Repair water damaged iPhone is possible. Don't listen to those people tell you it cannot be repaired and need to replace the motherboard. You just haven't found the right person.
Our success rate of repair water damaged iPhone is 90%. As long it's not sea water, then it's very high chance to be fully repaired. Data recovery is 99% success rate.
This case is an iPhone SE. This device been to many shop. Ended up a lot of missing screws and other damaged on it. Owner needs to recover all the photos in it.
Lucky she got some recommendation from her friends, the iPhone SE finally reached into very best hand - me @ my shop.
Below video is to show you how i'm going to save it. The differences between me and those amateur.
Make sure you turn on subtitle.
Why we don't have On-Site repair or Road truck service? Because advanced repair is in our "LAB". Not screwdrivers repair job.
Don't ask how much repair water damaged iPhone. We can't give exact price without look on it.
Please send in to our shop to do a full check and we quote you a exact price. (Sure it won't be expensive as buying another used iPhone)
Full check means we will check every parts. Big or small parts.. like LCD, camera, buttons....
We quote you ONE exact price. NOT gonna tell you to pay more later.
Some bad dealers done repaired and found out new problem then tell customer to pay. We don't want that.
Do you know that Japan and Korea iPhones are unable to silent camera shutter sound?
In old iOS, It even makes a shutter noise when you take a screenshot with Silent turn ON... It's very annoying.
It's been two years until now that I have fixed a lot of iPhone Camera shutter sound that can't mute when the silent switch is turn on.
As a founder of this solution, here I reveal the secret of how to do it without jailbreaking.
I already fixed more than hundreds of Japan's iPhone of camera shutter sound issue, until now there are still a few used/recond iPhone suppliers in Malaysia sending this kind of iPhones to our workshop to fix.
None of them return with a problem because it's a harmless original factory patch.
Why I can't silent the iPhone camera shutter sound?
Actually, it doesn't consider is a problem. Apple just wants to prevent the iPhone from being used to sneak peeking especially in Japan. Maybe it's Japan's government policy.
What's the difference between Japan's iPhone and foreign iPhone?
We are a motherboard iPhone technician. We knew there is no difference on the motherboard. All the components inside are the same.
So we know it is the software that causing the camera shutter noise.
But the software (iOS firmware) that we downloaded is the same file, so there is no difference in the firmware too.
So the last thing I suspected is the "Model Code" also known as Area Code that in "Setting - General - About".
This is the ONE to tell the iOS to act differently in Camera Mode.
But this code is unable to change for consumers. Only Apple technicians have tools to reprogram it. But of course, the Apple Service Centre won't do for you. So you want to look for a third-party Apple Repair like us.
As you can see, Model code MG4C2J/A. J/A means this is Japan's iPhone. KH is Korea.
Both Japan and Korea will make the camera shutter noise when the iPhone is in the "Silent Mode". It still makes a loud shutter after setting the speaker volume to lowest.
And the shutter noise is louder compared to the usual iPhone. 🤣
So what is the best solution to enable silent camera shutter sound like a normal iPhone?
Yes, the best solution is we do a factory setting patch. By just changing the country code is enough. But to do this is required to have NAND programming tools. (Hard disk programmer)
iPhone X or older, they all can be patch without dissembling any hardware.
But if iPhone XS or newer, it needs to take out the NAND which is involving micro-soldering.
This is NOT a jailbreak solution. Jailbreak has too many side-affect. You can't even update or erase the device if you jailbreak your iPhone. Jailbreak is NOT recommended.
New method v2: iPhone camera shutter sound fix (2020)
Old method v1: Procedure to fix Japan's iPhone camera shutter sound (2017)
Step 1 - Take out the Memory chip which we called NAND.
The red box one is the NAND. Every iPhone must have one. We can upgrade it too, by replacing a bigger capacity NAND. So the first step is to unsolder this NAND out.
"So far until now - 2018, Apple didn't make their own NAND. They use the NAND from Toshiba, Hynix, Sandisk, and Samsung. This is why we have the tools to reprogram it."
Step 2 - After unsoldered the NAND out and we put it into a NAND programming tool.
This is one of the NAND programming tools by the company name WL.
Open the program and read the original NAND data. There will be a lot of code. Serial Number, WiFi Address, and more. There is one called region code.
Step 3 - Change the region code
See J/A? Just change this to the country we want. You can check this link to know more country code for iPhone.
I reprogrammed it to MY/A (Malaysia).
Step 4 - Solder the NAND back to the motherboard. The last step is to restore the software again and then we are done.
Japan iPhone Camera shutter sound fixed video (2018)
It's done!
FAQs
How much to fix Japan/Korea iPhone camera shutter sound?
RM 150RM80 for iPhone SE, 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, 7, 7 Plus.
RM 300RM100 for iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus
We can do it for free if you Upgrade the Storage in our shop. If not then we charge the price as above.
Will there be a problem after this?
No. There won't be any problem. It won't affect you to update the iOS or restore the device. It's a factory patch. We are still doing this service since 2016. From iOS 9 until iOS 13. None of them return with a problem. (iOS 13.5.1 still good)
Zero side-effect.
What if my iPhone is brick when you are doing this?
Yes, this is a good question. We can guarantee the process. Anything bad happened in the process, we will repair it back no matter what and without you need to pay more.
How long to fix it?
It can be done in 2-4 hours betweenONE hour if an appointment made before coming to our shop.
Battery offer price by Apple will be ENDED at 1st Jan 2019 !! Hurry grab it before they return to normal price which is few hundreds ringgit.
RM 125 for all models iPhone. 3 months Warranty.
15-20 Min replace process. On The Spot.
(No need backup, No need reset all data, No need wait a week)
_______________________________________________________________________ iPhone 7 - Audio IC disease
We uploaded a video into Youtube about iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Audio IC disease.
Read more at iPhone 7 Audio IC article
iPhone motherboard fast drain out battery problem?
iPhone is leaking battery power quickly
Consume or draining the battery fast even not using
Replace a new battery but still draining fast
Restored the firmware and still the same
If you have an iPhone that having drain or consumed battery power fast. The first thing we suspect is the battery, but what if the problem still exists after you replaced a new battery? A lot of shops claim they know how to repair motherboard, they really don't do well. Most of them send to another shop to do or they just blindly change whatever IC that is related to power, after they messed a lot of things, then they return it with the same problem plus wasted few weeks of time. Today I'm going to teach you the SOP of checking the iPhone logic board drain problem. (SOP = Standard of the procedure)
(I uploaded a Cantonese video into YouTube. English subtitle provided) - YouTube Link It's best you read the entire article instead of just watching the video above link. More details in this article. Especially for those beginners who want to learn the repairing iPhone motherboard.
Tools require:
DC power supply
iPhone power cable
How to check the iPhone logic board drain battery problem
1st diagnosis
Unplug everything, including the battery, LCD, and all flex that connected to the motherboard. Except for the power button flex which we need it later. (We still can click the power button without the flex, but not saying that in this tutorial)
The next step is to connect it to the Power Supply. The power supply can read how much your iPhone is drawing the power. Technically, it's called checking the "Current respond"
Set the Power Supply's current reading to 1A or lower.
We must turn the knob slowly. Slowly giving the power voltage into the iPhone. By watching the meter of Amperage we can know the iPhone motherboard is draining the power before we power it on.
Slowly raising the voltage until the battery level about 3.7v.
It should be staying in ZERO and NOT drawing any power before we switch the iPhone ON. This means the current reading is at 0A.
My power supply's left gauge is Amperage meter. We look at the lower line because I already locked it into 1A. In this case, the red needle stoped at 0.02A (20mA). This means the iPhone is leaking 20ma before we power it on.
This is an iPhone 5S that having a battery drain quick problem. Even if we switch the iPhone off, it will still drain out the battery power.
Can it be fixed? Yes, but it's not in today's topic.
What if the scenario above is not happening? Yes, If so then go to the next step below.
If you sure the above is normal then we do the second step of the diagnosis - BOOT-UP TEST.
2nd Diagnosis: Boot-Up Test
What is boot-up test?
Boot-up-test is when we click the power button once and without holding it to turn on. At that moment, the iPhone motherboard will do a self-loading test.
This is very useful to the technician that wants to read the current response from the motherboard.
How to do the Boot-up test:
Connect the iPhone motherboard with the DC Power Supply. Hit the Power Button once. Just click it once lightly. Do not hold the button to power on. We don't want it to be fully power on.
When we just lightly click once on the power button, a normal iPhone would load from 0 into 80mA and then drop back into 0.
If the iPhone has a charging IC problem, it can be easily detected by this method too.
This is a digital power supply. The function is the same. But it can be more accurate compared to Analog Meter Power Supply. More advanced diagnosis methods will need it.
As you can see in the photo above, this iPhone booting-test is loading 218mA. It's very high compared to the normal iPhone. A normal iPhone is only loading 80mA in the boot-up test. This indicates this iPhone logic board has a faulty circuit that drawing a lot of power. Confirmed it's a motherboard problem, so then we can scan it with a thermal camera to see which part getting hotter than usual.
The below video is the thermal camera that we use to scan the motherboard problem.
Maximum of iPhone comsumption is 1A. (1A= 1000mA) But iPhone is never constantly loading 1A.
Only If CPU is doing a full speed benchmark test.
So far there is no app that would causing the iPhone CPU running in full speed all the time. Only just a few seconds.
By the way, this is an iPhone 7 that boot-up at 200ma. This means it's already consuming 200mA when it's turned on. I'm sure this iPhone 7 at least need to charge 3 times a day.
Can it be fixed? Yes. If we are first hand to repair the motherboard, it will be a quick JOB which can be fixed within a day.
What if the above two scenarios are not happening?
Then the problem is coming from one of the flex, LCD, or camera. Connect all the flex back except the battery then do the methods above. Eventually, you'll found out it's the external problem which it's not a motherboard issue. Then you're lucky. Because it's easy money. A Screw-drivers job that no need micro soldering. We received countless failed repair iPhones from local shops. They messed up a lot of things which they shouldn't touch. They changed things without a proper diagnosis. Obviously, they have no training/educated. The worst matter to me is their workmanship quality, they usually damaged the board further. In the end, we repaired it at a higher cost and a longer time to fix a simple original problem...
Everyone can draw Mona Liza. But the problem is how good are they? iPhone motherboard repair is the same as art.
