Hello Jason! This is in fact my phone you’re working on! I got super excited to be able to see you do the repair. You have an extremely valuable skill set and I appreciate your time. Thank you so very much for repairing my phone I have more devices to send your way.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hello! I was wondering if you would find this video. I'm so happy to be able to help with repairing this phone & appreciate you sending it in. I believe you are actually seeing this here on KZread before even receiving it back in the mail! It should be delivered by Monday~Tuesday though. Thank you for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it! 😊

@pow9606

6 ай бұрын

You made a good choice sending it to Jason.

@ayyu3m

6 ай бұрын

When you receive a reply from a very happy customer you know you have made a difference. Awesome Jason!!!

@timkeene2717

6 ай бұрын

As Mr. BURNS sez on the Simpsons.....EXXXCELLENT

Nothing better on the weekend than a brand SPANKING new STS video. Thanks for sharing your random repairs with us, Jason - you are a rockstar!

Your attention to detail never ceases to amaze. Customers appreciate the small things sometimes, and the missing standoffs is just that kinda detail. Love your work.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! :-) I really appreciate the compliment.

The best part of ripping the sticker is that you have a roadmap to put it back exactly in the same position it was! :) Nice job!

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

That is a good way of looking at it. I should pretend to do it on purpose for that reason.. LOL Thank you!

Another mystery solved. That IR camera is worth its weight in gold. Keep the videos coming, really entertaining to watch.

You didn't tear the sticker, you just made a modification to it. 😂

Hehe. Jason is just so genuinely happy when he finds a phone that has both pentalobe screws, gaskets and shields that are just intact :D

Hey Jason! Please continue to make these videos and posting them here. You are a real gem to KZread and have an extremely loveable personality (I love all the facial expressions and eyebrow raising when you're not sure on something!). Just a genuinely good channel to watch and hear your thought processes and how you troubleshoot and get to the bottom of a problem.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hello, I really appreciate the good words! Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Interesting fact - I am actually not capable of talking without moving my eyebrows. I have to focus very hard when talking to my wife if I don't want her to know an emotion or predict my entire next sentence. My eyebrows give everything away! LOL

@MrPnew1

6 ай бұрын

@@ststele whenever I go to the internet, IBrowse

That spanking new capacitor made the phone almost spanking new. I like your spanking new video's too. Keep it up!

Jason, my absolute compliments to you. I love when I witness someone who actually fixes stuff instead of telling the customer- "oh, just buy a new one- not worth fixing these things" ?? Your troubleshooting and analysis techniques are admirable but the best part is your attitude. The other so called, Apple 'geniuses'; they need to be spanked :) Be well. and thank you for making these videos.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

If you're fighting with an adhesive from one end, stop and then continue pulling from the other end, or slow down the pulling speed to allow the adhesive some time to get itself together 😅

Jason. I have been watching your videos for the last two days. I believe you are a real gem. One of a kind Electronic technician. Who really knows his stuff about cellphones. One question . Do you fix and troubleshoot other brands named cellphones or just iPhones?. Second question where are you located.? Because we definitely need a service just like you. Very thorough and honest and definitely you know what you're doing. Love your facial expressions when you encounter a problem with your equipment and tools. Love also your explanation of the situations and problems you encounter. Love your video . Keep them coming. Great stuff.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hello! Yes We work on mostly Apple & Samsung but also service many other models. I post mostly iPhone videos because I'm more familiar with them and it involves less head scratching during the recording process. I am planning to post a newer Samsung repair this coming week though! We are located in Sarasota, FL & are happy to help with any repairs you may have. Also, I really appreciate you watching and commenting. Thank you.

What?! You have a happy customer and still want to be paid? 🤪😱 Great analysis and repair! Have a great Thanksging!🦃

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

LOL! Indeed. Thank you :-)

!!! new STS Telecom episode. its been crazy this season lol

Great to see regular uploads again. Keep up the good work Jason

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! More uploads coming soon!

Awesome video Jason. The way you take the time and effort to find the reason behind the phone not booting up and fix the phone so it can still go out and be used is amazing. When i see a lot of repairs on other channels they just do enough to get a backup and send the phone along with the backup out. If I needed a phone repair you would be the first person I would send my phone to because sending it to a repair shop that couldn't fix it you wold still get charged for them looking at it and then have to pay you as well so the point is send it to you get it fixed once and right.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching & commenting. The good words are very much appreciated!

I very much appreciate your videos, Jason. You’d be for sure doing all right without sharing your knowledge, yet you still do it. I’m sure I’m not the only one who values these videos. Whatever praise and thanks you get are much deserved. Thank you again!

@ststele

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching and commenting.

The capacitor that was short it out Before Going to the infrared camera The capacitor had a crack At the bottom right hand corner That I can see Good video jason and keep the videos coming 👍

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thanks :-) People on this channel always spot the crack before I do! LOL

I used to watch your videos all the time but haven’t seen them on my feed lately, when this video came my way I made sure to turn on that bell and will be checking your channel more often lol. Great video as always thank you for your content!

Man, your videos are not just educative but entertaining as well. Nice one 😂✌🏾

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great job as always Jason. I ended up with about 25 broken iPhones which I couldn’t fix due to not having your skill set and equipment. I’m sure the customer will be very happy indeed.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thanks you! They're not always fixable or worth the time to fix though. I have a handful stored in boxes but I'd rather keep them around for parts or see them destroyed than to sell them off with data on them! I don't even really have anything much worth stealing as far as data goes but I just keep them anyway. LOL Hopefully customer is happy - they will have just received this phone yesterday.

Please, never stop saying "Braaaand Spanking New"

Great Video and Repair! Nothing wrong with saying "brand spanking new". Trolls! Thank You.

Another Thermo-Cam Win!! Great Video as Usual!! Keep them Coming!!!

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how I ever lived without a thermal camera! Oh yeh, I remember.. I spent 10x longer per job. LOL Thank you! :-) More posts coming soon!

And yet none of these customers avoided buying a non-removable memory phone and will happily buy this crap again and end up here again...

Another great repair and spotting that missing standoff and screw

As you lift the sticker away use a sharp scalpel to separate the adhesive or peel from both ends maybe.

You're a miracle worker with fixing mobile phones. I mean, that iPhone is like Lazarus brought back to life. I'm very much impressed how quick you're able to determine where and which component is probably faulty. great job there sir...

Jason, awesome work 👏. I just watched two of your videos and I just subscribed. You and Northbridge Fix are my number 1 to watch when it comes to fixing electronics. I love it cause I use to do that type of work in the military. I like your setup 👍. You are basically saving people's minds , cause everyone i know that owns an IPhone can't live just an hour let alone a day without their phone 🤠 - they go bonkers.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the sub! I appreciate you watching.

Awesome stuff Jason! That broken cap cracks me up 😂

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

It was cracked for sure! Lol 😂 thanks!

@TheCod3r

6 ай бұрын

@@ststele haha good stuff as always buddy. Glad you're posting regularly again

Excellent repair Jason

Love watching a Craftsman at work. We had a Loooooooooooong time with no videos but I'm glad I waited.

Perfect repair

Thanks for the videos, I love watching.

Amazing job. Thanks for share your knowledge

forget the rest send it to the best first good job there

This was an amazing video. THANKS alot.

Nice repair

Hey Jason! thank you for this brand spanking new video post! Cheers Buddy!

Great job Jason. Learning from you from Zambia

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hello, I'm glad for you to watch & comment. Thank you much!

I always enjoy all your videos for some reasons! Thank you from Québec :)

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

I really appreciate you watching & commenting. Thank you!

Heya nice repair well done

Awesome video Jason!

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Cormac!! Good to see you! KZread says you've been a subscriber for 6 Years! Thank you :-)

I learned 'brand spankingly new' .. and I KNOW that's not a word, but for whatever reason we 'they' I suppose, put an ly on the end of spankin'. Not sure..

I will say IF I ever need my phone worked on I’m sending it straight to you

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! :D Hopefully it never breaks.. also, hopefully you keep it backed up!

Lol people are offended by brand spanking new…….. my god. Shine your uv light at them… sheesh!

Love your videos !

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Very professional job .Thank you jason for the video.👍👍

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!! Going to post a Samsung repair today. Hopefully I haven’t done anything too crazy. 😊

Thanks for your video phone repair👍😍😍😍😍

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Once again a nice video proving your skills are invaluable.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks! You're a long time subscriber for sure. Very much appreciated!

hey Jason, You wouldn't happen to have a model name for the current meter you have mounted on the shelf there? it isn't available at union repair it would seem and I am trying to find one. thx guy.

Nice 👍 video Mate, thanks for the content.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate you watching & commenting.

Super speed repair :-D Ooow you used the word "spanking" maybe "bum" or "botty" would be kinder to the people that had there humour removed at birth 😀 I'm sure you know a friend that's like that, we all have to understand the humour less :)

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hehehe, yep! Humorless friends gradually stop communicating though. I still consider them friends. :D Now to check a thesaurus for "spanking".... hmmmmm, nope.. gonna stick with spanking LOL

Hello Jason, can you please help me and tell me the name of the thermal camera?

Awesome quality video, as always. Could you update the link to your t50n usb meter since it does no longer seam to lead to the device. Again, thanks and congrats to the efforts for sharing your wonderful skills in such a interesting and teaching way .

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Sorry but this meter came from Union Repair some years ago and it looks like they've stopped selling it + do not have an equivalent replacement model. There must be a better one online somewhere though! This one freezes up from time to time and must be rebooted. That could be because of the power source tho!

Hi Jason. I have an iPhone 13mini that has a similar issue. Is it possible to send it to you ?

Yes a spanking new vlog again and the master fixt it again

Ha, ha, ha, I don't 'like' your videos, I LOVE your videos! Another nice repair!!!!!

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! :-)

Jason is back again, it's a Festivus miracle

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

If I was more of a voice-over guy, you can bet I would have been adding that in. LOL :D

@MrPnew1

6 ай бұрын

@@ststele Jason, maybe Lloyd Braun is available??? 😂

you know what, I will subscribe since u reminded me at the end :v

What is the value of the brand spanking new capacitor that you placed on board

Just anxious to a brand spanking New video arives.

if u put a tiny alcohol under those stickers it could be easy to pull it out together with some heat(not so much). I 'm always nervous when I see ya open the screen and connectors with metal tools. Why don't u use a plastic tool? Hmmm

big love from morocco

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!! 🙏❤️

Jason is back in action !

Great content Jason, as always. 👍 Now this might be a silly question, but what exactly is the function of these capacitors? This time you replaced it, but on occasion you have just removed them and the phones have booted just fine.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks! This one is a cap for smoothing out any ripples on VDD_MAIN. There are so very many of them in parallel on this line that one (or even a few) missing would not be noticeable. If enough of them were missing, it would cause problems though!

@absurdengineering

4 ай бұрын

These capacitors are like water towers throughout the city: they provide local sources of supply current. They are distributed all over to provide local reservoirs of energy in spite of the overall supply coming from “far away” like from a water plant.

Hello, could you explain to me the fact of putting the red probe on ground in diode mode to detect a short circuit? THANKS

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

I'm using diode mode measurements instead of resistance for tracking down shorts. It gives a very quick, specific reading that can be compared to known good boards. It's just showing the voltage drop across the test points. You get a reading in either direction but when checking data provided by other techs, they are always putting their anode probe on ground! The known good diode mode readings are listed on board views that have data and to check against those readings, it's necessary to use reverse bias. So I guess the real answer is - it's because that's what everybody else is doing. LOL :-)

Nice to se a full functioning phone, it's just spanktastic

Hallo Jason! I never repair iphone XR! Tried once, the phone died when i looked at! This one, has a short for sure! :D LoL you still have that old tool for opening :D

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Mmmmhmmm! This is one of my least favorite models to work on. But then Apple changed the alloy on the new split-board PCBs and now my least favorite model is pretty much all of them LOL! It's a miracle I didn't have to remove the bottom shield on this XR tho. Oh, hello! :-)

Wait, what?!? People are bothered by new, and brand, but not bothered by ball squeezable? Here's 10 bucks... They need to go and get themselves a life.

Great video as always I think it’s the spanking that people object to personally I don’t but that’s a personal opinion lol

You are amazing

@ststele

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

OMG you exposed me to UV light 😳🤣

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

LOL! Better wear some solar glasses to watch STS video. :D

@1RebelDog1

6 ай бұрын

@@ststele u the man jason :)))

How much does a job like this cost Jason?

Question? Do you work on portable scanners? Specifically an Epson ES300W.

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hmmm.. not sure about that one. It looks like they can be purchased used for $100~$150 so it may not be cost effective to repair.

@rambokd

6 ай бұрын

@@ststele thanks for the quick response, I have seen dozens of reviews saying that it develops a black line along the side and that it’s a hardware failure but no mention of what specifically. I hate tossing broken electrical gear that can be repaired. But as you mentioned if the repair cost more than the replacement ,.. thanks I subbed.

Jason , I cannot believe that anyone is keeping the original phone packaging. Do you do android repair as well, I see only iPhone all the times. I understand that data recovery is usually not needed on android phones (due to the automatic backup), but still

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Yes, we wind up bringing in quite a few Android phones. I think many Android users are more conscious about their data and often even manage it themselves though - such as manually transferring files to a local file server or otherwise just managing their own backups! With Apple, I believe a lot of people just assume it's being backed up because they've signed into iCloud. Unfortunately there are some settings that have to be manually enabled for that to happen! Also, tons of these Apple recoveries have only the 5GB free iCloud plan and don't fully realize it's not backing up their 50k photos.

I love watching but how come Jason never mentions the value of any capacitor? Do Apple only use one value for everything or something like that?

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! :-) For VCC_MAIN caps I hardly ever check the values anymore. They're 6.4v caps and are usually 2.2uF~15uF. Every cap I installed in the last few videos would be 2.2uF though. I will mention the value of notable caps like on backlight output where the rating is quite different though. Although it may be interesting to find out how long a 6.4v cap could live on a 20v line.. hehe

Incorrect! They put the caps on there to cause failures. The more caps, the better chance of failure. 😀

Where can one buy your USB input o'scope?

@ststele

5 ай бұрын

This is one that union repair used to sell but they don’t anymore. It’s just a normal usb current meter but has a visible graph is all. Surely there’s a similar model for sale online! I haven’t checked yet though.

I noticed most of the time Chinese caps are getting bad. Of course made in China. Lots of electronics are failing because of those tiny capacitors. I wonder when this caps war is going to end? I mean, laptops, ipads, mac, smartphones. etc etc.

You just can't satisfy everybody - impossible - for me it is - they will find something wrong

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

This is true indeed!

I watched your old video and it seems you have more hair now than 4 years ago. Any suggestion to get more hair?

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

My hair grows so fast that it’s hard to keep up with! It doesn’t grow down though. More so up and out - gets big and poofy.

Nice job Jason, yes I'm a spanking long time subscriber. I cannot believe that the world of wokism is infiltrating into phone repairs. These people(?) really need to get a life and grow up.

Hello, I have a question. what could be the problem if my iPhone 7 is showing an ACTIVATION ERROR message upon setting up the phone? is it still worth it to have the phone repaired? how much would it cost for the repair?

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

This is likely a problem with the baseband CPU. Unfortunately it can be an ugly repair and with the age of the device isn't cost effective for repair. Sorry to hear about the trouble!

@kennethpaulcalangi4122

6 ай бұрын

@@ststele Thank you sir... appreciate you reply...

@kennethpaulcalangi4122

6 ай бұрын

@@ststeleBTW, o forgot to ask ifit's possible to bypass that screen just to access the data in the phone?

Why are these shops in business when they can't fix them ????

hy does no one take a backup of the mobile phone? I wonder. Ending the sd card option was a terribly stupid idea! If the mobile phone is destroyed, you have photos on the sd card if the mobile phone had an sd card

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

I bet 99% of people that pay for data recovery will never pay for data recovery again! I mean, they keep it backed up after that! Not just because of the cost involved but having gone through the fear of almost losing everything.

lol its definately been a long time , you are getting all the apple iphones 10 when the others are on the 15 , but i enjoy watching you lol .

Check your affiliate links Jase cos multimeter and usb current meter are not working. I would like a working link to usb current meter please.

I guess the offendees really want you to start saying brand paddlin’ new instead 😅

@ststele

4 ай бұрын

Lol, yep!

3th

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

Hello! :-)

I love the thermal camera you use, can you share with me the model and brand, I repair lots of electronic junk, but my thermal camera sucks next to yours.!!😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Hot air after uv light cures it a little more. Nice work there!

@ststele

6 ай бұрын

This is very true! I would not have realized it if it wasn't for you and one other person who has told me that though. Thank you!