G package this is another phone from the diver
aquatic monkey and he found this at the bottom of a lake roll the [Music]
clip yo this video is sponsored by betterhelp more on that later we've taken a look at a bunch of
these Lake phones and some of them we couldn't get on some of them we could the goal of this
is to turn the phone on and fix it and get it back to its rightful owner but some of them look pretty
nasty um hopefully this one can actually work and this looks to be an iPhone 12 let's check it out
wo that's some cool uh carbon fiber backing so far this isn't looking good we have dust and debris in
the actual camera we also have a really mangled looking charging port and the display seems to
be pretty messed up but that's uh to be expected let's open this up and get a better look at the
inside fix it unscrew sometimes these screws are so rusted that you can't even unscrew the actual
device but in this case it seems to be okay if you guys are wondering why there's a cat here
um I got a new kitten but my cat at home is not that happy about it so kind of just bringing him
to work until the other one shows out since the screen is already pretty messed up I'm not too
worried it's crazy how strong this adhesive still is even after being in a lake we're going to need
to use some heat on this Lake phone the adhesive still seems to be intact which is actually a very
good sign trying to repair never mind about the good sign it's time to put on some gloves cuz uh
what I saw in there was not good open it up mhm okay we'll go ahead and remove the display the
display Flex cable came off pretty cleanly let's see if the other one does and that also came off
pretty cleanly despite how bad this actually looks it might still work we've seen much worse so these
Flex cables seem to still come off fairly easily now we can remove the display and take a look at
that we have a water damage indicator that is red indicating that this indeed did come in
contact with water if you couldn't tell already so what we have to do now is basically remove
the board and get this cleaned up remove all this residue because if we power this on with all this
residue here well we're going to cause a million shorts we'll remove the board and holy crap okay
so this is the logic board or the motherboard and it honestly doesn't look that bad we can
pretty easily remove all of this buildup and get this thing cleaned up and then we can see
if it works we'll pull out a container put the board in the container and then drown this in
alcohol typically you'd want to separate the board because there's two separate pieces but I'm not
good at microsoldering enough to do that so this will have to do for now until I can learn how to
separate the board we're going to use a brush and lightly brushed down on the board making sure to
displace any minerals or buildup that might have made a home on this board so we got the board
nice and clean but just to be sure we want to run this through the ultrasoft a cleaner which will
basically displace any of the minerals I might have missed and get this thing fully clean and
ready to be tested the board is pretty much all cleaned up it's looking almost brand new we put
it through the Ultrasonic Cleaner twice drowned it in alcohol a few times so it's pretty much
good to go all that's really left is to heat this up to let all the alcohol evaporate so we'll go
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to test let's hope this is working cuz we just spent about an hour and a half cleaning it this
is our donor housing with a donor battery we're only going to be using this to really see if the
board even works because if it doesn't there's no point of really going forward we'll go ahead and
place the board inside the donor housing if this does work it'll be absolutely insane The Next Step
would be to find a number we can call and ask the owner of this if they want their phone fixed and
sent back to them now we'll go ahead and connect everything to the board if this doesn't work I
don't know what will cuz this board's in very good condition okay we have the board installed we'll
pull out our new display I really hope this works we'll go ahead and plug the device in
oh no way we have the charging symbol and the phone is booting This Is The Moment of
Truth hopefully we get a home screen and hopefully we can find out who owns the
phone what just happened and I know what is happening it's actually a common issue with
the iPhone 12 where if the front earpiece speaker assembly isn't connected the screen
goes completely black however I know for a fact that the phone is on we just have to
reconnect a speaker now we'll go ahead and try this again I'm confident it'll
work appal
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logo and the lock screen that is insane the phone still works I'm absolutely amazed we'll go ahead
and swipe up to unlock and the easiest way to find out who owns this phone is by hitting emergency
and that sucks so it looks like whoever own this phone didn't set up emergency contacts which is
very unfortunate but there is one more way we could take their old phone to pull this out and
looks like this person was using dual SIM which means this phone isn't even from Canada that's
pretty crazy the fact that they're using dual SIM indicates that at least one of their phone
numbers is probably the same so we have two chances to find this person which increases
the odds we got the first one out and looks like this phone is from China we're going to
basically put both of these SIM cards inside my phone retrieve the phone number that's attached
to these two SIM cards and message or call the person and see if we can get a response
I ended up finding both of the numbers attached to the phone and well they were Chinese numbers
so I went ahead and texted called and well this happened the number you dialed is not
a working number please check the number and dial again things weren't looking good but
I'm not giving up I checked WhatsApp Snapchat Facebook Instagram literally every platform but
then I remembered China doesn't have most of those apps and if they did it would be
a different version of it there was one thing left to try WeChat a very popular messaging app
commonly used in China so I hopped on WeChat and sent a message to both numbers an hour
later after freaking out for a little while I explained the situation I even sent her the
recovery footage and I asked if she wanted her phone back fixed she said yes she also
sent her address so there's nothing left to do but fix it we want to make this as new looking
as possible so we'll be using a whole other iPhone 12 as the donor for this board we're
also going to be adding another dual SIM reader so this phone is as close to how it
was originally as possible we'll go ahead and unscrew the iPhone 12 donor open it up remove
the old SIM and place the dual SIM now we can remove the board it came with and place the
lake phone board we'll screw everything back together replace the seal get that Crunch and
wow you would have never been able to tell that this phone was absolutely destroyed not too long
ago of course the owner will get some important messages from Apple but at least they'll get all
their photos back and well a working phone all that's left to do is head to the post office and
send this back we hope you enjoy your iPhone 12 once again and we hope you watching enjoyed this
video I'm really curious to hear what would you do if you lost your phone in a lake and
then someone text you fixes it and then sends it back how crazy would that be anyway guys
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