Tom Chai

So I finally got an iPhone 6 Plus, I opened it up to check it out. During the disassembly I found a few QC issues, one...

Apple did explicitly state that the water resistance feature and damage caused by water is NOT covered at all. Water resistance feature may degrade with use, but if any tiniest amount of water contact causes the phone to flicker, I suspect someone has opened the phone before and broke the adhesive seal, or it suffered a serious bend that did the same, normal use should not result in this temperamental behavior. Water damage is very difficult to repair, basic rule is: if you need to ask, you can’t do it, go find a professional.

Coil whine, hardly anything to worry about.

Without Apple’s Official tools, you have to keep the original screen and ALS flex cable, get a screen/ALS programmer, copy data from the original screen/ALS flex and write into new ones. This does not make the ALS color/brightness sensing accurate, because the calibration data is from another unit that has different physical properties, but it does trick the phone into bringing back the options.

Don’t put the “insides” of the PS3 slim in, put the entire PS3 slim in. This is easier on so many levels, basically just involves putting a small box in a big box.

You can’t. The content on the PS4 internal HDD is per-console encrypted. Even if you can copy the content on the HDD byte for byte, it is totally useless because the only PS4 that can read it is broken. CE-34335-8 means "Cannot access system storage" // Issue with hard drive; it may be improperly inserted, corrupt or bad. If the hard drive is broken, data recovery on a encrypted hard drive is also difficult, since you have very little way of knowing if the recovered encrypted data is correct or not. Not to mention data recovery on broken hardware can easily cost thousands of dollars. If you have PSN Plus, your save data is backed up in the cloud. Most games will reconstruct your profile based on your online game history and unlock things you already obtained anyway.

Hardware issue, torn screen cable, replace the entire top half of the computer.

A super easy rule to judge its difficulty: If you need to ask, you can’t do it. Board level repairs are all beyond DIY scope, iPhone board level repairs are considered to be one of the most difficult among all smartphones, and ones like the iPhone X with dual-layer boards are considered the most difficult among iPhones. This kind of repair needs specialized equipment, model-specific fixtures and masks to properly disassemble and reassemble. You might trash a few boards just practicing the basics, then trash a few more to properly master the skills. This may be thousands of dollars of upfront investment and several weeks of training to get started at least, if you are still at “asking” level. I’m not discouraging newcomers into the trade, but if you want to get in, consider doing it professionally instead of just looking to fix something by yourself for cheap, that would cost you several times over buying a brand new device.

Face ID must be fixed with original sensors, replacement will not work. You can try to find out what went wrong with the sensors and the motherboard, in-place repair only, no replacements.

Timeout waiting for something, usually disk or network related.

If you want to do it properly, replace the adhesive. Just buy 10-20 sets in a row, it’s not that expensive and too much trouble to buy them every time.

Easy, you are supposed to desolder the battery and the dock flex first, remove the logic board then access the battery.

Look at the CPU heat spreader, it is much thicker than previous models, is it possible that this is some kind of mini flat heat pipe?

Yeah it is just a case ventilation fan, it doesn’t blow any heatsinks directly. Although with the very low TDP of the processor, a case fan with radiator type heat sink should do the job.

It is not possible to access the internals from the back, the back is locked to the case with screws from the inside.

It’s the top bezel itself, as always.

You need to show the back side of the battery, the supplier name is on the back.

No. Basically not related at all.

Zero! Way to go!

As you can see they've already ruined a lot of things, so this is not going back together.

Looks like it is soldered, this is going to end up ugly if you manage to break the ports.