Tom Chai

So I finally got an iPhone 6 Plus, I opened it up to check it out. During the disassembly I found a few QC issues, one...

If BD movies work, then there is unlikely any issues with the hardware itself. What’s the error message when the system rejects a game disc?

You can’t expect it to work like the PS4, Xbox One is not designed with internal HDD user self-service in mind. Although it is possible. There are utilities exist to format blank hard drives exact like Xbox One factory default, then download the correct version of the OS image and manually put all the files there, then the console should be ready for a recovery boot and you can further recover it to actual factory default.

The screenshots provide none of any useful information. Are there any specific error codes if you click into them? Are there anything in the event viewer? Windowsupdate logs or CBS logs?

The fewer times messing with the fragile flex cables the better. Countless tragedies teach us one lesson. Don’t mess with flex cables that are soldered onto expensive parts.

manual eject gear, to the very left side of the console.

“Whenever I put in a USB with the update file it says it can’t be used “ Wrong update file. You need to download the latest one with the size of about 900M-1GB.

This is a stupid request from the client on multiple levels. The request stems from paranoid claims without concrete proof or technical grounds. It’s probably not a good idea to work with this client anyway. If you agreed to do this, it only fuels their paranoia and you’ll have more weird requests lined up. If the client insists, rip out all the antennas and solder grounding wire to the RF connectors. Good luck getting spied on without antennas.

You can completely wipe out the hard drive, re-partition it with MBR, so it doesn’t need UEFI boot. Older laptops probably don’t support UEFI.

The NFC conductor wire is part of the power button flex, check if that is missing, broken, or screws and contact clips on both ends are loose/misplaced. You can’t replace the NFC chip as it is security/payment related. If Apple were to allow it to happen, Apple Pay credit card fraud would be all over the place.

This could be either due to carrier or the phone, or both. Likely scenario 1: (1) Carrier do not support VoLTE, or the service is not enabled on the number/device, therefore CSFB is needed. (2) The carrier’s 3G service is deployed on a band or technology that the phone does not support, or it technically supports, but broken. Likely scenario 2: (1) Bad carrier provision, which resulted in non-standard signaling behavior that happens to be not supported by this device, or its specific baseband software version. Since no specific carrier or device model is mentioned, no cross-testing of various carriers and devices has been performed, we can only guess now.

Xs has 4 antennas, while the XR only has 2.

Easy, you are supposed to desolder the battery and the dock flex first, remove the logic board then access the battery.

Look at the CPU heat spreader, it is much thicker than previous models, is it possible that this is some kind of mini flat heat pipe?

Yeah it is just a case ventilation fan, it doesn’t blow any heatsinks directly. Although with the very low TDP of the processor, a case fan with radiator type heat sink should do the job.

It is not possible to access the internals from the back, the back is locked to the case with screws from the inside.

It’s the top bezel itself, as always.

You need to show the back side of the battery, the supplier name is on the back.

No. Basically not related at all.

Zero! Way to go!

As you can see they've already ruined a lot of things, so this is not going back together.