This iPad would not charge & was disassembled before being sent in.😨

[@linfordsheppard7680]

Jason I learn something everything ur work is top class love it keep up the good work

[@alleycat300669]

Great vid Jason , as always showing mistakes is what makes your content stand out .

[@ststele]

Hey, thank you!

[@joelkist6493]

Never saw that cutting before, very nice. Good job!

[@ststele]

I really should buy some tiny snips for doing that sort of thing. The blade is a bit of a stressful way of doing it. Thank you!

[@googacct]

For cutting shields, have you tried using something like cuticle scissors or maybe surgical micro scissors? If it can cut the metal, it might offer more control than using an exacto blade.

[@ca3340h3993]

5:00 - been there, done that. I was using one of those knife blades to pry some broken pieces of glass from an iPhone after the laser treatment. One slip and it went right through my thumb. In one side and out the other.

[@HamidAli-ec8ec]

love the way the diagnostics done and work done

[@davidstrider2007]

Another nice detailed repair. Top notch work Jason. Always a pleasure to watch. Thank you for sharing!

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya, again a very nice repair till 20:30 only cleaning not a problem. yes of cores they want it back assembled what did you think. timestemp 21:08 oeps some more probles !!!! aiaiiai a hole unit replaced. it seems like they still didn't tell the hhole story, lets us keep thinking that ok. lol so in uther words you are still right with your 1st thought

[@wisher21uk]

Great work Jason 😊

[@annacurransmotherofmeghanc1841]

I was thinking the same about doubling the price,🤔I would have charged double and then tell him I gave a discount on top of it. Then I would have said I ate the rush delivery charge since we didn’t have the extra cap in house.😏 Then I would have said next time he should make sure it doesn’t move around in the shipping box and damage components like that cap you had to replace.😲🤭😳

[@ststele]

LOL! Thanks for a good laugh!

[@axelsummi7871]

Always very interesting to watch you. Thanks :)

[@SidneyCritic]

You can slide a bit if steel plate under the corner of the shield to protect the components before the cuts. With the steel you could probably cut down until you hit it and make the snap-off easier.

[@tomjones8345]

Awesome repair!!!

[@ststele]

Thanks 👍

[@fredscratchet1355]

Nice job Jason, well that was a bit of a surprise!

[@Mind-your-own-beeswax]

Great job as usual Jason.

[@rodrigomaero]

The capacitor you ripped the end off, you can turn it 90º or 180º and solder it back down on the board. Assuming the internal layers of the component are still good it should be fine!

[@leonardvee3103]

Awesome content bro, just bought microscope and the tools to start repairs, any tips to give me with lifting and soldering back BGA chips 😅

[@Brady8812]

Yeah I always snip the shield can’t stand knocking stuff off the board

[@johnh1192]

Love your videos thank you very much

[@ststele]

Thank you!

[@deanc486]

Good job👍

[@haakmeer]

great repair

[@MrPnew1]

Hello, today I am working on something 🤣 it gets like that hey Jason. Great to see a new video. Thanks 🙏

[@ststele]

Hey! Just seeing your comment here. Hehe, yeh.. iPads.... not my favorite.. :-) Thank you!

[@dannywhac]

Another great vid and fix - are you by any chance based around Lake Titicaca? I have other questions, but I need to go to the shops to get TP for my bunghole.

[@ststele]

LOL! Titicaca, oooooooaaahhhhhhhhhhhh I AM CORNHOLIO! Thanks :-)

[@DaKingOfDaPind]

16:51 anyone know what tool this is?, would be really helpful with the display

[@ststele]

Yes, it’s a Tristar tester. There are many on the market but the specific one in the video is an ICC Pro from Resq. www.aliexpress.com/i/3256801886808797.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt

[@Ed31003]

😁👍great repair and video!!! I'm gonna get me 1 of those I-pads here someday (personal use)

[@MatthewSuffidy]

Lucky you had a scrap one to get that stuff. Goes to show what can go wrong trying to pry something apart.

[@0ctivate]

Thanks so much for this... If you had a lower voltage than expected at the battery terminal and the tristar checks out ok, where would you go from there?

[@ststele]

Hey, thanks! I would have checked for 5v coming from the charger but then also likely replaced Tristar & the dock flex before doing any in-depth troubleshooting. It's usually one or the other (or both)!

[@darktherapy]

New word. Flingle. I like it.

[@ststele]

So, I just looked up "Flingle" thinking someone must have used this word before.. yep, but nope, I'm not using the word properly! lol

[@chasingcapsaicin]

no one but the og.. Snoop Dogg @@ststele

[@larryandbelindaflowers4828]

Awesome job

[@ststele]

Thank you!

[@rickchowsr2532]

Hot damn another episode of STS Telecom I was watching reruns of STS lol

[@Malloy08]

"Catchunk" lol 😂. Nice vid man.

[@zx8401ztv]

Smashing repair Jason, i would blame the cat for the capacitor moving. Sharp claws would of been ideal. What matters is the ipad is alive again 😀 Pity the owner messed with it before sending it to you :-(

[@ststele]

Hey, thanks! Yah.. I could have blamed anything except I recorded my clunky screw-driver prying away at that poor little cap! I think the customer probably didn't realize this much was damaged. Watching a teardown to see where all of those antennas were probably would have helped though! The original LCD & digitizer weren't included... I suspect they didn't survive too well after having a pry tool ran 360 degrees around the edges!

[@RyanC7777]

His voice reminds me of Ernie in Sesame street. Great video 👍

[@roneckler9937]

Two things? First, you seem to have the confidence of a ninja when holding that cap in the tweezers and even moving it so far from the work area. If I even try to grab them with tweezers, they act like little flees and jump around to some UNKNOWN place. Excellent job sir! Second, My generation grew up watching Beavis and Butthead, so how are you able to do this kind of work, and especially not shake, working with small components? Under the microscope I look like Beavis when he had to much caffeine and became Cornholio. 🤣🤣

[@kylaviloria4663]

hi!! found your page and i’m really impressed with your processes and explanations!! was wondering if you could maybe help me? my iphone 13 was dropped last week and everything was working fine aside from a broken back glass. had the back glass repaired but had problems with getting a sim card signal (still have wifi and bluetooth), the phone suddenly draining really fast (like a 40% charge drop in 2 hours when it was not in use) and the phone getting hot. brought to a few technicians and they said it was a baseband problem and they tried to repair/transplant parts but they said they couldn’t fix the cellular signal because it’s shorted? would you be able to explain what happened and if there’s still a chance to get it fixed (and how)? i just bought this second hand phone for my first job and i’d really be bummed if i won’t be able to use it for work anymore because i really need the cellular signal. thank u in advance!!

[@ststele]

Hey, thanks! I'm really sorry to hear about the problem with the 13. If the problem with sim card/signal started after the back glass repair then there's a chance that the repair may have caused it. To be fair to the tech that did the back glass repair, it could have also been something hanging by a thread and the phone being worked on just triggered it. For the attempts to repair the service issue, if the technicians that tried swapping parts were talking about logic board related components then they may have narrowed it down to a shorted baseband CPU... Unfortunately that part can become shorted and is not replacable. I am worried that is the trouble with your phone. There's a chance it may be repairable but if someone already tried then the chances are not good. Sorry I can't give better news!

[@kylaviloria4663]

@@ststele hi, thanks for replying! That’s very unfortunate to hear, thought there would be hope for my phone :(( thank you, i appreciate the time you took to read my situation and explain in your message. Thank you so much! Good luck on other devices’ problems hehe

[@absurdengineering]

Thank you for another informative video, and it’s cool to leave some oopsies in. We’re all human after all. Have a wonderful day, Jason!

[@ststele]

Hey, I appreciate the comment. Yep - 100% of the oopsies are left in this video. Have a good day too! :-)

[@commonsense7924]

Hi Jason: Not to have any ball squeezing Ha. As an electrical engineer now at the young age of 67 and still having fun, but way on the other end of the plane meaning your work is micro and mine is mega, I really am a geek at heart and love your micro surgerys I watch with amazement. As only working with mega watts you handle micro seamlessly it is so mind boggling to me but your talent is the future for all. I only hope and pray that there are and will be young men and women to go forward with your trade and all other trades and not be part of the woke crowd. God Blees to you and family.

[@ststele]

Thank you! I really appreciate the comment. I am hopeful that even if the mobile device side of this business becomes non-sustainable that the skillset will be useful for repairing many other devices. Although my son isn't much interested in mobile device repair, he is using my tools all the time to repair laser modules and all sorts of other micro electronics. :-)

[@ronlevin2339]

How can I now without a tristar tester if this is chip or flex cable ?

[@RalphVB]

if you have no power then you need to find out where the short is coming from. The best solution is to track it with a thermal cam after you hook it up to the power supply. After you've done a gazllion of them you can make accurate educated guesses like he does. Before that you can get board viewer for your device and see what is conncted to where. It's advisable to have some prior knowledge of electronics and how circuits work. If you have microsoldering tools and abilities, you can also just take the chip out and replace it, it's really not expensive at all.

[@ststele]

Before I started using a Tristar tester on these I would usually hook up a charger & make sure 5v was making it to the board, then check voltage at the battery terminal - If close to zero, I'd replace Tristar and then replace the dock flex if it still didn't charge. Many times I'd just wind up replacing both anyways!

[@Printers-or2kk]

@@ststele Where can you buy the tristar tester?

[@pandrosik]

How did I miss this video drop? Dang it man....

[@grahammcmurran7857]

Brand new, second hand capacitor off a donor board, 😮 didn't see the sticker going back on 🙈

[@Creamms]

Sod's law. I think everything that coulda gone wrong, did 😂 Good save

[@jayrwalker]

Apple Logo...Who doe wisper that all the time seeing the videos😁

[@joshuawelch9701]

saw the title and was hoping it was mine i sent in ... lol awesome video tho.

[@bobspurloc]

NEW "to this ipad" capacitor you meant lol. at least with it in multiple parts they cant blame you for all that damage, well ok I guess some will anyway and thats why I dont repair stuff for people I dont know...

[@RalphVB]

Brand salvaged new capacitor.

[@thaiexodus2916]

I simply don't understand owner repair attempts., I'm a bio-med engineer repairing medical equipment all the time and there is zero chance I'd even attempt to open the case of phone or pad. It doesn't matter that I can read a schematic like it is a comic book, I don't have the requisite tools or practiced skills in such devices.. Ultimate electronic entertainment. Telemetry system. Within 24 hours it would drop out and report an error. 1 month later.... intermittent cap. They all tested good under load on the bench. I ended up replacing them all - 42 total.

[@worroSfOretsevraH]

This Is Gonna Be Cool!

[@sunflowers6612]

👍👍🛠🛠

[@jasonlarnach6770]

I think that was the boobytrapped capacitor, so you did them a favour breaking it.

[@JohnDoe-ot6he]

Beavis and Butthead 🤘👍

[@haliimaaxmed]

its your fault you can't double the price😂😂😂😂

[@ststele]

LOL! :D

[@don4techy]

Spanking new

[@Blackman4t4c]

can easily snip the top back some and be done with that in 5min instead of spending half hour worried about the shield lmao

[@RalphVB]

He is on another level my man, you can't compute how he thinks. Everything is done so much better and to call him out on it is ludicrous. I mean you saw how long it took in real time, that was literally less than 5 minutes. Him popping/breaking the cap was due to his constant talking as he goes for the video.

[@ststele]

I do need to buy some small snips to make this sort of thing easier. I spent around 5 mins removing the corner of the bracket but could just snip out directly above the IC.