iPhone XR came in for no power.
After prompt to boot, I saw it jumped and hung at ~500mA. After removing the CPU shield, I found Hydra was lighting up under the Thermal Cam.
Since Hydra is pressed up against the CPU, it's a super risky job, because it's also underfilled.
So i made an oopsies... i ripped 3 pads under Hydra. I wish i would have taken more pics, but i was able to dig out the traces of those pads & run jumpers.
Then I installed tristar & now it hung at 200mA. Once again, I checked with thermal cam & found the chip next to it was shorted. Looking closer, I see where I nicked the IC & damaged it.
It's U6150 which it looks like it's called Gecko.
I pulled that IC and ripped another pad lol. What luck.
I was able to dig out that trace as well & ran the jumper.
I was able to find a replacement Gecko from an XS board, since it's not underfilled and installed it.
Now this XR is fully fixed!
Check out all the pics for reference.
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It can take us a while to build these out sometimes, so they're sometimes out of stock for a while, but we're working towards always having inventory ready to build more as they sell out.
This stand makes using a thermal cam so easy. So much better than any other thermal solution on the market.
It allows you to get real close up (using my Macro Lens), and easily find where the short is coming from.
Plus it's hard free, so you can have your hands free to try to boot the device from DCPS, while having an image that is in focus & not moving around.
You can even record a video through the app, while you inject voltage into the short, so you can go back & see exactly which component was it that was heating up.
Save yourself lots of time by getting a Seek Cam, Stand & Macro Lens! ...
Anyone who is doing game console repairs, knows how many screws you need to remove to access the motherboard.
Especially the PS5, with the 5,000 screws or so.
If you don't already have an electric screwdriver, GET ONE ASAP.
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Let me know below if you are already using an electric screwdriver 👇👇
Please can you help me with ipad air 2 ( 4G ) display challenge, the battery was plugged in and I tried to fix the lcd and since no display again even with new lcd, I already tried to throw torchlight on the screen to confirm whether back-light problem or display problem. It's confirmed lcd problem
