The Master Microfixer Teaching the World to Fix iPhones

I'll take a look at some things I need to fix here. This is an iPhone 6s Plus that does not have touch controls. iPhone 5c without electricity. Then it doesn't turn on. Someone used a non-original charger. In 2012, 1.6 billion phones were manufactured, of which around 60% end up in landfills. The average American only uses a phone for about 18 months and then buys a new one. Thousands of these devices are going to be repaired and ending up in e-waste unnecessarily just because people don't share information. Somewhere in the

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, someone is getting their hands dirty to make your iPhone.

And do you think it's right to get rid of it a year later? So I started fixing them. JESSA JONES: MICRO REPAIR MASTER Today we are going to start with a fun project. It's my favorite, we do it here every week. It is a repair case where we have to save the saved data. And I would like you to face it your way. It will require some creativity on your part. People come from all over to learn how to manage iPhones with Jessa Jones. Let's look at the diagram. It is a pioneer in motherboard microrepair, saving devices that would otherwise be discarded.

And that everyone, including Apple, thought it was hopeless. Self-taught and professional repairers around the

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watch his micro-soldering tutorials on YouTube and send the most complicated cases to his iPad Rehab repair shop. Hi, I'm Johnson from iPad Rehab. There are less than a dozen people who could train someone in this field. The devices are perceived as disposable. You buy a new one every few years. You throw away the old one and buy a new one. We want to convince people that they can be fixed, something most people never do. It is estimated that in 2014, 41.8 million tons of personal electronic devices ended up in landfills.

This represents $52 billion in wasted iron, copper, gold, silver and other precious metals. Any repair shop can repair a broken charging connector. Apple will tell you that they don't offer that solution. With the frequent touch detection bug on the iPhone 6 Plus, the bag is now broken. Apple will sell you a refurbished board that is prone to the same problem over and over again. We solved it by replacing the chip and stabilizing the motherboard with metal shielding. This will solve the problem forever. Can we replace one of those antennas with a cable? Would that help? We're trying to learn how to take our repair efforts to a new level here.

She is an expert, she knows everything about it, she has the most experience. Look under the microscope for anything suspicious. Now we can also repair, which gives more importance to repairers than simply changing screens, covers and batteries. We do a lot more with it. It's like repairing cars, except instead of replacing windows and painting, we only maintain the engines. What is needed for microwelding? First, a microscope. You can't solder without a microscope. The motherboard is considered a replaceable part and is a set of tiny components that are like Lego bricks. And just like with Lego blocks, you can replace the bad block with another one and then everything works again.

A multimeter is an essential tool. This makes him a diagnostician who can solve problems without outside help through thinking. Without knowing how to work with a multimeter, it would be more difficult to get friendly help. From the beginning I was aware of the size of the Internet community, where what I call "friendly help" applies. Where people confide in their problem and then just: Please, buddy. Help me, friend. How to solve it? And so they come across solutions that never solve the problems. And so I began to fight against that misleading information on the Internet. This work is like painting the wings of a fly.

Repair support from manufacturers is practically non-existent. They don't like to see our effort. When we fight for the right to repair, they get angry and say we shouldn't be able to repair them. They don't support us at all, we have to figure everything out ourselves. I worked in molecular genetics, which is nothing more than figuring out how little things work that you can't even see without having an idea. iPad Rehab has a team of six women and one man in house. We mainly repair hardware on motherboards. My greatest joy is when my children say that mommy can do it.

Because most dads do. I think every mother is a great problem solver. Jean is very efficient. She is dedicated to micro-soldering. I repaired my first M1 board last week. The one he had with me? I didn't work here at your house. I fixed another one. Great, that's great. So here you go. He left it to you. Tumas, congratulations. And then we have Christy. She also performs micro-soldering and is an expert on iPad charging and wiring issues. I found all these tools in my husband's garage. My husband is an electrician. And here I am doing this. It can be learned without a PhD in electrical engineering.

I don't repair water damage, I repair broken screens. So the whole backlight is new to me. I've done something similar before so it should be fine. Alright, do you want to start fixing things? - Yes. - My kids are definitely fixers, so it's fun to watch their creativity. Can you test a circuit? Yes. What is it? This is to find out if electricity is flowing through the circuit. Exactly. - Nothing. - It does not sound. What does it mean? Something is wrong. That's right, it's a bad filter. Nothing escapes him. Put some solder paste there. And then you have to approach the motherboard very carefully, for a few seconds you will heat, heat, heat, heat.

Straight to the board from both sides, like this. And now you put it more or less in its original place. And that's it. It was successful. Excellent. Grab it with some hot tongs and press those plates down. - It's done. - Good. The moment of truth has come. So good. You didn't damage it, it still works. - This is super. - Of course I didn't damage it. I am a professional micro-welder. Then you are a professional. - Yes. - I'll slap myself for that. Now there is the first generation that grew up with iPads in their hands.

One day they will all end up in a landfill. But there are many solutions, we just have to look around us and think about the repair.