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Here's the Massive Kit Apple Will Send to Your House So You Can Fix Your iPhone
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You can BUY a kit from iFixit (including videos and instructions for your repair), and then open up your own biz to fix your friends and family's phones on the side. Alternatively, for the non-technical and faint-of-heart people out there, it's probably less of a burden to take your phone to a local shop.
Interesting that you can replace a Taptic Engine but not a lightning port. How frequently do Taptic Engines fail compared to a lightning port?
Partially, but I think that because they're offering a first-party repair kit they have to ship something that is guaranteed to work every single time. For example using a heat gun and a suction cup tool will probably work most of the time to remove the screen but it's more risky.
Um, and this is going to hurt, but PR firm iFixit don't sell proper tools.
The fake $20 screens the random repair shops use never look as good as the official screens. Which leads to a worse user experience.
Wait a couple of weeks and China will have an exact copy for $5 being sold on Wish or Alibaba
What is the battery life like for the kit? Anyone able to get 10 hrs SoT?
Apple hardware devs: Let's make our products so difficult to repair that the customer needs to rent a specific kit from us to even get in them. We can make even more money that way
Tim: make it so.
Tim: make it so.
Can’t wait for iFixit and the others to claim this is bad because old ladies (who were totally going to fix their phone themselves) can’t lift these cases.
I worked on a product that was designed to be field repaired. It was only 11Kg and man luggable.
The repair kit was shipped in via Hercules transport plane on two pallets.
YMMV but I think your assumptions here about how things are manufactured and repaired are completely wrong.
Well, from Wish it will weigh about a pound and be much smaller than the official one!
Shhhhh, it has wheels.
*wheel repair kit coming soon. Please bring into Apple Store for repairs.
Quick! Someone cue up the laughing Portuguese man on the talk show! He has something to joyously share with us.
Dude, it's not cutting edge military tech. It's a cell phone and most people are annoyed they can't enjoy their TikTok videos due to a simple screen crack. Yes, you can pull out a torque wrench to change your spare tire, but in 99.9% of cases it's complete overkill.
As others have mentioned... this almost seems like Apple deliberately over engineering this equipment and packaging to make it look intimidating and overly complex in an attempt to put off prospective self-repairers.
It would do the trick for me - I wouldn't want all that stuff - just get a responsible (and experienced) person to do it for me.
It would do the trick for me - I wouldn't want all that stuff - just get a responsible (and experienced) person to do it for me.
Wow, can't wait to see Samsung mock this and then release a 60lb version of their own next spring.
The military tech is not cutting edge either.
Here's some typical cock ups with just using an iFixit driver over a proper torque driver...
1. Overtightening and stripping the thread. Writes off the screw, the phone body, makes screw impossible to remove later, compresses the gasket leading to moisture ingress.
2. Undertightening the screw. Gasket not sealed, moisture ingress, device destroyed, screw vibrates loose, falls out, device falls apart.
etc etc etc.
If you're going to do a job, do it properly or pay someone to do it properly.
BTW I own an iFixit toolkit here so I'm not going on no experience. It's proper crap. I have Wera drivers which are slowly replacing stuff for casual work. You will find that Lenovo have torque ratings for all screws in their service manuals as well.
I wouldn't mind one of these kits......to keep.....
I worked at an AASP in a mall, which also had a couple repair kiosks. It was sad when a customer would reject a repair then head to a kiosk, then come back in a half hour because of aftermarket garbage.
