along the same lines until I found the crack in the board!

[@joelkist6493]

@@ststeleYeah it was in unremarkable shape for a cracked board. Good catch!

[@joelkist6493]

🤣Stuff happens...

[@TheMono25]

I got like 3 or 4 ipads 2 iPhones and 2 Samsung s22 just thrown in my draw

[@ststele]

This is very common!

[@TheMono25]

@ststele All they need is new screens I have 4 kids we go through a lot of devices

[@Nick41622]

Why not just buy a new one?

[@ststele]

This phone is dead so I'm sure they did buy a new one. This customer wanted their 100GB of data that wasn't backed up.

[@Nick41622]

@@ststele ok then.

[@ronlevin2339]

what a luck that no brain transfer was needed. Do you charge customer less because less time consuming work was done ?

[@ststele]

Only rarely. With flat rate pricing on recovery, it's really difficult to discount the easy ones and survive. When I take the wins compared to the losses & what is brought in over-all, there's no way we could make it if discounting the easy ones. I would have to charge the really difficult ones $1000s to make up for it. This board was so very close to needing a full transplant it's unreal & could have easily tied up 1~3 days. With data transfer, parsing & re-assembly afterwards, it still tied me up for a good long while & remained on the bench when I got back to work in the morning.

[@ronlevin2339]

@@ststele i understand you, thank you very much for a long explanation.Can you do an Android repair/recovery if you will have one ?