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iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]
- fennecfoxy 2y agoTo be completely honest I'm surprised; I would've thought that Apple would have locked it down such that the part can't just be replaced and immediately work. Guess for them it's just not worth it given that doing this swap out isn't all that popular in the first place (because of effort).
- LoveMortuus 2y agoThis is amazing, I'm surprised it actually worked! Makes me want to say: “Now imagine if things like that were actually user-replaceable”. But I feel like we're very far, if not the farthest, away from upgradable/modular phones.
- jsheard 2y agoAny ideas how much that 1TB NAND chip costs? Significantly less than Apples $500 premium for the 1TB SKU I'm sure, but how much less exactly?
- 7speter 2y agoTerabyte nvmes selling for 60-80 dollars these days, and thats much higher than the prices last year. You’d be best off getting the top stuff though, I doubt Apple is using Chinese QLC, or bottom binned TLC.
- jsheard 2y agoI suppose 2230 NVMe drives are probably the best proxy because those use a single very dense NAND chip similar to the one in the iPhone. Those are around $100 for 1TB TLC, but that includes the NVMe controller and retail markup.
- NikkiA 2y agoThey're also using bulk pricing for the IC though, single quantity from digikey is around $130 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/774?s=N4IgjCBcpgLATFUBjKAzAhgGwM4FMAaEAeygG0QB2AZgAZaxaQBdIgBwBcoQBlDgJwCWAOwDmIAL5SgA https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/774?s=N4Ig...
- NikkiA 2y agoA single 8Tbit NAND is about $130 in single quantities.
- throitallaway 2y agoWhy use bits here when storage is usually measured in bytes? 8 Terabit == 1 Terabyte.
- fragmede 2y agobecause that's what the underlying NAND chips the actual storage is made up of, are measured in
- jeroenhd 2y agoThe industry uses bits rather than bytes. If you buy 1tb NAND from a factory or NAND dealer, you're going to get 128GiB (or perhaps even 125TiB) of storage. The conversion to bytes generally happens the moment products start being offered to end users.
- Brosper 2y agoHow much does it cost?
- Ringz 2y agoI don't know if anyone can offer something like that seriously. And I don't mean it badly. Technically, a conversion including warranty would certainly be possible. But would it work commercially?
- sroussey 2y agoMore capacity and faster.
- sda2 2y agothis makes me feel better about paying for a 512GB model.
- slicktux 2y agoThat is some craftsmanship!
- cudgy 2y agoJust watched this at 2x speed and the precision/stability of the hands is remarkable, especially when extracting the tiny foam gaskets.
- RankingMember 2y agoSeriously, made me think he was on beta-blockers or something to be so smooth. (insinuating PEDs were used for iPhone modding- we're through the looking glass here people. :P)
- naruhodo 2y agoNah. It makes total sense that he was on Phone Enhancing Drugs.
- mattmaroon 2y agoIt’s still impressive at 1x.
- Alifatisk 2y agoHow do people watch videos at 2x speed? I don't know if it's just me but I can only do it for a couple of minutes before I stop following along.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoI sometimes watch at 1.5-2ish speed since many variants of American accent speak sooooo, sooooooo slowly. Also the general Youtuber culture of speaking slowly to draw out video length = more ads.
- throwaway48476 2y ago2x is slow, 4x keeps you on your toes.
- kaashif 2y agoUsually, if a video is too slow I find it frustrating and I'm more likely to stop watching or increase the speed. It's not like I'm actually following along with a screwdriver and iPhone so I don't need to watch it at 1x speed.
- brailsafe 2y agoNow do the ram inside an M1+ SoC
- asdz 2y agocan anyone explain why they have to grind off the old chip? (instead of unsolder it)
- ykl 2y agoThe old NAND chip is epoxied in (they reapply the epoxy on the new NAND chip too after installing later in the video).
- dishsoap 2y agoI wonder what the reasoning is for grinding off the old chip instead of desoldering properly? Maybe the heat would damage something?
- Retr0id 2y agoThe chip has an epoxy underfill. It softens slightly in the heat and desoldering is probably possible, but the amount of force required means you're likely to damage something in the process.
- jsheard 2y agoIt's hard to see but the original NAND is epoxied to the motherboard, which wouldn't come away easily with heat. I'm not sure what the purpose of the epoxy is but he goes to the trouble of replacing the epoxy later in the video so there must be a good reason for it.
- Retr0id 2y agoThe epoxy protects from physical shocks and also helps manage the effects of thermal expansion, either of which could crack solder joints over time.
- matthewfcarlson 2y agoI’ve seen some fascinating slo mo videos of devices bouncing from a decent fall in an X-ray machine. The battery in particular squishes way more than you think should be possible or right. Epoxy makes a ton of sense when you consider the shock that it takes.
- kccqzy 2y agoDoes anyone know what's the purpose of the foam that's being removed at 3:50? Is it for waterproofing?
- xnx 2y agoMultiple purposes I suspect: Reduce vibration, even out thermals, etc. If water has gotten to that foam, something has probably gone very wrong.
- ssl-3 2y agoMy first thought is acoustics. Empty spaces are resonant spaces, and this can be heard when the phone's speaker(s) are playing sounds and/or the microphones are microphoning. Mechanically damping resonances is always superior to handling them with DSP -- a DSP doesn't need to account for resonances that simply aren't problematic to begin with, freeing it for other duties. Such resonances can also be heard when handling the phone -- even when it is off. Tapping on the phone and hearing/feeling a dull, well-damped thud inspires more of a perception of solidity than a lingering resonance does, even though such foam itself contributes nothing to to the structure of the device at all.
- jwells89 2y agoEven back in the iPod days, one of the stated goals of the designers at Apple was to make their handhelds feel like a singular piece, like something that naturally grows that way (think fruits, crystals, etc) instead of disparate pieces tenuously held together. An impression of solidity falls in line with that idea.
- userbinator 2y agoFruits. Yet if you gently tap on a biological apple, a ripe one actually feels slightly hollow inside.
- hiatus 2y agoI can't believe they had to grind the memory chip off. I would have expected reflow work or something. Incredible.
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- jervant 2y agoI was sure this was going to be a dosdude1 video, he's upgraded the flash on a lot of things https://youtube.com/@dosdude1 https://youtube.com/@dosdude1
- bigbones 2y agoProbably a dumb question, but what are the 3 taps for after screwing each screw? I presume they are tapping the screwdriver itself?
- randmeerkat 2y ago> Probably a dumb question, but what are the 3 taps for after screwing each screw? I presume they are tapping the screwdriver itself? I think it’s a torque screwdriver.
- ipython 2y agoIt’s a torque screwdriver as others have said but to me it made the whole video into an asmr experience.
- typeofhuman 2y agoThey're using a torque screwdriver, which ensures tightening to a specified torque to prevent excessive tightening. The "clicking" is made by the clutch that disengages once the preset torque has been reached.
- sergiotapia 2y agophone storage hasn't mattered to me in years, what do you guys need the huge storage these days? the bulk of my data in the past was photos and videos, but now those are uploaded to the cloud and i instantly delete from my local phone.
- m463 2y ago...as planned by apple Can you do this without apple managing your data? (it would be really nice to have a personal icloud replacement)
- sergiotapia 2y agoi use android and google photos because it's really cool to auto match faces of my friends and family. but think about it, how crazy that someone can steal your phone and you would be totally fucked, priceless memories lost forever. now with cloud that's a non-issue no?
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- paxys 2y agoIt doesn't have to be one or the other. Apple/Google can permanently lock you out of your iCloud account at any instant. You can only be sure of access to your data if it is physically on you.
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- fragmede 2y agoAnd if you encounter pickpockets or get mugged, you won't have access to that data either. And don't forget to worry about natural disasters taking out your home.
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- paxys 2y agoLive reactions watching this video: Remove two screws from the bottom of the phone – easy, I can totally do this! Soften the glue and pull out the back – hmm, I guess it's doable if I can find replacement glue. Disconnect dozens of cables and parts – wow, it's going to be hard to remember how everything goes back together. Peel off protective foam from motherboard – is it even possible to replace this stuff? CNC grind the existing 128GB NAND to dust – I should probably stop watching now...
- israrkhan 2y agoI was also blown away at CNC grinding step. Perhaps he did it because heat gun would have impacted other parts of the PCB. With grinding the impact was limited to Nand chip only. He eventually had to use heat to cleanup the residue.
- Joona 2y agoIt's more so the 128GB package is not worth that much, so it's easier to just delete it.
- nine_k 2y agoYou also need to be pretty precise with attaching the phone in an exact position, and grinding things with a very low margin of error, say, 0.05 mm along the vertical axis, in order to remove the chip but leave the PCB intact. Not for the faint of the heart. I suppose they have had several training rounds using badly broken phones first.
- duskwuff 2y ago> I suppose they have had several training rounds using badly broken phones first. Can't be very many of those yet. The iPhone 16 only became available for sale last Friday.
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- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoSeen this before with other models. 1 TiB is a factory option, so it's not like the days when Asian market hacks gave 4x or 8x what was available.
- Scene_Cast2 2y agoThere's also that video of a guy adding a headphone jack in a similar fashion. I was impressed that he found the internal room for it.
- daemonologist 2y agoPossibly Strange Parts: https://www.strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/ https://www.strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headph...
- interestica 2y agoI never understood why this was always seen as such a constraint. It’s three (or four) pins! It doesn’t even have to have the “hole” form factor. You could have them all in a straight line and then place a headphone jack AGAINST them. I always thought a magnetic TRRS set of pins along the side of a phone could work. Add a sleeve to the connector’s side too. Heck you could standardize a flattened TRRS or whatever that would still slip readily into a typical jack.
- bmicraft 2y agoWhen you already need an adapter you might as well use the usb-c connector.
- grishka 2y agoThat was on the iPhone 7. Its internals really look like the decision to omit the headphone jack was made pretty late in the development cycle, so they replaced it with a useless piece of plastic.
- xyst 2y agoImpressive work on undoing the Apple engineering and unnecessarily soldered component. The CNC grinding guarantees this is out of reach for many people. The blatant greedy decisions Apple makes is what has turned me away from their devices in general. Been winding down my usage for a few years now and aging out my current devices.
- seec 2y agoI am on that path as well, considering how filthy rich they are, the greed is not just unreasonable it's a complete fuck you to the customer. If it was just on the phone I wouldn't care as much (can get away with buying less often or second hand) but the reproduction of the models on the Macs is just inacceptable since everything is soldered. I wouldn't mind paying a bit of premium on RAM/storage but it is just a big "fuck you", because we can, at the moment. Considering how fast they are obsoleting older hardware (just because they can) it doesn't even make sense to pretend that you will recoup the cost over time (won't last twice as long as less expensive PC). And macOS is aging poorly, feeling the effects of neglect and doubling down on fully closed strategy. Apple doesn't have to care because they have new customers that don't care about any of that; it's mostly people that buy entry level hardware though, which is kind of hilarious when you think about their luxury strategy (mass market "luxury" is so dumb). Now, to be honest I have still some hopes left for the upcoming M4 devices (sales have slowed to a stop, so they have the signal) but still I'm doubt the pricing will make sense. It's just sad because Apple has more money than it knows what to do with productively, it's just a terribly managed company nowadays contrary to what the idiots who believe stock price is everything (imaginary value) like to think.
- wtallis 2y ago> and unnecessarily soldered component Seriously? Do you want a M.2 card slot in your phone?
- userbinator 2y ago(micro)SD/TF, many phones still have one.
- namuol 2y agoShame that the existing NAND has to be turned to dust. Gone are the days of upgradable hardware.
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoIt really is a shame no one has ever successfully added some form of small scale extendable storage to a phone that Apple could have copied so they are entirely forced to upsell you a phone 500$ more expensive so you can get extended storage at a five fold markup. Surely, if it was the case, customers would never stand being taken for such fools and would do something. /s On a more serious tone, I hate Apple for the way they do their products segmentation. It's for me the best proof that the market is not competitive enough. Multiple screen support forcing you on the pro line, decently sized storage requiring you fork 500$, the stuborn refusal to allow tablet users a proper interface to not canibalize the laptop sales, it's outrageous what Apple can get away with. Not that their main competitors are shaking the boat much mind you. Oligopolies are awful. At least, you can now record video directly to a usb-c connected hard drive but only in ProRes and no luck for photos (because f*** you that's why).
- paxys 2y agoI wonder what happens if you increase the storage beyond what is offered by Apple in one of the models. Will it just work as normal with 2TB/4TB/8TB? Or will the OS realize that something funky is going on and try to restrict it?
- dagmx 2y agoStorage controller for the NAND is on the SoC so it only works for specific configurations of NAND. Assuming it followed the pattern of the M series Mac’s.
- tibbon 2y agoI've wondered for a while if the 'non user upgradable' Macs were actually upgradable with enough effort. Seems so!
- xp84 2y agoEven the ones with non-soldered NAND can't be upgraded by anyone besides Apple. The NAND chips are serialized or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEwS_VGD2yY&t=620s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEwS_VGD2yY&t=620s
- wtallis 2y agoThat's a bullshit video. The guy conducting the tests doesn't know enough about how SSDs work or about how Macs boot to be drawing conclusions, especially not such strongly negative conclusions. He would have had to at the very least attempt a tethered restore from DFU (as is done for these phone storage swaps or any other situation where the NAND is blank or thoroughly corrupted) before concluding that Apple has everything totally locked down. Adding the second drive module is something that we should not expect to work the way he tested it. Plugging in a second hard drive to a desktop does not magically give you a RAID-0 without extra steps; expecting this from SSDs doesn't make any more sense. And without reverse engineering the machine config from the quoted prices, we don't even know if the two modules had the same capacity, let alone the same type and manufacturer of NAND (which is probably important if the system is going to treat the two modules as one SSD instead of exposing them to the OS as one drive).
- throwaway48476 2y agoConfusion is understandable here because such technicalities were not officially documented and the community had not figured it out at such an early point.
- jeroenhd 2y ago> Adding the second drive module is something that we should not expect to work Hard disagree. This approach works for just about any normal storage medium. Apple decided to Think Different about where the SSD controller lives and works and how storage pinouts work, but their weird approach wasn't publicly documented anywhere until people like this guy started trying. Uninitialised storage would've normally showed up just like that, as uninitialised storage, ready to be partitioned. Instead, the device didn't even turn on, let alone show the added flash storage in a partitioning tool.
- stevev 2y agoI’ll just spend more for the storage lol.
- soganess 2y agoThis has the parts of my brain wired for: - working on cars (the torque "wrench" click is such a cue) - dissembling electronics - watching folks work on... mechanical watches - unnecessary / creative uses for a CNC all firing. I feel pandered to directly... and consider its a mostly silent video of someone replacing a nand chip, I'm not how to feel about that. On a more constructive topic: Can the performance/endurance characteristics be modified by using better nand chips(a la ram)? Or does it have to an Apple blessed part?
- rainbowzootsuit 2y agoI say "click" when I need to hit the right torque setting.
- jychang 2y agoIf you are okay with losing your operating system each time the phone turns off...
- wtallis 2y agoDid you think that comment was suggesting replacing NAND with DRAM? I'm pretty sure it's just asking if there are varying speed grades of NAND the way there are varying speed grades of DRAM.
- physhster 2y agoM539/TronicsFix/Wristwatch Revival...
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- throwaway48476 2y agoNAND only gets faster by having more of it in parallel.
- dannyw 2y agoNot exactly true. For example, QLC is slower than TLC.
- roughly 2y agoPutting aside all the business model stuff, man, Apple makes some seriously pretty hardware. The packing, the cables and connectors, the wrapped motherboard - the whole thing is gorgeous.
- cheeze 2y agoThe design of the iPhone has always fascinated me. It's just so... clean.
- jasonjayr 2y agoApple has always made even the insides of their hardware clean and neatly laid out, dating back to the Original mac hardware. In the video, one of the inside brackets had a laser engraved apple logo!
- giancarlostoro 2y agoAs a former Android user, it was one thing every iPhone fanboy had on me I couldn't argue on. Not why I switched, but I now appreciate it knowing that they still give attention to that little detail.
- krackers 2y agoI think it was Steve Jobs who insisted that that even the inside of their products look as clean as the outside. It unfortunately means it's a pain to disassemble, but they certainly do look pretty.
- nine_k 2y agoI don't think it's about showing off. It's about reliability, mechanical sturdiness, compactness, the ability to cleanly assemble the device an test it on every significant step before sealing. You can't help but end up with a neat thing to meet all these requirements.
- seec 2y agoAs someone who had to work on the inside of almost every iPhone model ever made, I can tell you first hand that it is mostly about looks. Because it seems neat but there were a whole lot of decisions that made actually working on it really annoying. After the 4, they just weren't made in a way that facilitated fixing. To be fair, at that point the replacement rate was so fast that I can see why it didn't make sense to spend time making it repairable. The issue is they kept that philosophy for way too long into models that would last quite a while and need repairs in the long term. Now they have started fixing their act (well under a lot of both public pressure and legal pressure from EU) and the latest model doesn't just look pretty, they start to make sense from an (dis)assembly/fixing point of view. A least now they have figured out that they can put the port on a separate board so you don't have to literally disassemble the whole phone just to replace the port (that tend to fail under heavy use, especially the models based on the 6 that needed a lot of juicing). Looks are deceiving, don't be fooled, just because it looks neat doesn't mean it is.
- balls187 2y agoThe technical skill of the modder is unreal. That said, imagine that is Israeli security service removing and replacing the nand storage. EDIT TO ADD: Pointing out how a determined state-level attacker could pin-point a single individual.
- elzbardico 2y agoPretty hard to find free space inside an iphone to put explosives like they did with the pagers.
- Txmm 2y agoIs it? A slightly smaller battery would make room.
- elzbardico 2y agoBut then the counterfeit battery wouldn't be usable in a modern iphone due to lacking the cryptographic signature.
- xp84 2y ago> removing and replacing the nand storage. But... with this kind of removal, what would these government agents gain besides a free blank phone?
- teaearlgraycold 2y agoReplace it in the box with hardware-level malware installed.
- srockets 2y agoWe know, from multiple leaks, that clandestine services from multiple countries, including the US and China, have supply chain attacks, where they intercept computing equipment and install hardware backdoors into it. Intercept an iPhone, replace the 128GB storage with a 128GB storage and some extra rootkit. Or anything else really.
- exabrial 2y agoWow it's almost like they should put an... sd card slot.
- xp84 2y agoWhat a heretical idea. Surely all storage should be soldered down to the logic board, for security.
- sneak 2y agoFor watertightness, more accurately.
- callalex 2y agoWhat about the dozens of phone models that have SD slots and waterproof ratings? Please don’t unquestioningly regurgitate propaganda.
- thebigman433 2y agoWhat are some examples of phones with SD card slots and similar waterproof ratings? A quick google search didnt turn up much
- exabrial 2y agoare you actually serious or are you joking?
- cenamus 2y agoThey're in the same tray as the SIM card, you don't see people crying for esims because of waterproofing. And a simple gasket around the port is enough for the IP68 or whatever kind of rating the iphones and co have nowadays
- throwaway81523 2y agohttps://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5-6033.php https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5-6033.php Samsung Galaxy S5 from 2014. Headphone jack, SD card slot, and swappable battery. IP67 water resistant. Almost everything since then has been a regression. You can get a Nikonos V underwater film camera around $300 on ebay these days too. Designed by Jacques Cousteau in the 1960s, can shoot under 150+ feet of water, and is supposedly a good all-around rugged outdoor camera as well. I'd sort of want one but I haven't used any of my film camera gear in years.
- deviation 2y agoIs there a hardware restraint for why he chose just 1TB? I'm seeing 2TB/4TB/8TB Nand Flash being sold online (the latter for a hefty ~$650). Is there anything stopping me from paying a professional like this to install an 8TB unit? edit: I see those NAND flash models are supported by Macbooks. Perhaps I am mistaken in thinking an iPhone could support it.
- omgtehlion 2y agoCould you provide a link to 4TB in a single chip though? 2TB chips started appearing only this summer...
- smileybarry 2y agoMaybe it's a BIOS/firmware thing: replacing the RAM memory chips on a Steam Deck to 32GB total requires BIOS tweaks to recognize the chips. I assume in this case the motherboard may be trained to recognize up to 1TB, like the highest capacity model sold. 2TB+ may be too high density to "just work" out of the box.
- rsktaker 2y agoI'm astonished that it works! To my understanding, the 128GB has specifications for how to "talk" to it on its datasheet and same with the 1TB. Do they have the same manufacturer for them to have the same pinout? And, how come they're the same size lol. Intuitively, I'd expect the 1TB to be way bigger.
- mastax 2y agoGenerally most memory uses standardized physical/electrical/firmware interfaces from JEDEC, an industry consortium. I do not know for certain if the iPhone memory is standard. Mobile RAM/Flash packages are usually made in larger capacities by stacking several dies within a package. This can involve die thinning - grinding the dies thinner so they fit within the same space after stacking.
- shultays 2y ago1TB storage comes from another donor iPhone apparently so it makes sense it just fits and works. I guess Apple didn't think of matching them to specific motherboards so you can still reuse them
- mensetmanusman 2y agoDid they reassemble the cnc dust to get the donor 1TB?
- shultays 2y agoFor donor phone, they probably kept 1TB NAND intact but CNCed away the rest of phone
- herpderperator 2y agoI started watching this and as someone else commented, yeah, things looked doable at the start and then got progressively more impressive and insane. It's clear they know what they're doing. From the extremely intricate tools for each and every specific step, to the screwdriver that tightens only the exact amount when putting things back together, to - what! - CNC milling off an entire component?! I was so impressed. Surely their day job must be in some way related to assembling this phone?
- nodesocket 2y agoInteresting the USB-C connector has A3294 China engraved into it. My production US version of 16 Pro has no such engraving.
- kridsdale3 2y agoChinese market iPhones are different SKU and have been for a long time. Originally it was for different kinds of SIM but that's not relevant anymore. Maybe a regulatory thing.
- brunorsini 2y agoThis dude has more manufacturing skills than most countries.
- kernal 2y agoIn part 2 he reassembles the 128MB memory chip dust and solders it in a 32MB iPhone.
- krick 2y agoCool, but hardly it was cheaper than just buying iPhone 16 Pro 1TB storage option.
- amelius 2y agoI just don't understand why people would want to keep supporting a company that is actively holding customers back in countless ways.
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- asp_hornet 2y agoBecause i really dont want anything to do with google and there is really only 2 choices.
- popcalc 2y agoYou have the choice to not own a smartphone.
- piva00 2y agoThe competition doesn't provide a product package that is superior for everyone's use case, so Apple users balance the trade-offs and decide they prefer Apple's products even with its caveats? It's not like Pixel + Android, Samsung + Android, etc. produce objectively better products in every way.
- dadarecit 2y agoit works better than the offerings from competition, and Apple isn't beholden to China.
- GaryNumanVevo 2y agoFor me, I can buy a phone that works and will work for 6-8 years with software updates. I'm on my second iPhone, an 11 pro, that I've had for 5 years at this point. I have to use an Android phone for work and we replace them every two years as the security updates stop.
- KolmogorovComp 2y agoIs this economically viable or just a show-off? Because considering the skilled labour and equipment, I’m not sure it’d be much cheaper than the $500 upgrade.
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- shultays 2y agoI don't have an answer but you can upgrade your existing phone you already bought using that method/service. Otherwise cost of official "upgrade" is $500 and a new iphone
- throwaway48476 2y agoIt's not economically viable because the NANDs come from donor systems. Apple prevents the NAND oem from selling to anyone but them. It's part of their anti right to repair strategy.
- bmicraft 2y agoAre you sure? Why would he need to reinstall the OS then?
- throwaway48476 2y agoBecause there's a good chance that NAND came from a Mac and 1/4 of macos isn't going to boot on an iPhone.
- presentation 2y agoAre there any manufacturers/standards that both pair parts to your phone (to make theft not worthwhile) but also allow authenticated unpairing of parts to your phone (to allow part reuse)? I am conflicted in that I like the idea of right to repair but I also like that locking things down helps fight phone theft. I imagine that something like this ought to be feasible: - the phone comes with a secret key baked into it - upon installation of parts, some secret generated from that key is baked into some secret enclave in the part to “pair” the part with your device so it can’t be harvested - the OS a provides a function to “unpair” a part with your phone that requires use of the secret key, so you can reuse that part elsewhere - parts are sold “unpaired” and therefore can be used with any phone (maybe via some open protocol to allow many manufacturers to provide parts, not just the OEM)
- WmWsjA6B29B4nfk 2y agoYes, iOS 18
- a2128 2y ago> the OS a provides a function to “unpair” a part With your idea, if my phone gets damaged to a point I can't access that function anymore, all of its parts are non-reusable and complete e-waste. IMO a better and less complicated solution would be to blacklist the serial numbers when a phone is reported stolen, and phones can check serial numbers against a server (if offline just assume the parts are fine for now). Parts should be considered innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. There's probably ways to break this system such as blacklisting the servers from your DNS and never connecting to any network other than your home, but it makes the phone much less practical to use and it only takes one slip-up for the phone to brick itself
- presentation 2y agoI am personally willing to allow some e-waste to make theft not worthwhile, which is mostly just a difference in our values. But maybe there’s a variation that would allow for both.
- danbruc 2y agoIf you find this interesting you might also like repairing graphics cards and with that I mean stuff like fixing traces on the inner layers of the board. I just picked the first search result [1], not sure if that one is especially interesting or not. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwNB4uD5Pts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwNB4uD5Pts
- nullbyte808 2y agoImagine messing up the 1 TB NAND install and having to grind it to dust....owch.
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- secondcoming 2y agoI'm surprised Apple didn't hardcode the NAND capacity based on the model number, so even though he installs 1TB it'll still only allow 128GB to be used.
- Ecco 2y agoWhat is the white powdery/smokey stuff he drops on the eMMC chip using the soldering iron at 7min27s? Some kind of flux?
- beeforpork 2y agoYes, it is flux (solid rosin). He vaporizes some with the iron and the smoke resolidifies on the contacts, so there is a very thin layer of flux to help with the soldering.
- Ecco 2y agoInteresting, I’ve never seen this before. How does it compare to regular gooey or liquid flux? Also how does it work? Just bringing a chunk of rosin next to a soldering iron would just vaporize the flux as seen on the video?
- xattt 2y agoMy grandfather who learned electronics work in the USSR worked with solid rosin. When you touch the iron with the rosin, it starts smoking like incense at a church (same stuff actually), but a small amount remains on the tip. You transfer this to the contact you’re soldering, dip into the rosin again, and then solder as usual.