we're gonna look at a few things that
are here to fix in my queue today
this is an iphone 6s plus with the
complaint of touch doesn't work
iphone 5c no power so it won't turn on
somebody used the cheap gas station
chargers 1.6 billion cell phones were
manufactured in 2012 and it's estimated
that 60 of those ended up in landfills
the average american keeps a cell phone
for only about 18 months before
replacing it
there are tons of repairable devices
that are going into the e-waste stream
for no reason other than a lack of
sharing of information
somewhere in the world somebody is
bulldozing something in order to make
you an iphone
and do you really have the right
a year later to discard it
so i started fixing them
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today's plan we're going to start with a
really fun project this is one of my
favorite uh class projects we do it
every week this was a real repair for
data recovery that came to me i want for
you guys to kind of go through the
experience of troubleshooting this
problem on your own and it's going to
require you to
get creative
people travel from all over the globe to
learn how to fix iphones from jessa
jones let's look at the schematic
she's pioneering a new field of board
level micro repair
fixing devices that would otherwise be
trashed and that no one not even apple
thought it was possible to fix
diy fixers and repair shops from around
the world follow her micro soldering
tutorials on youtube and send their
toughest cases into her shop ipad rehab
hi this is tommy thompson with ipad
rehab returning your calls the number of
people that are training in this kind of
industry are less than a dozen
it seems like they're viewed as
disposable devices every couple years
you get a new one you throw it away get
a new one so getting into that mindset
these are repairable a lot of people
don't even know they can be fixed
it is estimated that 41.8 million tons
of personal electronics and appliances
were discarded in landfills in 2014.
that's over 52 billion dollars worth of
iron copper gold silver and other
precious metals that were simply thrown
away any general repair shop can replace
a broken charge port apple will tell you
that they just don't offer that repair
the common touch i see fault on the
iphone 6 plus super big epidemic apple
will sell you a refurbished board that
is really set up to have the same
problem again what we can do would be to
replace the chip and then to stabilize
the board with a metal shield and that
will prevent that problem from recurring
any one of those four caps is turned
into a wire could that be it
really what we're all trying to learn is
just kind of the next level of repairs
she's the expert she's the one who knows
everything about it um has the most
experience with it look under the
microscope for any shorts or anything
weird now we can fix these makes the
repair community more relevant that
we're not just replacing screens covers
and batteries we're doing a lot more to
it be like auto mechanic only replacing
you know windshields and you know doing
paint jobs but we're fixing the engines
so what does it take to micro solder
number one microscope you can't solder
without a microscope
the motherboard is generally seen as a
replaceable part and in reality it's a
city of tiny components that are like
legos and any lego that fails you can
just switch in another lego and then the
whole thing works again the multimeter
is um an indispensable tool this is what
makes you into a diagnostician that's
able to use your brain and solve
problems on your own and without really
understanding and being able to use a
multimeter then you're going to be what
i call a please bro tech what i noticed
early on was there was just this rampant
sort of
internet community of what i call please
bro solutions where people will be like
you know describe a problem please bro
help me bro what's the solution
and they would say solutions that were
like well it's anything but that so i
kind of became a bit of a internet
warrior against that kind of information
this job is kind of like
painting the veins on
a housefly wing
manufacturer support for repair is
really non-existent it's an antagonistic
relationship when we go to fight for the
right to repair
they come and say you shouldn't be able
to repair
there's no support we're completely
figuring this out on our own
my background is in molecular genetics
which is all about trying to understand
how tiny little things that you can't
see work when there's no user manual
so at ipad rehab we are a team of six
women and one stay-at-home dad we are
hardware based approach to everything
and board level
i love nothing more than when my kids
say mom can fix them
because it's usually give it to dad i
think every mom out there is going to be
a problem solver jeanne is very
efficient she's a microsofter
last week i fixed my first pulled m1 pad
the one that is in my file i didn't do
the one that was in your pile i did
another great this is awesome
here you go back to you
here you go yay
congratulations
and then christy she's also micro
soldering and solving a lot of uh ipad
charging issues and no power issues
these were all the tools that were in
the garage that might belong to my
husband my husband's actually an
electrical engineer and now i'm the one
who's here doing this
it is something that you can learn
without a phd in electrical engineering
i don't fix water damage stuff i fix
cracked screens so this backlight thing
is kind of new to me i've done something
like it before so i think i'm going to
do pretty well on it all right are you
ready to try to fix this yeah
my kids are definitely fixers and it's
fun to see their creativity
you know what continuity testing is yeah
what is it it's to see if electricity is
like
goes in a circle sort of yeah exactly
no no beep what does that mean it's bad
exactly it's a bad filter nothing will
go through it
so you're going to put a blob of flux
around here
and then very carefully you're going to
go down there and really go down to the
bottom of the board to get it hot for a
few seconds give it heated heat it heat
it
all the way down to the bottom of the
board on both sides good so place it
more or less back in the spot
there you go much better excellent
all right grab it with a hot tweezers
and press it onto those pads
there we go all right it's time for the
moment of
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truth oh
okay good
you didn't kill it it's still detected
that's good
killer i'm a pro michael sander you're a
pro microsoft right now yeah
yeah
you guys are really the first generation
that grew up with an ipad in hand
eventually they're all gonna come meet
the shredder
i mean there's just so many things that
you can do if you just look around and
think about repair
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