iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
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Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#2The care taken can only be described as mesmerizing. If you want proof that Apple is full of it and the whole "bootleg parts can compromise security," then here it is. Apparently, a lid close sensor is a major security risk - where NAND is not?
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#3At 5 minutes is when it shifts gears from the merely brave/experienced.
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#4Cool. Haven't seen anyone doing precision chip removal with a CNC mill/router before, but it makes sense for this situation and was done well. :)
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#5Cool. Haven't seen anyone doing precision chip removal with a CNC mill/router before, but it makes sense for this situation and was done well. :)
Yeah I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but the depth of that mill has to be fairly precise to not rip into the pads but still remove enough of the nand package. Very impressive - looked pretty straightforward after the jig is set up.
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#6This is cool, no doubt about that. And fascinating due to the sheer complexity and amount of fine detail work required. But. Uh. For all that work, Why not upgrade it to an amount of storage you couldn’t otherwise get? Or at least max it out?
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#7The video omits crucial details aside from the physical act of removing the original and soldering the new NAND. I know for a fact failing to copy original details results in failure to restore iOS with specific error codes, so I wonder what this video did. I've successfully done this many times back in the iPhone 6S days where the original chip was desoldered, read by a Chinese-made reader, and finally the identifiers cloned to the new chip. I sold phones upgraded from 16GB to 128GB for a meager profit, but it was for fun.
How can the new chip work if the original chip is milled off completely? I would be surprised if you could read all necessary identifiers through iOS/USB software before milling unless the device was jailbroken and read that way. Seems like a big oversight for Apple not to implement simple countermeasures to make it a little bit harder, or that Apple would undo protections they had back in the iPhone 6S days.
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#8This is a joy to watch.
And this person had better stay anonymous. If Apple knew their identity, they'd be excommunicated on the spot.
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#9This is a joy to watch. And this person had better stay anonymous. If Apple knew their identity, they'd be excommunicated on the spot.
Yes, absolutely. However, it seems to me that he is not using official Apple tools. I am familiar with them and they are similar, but they are not built by Apple. To me, they seem like a copy, and he’s not using the official Apple software to calibrate the device.
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#10Me, watching video: so now they're going to desolder the original flash chip, put it into a chip programmer and copy data to the new one, resizing the file system as needed.
They: casually proceed to turn the original chip into fine dust