iBoard Repair

05/09/2026

My newest video is a bit different than any in the past. I do still go super technical with my diagnosis, but while working I also talk about the nature and history of iPhone motherboard repair and why technicians like myself (and plenty others), who started within a specific time frame, have a natural advantage. It is almost impossible for new motherboard technicians to catch up because of the nature of the work and the reward systems working today.

*Case category:* Dead / No Power*Failure type:* Died in customers hands and made worse by another tech*Actual billed price:* $0 (No Data, No Charge)*Start ...

04/08/2026

This video is the most complicated charging circuit failure I have ever seen. If you want a deeper understanding of how charging power flows through all the different parts of the charging system and its ICs, and why these cases can get so confusing, this is a good video to watch.

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03/27/2026

If you liked my iPhone 16 pro max video with the technical diode mode measurement explanations, then you might like this video as well. It goes over how I come to the conclusion, with specificity, as to exactly what component is causing the problem and how different lines can have the same measurements when they connect through a filter.

Need iPhone data recovery? Start here:https://www.iboardrepair.com/This iPhone 16 Pro was run over by a car and came in with severe physical damage, no worki...

01/13/2026

This video will show the process to diagnose and repair a spontaneously dead iPhone 16PM motherboard for data recovery.

The board has an extremely common symptom; an immediate amp draw BEFORE prompt to boot. This commonly indicates a main line short. However, when it is not main and it is not boost, do you know what to check next?

The problem I find turns out to be only the first of two.

The second problem I find demonstrates a high level of understanding of diode mode measurements and how those measurements change depending on whether or not components are on the board or removed. If you do not understand why a diode mode value can change, it is very beneficial to view.

After viewing this video, do you think the second problem was related to and possibly a cause of the first problem or do you think it was actually unrelated and just coincidentally under the same chip?

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This video will show the process to diagnose and repair a spontaneously dead iPhone 16PM motherboard for data recovery.The board has an extremely common symp...

03/21/2025

This video's CPU swap is a bit different then previous videos. It is much more abridged and digestible, while still showing the complete process with every step included. The entire process is shown in only 5 minutes so if you have had trouble trying to choke down my long format CPU swaps, this one might be for you. The CPU swap starts at 07:00 and ends at 11:53.

The rest of the video is the story of the worst "tech" damage I have ever seen.

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02/24/2025

This iPhone 13 got rained on.

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02/18/2025

6 hour data recovery. There are chapters below, for your convenience.

In this video I perform data recovery on an iPhone 15 Pro that was severely smashed. This was around 9 hours of work that I condensed into a 6 hour video. There are many factors that caused it to take so long. Removing the RAM, harvesting a PMIC chip, performing a full CPU, NAND, and EEPROM transplant, harvesting a donor RAM chip, and reballing the RAM even though I did not have the proper stencil.

There is some small silver lining in the fact that I will not have to prepare a CPU swap board, harvest a donor RAM, or harvest a PMIC for any future jobs, as once I have done it once I can reuse them in future recovery cases.

While the video does have the most unnecessary parts edited out, I did still leave in most of the work. This is to demonstrate the real and full processes that were required for this job, as well as to demonstrate the patience required to pull off such a complicated and work intensive recovery.

Some of the time was due to being unprepared, such as not having the proper RAM stencil and not have a new PMIC chip ready. However, I cannot allow these types of hiccups to get in the way of completing the job in a timely manner, so must work around them when I have to.

Reading the chapters below can also help to show how long each section took:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:23 - Diagnosing RAM short
00:07:50 - Attempting to externally support the short
00:13:30 - Removing the RAM chip
00:49:30 - Voltage testing with RAM removed
00:52:59 - Finding that RAM voltage line is STILL low
00:56:15 - Removing PMIC
01:14:34 - Harvesting donor PMIC
01:29:10 - Soldering on new PMIC
01:32:15 - Find that RAM voltage line IS STILL LOW... again
01:35:55 - Comparing voltages to a donor board that has ram off
01:38:37 - Flattening CPU top before CPU removal
01:49:47 - Removing data board CPU
01:54:38 - Removing donor board CPU and cleaning pads
02:22:45 - Removing donor board NAND
02:26:26 - Removing donor board EEPROM
02:28:02 - Cleaning and reballing data CPU
02:40:00 - Soldering CPU to donor board
02:43:55 - Finding that RAM voltage line is finally normal
02:46:00 - Cleaning donor board NAND pads
02:52:45 - Removing data board NAND and reballing
03:06:39 - Soldering NAND to donor board
03:07:37 - Swapping EEPROM to donor board
03:10:00 - Removing another donor CPU to harvest a donor RAM
03:13:47 - Scraping (harvesting) donor RAM
04:14:00 - Tinning RAM pads
04:22:43 - Reballing RAM without proper stencil
05:05:34 - Evening out RAM solder balls (grinding method)
05:15:20 - Flattening CPU top to accept RAM
05:21:30 - Preparing top of CPU pads
05:38:30 - Viewing finished RAM and CPU placement
05:41:03 - Measuring RAM voltage lines (good!)
05:42:30 - Testing the board: stuck on Apple logo!
05:45:43 - Attempting an update (pass)
05:46:21 - The phone finally boots
05:48:01 - Conclusion

6 hour data recovery. There are chapters below, for your convenience.In this video I perform data recovery on an iPhone 15 Pro that was severely smashed. Th...

02/12/2025

iPhone Data Recovery process for when other shops mess up.

02/06/2025

I show the process for a CPU swap in this video. This procedure is usually only necessary for cases of extreme physical damage like when the iPhone is run over by a car and your motherboard has snapped. However, it is also sometimes necessary when a technician that has little experience attempts to do work that he is not ready for.

In this case, the last shop had managed to get the phone to boot but they pulled apart the layers of the motherboard with no clue as to how to get them back together. In the process of attempting, they severely overheated the motherboard. I found shorts on the main power rail, a NAND power rail, and an EEPROM power rail. There were also surely others that went undiscovered as I found it futile to keep attempting to diagnose the dead board. There were bumped and missing components and the board was drowned in flux. There was also tons of loose solder balls from overheating.

It was clear this was the last tech's first attempt at this type of procedure. The customer had told the tech how important data was but he should have had greater suspicions when the tech told him he needed to order tools to complete the job. This job still ended up being recoverable, but CPU swaps cost the customer more and would have been completely unnecessary had it come to me first. In less lucky cases, the data will be unrecoverable from such damage.

This video only briefly touches on the damage and is mostly a demonstration of how to address this type of damage; that being a CPU, NAND, and EEPROM transplant.

I show the process for a CPU swap in this video. This procedure is usually only necessary for cases of extreme physical damage like when the iPhone is run ov...

10/15/2024

In this video I go through the steps involved in diagnosing and repairing an iPhone 14 Pro that is turning on but has no image showing up on the screen. By observing my DC power supply amperage draw upon prompting this phone to boot, I was able to determine that the phone was in fact turning on. However, I had no image on the screen and needed to find the reason why. This involved measuring the connector, checking the image IC, checking the diode mode measurements underneath the IC, and following the trail to a damaged image coil. By being thorough and utilizing all the information available on ZXW (my boardview software), I was able to track down the problem. Once the problem was found, I replaced the damaged component with a harvested one from a donor board as well as replaced the image IC that was removed.

This video demonstrates a good train of logic and the thought processes behind the diagnostic work that I do here.

In this video I go through the steps involved in diagnosing and repairing an iPhone 14 Pro that is turning on but has no image showing up on the screen. By o...

07/31/2024

In this video I show an iPhone 11 that is stuck with a 3 minute reboot. Specifically, I am seeing "missing sensor: prs0" in the panic log. Most commonly, this issue is resolved by changing the charging port. More rarely, you may find that you have bad resistors around the charging port. Even more rarely, you may have to change either your audio codec IC or your audio amp IC. In this case, none of these were the problem.

This was a water damaged device in for data recovery. When the common solutions do not work, you must look elsewhere. With water damage, you have the luxury of being able to see what components look bad and corroded. When you see ANY resistors that are corroded, that are always worth taking a look at schematics to see if they appear important or not.

Watch this video to see one of the more rare causes of iPhone 11 with a 3 minute reboot with a prs0 error.

In this video I show an iPhone 11 that is stuck with a 3 minute reboot. Specifically, I am seeing "missing sensor: prs0" in the panic log. Most commonly, thi...