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How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this video.Another cool episode is where he upgrades a 16GB iPhone to 128GB by soldering a larger flash chip onto the board:
There's a video of a western guy living in China learning to desolder Flash memory chips from an iPhone and then solder higher capacity chips in their place from back in 2018.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP-OPXK2ig
Being in Shenzhen China, he was able to buy the needed tools and many broken boards to practice on, and eventually managed to do it on a live board himself.
Time to do this type of stuff then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP-OPXK2igI hope there's a way to upgrade the CPU.
You could just pull the flash chip and image it. You would need to figure out how to get the key, but pulling the flash chip and reading it doesn't look too hard if you can use a heat gun. If you lived in Shenzhen you could go the market and buy a flash reader.Strange Parts is youtube channel where the guy does this.
⬐ monocasa> You would need to figure out how to get the keyI mean, that's the $10M question.
Literally. There's probably $10M in it for you if you can answer that (and have the right connections to build a company around it)
⬐ stefan_The PIN or any other user secret can't decrypt the contents of the flash chip. So turning the device off and removing the flash just makes it infinitely more difficult.⬐ samfisher83⬐ NoneWhy would make it any more difficult? You can just put the chip in place after you are done.⬐ bialpioI guess because now you have no way of exploiting any bugs that might've been exploitable. Within 7 days the phone will still try to talk to others connected to its port, after 7 days it'll just charge. I assume that "power off" will also disable data over the port until the phone gets unlocked?None⬐ redbeard0x0aThe filesystem is encrypted and the key is in the secure enclave. So pulling the chips and reading them directly no longer works.I think this is how the FBI got into the bombers iPhone after losing the court case to try and force them into releasing an iOS version that allows unlimited pin tries.
Your last sentence reminds me of this recent post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHP-OPXK2ig and it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things.
⬐ equaluniqueHad a great time watching this video last night. What that man does in his videos is truly cyberpunk.
⬐ navjack27Storage not memory⬐ cmplxconjugateI upgraded my iPhone 6s+ from 16GB to 64GB in 武汉市 (Wuhan) for 300元, which is ~£30. The process took around an hour and the phone has worked perfectly since then (3 months ago).It was quite spectacular to see messy workstations, rough and beaten from hard use (and minimal standards). Stacks of scuffed and well loved equipment were crammed into the tiny space available.
What I appreciate most from the experience is the fact these services are not offered by Apple in the UK/US. It seems like a crime.