Woohoo! He's back, ladies and gents!

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Yessssss! :-)

I've been watching your videos for years, mate, and your confidence whilst filming has come leaps and bounds. All nerves seem to be gone. Awesome work, thank you.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Good morning! Raising confidence & eliminating jitters is some of the hardest things I've ever done. I'm really glad for you to notice & greatly appreciate the compliment. Thank you for everything!!

2 videos in quick succession is a huge treat

Lol. That mosquito bit cracked me up. But honestly it shows the level of patience and concentration you have and we need for such a fine job. As another have noted so glad to be watching your videos again.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Much concentration indeed. I got my revenge on the little blood sucker not long after I finished this. Lol! Thank you for still watching. 😀

Of all the board repair guys, I like your style best. It's great to have you back. You don't try to sell, openly admit mistakes and serve it all up with a certain dry (almost British) humor. I appreciate the extra work you have to invest for the videos. However, family comes first!

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate the compliments!

The man, the myth, the legend. Glad you’re back! Your videos are the reason why I got into micro soldering. Glad to see you back bud!

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

This is good to hear. Glad to be back, really!

Wow Jason, what a treat two vids in a week. Excellent 👊🏼

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you sir!

Excellent fix, loved watching the solder balls appear

Great job as usual Jason. That underfill crap just makes things 10x harder to do to be fair. I do notice you shake a lot (and the nervousness in your voice on camera) which would make things even more difficult for you too. You should be proud, and have a LOT more confidence in your own abilities. You're a brilliant technician and you do great work. That's not something everyone can say buddy. Well done 👏

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Hey Phil I appreciate the good words! Thankfully my confidence is at an all time high since I’ve started nailing cpu rework. I’ve done many 7 thru 13 pro series swaps now and rarely have to do it more than once to get boot. So to myself, I feel like my confidence is rock solid. I guess there is still not much hiding my social anxiety in front of a camera though! Without the camera i don’t much of any detectable jitters anymore. This is a good comment to read though! I think of you as a masterful technician and you deserve the 100k subs you’re about to have! Thank you 🙏 Oh, you are too famous!! Lol 🙂

Amazing. I know nothing about what you are doing, but I recognize true skill when I see it.

At 6:55 you left yourself wide open, but I refrained from commenting directly. This is a nice clean channel... Anyway, I enjoy your content, very calming and also educational. Thank you!

Great to have you back Jason, always a pleasure to watch your videos. You explain things so well I always learn so much, the little things that most experienced techs would not even think to mention are invaluable for us noobs :)

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank u. I try to not leave too much out - a difficult balance with “the algorithm”, being too long and having slower paced content.

Superb repair as always Jason :-D Look how far you have come, you are a pro.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Quite proud of being able to shave these boards off without destroying everything. I wouldn't dare be cocky about it though! Probably would have saved quite a bit of time and money if I had attended a class a couple thousand hours ago!

Nice to see new videos from you Jason! This is what I love about micro soldering - how various persons use different tools and techniques to accommodate their style, eventually getting the same result

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thanks. Yes many techniques work well! Well, some of them do. Lol!

I am enjoying watching you videos. Most places locally that did repairs on phones, tablets and computers closed their shops.

The customer must love his iPad Air 2 very much, because the repair costs surely exceed the current value of this device.Nevertheless,once again, a very good job, Jason. Greetings from Germany

Wow glad I found you, I’m right next door in Bradenton, I’ll keep you in mind for comm repair. Cheers.

Thank you for coming back to Life online!

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for being here! It's good to be back to social media.

It was really relaxing to watch this video. Thanks again, Jason!

Good to see you back at it again , have you considered becoming a voice over guy for tv... nice one ..

reballing pmic only is 95% fix without replaacing it , good job jason

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank u! Yes that worried me when unpacking an obviously used pmic. I had some fear it may have the exact same fault since it's somewhat common!

I bought some solder paste once that was so low volume solids, ie, mainly flux, that applying it with a 4 thou stencil made it shrink to 2 thou when flowed, ie, only 50% vol solids. Basically it had no height to take up any non flatness in the mating parts. I've seen people do the double fill, so I suppose you can get around it if you want to do it twice - lol -.

I noticed you don't coat your solder wick in flux before using it. It soaks the solder up a lot easier when flux coated. Thanks for sharing.

Traz! The man os back! Se missed your vídeos, buddy!

Awesome work Jason keep it up buddy.

Now that Jason’s back we can ask “where is Paul Daniel’s?”

Jason good to see you my friend. i hope we will see you more often like this with longer videos. good job as always. thank you bro

Those kind of repair is very pain but Jason always stand on the favor of customer and work hard. glad to see you brother second time continued video . i always watch your video coz your work always need and clean

Good to see you back Jason I always enjoy watching your videos

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

It’s good to be posting again. Thank you 🙏

Another exelent video, thanks for sharing it. Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹

Great video Jason! I’d love to see a video of you working on a CPU reballing

grare job jason missed your videos good to have you back

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank. Good to be back!

Nice work! Glad you still have non hairy bells

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Lol! Thanks 🙏

Hey Jason. I have a wisdom tooth with silver filling which think has an IC imbedded inside. Might need reballing am functioning incorrectly. 😮 Can do ?? 😝. Your patience and wisdom is beyond extraordinary to develop the skill set you possess.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

If there's a chip involved or some other type of soldery alloy, I'm sure I could help if we could get you under the microscope! LOL probably best to get the wisdom tooth pulled tho. I greatly appreciate the compliment! 😊

Great job ! 🇫🇷

Love your work! 🙂

A pleasure to see another one of your vdeos. I think you are a great tech. Greetings from an English man in France. (Your sense of humour realy chears me up ). The best to you & loved ones.🙏👍

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for all your comments! I did not realize you were in France. I will keep posting!

Loved that thank you!

Hey great job. I use acid to remove the underfill rather than risk knocking off a pad with the tool or knife. Its easy to find online, bga glue removal acid. I put it on, wait, clean the sludge with a stiff brush, repeat. Great to see you posting again.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Hello, thanks! I used some of the BGA glue removal that mobile sentrix sells one time and it scared the crap out of me! Cotton swab on a CPU in a bag for 15 minutes as directed (actually the directions said 20 minutes I think). It not only removed the glue but also seemed to remove the coating from the bottom of the chip, leaving the traces exposed! Maybe I just used it wrong but I’ve just kept doing this by hand every since.

@MrPnew1

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele you honestly cannot trust any of those Chinese chemicals, they are toxic as F and they have never heard of MDSS (Material Data Safety Sheets) or now called Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Use that shit and you are likely to grow another head 😂

Awesome repair

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Heya, really great job those chips are hard to work on so tiny but that's just what I love those tiny inniminie micro soldering just have to love it

More skill comes from more experience which comes with more attempts that may fail that teaches you better skills that gives you more experience that... I sincerely appreciate the work you've done to develop your skills and knowledge so you can help more people with their problems. I do hope you have some trusted filks who can help you with any of your problems, electronics or not. You are a real asset to your community!

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate the comment. Will be posting more soon!

High level repair here boys. Impressive to say the least.

wow !!!! another video ! you were being serious ! .. keeep them coming PLEASE :)

Hello Jason thank you for the great videos. i have a tip you may found useful to remove glue, clean it from the board instead of exacto blade i use a wooden toothpick shaped as a blade and use some kind of holder to keep it firm in hand is super safe and effective. hope you try it! Keep up the goodwork

Chipquik sells the paste with the micro balls and flux separate on pouches with a empty jar so you can mix your own ratio

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

I did not know that! Thank you

Bitte mehr davon!! Ich mag Apple überhaupt nicht aber ich liebe diese Reparaturen!

…we have beautiful symmetrical balls… 37:46 I say the same all the time 😂

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

yesssssss... the symmetry is so very important! :D

I always call this one AutoReboot Disease seen it too many times on the Air 2. Good work as always!

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Oh man I used to fear this condition so much! Thanks for compliment!

Nice to see you back Jason. Looking forward to the CPU stuff! When do you need to swap CPUs?

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank u 🙏 I have a good handful of cpu videos recorded that are only raw microscope running. Planning to do more traditional STS style recording of it soon. :-)

Great Job.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Happy to see you again sir

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad to be posting. Happy Saturday!

Awesome job!!!

Wow that was a messy job. Well done on the repair Jason.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 yah without heat, this glue is hard like stone. Tricky to get it clean enough and larger jobs cover my whole mat in hard black chunks of ugliness.

JTAG (aka boundary scan) has been around since the 80's. It's surprising that phones don't have test ports that you can access with test software.

You are an amazing tech!

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Absolutely a wonderfully choreographed dance. Randomly perfect.(edit: Chaotically random perfection) I love it! I know none of what you do is random, at all, as I am interested in doing the same things (but not on the micro level no way) - actually I am learning watchmaking so- anyway great work I love seeing under the chip all zoomed in then when you cut to you at the desk realizing how teeny tiny all those components are. Amazing!

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I find working on mechanical clocks & watches fascinating also. The idea that a person can put those tiny gears and springs together in such a way that it actually "ticks" & keeps time is amazing. I wouldn't dare try that myself! I really appreciate you watching and commenting!

Great stuff

Really enjoy your channel..Thinking about sending you my ipad gen 7 that wont power up....

@ststele

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. I'm worried to tell you the iPad 7 likely has a CPU level fault. Hopefully it could be something else though!

Wowwwww i have search you couple of.time and finally you are back ahhhhhh

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking in for new videos! Sorry for it to take months and months!

🤔 Mmm!! Watching you repairing iPad, got me working on one as well.

We miss you bro!!

Hey jason, zippo lighter fuel works wonders for removing glue. So much better than ipa. I use it even for the under glue issues.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

I will keep that in mind! I forgot all about using this stuff to clean off sticker residue years ago. Thanks!

I always fully charge devices I repair before sending hehe 😁 Nice fix though, love the vids 🤟

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

Yeah that's why I stay away from prior repair attempts. And I'm not like other repair shops for anything that has been attempted to be repaired by either the customer and other repair shop I charge twice as much for my labor. No exceptions

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Yes, 100% agree - I have changed my behavior with these devices in order to survive. When a device shows up for repair and I find out they weren't honest about the job (especially if they've requested a price first), we contact them and change the agreed upon deal since it's not what they said it was. This was from one of our long time repair shop customers who doesn't typically send prior attempts though and it seemed straight forward enough. Look what that got me - A free PMIC replacement! I'm glad I can at least make KZread content out of it though.

@ztechrepairs

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele true. I recommend your channel to anybody interested in getting into iPhone board repairs.

Hi man good back I miss you

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Thank u! I missed posting.

awesome

I'm really happy I found your channel! I have a question, how did you know it's this chip that is causing the problem? I'm assuming there is no short because it charges when off, am I right? Is it just experience or what?

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

In the past I had worked on a good handful with the same or very similar symptoms & had already tried mostly everything except replacing this power IC & always suspected it was the cause. More recently, I googled it to see what people are doing with it these days & sure enough, that power IC was the culprit.

@empty7488

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele You sir are truly great. Keep it up!

Great work, but it would be good to learn the difference between "when" and "whenever".

Amazing

What About Knife Edge Tip for Soldering iron? it makes job easy for me..

Sir was that copper which you placed up to protect from heat

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I use it more to absorb heat when I’d like to slow it from traveling somewhere on a board. These are copper shims I bought long before I started doing board repair. I think they were for laptop or pc motherboards? I have denser chunks of metal that I use sometimes.

Hey hi🤟 I have a query Where did you learn all these technologies and technical stuff! Is there any college or specific place that teaches all these repairing stuff! In India we don't have such specific places that's why am asking

Are beautiful symmetrical balls imperative or will they still function if slightly misshapen? Either way, nice work.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

They can be a little ugly and still work pretty good. Symmetry is quite important tho. 😬 appreciate the compliment!

Re-Hot CPU bro! I'm working on an 12 pro max, with no imei, wifi and so on, on this series and watching your video!!!

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Ewwww, sounds a lot like a full bottom board swap! :-o Good luck! Thank you for watching!

@PhoneRepairRO

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele No bottom board swap for the momment! Board is not bent, only some oxidized pads, like usual, and the other shop that worked on it just cut the wifi antenna - They are pro's :D!

It looked like a few pads lifted; did they, or were they just not there?

@nparbs

7 ай бұрын

NC pads. Nothing connected to them

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Yeh just NC pads lifted. There’s a decent chance they were already loose given the bending and banging these devices endure! Or it could have been my 360C + pry tool. 😇😬

@IgnusFast

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele Thanks! Great repair video! I wouldn't have the stones to try that... :)

Great work 👌👏👍💯 Great to see you 🎉 Free Palestine ✊✌️

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I have a problem with my iPad. I have a black screen so I did the reboot thing holding the power n home button it worked came back to life I had to run out and when I came back hours later. I put it back in its case and it went to a black screen now I keep trying the same thing holding the buttons but it tries to turn on I get a blue screen then goes black. Not sure what to do next.

👏👏👏

How deep do the pads go? I'd be scared to death of accidentally removing them with the xacto blade.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

I've never actually measured but I believe notebook paper is way thicker. Carving my name, address & phone number into an eggshell without breaking it would be easier than some of this work. I've practiced for many, many hours before settling in on casually shaving this stuff off with a raw blade though!

How much u have charged for this work ?

Subtle callout to vgg 😁

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Love vgg. Have a hard time not twisting little bits into my videos. I think this video has 2. 😀

I have an assumption -- you noticed that "we" don't see quite as well as you do through the microscope. My conclusion is that you have stereo view through the two oculars, while the camera and our displays are not stereo. Agree?

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Yes, that is correct. There is a lack of quality in the recording but another huge difference is that the camera is not capturing depth as I can see it through the oculars.

Hey, i have ipad 5 with similiar issue, it is charging when off, and restarting. It will be pmic issue?

Can I send you my board for repair. Ipad 7 needs an ic. Only charges when off like stated and only up to 5%

I still prefer wooden sticks for cleaning, no need to be nearly as careful with scraping.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

I used wood for a while when I was first getting serious with CPU rework. A bit safer but can still take pads off and cause damage to the cpu surface if not extremely careful. Now I much prefer the precision of a nice sharp blade for getting real work done. I'd definitely recommend wood for anyone who is worried about causing damage with a blade tho!

6:55 AND 20:10 Thats what she said!!

You have a lot of balls doing that…….ok, I’ll leave.

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

LOL! You may have just won the internet. :D

Hello. can you explain to me why all appel mobile telephones before always drained the battery within approx. 1 to 2 days when the phone was turned off? I have tried to use some older ones as mp3 players but every time I use them after a few days the battery is empty. if you charge them up and use it, it keeps the power normally without problems. samsung. lg. htc. did not have this behavior. I think apple has made the phones this way but why?

Sounds like mine where it wasn’t charging until i turn it off

Yup, we all should worry when balls pop out. Happy new year, Mate!

Why a lot of chip have this underfill anyway ? to make repair uneconomical for most repair shops ?

I need microscope sir

If possible it might have been easier to have extracted the data , bought another model of the same spec and transferred the data to it .That was a painful repair

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Yes and is a good idea too. If this repair had failed, I was going to do exactly that. This was also a bit more of a personal challenge since I had turned so many away in the past!

@UserUser-ww2nj

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele a personal challenge is o.k if you have the time to spare but you have to balance one against the other. Hope this one has raised your confidence about doing the same repair on others

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Yes for sure. It's sort of the other way around tho. Have been doing many repairs that made this one feel easy. I had charged $95 to repair this iPad as board only for not charging and was faced with either refunding the money or replacing the board. I'm very much thrilled to have fixed it. Definitely a confidence boost even if it was easier than a lot of other jobs though.

@UserUser-ww2nj

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele I have watched a lot of your videos with the multi layer iPhones, those things are tricky. Makes you wonder what Apple can come up with next to make repairs difficult if not impossible 😂 🇺🇦🌻🌻🌻

how could you make this pay without youtube as you sat the ipad is not very expensive it seems such a lot of work for something that's not worth anything or are you a Secret Millionaire and just does it for something to do. Love watching your vids as i am a Secret Millionaire and i watch your vids for something to do.

@ststele

5 ай бұрын

No, not even a thousand-dollaraire. Lol! Tough one here - this job paid $95 and the video has earned $86 so far. Most of the videos I have posted the customer was billed from $100 to $400. I’m really only able to post videos when the job is billable since KZread doesn’t pay enough for me to only make videos. Sometimes the ad revenue is more than expected and the video winds up paying more than the repair though. It’s nice when that happens. 🙂

Love the shirt lmao

Nice my friend i man repair mobile since 15 year i want travel usa plz help me

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

Good morning, I hope you are good. I really wish I could help with employment & getting you here. Doing all I can to support my family of 5 though. I do miss the iPhone 6 days where easier jobs were abundant!

Less go new vids

Hehehehe butthead it’s not hot after you blasted it with hot air hehe

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

It's always so surprising when I burn my hand. Lol 😁

@thatonerepairguy4784

7 ай бұрын

@@ststele my first hakko was the 888 and I used a pair of pliers to change tip when hot yup I dropped it in my lap like 450c yup this fat guy was dancing and a fx951 was on the way

@ststele

7 ай бұрын

@@thatonerepairguy4784 LOL - ouch!