So I just recently started getting iPhone 14 series for repair, mostly iPhone 14 Pro Max.
A lot of them have been for Baseband issues, like No Service/Searching issue.
But the problem I'm running into, a lot of these have the eSIM deactivated, since they have deactivated it on the phone I'm repairing & using it on another phone.
Since eSIM requires you to manually activate it with a carrier, there's no way for me to test for baseband issues.
I can't just pop in my tester SIM and see if it works.
I would have to activate an eSIM for it.
And yes, in many cases, as long as it says "SOS Only" or Modem FW is not missing or *#06# or the cellular menu is working, then it should be working... but not always.
I have a few jobs here that do seem to be working, but still doesn't pick up signal. So those require a little more troubleshooting.
But if on the 14's I need to activate an eSIM, that's not going to be easy. That means the customer has to remotely activate it for me, which is a hassle to convince them to do it. Then that also means they lose signal on their backup phone.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
Or anyone run into this before?
Would love to hear your thoughts 😅
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It allows you to get real close up (using my Macro Lens), and easily find where the short is coming from.
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A guy flew in from New York to have me try to recover the data for his Billionaire client, who was willing to pay anything to get data from his smashed iPhone 13 Pro Max.
It was hit with a 🔨
Unfortunately, the patient arrived dead at the operating table 😭
The NAND had a crack running along the side, plus it was a curved.
When attempting to remove the NAND, the top layer of it just flew off
Majority of the pads were ripped from the bottom.
This was probably the worst damage I've ever seen 🥹
I got an iPhone 15 Pro mailed in from New Hampshire for Data Recovery. The front & back were smashed pretty bad.
Took the phone apart & found the bottom board was dented pretty bad
Separated the sandwich to just the top board only and found I had a short before prompt to boot. Tracked it down to a shorted C4222 on PP_VDD_SNS_BPIC
Removed the bad cap & I still had a short. Found the next short on C3499 on VDD MAIN
After that, no shorts before prompt to boot. So I thought that was it...
Well I was wrong. There was a 700mA short after prompt to boot.
Looking at the board under the thermal camera.. heat was coming from the NAND. Although the NAND looked in very good condition with no signs of physical damage. See first pic.
So I decided to remove the NAND to check further.
Without NAND, no short. It would just boot to DFU mode
Closer inspection of the NAND, I found there was a small crack running along the side wall.
When the NAND is cracked, it's GAME OVER. There's no way to ...
I got this Samsung S22 Ultra for Data Recovery. The display connector had some water damage that caused a short on the FPC
After removing the FPC, I found the short was within the layers.
I tried digging it out & it worked, but after placing the FPC back, the short came back.
These are really annoying lol
So I've offered to do a CPU Swap & waiting for the customer to reply 🙏
