G3rn0tiNov 2021Recommends
Another cool episode is where he upgrades a 16GB iPhone to 128GB by soldering a larger flash chip onto the board: ▶ this video
in “How I Made My Own iPhone [video]” · View on HN
How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China
How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2018–2021.
Strange Parts
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Scotty Allen of Strange Parts travels through Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei markets and learns to upgrade an iPhone 6s from 16GB to 128GB by swapping its flash chip. It is part 3 of his custom iPhone series and shows the difficulty of the hands-on repair work.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN people recommend it for its vivid look at Shenzhen's repair culture and for the flash chip upgrade, and cite it in discussions of hardware modding.
- people recommended it
- 3
- separate months
- 3
- strong recommendations
- 0
- discussed on HN
- 2018–2021
“it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things”
What HN commenters said
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
GeekyBearApr 2021Recommends
There's a video of a western guy living in China learning to desolder Flash memory chips from an iPhone and then solder higher capacity chips in their place from back in 2018. ▶ this video Being in Shenzhen China, he was able to buy the needed tools and many broken boards to practice on, and eventually managed to do it on a live board himself.
in “Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD” · View on HN
tzakrajsApr 2018Recommends
Your last sentence reminds me of this recent post ▶ this video and it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things.
in “Weirdstuff Warehouse is closed” · View on HN
samfisher83May 2018Cites it
You could just pull the flash chip and image it. You would need to figure out how to get the key, but pulling the flash chip and reading it doesn't look too hard if you can use a heat gun. If you lived in Shenzhen you could go the market and buy a flash reader. Strange Parts is youtube channel where the guy does this. ▶ this video
in “iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics” · View on HN
Topics & tags
Repair, teardowns & right to repairConsumer devices & gadgetsshenzheniphoneflash memoryrepairelectronics