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2/3rds of the challange in taking apart an iPhone is the various adhesives holding the screen, battery, and home button together.
by basch 8y ago
2/3rds of the challange in taking apart an iPhone is the various adhesives holding the screen, battery, and home button together.
- jdietrich 8y agoTaking apart an iPhone is absolutely trivial, relatively speaking. Good repairers can do component-level repairs, even on the weird sandwich PCB on the iPhone X. They can splice together two flat-flex PCBs to repair a TouchID home button. They can restore iCloud-locked devices by removing and reprogramming the flash memory. They can separate the individual layers of a sandwich LCD screen to replace just the cover glass or the digitizer. There are aftermarket suppliers of iPhone X screens, complete with the notch and 3D touch. Third-party iPhone repair represents the absolute cutting edge of electronics repair. The level of precision and ingenuity on display is simply staggering.
- lostlogin 8y ago> They can restore iCloud-locked devices by removing and reprogramming the flash memory. That sounds a little sketchy.
- Deathmax 8y agoI don't think they can do so for newer devices, but here's a video from REWA demonstrating the process: https://youtu.be/AYETzuYlEjE https://youtu.be/AYETzuYlEjE
- heartbreak 8y agoThat takes a pretty shady turn when they start checking serials to see if they're already activated. That's why people with a brand new iPad complain they can't activate it.
- tschwimmer 8y agoThanks for sharing. This whole video is really mindblowing. The level of sophistication is very intense. There's a lot of really cool hardware and software reverse engineering going on here, and it's worth a watch.
- tehfcuk 8y agoIn term of factory reset
- tinus_hn 8y agoAlso unlikely; the lock is not in the device but in Apples servers denying activation. To fool it you need to put a legitimate identifier into to locked device. You can’t just make up numbers because Apple has them in a database. And you can’t duplicate them because then one of the devices gets locked. It’s more likely they use identifiers, chips or boards from unlocked but broken devices.
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- Animats 8y agoThose elastic strips look like a variant on 3M's "Command" adhesive system for wall hooks.[1] Those can be safely mounted and unmounted. [1] https://www.command.com https://www.command.com
- moepstar 8y agoWait, somebody has and uses the domain command.com? TIL..
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