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How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China

Strange Parts · 7.1M views · 2018-04-06 · 31:01

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Overview

Scotty Allen of Strange Parts travels through Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei markets and learns to upgrade an iPhone 6s from 16GB to 128GB by swapping its flash chip. It is part 3 of his custom iPhone series and shows the difficulty of the hands-on repair work.

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HN people recommend it for its vivid look at Shenzhen's repair culture and for the flash chip upgrade, and cite it in discussions of hardware modding.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2021

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Repair, teardowns & right to repairConsumer devices & gadgets
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shenzheniphoneflash memoryrepairelectronics

What people said

G3rn0ti · 2021-11 · Recommendation

Another cool episode is where he upgrades a 16GB iPhone to 128GB by soldering a larger flash chip onto the board: [VIDEO]

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GeekyBear · 2021-04 · Recommendation

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. [VIDEO] 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.

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tzakrajs · 2018-04 · Recommendation

Your last sentence reminds me of this recent post [VIDEO] and it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things.

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