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Video: iPhone 3GS disassembled

Budi Putra — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:25:37 +0000

Just discovered an interesting video on iPhone 3GS disassembled process. According to the site, it’s iPhone 3GS comprehensive take apart and repair directions for the touch panel, battery and LCD replacement. “Do not try this at home,” the site warns :-)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9AzWAwfHEk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

[via DailyMobile.se]

iPhone 3G dismantled: display & glass separate, battery not soldered

Chris Davies — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:52:22 +0000

If you’re looking to dismantle your iPhone 3G but you’d rather have some pieces slightly larger than dust left over at the end of the process, than iFixit should be your first port of call. The famed strippers – by which I mean they strip down gadgets to their constituent parts – have already taken out their screwdrivers and splayed out the second-gen iPhone’s guts for all to see.

There’s some good news in there too. For a start, Apple have learnt from making the iPod Touch and refrained from bonding the glass and the LCD together. In the original iPhone those two pieces were fixed, making repairs expensive. The display itself now connects directly to the main board, rather than having numerous other components attached to it.

Further inside, and it turns out that the iPhone 3G’s battery isn’t actually soldered in place. That’s not quite as useful as a user-replaceable battery, but it does mean that if you’re reluctant to send your cellphone off to Apple and pay them $86 to swap it out, you’ll not need a soldering iron to do it yourself. If you’re interested in the specific chips used, iFixit are listing them as and when details emerge.

[via Core77]

1.1.2 SecPack Found

Ken Allen — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:37:16 +0000

According to the iPhone dev team, a SecPack has been extracted from firmware version 1.1.2 making it possible to re-flash the baseband of the phone after it has been unlocked.

This means that unlocking software can now revirginize your phone with 1.1.2 and bring it back to it’s original state before unlocking the phone.

Lets hope this goes as well as the 1.1.2 jailbreak. Is it possible that Apple is finally realizing that they can’t compete with the dev team and will eventually have to give an unlock code anyways? Lets hope this works out, but for now, stick with 1.1.1.

iPod Touch disassembled

James Allan Brady — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:00:07 +0000

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I get a little perturbed when I have to wait for a gadget, and other people get it before I do, but it only gets worse when those people disassemble those gadgets.

But the guys over at iFixit have done just that with a new iPod Touch. Apparently a lot of the new hardware is similar or the same as the iPhone. Personally I just want to know if I can swap flash drives.

I am sure a 16GB iPhone isn’t too far off in the horizon, but if not, is it possible to order and exchange the flash drives? I hope they don’t force people to try it in order to get a 16GB iPhone, hopefully they will release the 16GB iPhone tomorrow in London. Speaking of which, we are livecasting that, it starts really early, 4am central time, and 5am eastern time, be there, or do the sensible thing and sleep in, regardless we will be livecasting and blogging to bring to the latest coverage.

iPod Touch – Stripped down to bare silicon [via SlashGear]