Cool, anybody doing that to macbooks, which are much more storage constrained?
iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
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#22This is the new upgrade status quo. I wouldn’t do it on a phone but some hot air work on a MacBook to upgrade the SSD would not scare me at all. I did do board rework a long time ago though.
What does scare me is the software side of doing a change like that!
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#23Cool, anybody doing that to macbooks, which are much more storage constrained?
Yes there's one in Canada, much cheaper than Apple: https://vancouvermac.ca
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#24Cool, anybody doing that to macbooks, which are much more storage constrained?
Since the early M1 days I saw such scenarios of upgrading RAM and SSD,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDNtSqa_i2A
But I’ve never saw a real service that offers that or anything after M1 (I didn’t look though)
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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But Apple sells a 1TB version of the iPhone 15 Pro. Are you saying the 1TB version uses a different motherboard?
I was mistaken—yes it would be possible to upgrade to a 1TB NAND. I'm going to guess it wasn't cost-effective to source or it was hard to find an iCloud-locked/activation-locked 1TB iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max motherboard.
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#26I started watching this assuming that the nand is either slotted in or would be de-sodered. Then the micrometer scale calibration gauges for the milling machine came out and I realized what was about to happen. Quality work!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
They show it getting restored to factory image.
... As I said... it's not enough to just plop on a new chip from somewhere else and do the standard iOS factory image restore process without extracting info from the original and putting it in the new before soldering. This information prior to the milling is omitted from the video.
I’ve seen several videos by reputable fixers that demonstrate empty NANDs working fine with DFU factory restore.
Same situation on Mn MacBooks.
Would be weird in the actual mass production process if the flash would need to be pre-programmed somehow; one DFU process IMO must be able to do everything needed.
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#28The 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 identifie…
> read by a Chinese-made reader, and finally the identifiers cloned to the new chip
sounds like a national security threat to me
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#29Me, 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
I had the same thought. Got a chuckle out of @challenger2205's comment[1]: > Apple: our NAND flash is so integrated, that it's impossible to replace unless you literally machine it off the board. Surely no repair shop would do that! > The repair shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSDdU8bJI0&t=324s [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbSDdU8bJI0&lc=Ugxs-u-AdfmJn...
Now that's what I call secure erase.
Re: iPhone 15 Pro Storage Expansion – 128GB to 512GB [video]
#30The 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 identifie…
SysCfg with serial number etc has been on a separate NOR chip for quite some time [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple allowed DFU restore to initialize a blank flash as mere optimization in the production process.