I am happy to see that you're still doing repairs & survived the craziness of the last two years. The industry needs more people like you who take pride in the quality of work they do, who strive to be a more knowledgeable, and better technician with each passing day. Best wishes to you, your family, and your business for a prosperous future!
Hey Louis & STS, thnx to you guys I kind of got interested, again, in fixing stuff. It's always interesting how you guys approach a problem and it's also nice to see how not to do stuff :-) Merry Christmas from Holland :-)
I'm not into phones, but a bit bigger SMD stuff up to cars: I'll repair anything that interests me. Just for hobby. The satisfaction and pride in success is unsurmountable. Currently need to source a TLE4207G... Or build a workaround.
I’m really happy to see this comment from you @Louis Rossmann. It’s very encouraging to have one of the best in the business watching! 😮 I hope you are doing good also. Thank you much for commenting 🙏 I would have replied sooner but sometimes I just don’t know what to say.
I haven’t a clue as to the work and the terms being used, but I couldn’t stop watching as you worked on these tiny components cleaning and soldering, and then getting the damage repaired for recovery, the entire process was fascinating. Fantastic skills and incredible patience on display.
And he explains everything, and the video is just over an hour, thought edited, he could probably do this in a reasonable time and maybe cost, where Apple will not even fix your mic issue, and sell you a new one for still way too much for what the problem is, and data recovery, fuck that, Apple does not care, they don't do any of it. This is why the right to repair movement should be backed, and not even be needed.
Due to a medical issue I can no longer work on intricate circuits of this size, but for some reason your videos are filling that void. I thank you for that. Keep it up my man!
Oh man. I was watching this the whole time yelling at the screen, dude thats not buck lx. That is freakin ground. Was glad you found that one. I do this work daily and I usually don't watch other people work on motherboards anymore, but I still watch all of your video's, just for the humor and the entertainment value. You always crack me up. You are one of the people who inspired me to also start microsoldering. I know it takes a lot of time shooting and editing these video's and I want to let you know I am greatfull for this. Thanks man
Hey, thanks for the comment and for still watching my videos! This was actually difficult to edit, having to watch myself solder that to ground over and over. I can’t believe it took me so long to realize it! I lose 75% of logical thought when I click record. Lol!
is it possible to recover data from phone that stopped working after the powerline short the dataline? the USB cable was faulty so the dataline was shorted when i attempted to charge the phone.
@@ststele Hello Keith Kuhn here. What State are you located in ? I'm in Ohio. I'm curious because I'm thinking about sending you a printed circuit board to replace a chip on. Please let me know what state you are located in I can explain more later.. Thanks Keith Kuhn
This is the most serious, detailed surgery type work Jason has done from the vids I watched. Always love to watch your vids mate. Thx for the knowledge as usual.
Thank you! I'm realizing that have some serious work to do in getting videos up. I've got many hundreds of gigabytes of microscope footage that I never posted and some of it is quite a ways beyond what is in this video. Soon.... very soon :-)
@@ststele *I assume my question is just about as dumb as saying: “How can I become a hacker” - as I’m sure this kind of work requires skills spanning across a whole lot of time (and various devices) but…. [ Could you point me in the right direction as to how I could start learning how to do this kind of stuff? I know how to solder (jewelry) and I’m great at troubleshooting and repairing small fix items like replacing ios screens, but I would love to learn how to do so much more! Any particular books, online classes or workshops you could refer me to?* *Much Appreciated ~*
@@artisanshrew practice/experience/trial and error helps. Get some broken phones to try fixing. Get a decent temperature control soldering station, practice soldering on broken boards or even just computer parts from the garbage. 1. The manual skills, which are nothing but practice. 2. For repairs such as this one, you need an understanding of how PCBs are actually put together such as understanding vias (the tiny holes that connect between layers), multiple layers. 3. Most of the rest of it is just the knowledge of what the board is doing, what it should be doing, and what it shouldn't be doing. This is just something that you learn through necessity. Researching for new problems, and learning from experience.
I never comment and probably should more often. Man, you could have easily portrayed yourself as perfect and without flaws I just want to say I dig your character and integrity in including all of your mistakes and your process in dealing with what must at times be a lonely and frustrating procedure. I really enjoyed you eventually persevere. I was very rooting for you in he whole time! 1:13:27
This is exactly why I don't touch things I know I will not be able to fix. If data is important, I always point the customer to you or Jessa. I don't even want to do B2B, I'd rather get the customer a direct line to the actual person repairing their device. Unless of course it's something I legitimately messed up on accident, in which case I do everything I can to do right by the customer, no matter the cost. I've learned a lot of valuable things from your channel over the years. I would say the most valuable thing has been how to value time. I think a lot of people in this industry massively devalue how much time it takes to repair their own screw ups. No way in hell I'm gonna use a customer's device loaded with very important data as a guinea pig. I wish more repair shops had this mindset, it would make all of our lives a lot easier. You are a great person for putting up with this industry's crap.
Hey! I really don’t like outsourcing anything either…. I also refer people to other shops rather than trying to do the whole middle-man thing. I’ve probably missed out on a lot of money this way but the amount of stress I would take on is just not worth it for me! I’m pretty sure I’ve known you since this channel had less than 1k subs or something 😮😮 thank you for the referrals and commenting! I like your floppy drive videos - ur the original one to do that I think.
I used to do electronic repairs when you could actually see the chips without a microscope. Watching you work on this was amazing. It's a completely different set of skills to what I learnt last century
agreed, I haven't done repairs like this in Years. Last time was about 10 years ago and was outside my comfort zone fixing the RROD on xbox 360. All the talk about ball reflows reflows for the chips etc.... I took the basics using a Heat Gun for environmental splice shrink wraps and used that to reflow. Some other components were not happy about it. but got several of them up and running again while oversees. All but 1 lasted 2-3 years. WOuld have gotten more time out of them if I had the right tools and practice in that skill.
I am an electronic and IT tech expert my self. Just to put an image in your mind about how tiny components are today, left your hand and look at your fingertips. Imagine a component small enough to rest between the groves of your finger print. Thats about how small a 0,10 to 0,20 mm component is. And yet, with a tweezers and a steady hand you Can replace them. Just a Dahm good hint. Hold your breath! No joke, you Can blow The “dust” away 😀
What amazing work Jason, I think most would have taken one look at the state of that board & ran a mile so kudos to you for working through the nightmare & getting the customers data back! Also big thanks for the air flow & temps on the hot air. Was a long video but well worth the watch as it always a pleasure watching a very high skilled tech at work.
Thank you! To be 100% honest, the thought of *not* working on this one did cross my mind. :-) I have a really hard time not giving even some of the worst of them consideration though.
The moment you tacked onto the ground pins I started laughing to myself. I've done it before, I do radio repair and my components are much much bigger and I still missed it! LOL Good recovery, good job.
I've done it too with Automotive wiring...Just takes one pin and nothin works right and your left wondering what ya did till you refocus and start tracing everything ya touched...Again.
I noticed he was on the bottom row and not one up the moment he did that and was wondering what the heck he was doing not following the board view schematic.
On one hand, I couldn't stop facepalming when I saw you solder directly to ground not once but twice! On the other hand, you reminded me of all the pain I have caused myself from making similar mistakes and I am happy to see I'm not alone in trolling myself. I commend your amazing workmanship and your determination in getting the job done!
People have no idea what is involved nor do they appreciate the work often required when doing board level repairs but WOW! It is amazing watching a destroyed board like that with such small components and pads get worked on by this guy. Truly a master of electronics
You must be the only person on UA-cam using FlexBV for iPhone repairs :-o Nice to see it being used in a real world scenario, rather than my limited hovel of a workshop in a backwater town.
This could mean good things for FlexBV sales :D I only use others if I can't find a bvre file for the model I'm working on. It's so very much faster & easier on the eyes *plus* I don't have to rotate the board on the bench! Blackwater town? To the rest of the world, you live in Au-freaking-stralia! You're right up there with Crocodile Dundee and Walker Texas Ranger! Oh, and one hell of a programmer :P
@@jessepetty8636 yes, FlexBV is the standard choice of boardview software for Macbooks ( though it works with many boardview formats including for PC laptops and PC desktop boards )
I am a former old school technician and have been soldering since the late 60s and building and troubleshooting all kinds of electronics for 30 years. I am blown away by your skills and patience. Amazing job!
UA-cam recommended me this video and I just sat and watched the entire video, even though I have no idea what you were doing. It was fun to watch and the way you present things is really funny. Btw, with today's Graphics Cards market, I think you can buy those faulty GPUs online for cheap and try to repair them. Also would make awesome videos. I'd definitely watch them all. Subscribed
My girlfriend ran into the shop asking "What are you yelling at?" "He soldered it to ground!", I said, "Twice!" Good job getting the data off that thing. Most folks would have not even tried.
Glad to see someone still does this kind of stuff. I'm 66. I started out in TV repair. I was an apprentice in 1976. There was still a lot of tube stuff out there. But IC's were coming in. I retired in 2010. back then, I was working on the first iPhone.IGT game king, Digital cameras. and just about anything to component level.
@@aaronjamt I wish I had gotten at least some of it on camera but I did not. I have pics and videos of the burns tho and my wife was standing behind me with her hand on my shoulder. She got popped too but not like I did! So I at least have an eye witness.
@@ststele Holy smokes... wait, wrong expression... Seriously though, hope you're ok, that's gotta be frightening. Closest I've been to being struck was when lightning hit a transformer right next to my house and I jumped about 6-10 feet. I can't even imagine being directly hit.
Just wanted to write how much I enjoyed watching this video particularly among yours. Quite an adventure, really. I'm amazed by your skills and knowledge. I watch quite a few smartphone/tablet/laptop repair videos on UA-cam, and your channel that I've recently found is my absolute favourite so far. i really enjoy your relaxed, friendly tone, even self-sarcastic sometimes. Some folks here on repair videos tend to use a lecturing, pompous tone. You're the exact opposite and you do sound like a nice guy and a great teacher. Plus your diction is great, which really makes it even nicer to us non native english speakers. Thanks for this very entertaining video. You now have a new avid follower.
I too was youtube direct to your channel. I sat there just dumbfounded as to what was happening and had exactly zero understanding of the components or terms being said, even though you were trying to educate me. At the end I just had to subscribe! Congratulations! You turned an electronically uninformed novice into a fan! Keep posting and I can't wait for the next one.
1:05:00 I was waiting to see how long in the video, it took until you caught this. It's good to see you did catch it and proves you are human but you're a way better tech than whomever ruined it first and couldn't fix their mistake.
Thank you! I think no matter what happens with mobile device repair, I'm likely always going to find something to repair with these tools. No matter what it is, I'm going to keep posting for sure!
Amazed. I being from old school as a kid, began tinkering with TVs (Zenith, Magnavox) using TANDY equipment (RadShack) learned the dangers of transformers by getting belly too close to them (ouch). Fixed electronics as a hobby through 1970s-90s. To see the magnification used, and the schematic visuals are amazing. You do a TOP job, entertain and inform in a manner that teaches. The ultimate gift to the next generation. THANK YOU!
Holly crap I give you credit for sticking it out. Great job. I would have said you should have backed up your data regularly and threw it in the shredder by now !!!
I honestly have not got a clue what you are talking about - but I could watch your video's all day long. Being a guy that works with spanners, I believe what you do and clearly understand is pure magic, bordering on witchcraft... Simply brilliant!!! And to have this skill set that affords you a workshop in such an enviable environment - you surely must have, "simply arrived...." !!!!
1:04:15 it happens my dude, sometimes we work so much on something that we miss things, we need breaks once in a while, you are soooo dedicated man, I love all your videos! It's like I'm watching a movie and I'm sooo invested here. Thank you so much.
Seeing as you have the best setup ive ever seen in desk repair equipment it does kind of startle me that you use probes with the micro equivalent of the end of a fire poker to probe really small stuff. Ive been digging around in stuff from the 1980's till today doing repairs for people on their prized and treasured electronics. All my micro probing equipment, ive made special ends for the multimeter and scope probes out of a standard probe end and soldered a sewing pin to each probe end, converts a standard probe to a micr4o probe end and then used some wire insulation to slide the pin through to protect the main shank leaving a 3mm visible stainless steel tip. Put a piece of heat shrink on the former probe and an et vuala, a micro probe end that doesnt cross micro spaced boundaries and also makes for a better connection using the point of a pin rather than a full on probe end. Build cost, less than a dollar and gives me a far clearer view of the contact im probing. A Merry Xmas to you and a very happy New Year. Superb video and very engrossing
Some jobs are easy and others you really have to work at then take a break and then reevaluate and then continue. You truly persevered on a nightmare of a job. Thank you for the video
If you could see the state of my back bedroom after watching your videos through the lock down a year back.. To say you have been a great influence would be an understatement.. Thank you..
Beautiful vid, nice explanation, soothing voice:) I have nothing to do with phone repairs but enjoy watching it. As a child I was used by my elder brother to hold things while he was soldering. Memories:D Best of luck! God bless you:)
You Sir are a wizard. I have no idea about 95% of the stuff you were doing but watched the entire video start to finish. Envious of the skills you have.
Great job Jase ... I must admit I prefer listening to your channel, more so than those condescending repair channels ... here's a tip for the solder mask ... when using the UV light, flash a bit of hot air in there too, this will speed up the cure time ...
@@ststeleChemical reaction rates are mighty nonlinear vs temperature. A little bit hotter can make a huge difference. And this is a polymerization reaction. Some of them run away with heat added but we have so little solder mask here nothing will be set on fire. Probably wouldn’t advise trying heating a whole bottle of it up and throwing UV on it.
This is the first video of yours I've seen. This kind of work has always been interesting to me even though I have very little knowledge of it. This is a great video. I have subscribed and will be watching more.
I’m not going to lie, this was way above my pay grade, for now. I will learn more about board repair! I do appliance repair and learning to fix boards and understand their components will really raise my game and make me more money fixing boards instead of just replacing the entire board. A lot of people don’t want to pay what it cost to replace the entire board either.
This is a good example why you (/OS) should do online backups. When you need to connect the phone to a computer with a cable to do the backup, many fail to do it.
There's a simple rule in everything: start with simple things to gain experience and only after that, go for more advanced things otherwise you'll damage everything beyond repair. Buy cheap damaged things and try to do your your best. This way you'll get more experience and if you ruin something, it'll cost next to nothing, you'll learn from your mistakes and no real harm will be done. One very important thing: if you think that something isn't repairable, store it properly for a later attempt, don't throw it as it is already garbage because many of the times you'll probably be able to do some magic later and fix it even if it looks like it's not fixable at the time you can't yet fix it.
That was amazing, start to finish. I only understand half but it's entertaining as hell. Your little mishap there probably only makes the video more fun to watch, maybe that helps your self esteem a little^^
You spent an amazing amount of time on this. If your customer had only believed in backups he could have saved himself a lot of Doe Ray Me. But I don’t think you will ever be short of business as there will always be people too careless to keep a backup.
OMG, I have stumbled over this vid with my limited electronics knowledge and cant believe these can be sort of fixed, well done...... now back to my 1950's Rockola jukebox when things were simple :)
Don’t change your style of video. After years I only watch yours. Its relaxt. Remove the coil. Why not. It don’t have to be perfect. It’s just how it is. Watching your videos is how I like to spend my free time 🙂👍🏻
You are surely a beast of a micro electronics repair person. Without searching the comments, ¿how much does a job like this cost? It must have surely been worth it to the customer because you spent a great deal of time on this job. I used to be a TV tech before it was cheaper to buy a new one so I have an ideal of the cost. My main job was repairing RCA/GE receivers as they had solder point issues.
great job! if that makes you feel better I didn't notice too that amazing grounding and oh God, of 15 years in my job I must notice tiny details, so there are already two of us (as I found that anyone else in comments seen that in an instant :P)
Speaking as a graduate technician from 1982 this man is a god ! Incredible to me that repairs are being done like this in this throw-away world. Back your pictures up off the device people.
Great work on everything else but putting that wire on the ground! This is a good reminder that you should re-check all modifications and re-count all the affected pins before doing anything else if things do not work as expected. Even though swapping parts is not that slow, it's still much slower than re-counting some pins for an extra time.
Whoa!! very beginning here and you just showed the back of the mainboard.. it looks like someone worked on that thing with a hammer and saw! Jeez oh man, I know you'll get it right though.. you are one of the good guys. My goodness just the slop they left on the board, it makes me cringe to see. If I leave a little cotton behind and I see it when reinstalling I get all upset and get rid of it.. I know nobody will ever be back in there, but I KNOW. Can't wait to see what you find on this one! edit: it looks from the rip with all those caps missing that someone was chasing down a short with some sunlight and a magnifying glass and just removed EVERYTHING on vdd main.. man
you're an absolute legend mate, keep up the good work! everyone does little mistakes like that, there's actually way worse... like the guys that had their hand on it before you :D
great job. when you soldered to the ground pins, I thought it looked strange, but with no experience with the schematic software I figured maybe it wasn't a visual match and you knew what you were doing. When you figured it out, I shouted to myself 'hey, you suck as much as I do! I'm watching you to suck less!' : ). Admire your even temper and dogged determination that got you there. I work only with through-hole, watching microscope repairs is both fascinating and terrifying. but that bit when heated BGA chips slip into place, so satisfying.
Here's a suggestion I have for all board repair folks. Go to harbor f r eight and get some scribes. Remove the straight scribe from the aluminum handle, grind the part that used to be in the handle enough to be capable of accepting solder. Get a red and black Bic stick pen and remove all parts, remove the ink cartridge from the color tip and discard the cartridge. Feed red or black test prod wire through the pen body keeping colors straight. Solder the test prod wire to a scribe tip, let cool and push into pen body. Slide color tip back onto pen, fill body with 5 minute epoxy.
I know absolutely nothing about Phone or computer repair and not much about Cell phones however I really enjoyed watching this all the way through. It amazes me how you even learn all this technical stuff and are able to diagnose and track down the culprit or in this case many culprits. Just to add if I took my phone in for a straight forward repair an it came back mutilated and in pieces I would be suing the shit out of them and making sure they paid for all their butchered work. Do they employ people with no training or certificates for repair and have them learn on the job? Surely one must have gone through technical college learning electronics and then sat and passed courses for circuit board repairs before you actually started working in a repair shop?? How does it work over there? Here in the UK you have to be qualified to even apply for this kind of work. Anyways a great video, I don't know how you keep your cool 'cause even I was feeling a little outraged at how stupid and pointless the botching was especially removing parts for no reason and then not even putting them back. My next phone is going to be a Fairphone or the like 'cause they are cheaper and they supply parts and upgrades in like modules and they offer lots of models. They are going in the opposite direction to the big names like Apple and Samsung.
@@MICKEYISLOWD Most people who work as cell phone repair hacks have not "gone through technical college learning electronics and then sat and passed courses for circuit board repairs". Colleges don't have a cell phone repair degree. That's why you end up with phones in that shape. Most people with that level of education aren't fixing cell phones for a living at a kiosk at the mall.
Hi! Nice work! Congrats! It was an amazing job. Just one question. It wasn't easier to install memory chip on another working board? I'm asking, because I have none expertise on this. Thanks a lot.
Thank u! I have only started doing full board swaps in the last month. When I recorded this video, I wasn’t confident enough to attempt that process on a customer phone. I’ll be posting full swap videos before too much longer! :-)
I am happy to see that you're still doing repairs & survived the craziness of the last two years. The industry needs more people like you who take pride in the quality of work they do, who strive to be a more knowledgeable, and better technician with each passing day. Best wishes to you, your family, and your business for a prosperous future!
Hey Louis & STS, thnx to you guys I kind of got interested, again, in fixing stuff. It's always interesting how you guys approach a problem and it's also nice to see how not to do stuff :-) Merry Christmas from Holland :-)
I'm not into phones, but a bit bigger SMD stuff up to cars: I'll repair anything that interests me. Just for hobby.
The satisfaction and pride in success is unsurmountable.
Currently need to source a TLE4207G... Or build a workaround.
I’m really happy to see this comment from you @Louis Rossmann. It’s very encouraging to have one of the best in the business watching! 😮 I hope you are doing good also. Thank you much for commenting 🙏 I would have replied sooner but sometimes I just don’t know what to say.
Well said Louis 👍
Thank you Louis it’s great to see you Give credit where do. 🙃
I haven’t a clue as to the work and the terms being used, but I couldn’t stop watching as you worked on these tiny components cleaning and soldering, and then getting the damage repaired for recovery, the entire process was fascinating. Fantastic skills and incredible patience on display.
Thank you! 🙂
And he explains everything, and the video is just over an hour, thought edited, he could probably do this in a reasonable time and maybe cost, where Apple will not even fix your mic issue, and sell you a new one for still way too much for what the problem is, and data recovery, fuck that, Apple does not care, they don't do any of it.
This is why the right to repair movement should be backed, and not even be needed.
Due to a medical issue I can no longer work on intricate circuits of this size, but for some reason your videos are filling that void. I thank you for that. Keep it up my man!
Much love
Oh man. I was watching this the whole time yelling at the screen, dude thats not buck lx. That is freakin ground. Was glad you found that one. I do this work daily and I usually don't watch other people work on motherboards anymore, but I still watch all of your video's, just for the humor and the entertainment value. You always crack me up. You are one of the people who inspired me to also start microsoldering. I know it takes a lot of time shooting and editing these video's and I want to let you know I am greatfull for this. Thanks man
Hey, thanks for the comment and for still watching my videos! This was actually difficult to edit, having to watch myself solder that to ground over and over. I can’t believe it took me so long to realize it! I lose 75% of logical thought when I click record. Lol!
@@ststele everyone makes mistakes, there thing is you found your mistake and fixed it. Unlike the previous poo eaters who hacked that phone before
is it possible to recover data from phone that stopped working after the powerline short the dataline? the USB cable was faulty so the dataline was shorted when i attempted to charge the phone.
@@ststele fixation is normal, happens to doctors, airplane pilots, car mechanics...
Don't be too harsh on yourself
@@ststele
Hello Keith Kuhn here.
What State are you located in ?
I'm in Ohio. I'm curious because I'm thinking about sending you a printed circuit board to replace a chip on.
Please let me know what state you are located in I can explain more later..
Thanks
Keith Kuhn
This is the most serious, detailed surgery type work Jason has done from the vids I watched. Always love to watch your vids mate. Thx for the knowledge as usual.
Thank you! I'm realizing that have some serious work to do in getting videos up. I've got many hundreds of gigabytes of microscope footage that I never posted and some of it is quite a ways beyond what is in this video. Soon.... very soon :-)
@@ststele *I assume my question is just about as dumb as saying: “How can I become a hacker” - as I’m sure this kind of work requires skills spanning across a whole lot of time (and various devices) but…. [ Could you point me in the right direction as to how I could start learning how to do this kind of stuff? I know how to solder (jewelry) and I’m great at troubleshooting and repairing small fix items like replacing ios screens, but I would love to learn how to do so much more! Any particular books, online classes or workshops you could refer me to?*
*Much Appreciated ~*
@@artisanshrew practice/experience/trial and error helps. Get some broken phones to try fixing. Get a decent temperature control soldering station, practice soldering on broken boards or even just computer parts from the garbage.
1. The manual skills, which are nothing but practice.
2. For repairs such as this one, you need an understanding of how PCBs are actually put together such as understanding vias (the tiny holes that connect between layers), multiple layers.
3. Most of the rest of it is just the knowledge of what the board is doing, what it should be doing, and what it shouldn't be doing. This is just something that you learn through necessity. Researching for new problems, and learning from experience.
@@blackbird1234100 Too bad he gave you no like. I like your comment 🙏🏼
I never comment and probably should more often. Man, you could have easily portrayed yourself as perfect and without flaws I just want to say I dig your character and integrity in including all of your mistakes and your process in dealing with what must at times be a lonely and frustrating procedure. I really enjoyed you eventually persevere. I was very rooting for you in he whole time! 1:13:27
This is exactly why I don't touch things I know I will not be able to fix. If data is important, I always point the customer to you or Jessa. I don't even want to do B2B, I'd rather get the customer a direct line to the actual person repairing their device. Unless of course it's something I legitimately messed up on accident, in which case I do everything I can to do right by the customer, no matter the cost.
I've learned a lot of valuable things from your channel over the years. I would say the most valuable thing has been how to value time. I think a lot of people in this industry massively devalue how much time it takes to repair their own screw ups. No way in hell I'm gonna use a customer's device loaded with very important data as a guinea pig. I wish more repair shops had this mindset, it would make all of our lives a lot easier. You are a great person for putting up with this industry's crap.
Hey! I really don’t like outsourcing anything either…. I also refer people to other shops rather than trying to do the whole middle-man thing. I’ve probably missed out on a lot of money this way but the amount of stress I would take on is just not worth it for me! I’m pretty sure I’ve known you since this channel had less than 1k subs or something 😮😮 thank you for the referrals and commenting! I like your floppy drive videos - ur the original one to do that I think.
I love your personality, it adds more value to your content. Keep them coming if you can.
Thank u! I have the next few videos planned and some recorded!
I used to do electronic repairs when you could actually see the chips without a microscope. Watching you work on this was amazing. It's a completely different set of skills to what I learnt last century
Old work-dogs seeing new tricks with open eyes is so nice.
@@lilletizz This is scary, I was thinking about the same thing but didn't know how to describe it.
same stuff, just smaller and you have more tools.
agreed, I haven't done repairs like this in Years. Last time was about 10 years ago and was outside my comfort zone fixing the RROD on xbox 360. All the talk about ball reflows reflows for the chips etc....
I took the basics using a Heat Gun for environmental splice shrink wraps and used that to reflow. Some other components were not happy about it. but got several of them up and running again while oversees. All but 1 lasted 2-3 years. WOuld have gotten more time out of them if I had the right tools and practice in that skill.
I am an electronic and IT tech expert my self. Just to put an image in your mind about how tiny components are today, left your hand and look at your fingertips. Imagine a component small enough to rest between the groves of your finger print. Thats about how small a 0,10 to 0,20 mm component is. And yet, with a tweezers and a steady hand you Can replace them. Just a Dahm good hint. Hold your breath! No joke, you Can blow The “dust” away 😀
What amazing work Jason, I think most would have taken one look at the state of that board & ran a mile so kudos to you for working through the nightmare & getting the customers data back!
Also big thanks for the air flow & temps on the hot air.
Was a long video but well worth the watch as it always a pleasure watching a very high skilled tech at work.
Thank you! To be 100% honest, the thought of *not* working on this one did cross my mind. :-) I have a really hard time not giving even some of the worst of them consideration though.
Absolutely! The patience involved and steady hand.. just amazing
The moment you tacked onto the ground pins I started laughing to myself. I've done it before, I do radio repair and my components are much much bigger and I still missed it! LOL Good recovery, good job.
I've done it too with Automotive wiring...Just takes one pin and nothin works right and your left wondering what ya did till you refocus and start tracing everything ya touched...Again.
Same here.. I saw it when the moment he started Solder that wire..
I noticed he was on the bottom row and not one up the moment he did that and was wondering what the heck he was doing not following the board view schematic.
Having been a TV/Radio, HiFI repairman all my life, mobile phones I just don't understand them, I admire all of you that do understand them.
In fact, you are lucky to have advanced equipment
I'm still in the stone age with the old hardware haha
Keep it up, my man!
Greetings from Algeria
On one hand, I couldn't stop facepalming when I saw you solder directly to ground not once but twice! On the other hand, you reminded me of all the pain I have caused myself from making similar mistakes and I am happy to see I'm not alone in trolling myself. I commend your amazing workmanship and your determination in getting the job done!
People have no idea what is involved nor do they appreciate the work often required when doing board level repairs but WOW! It is amazing watching a destroyed board like that with such small components and pads get worked on by this guy. Truly a master of electronics
You must be the only person on UA-cam using FlexBV for iPhone repairs :-o Nice to see it being used in a real world scenario, rather than my limited hovel of a workshop in a backwater town.
This could mean good things for FlexBV sales :D I only use others if I can't find a bvre file for the model I'm working on. It's so very much faster & easier on the eyes *plus* I don't have to rotate the board on the bench! Blackwater town? To the rest of the world, you live in Au-freaking-stralia! You're right up there with Crocodile Dundee and Walker Texas Ranger! Oh, and one hell of a programmer :P
Doesn’t Louis use this every day in the big apple???
@@jessepetty8636 yes, FlexBV is the standard choice of boardview software for Macbooks ( though it works with many boardview formats including for PC laptops and PC desktop boards )
@@pldaniels Where do you get the schematics to use with FlexBV?
@@Jefferyscottkennedy badcaps.net forum
I am a former old school technician and have been soldering since the late 60s and building and troubleshooting all kinds of electronics for 30 years. I am blown away by your skills and patience. Amazing job!
UA-cam recommended me this video and I just sat and watched the entire video, even though I have no idea what you were doing. It was fun to watch and the way you present things is really funny.
Btw, with today's Graphics Cards market, I think you can buy those faulty GPUs online for cheap and try to repair them. Also would make awesome videos. I'd definitely watch them all. Subscribed
My girlfriend ran into the shop asking "What are you yelling at?" "He soldered it to ground!", I said, "Twice!" Good job getting the data off that thing. Most folks would have not even tried.
Probably would hav been much easier job if some other people hadn't tried
Glad to see someone still does this kind of stuff. I'm 66. I started out in TV repair. I was an apprentice in 1976. There was still a lot of tube stuff out there. But IC's were coming in. I retired in 2010. back then, I was working on the first iPhone.IGT game king, Digital cameras. and just about anything to component level.
its a long time lol i am glad to see you back mate.
This video would have been up a week ago but I got knocked on my ass by lightning! Gonna tell the story on UA-cam soon. Good to see u here!
@@ststele Yikes! Half of me wants to see the video about what happened but the other half is scared lol
@@aaronjamt I wish I had gotten at least some of it on camera but I did not. I have pics and videos of the burns tho and my wife was standing behind me with her hand on my shoulder. She got popped too but not like I did! So I at least have an eye witness.
@@ststele Holy smokes... wait, wrong expression...
Seriously though, hope you're ok, that's gotta be frightening. Closest I've been to being struck was when lightning hit a transformer right next to my house and I jumped about 6-10 feet. I can't even imagine being directly hit.
@@ststele lol lol LOL u make me laugh cant wait for the story lol
Just wanted to write how much I enjoyed watching this video particularly among yours.
Quite an adventure, really. I'm amazed by your skills and knowledge.
I watch quite a few smartphone/tablet/laptop repair videos on UA-cam, and your channel that I've recently found is my absolute favourite so far.
i really enjoy your relaxed, friendly tone, even self-sarcastic sometimes. Some folks here on repair videos tend to use a lecturing, pompous tone. You're the exact opposite and you do sound like a nice guy and a great teacher.
Plus your diction is great, which really makes it even nicer to us non native english speakers.
Thanks for this very entertaining video. You now have a new avid follower.
I have zero interest in electronics, or mobile phones, yet found myself watching this video to the end, very enjotable, and a pleasure to watch.
I too was youtube direct to your channel. I sat there just dumbfounded as to what was happening and had exactly zero understanding of the components or terms being said, even though you were trying to educate me. At the end I just had to subscribe! Congratulations! You turned an electronically uninformed novice into a fan! Keep posting and I can't wait for the next one.
Finally a long video from Jason. Good to see you my friend and keep them coming brother. We need you. Thank you for the video. Respect !
Hey, thanks! The longer videos are much more difficult to edit for sure but it's worth it since they stay online forever. :-)
@@ststele i feel you bro and i know you put a lot of work editing thats why i always respect your work. Thank you again my friend
you have amazing patience and stamina. Good to see that you were able to get the data off it.
1:05:00 I was waiting to see how long in the video, it took until you caught this. It's good to see you did catch it and proves you are human but you're a way better tech than whomever ruined it first and couldn't fix their mistake.
Hello Jason, you are awesome, never give up. It's a pleasure to watch you doing the repairs.
Thank you! I think no matter what happens with mobile device repair, I'm likely always going to find something to repair with these tools. No matter what it is, I'm going to keep posting for sure!
As an electrical engineer myself I gotta say your repair skills are beyond.
I really do enjoy your content very much.
Just one thing, when you don’t what these ball squeezes why no thermal tape?
Amazed. I being from old school as a kid, began tinkering with TVs (Zenith, Magnavox) using TANDY equipment (RadShack) learned the dangers of transformers by getting belly too close to them (ouch). Fixed electronics as a hobby through 1970s-90s. To see the magnification used, and the schematic visuals are amazing. You do a TOP job, entertain and inform in a manner that teaches. The ultimate gift to the next generation. THANK YOU!
Holly crap I give you credit for sticking it out. Great job. I would have said you should have backed up your data regularly and threw it in the shredder by now !!!
I honestly have not got a clue what you are talking about - but I could watch your video's all day long. Being a guy that works with spanners, I believe what you do and clearly understand is pure magic, bordering on witchcraft... Simply brilliant!!! And to have this skill set that affords you a workshop in such an enviable environment - you surely must have, "simply arrived...." !!!!
All I can say you are amazing. Keep up the good work, very few people like you in this world.
1:04:15 it happens my dude, sometimes we work so much on something that we miss things, we need breaks once in a while, you are soooo dedicated man, I love all your videos! It's like I'm watching a movie and I'm sooo invested here. Thank you so much.
Seeing as you have the best setup ive ever seen in desk repair equipment it does kind of startle me that you use probes with the micro equivalent of the end of a fire poker to probe really small stuff. Ive been digging around in stuff from the 1980's till today doing repairs for people on their prized and treasured electronics. All my micro probing equipment, ive made special ends for the multimeter and scope probes out of a standard probe end and soldered a sewing pin to each probe end, converts a standard probe to a micr4o probe end and then used some wire insulation to slide the pin through to protect the main shank leaving a 3mm visible stainless steel tip. Put a piece of heat shrink on the former probe and an et vuala, a micro probe end that doesnt cross micro spaced boundaries and also makes for a better connection using the point of a pin rather than a full on probe end. Build cost, less than a dollar and gives me a far clearer view of the contact im probing.
A Merry Xmas to you and a very happy New Year. Superb video and very engrossing
Amazes me there are not replaceable probes for this kind of work?
Awesome. Thank you for posting. You repaired my wife’s phone and I couldn’t be happier. You don’t charge enough!
Just wanted to spend 10 minutes with "something on UA-cam" and watched the whole thing. Very informative, the Rossmann would be proud. :)
You one incredibly patient man, good job. Also a good example of why one should make sure to back up ones phone to the cloud.
Damn dude your patience and ability to analyze issues was amazing.
Some jobs are easy and others you really have to work at then take a break and then reevaluate and then continue. You truly persevered on a nightmare of a job. Thank you for the video
Hi first time viewer and i really enjoyed your content / video, really interesting and new subscriber cheers from South Australia
30 sec in I can tell this guy is highly competent. Sparkling clean workspace, organized and a craftsman approach. I appreciate that.
Thank you!
I really like this video and felt really engaged I can't wait to see the rest of them. Thanks so much for putting this up!
You have more patience and brains than all of Cupertino. I salute you sir.
If you could see the state of my back bedroom after watching your videos through the lock down a year back.. To say you have been a great influence would be an understatement.. Thank you..
This is good to know but I am left to imagine what that room looks like! :-) Thank you for commenting!
Beautiful vid, nice explanation, soothing voice:) I have nothing to do with phone repairs but enjoy watching it. As a child I was used by my elder brother to hold things while he was soldering. Memories:D Best of luck! God bless you:)
Awesome video, massive thanks for taking the time to do it. Learning so much from your diagnosis methodology, and always entertained by your balls!
I`m no sparky , but like to watch fault finding and detective work , amazing to watch , nice effort and well done mate .
i love that you left putting the jumper wire to ground/Buck short in the video, it goes to show we can all makes mistakes
You Sir are a wizard. I have no idea about 95% of the stuff you were doing but watched the entire video start to finish. Envious of the skills you have.
Great job Jase ... I must admit I prefer listening to your channel, more so than those condescending repair channels ... here's a tip for the solder mask ... when using the UV light, flash a bit of hot air in there too, this will speed up the cure time ...
Thank you! I had someone else suggest using UV mask with heat as well. I’m gonna have to try it. 👍
@@ststeleChemical reaction rates are mighty nonlinear vs temperature. A little bit hotter can make a huge difference. And this is a polymerization reaction. Some of them run away with heat added but we have so little solder mask here nothing will be set on fire. Probably wouldn’t advise trying heating a whole bottle of it up and throwing UV on it.
you have incredible patience. Thanks for sharing your job
This is the first video of yours I've seen. This kind of work has always been interesting to me even though I have very little knowledge of it. This is a great video. I have subscribed and will be watching more.
Awesome, thank you!
We have all done it mate. Makes me feel better that a great workman like you is human to. thanks for a real good post ..
i don't know anything about motherboard repair but man, i stay all the way thru to that usb connect sound. subbed !
Thats the most use of "Ball Squeezage" ive ever seen in a video. Brilliant work dude. Love this
You would make a very good brain surgeon. That is some steady hands doing that repair! Thanks for sharing!
great job, I admire your patience, you don't give up easily, love to watch this kind of troubleshooting, thanks for this video.
I would need three lives to reach your level of knowledge ... congratulations, and I like the attitude that you work
from Japan. I'm always studying by watching videos. Thank you ^ _ ^
You would be the best vascular surgeon around!!
I’m not going to lie, this was way above my pay grade, for now. I will learn more about board repair! I do appliance repair and learning to fix boards and understand their components will really raise my game and make me more money fixing boards instead of just replacing the entire board. A lot of people don’t want to pay what it cost to replace the entire board either.
This is a kind of fix which seems to be impossible, the customer should be glad and grateful for it. Glad everything went well at the end. Well done!
And that is why you do regular back ups! Really good micro -engineering there, more than I could ever do. Big thumbs up from me.
This is a good example why you (/OS) should do online backups. When you need to connect the phone to a computer with a cable to do the backup, many fail to do it.
There's a simple rule in everything: start with simple things to gain experience and only after that, go for more advanced things otherwise you'll damage everything beyond repair. Buy cheap damaged things and try to do your your best. This way you'll get more experience and if you ruin something, it'll cost next to nothing, you'll learn from your mistakes and no real harm will be done. One very important thing: if you think that something isn't repairable, store it properly for a later attempt, don't throw it as it is already garbage because many of the times you'll probably be able to do some magic later and fix it even if it looks like it's not fixable at the time you can't yet fix it.
Thanks Jason.Welcome back.
That was amazing, start to finish. I only understand half but it's entertaining as hell. Your little mishap there probably only makes the video more fun to watch, maybe that helps your self esteem a little^^
nice vid dude, really good to watch you work with such confidence
I like how clean and organized looks your desk
You spent an amazing amount of time on this. If your customer had only believed in backups he could have saved himself a lot of Doe Ray Me. But I don’t think you will ever be short of business as there will always be people too careless to keep a backup.
OMG, I have stumbled over this vid with my limited electronics knowledge and cant believe these can be sort of fixed, well done...... now back to my 1950's Rockola jukebox when things were simple :)
Don’t change your style of video. After years I only watch yours. Its relaxt. Remove the coil. Why not. It don’t have to be perfect. It’s just how it is. Watching your videos is how I like to spend my free time 🙂👍🏻
Excellent troubleshooting / reviving, very satisfying. Thanks for letting me watch!
You are surely a beast of a micro electronics repair person. Without searching the comments, ¿how much does a job like this cost? It must have surely been worth it to the customer because you spent a great deal of time on this job. I used to be a TV tech before it was cheaper to buy a new one so I have an ideal of the cost. My main job was repairing RCA/GE receivers as they had solder point issues.
i think you did a great job recovering the data from this phone. You fixed your mistake . Well done. Thumbs up
Beautiful. The skill involved is an art.
I knew you soldered it to the wrong pads I’m glad you found it I was almost screaming at my phone
great job! if that makes you feel better I didn't notice too that amazing grounding and oh God, of 15 years in my job I must notice tiny details, so there are already two of us (as I found that anyone else in comments seen that in an instant :P)
Speaking as a graduate technician from 1982 this man is a god ! Incredible to me that repairs are being done like this in this throw-away world. Back your pictures up off the device people.
“Short remover 3000” 🤣🤣got get one of those. Great video👍
What a fantastic job, well done young man.
I'm impressed about how u managed to get this working. What a job.
Great work on everything else but putting that wire on the ground! This is a good reminder that you should re-check all modifications and re-count all the affected pins before doing anything else if things do not work as expected. Even though swapping parts is not that slow, it's still much slower than re-counting some pins for an extra time.
Thats was cool. I've only ever done just simple part swap repairs, but this was very cool to see with legit repairs and soldering.
Jason rockin' the RE-repairs !
I have several shelves full of devices needing re-repairs. Some of them even re-re-re-repairs :D
Whoa!! very beginning here and you just showed the back of the mainboard.. it looks like someone worked on that thing with a hammer and saw! Jeez oh man, I know you'll get it right though.. you are one of the good guys. My goodness just the slop they left on the board, it makes me cringe to see. If I leave a little cotton behind and I see it when reinstalling I get all upset and get rid of it.. I know nobody will ever be back in there, but I KNOW. Can't wait to see what you find on this one!
edit: it looks from the rip with all those caps missing that someone was chasing down a short with some sunlight and a magnifying glass and just removed EVERYTHING on vdd main.. man
Great to see some component level repair of things that were designed for assembly level replacement or throwing away on failure. :D
you're an absolute legend mate, keep up the good work!
everyone does little mistakes like that, there's actually way worse... like the guys that had their hand on it before you :D
Wow that was some awesome repair , thoroughly enjoyed watching.
this is always the guy i send boards to when its something beyond my ability, great work!
great job. when you soldered to the ground pins, I thought it looked strange, but with no experience with the schematic software I figured maybe it wasn't a visual match and you knew what you were doing. When you figured it out, I shouted to myself 'hey, you suck as much as I do! I'm watching you to suck less!' : ). Admire your even temper and dogged determination that got you there. I work only with through-hole, watching microscope repairs is both fascinating and terrifying. but that bit when heated BGA chips slip into place, so satisfying.
Dude; glad to see your perseverance!
Here's a suggestion I have for all board repair folks. Go to harbor f r eight and get some scribes. Remove the straight scribe from the aluminum handle, grind the part that used to be in the handle enough to be capable of accepting solder. Get a red and black Bic stick pen and remove all parts, remove the ink cartridge from the color tip and discard the cartridge. Feed red or black test prod wire through the pen body keeping colors straight. Solder the test prod wire to a scribe tip, let cool and push into pen body. Slide color tip back onto pen, fill body with 5 minute epoxy.
amazing work Jason ☺️
your doing great
Thank u!
I know absolutely nothing about Phone or computer repair and not much about Cell phones however I really enjoyed watching this all the way through. It amazes me how you even learn all this technical stuff and are able to diagnose and track down the culprit or in this case many culprits. Just to add if I took my phone in for a straight forward repair an it came back mutilated and in pieces I would be suing the shit out of them and making sure they paid for all their butchered work. Do they employ people with no training or certificates for repair and have them learn on the job?
Surely one must have gone through technical college learning electronics and then sat and passed courses for circuit board repairs before you actually started working in a repair shop?? How does it work over there? Here in the UK you have to be qualified to even apply for this kind of work. Anyways a great video, I don't know how you keep your cool 'cause even I was feeling a little outraged at how stupid and pointless the botching was especially removing parts for no reason and then not even putting them back.
My next phone is going to be a Fairphone or the like 'cause they are cheaper and they supply parts and upgrades in like modules and they offer lots of models. They are going in the opposite direction to the big names like Apple and Samsung.
You would be mistaken. And don't call me Shirley.
@@stargazer7644 How am I mistuken Shirley?
@@MICKEYISLOWD Most people who work as cell phone repair hacks have not "gone through technical college learning electronics and then sat and passed courses for circuit board repairs". Colleges don't have a cell phone repair degree. That's why you end up with phones in that shape. Most people with that level of education aren't fixing cell phones for a living at a kiosk at the mall.
Hi! Nice work! Congrats! It was an amazing job. Just one question. It wasn't easier to install memory chip on another working board? I'm asking, because I have none expertise on this. Thanks a lot.
The memory is encrypted, I suppose the chip that holds the keys has to come along as well. And a lot more perhaps.
Thank u! I have only started doing full board swaps in the last month. When I recorded this video, I wasn’t confident enough to attempt that process on a customer phone. I’ll be posting full swap videos before too much longer! :-)
That work is above and beyond! Well done.
you have mad patience. I'm impressed. you just got a subscriber
Great to see you back! And awesome video to boot!
That wsa 'going above and beyond' to me... congrats on the finishing post
Bro, great video. I was wondering where the troll was at, and I was like, bro why are you soldering the Tigris lines to gnd.. lollll amazing