Hey there welcome back to strange parts this is gonna be a little bit of a shorter video than normal
But I want to show you this cool iPhone test jig that I found in the markets here in Shenzhen, China
It is for testing iPhones
And the idea is you take all the parts from the iPhone you install them into here and then they're all way more spread out
So that you can test them and work on them debug though much more easily than if they were all built
As you can tell I'm still staying in a hotel all of my stuff has moved out of the old apartment, finally
So that's all taken care of, but I still haven't found a new place to live yet
I'll give you guys some more updates on the channel at the end of the video if you're interested, but for now
Let's test this thing out. This might look familiar. If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram
I often post behind the scenes stuff and what's going on with strange parts in between videos and stuff that just never makes it into
A video there. So if you want follow me there
These are the links go do that, but let's get into it. I have a phone
These were the parts that I use in November. Let's take some stuff apart
And I'm missing a camera. I'm missing all sorts of stuff
So this jig is for an iPhone 6s and you might be asking me why a 6s Scotty, why not something more recent
why not an iPhone X or an XS. This is actually
The most recent test jig I could find, or for the most recent iPhone I could find, I could not find anything past the 6s
I did find this yellow one made by a different company. Um, or
An iPhone 6, but I figured I may as well use the most recent one we can get
I don't know that we need to take all of these out but most of them now we can take all of these boards in out
So this logic board fits nicely into this
It's got a little pegs to hold it in and then what you do is very carefully you start plugging stuff in
Now we take the spring and take off a touch of a button
It's this one here, that's how we know the home button goes it does it says home
Screen goes there. You have two options, right so you can either
Plug this into your bench top power supply here. And you know, it's nice an amp meter reading or you can plug your battery into
that right there
Hope this battery is still charged. It's unlikely it is
Here goes
Whenever I think that it's gonna be easy to make a video it always turns into a project invariably
Hey, all right, let's try booting. I'm gonna charge this a little bit
All right, it is booting this is how I am getting it to work I guess it was just missing battery, um
Some things! Simple things! It's usually the simple things! It's booted up
got a working screen here, touch screen works
We have peripheral buttons, not the original buttons that we can use for testing volume
Here the lock the silent ringer switch
This is the lock button
And then this is the home button
very secure password
The other thing we can do is we can plug in all the other peripherals. So there are extra connectors here for everything
It looks like none of those peripherals made it back into this phone just the logic board and battery and screen
So I guess I'm gonna have to hop over to the market and pick a few things up
I would like 6s
Okay, thank you
All right, let's get back to it
I've got
All my stuff in the markets here. Let's take a look what I got. I got front camera rear camera
bottom flex and
top flex
Here one camera goes here goes here
Okay, so now we have a camera plugged in, you can see me! Isn't that cool?
Yeah, so that's the rear camera and then let's see if we can switch around
Okay, so here's the other camera right there
Upside down. The Lightning jack is down here, and the headphone jack here
Yeah it's charging here, so that works. I don't have any taptic engines
But the taptic engine actually sits on these two connectors here, so it would be a little bit hard to do
I think these are the taptic engine connections here that you can use for testing and then this is actually where you can test headphone
jack connectors
Here, so, I guess you solder down to that or you can just place them down
We still haven't really talked about what this thing is for. Why would someone buy one of these things? I think..
these are either for
Repair people to test launch boards, or they're for testing the peripherals like cameras and things
It might be that you like build this up and then you can hot-swap cameras in and out of it
But the important part is that they have all these break outs here
You can see these here where you can probe with your multimeter
Probe. I'm just gonna use a screwdriver to demonstrate this here
so if this was my
Multimeter (and not my screwdriver) you could come in and touch
Each one of these and measure voltage and some of them actually have like what voltage should be on it, so like
Here like this one says 1.8 volts, 1.8 volts
16.5 volts which is probably back light you could test each one of these pins with your multimeter
You probably also could put an oscilloscope on it or a logic probe if you wanted to actually watch the communication going back
And forth and that's actually something that I want to try out for a future video. So stay tuned on that
So there you have it our very own exploded iPhone. I hope you enjoyed checking this out with me
I think it's a pretty cool strange tool invented by the the Chinese cell phone repair ecosystem
even though it might not be a
Big seller. Um, I still think it's pretty interesting. So, as promised
I wanted to give you guys a little bit of updates on the channel. And what's going on with me. I
keep getting the question. Have you moved yet? Is everything ok? Yes, everything's fine. Everything's moved into storage
It was pretty much wrapped up by the time that video went live
But it just took us a little while to get it edited. I am now living in an apartment
All the stuff is in self storage
It's not perfect, but it's workable for now. The reason I'm still in a hotel is that I've been spending all of my time
making more videos for you guys, but also
Interviewing someone for this head of operations position slash producer role that I've talked about
I had a ton of people apply based on that video over 150 people
Tons of awesome folks and and so I've just been spending the time finding the right person. I think they have found him and
We're still getting that set up. I don't want to talk about it too much
Yeah until everything's set in stone. But I'm very excited about that. He's gonna be on the ground here in China soon
Really looking forward to what that will bring but I have been holding off on
Finding a workshop and an apartment until he's here with me and can really take the lead on it
It's gonna be a big project. We need to find the workshop first
And then the apartment second Shenzhen is huge if I found an apartment first
It might end up being really far away from the workshop that we find
and I really want to make sure we find the right space so that we can do awesome projects and cool stuff and I have
a good place to shoot and
We'll all be good. A ton of you guys also have reached out about the editor position
I mentioned as well as just general offers help. Thank you guys very much. It's huge. I'm sorry. I haven't responded yet
I to be honest
I have received hundreds of hundreds of emails and because of the apartment thing and focusing on the head of operations
It's it's just been I've just been buried so
Apologies, it's not that I am ignoring you and it's just that it got delayed a little so we will look at all of those
And start reaching out to people about the editor position and then it will reply to everybody . Right now
I'm headed back to the US for two weeks to take care of some paperwork and see some family and
We have another video that I have finished shooting. It's gonna be edited. That'll go live in two or three weeks
I don't know if you've noticed I have been trying really really hard to release a video every other Saturday and unfortunately
I just slipped the last one we might slip one more trying to get into that rhythm
of releasing every two weeks and I think Saturday's is is the time when most people are
Have some time to watch Strange Parts, so I was launching during the week and and that didn't seem to be doing as well
So we're gonna try Saturdays - Saturday mornings. I'm back in Shenzhen towards the end of the month and
I've been talking with a bunch of really cool
Electronics factories. I'm really excited to start doing the factory tour stuff again and
I'm actually going to visit one on my way out of town today
That I'm really excited about so don't want to say anymore just yet, but stay tuned
There's a bunch of more cool stuff coming and I think it's gonna be a really amazing year for strange parts
So, thank you guys so much
I'm Scottie from strange parts stay tuned for more adventures, hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and
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