VCC Board Repairs
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The goal is to share solutions & techniques for microsoldering & data recovery repairs. I'll cover mostly iPhone & iPad motherboard repairs.
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Careful with those back glass jobs! This iPhone 12 Pro got damaged real good

So this iPhone 12 Pro came in for "no service". After taking the board out of the housing, I discovered the housing & bottom board were in super bad shape. It looks like they really want to down with their back glass breaking tool. The bottom of the board has a huge dent.

I split the sandwich and found this IC is cracked.

This is going to need a bottom board swap to fully fix it.

Now, I just gotta wait for approval from the customer, so I can move forward with the repair. He did say the customer was "budget conscious".

Unfortunately, that is not my fault. I have to charge full price on this repair, regardless of how the customer feels about this repair.

It can take several hours to properly repair. If you've worked on 12 series, then you know how time consuming they are. Especially, bottom board swaps.

Plus, a working donor board (IC locked) and pretty expensive right now too. So that's all priced in.

Do you offer any discounted prices on your repairs, if the customer is upset and/or "budget conscious"?

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Which Thermal Cam Do You Have?

If you have a Seek Thermal Cam, you're missing out if you don't have a VCC Seek Stand: https://www.vccboardrepairs.com/buy-seek-stand

Injured Gadgets just got these back in stock, so get them while you can!

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! ...

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If you do consoles, you need this.

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.

🌟 Cordless Screwdriver with T9 Bit: https://amzn.to/3E5duCj
🌟Extended T9 Bit: https://amzn.to/3c4YJac

It's rechargeable through micro USB and allows you to easily swap the tips out. You can also fold it to be straight or L shape.

Let me know below if you are already using an electric screwdriver 👇👇

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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

Please help me with complete list of mobile phones repair tools, especially CPU removing tools. Thank you in advance ☺️

@VCCBoardRepairs please I have XS with 3 caps shot around nand, I tried clearing the 3 of them to see if the shot will go away but still. I need knowledge thank you 😊

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