- Abdullah Kabani is the proprietor of Telè, a phone-repair firm in Oklahoma.
- He reveals us how he restores the cracked again glass on three completely different iPhones.
- This contains lasering off the adhesive, taking the glass off, gluing a brand new again on, and cleansing.
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The next is a transcript of the video.
Narrator: My identify’s Abdullah. I’m a phone-repair-store proprietor. Immediately, I will be exhibiting you the repairs of three completely different iPhones in three completely different circumstances. All of them have the same situation, a cracked again glass. The repairs are fairly related, however every mannequin has a couple of completely different steps.
So, this iPhone XS positively has seen higher days. These chunks lacking on the highest and backside, these look a little bit scary. Water might get in there, particles might get in there and harm issues, however fortunately every part’s nonetheless working all proper. The very first thing we’ll do for this iPhone XS, we’ll put it within the laser machine and we’ll burn off the glue that holds the glass onto the body. IPhones come straight from the Apple manufacturing facility with adhesive that holds the again glass right down to the body, and it is my laser machine’s job to vaporize the glue that is holding down the glass to that body. The laser burns at a really excessive temperature, sufficient to undergo the glass, utterly obliterate the colour standing in its approach, and melts the glue straight off the body. So, my laser machine has a selected schematic for every iPhone mannequin. It is designed right down to a microscopic stage to keep away from any gaps within the body and strictly go over the steel.
As soon as all that adhesive is vaporized, we’ll take it out of the laser machine and we’ll go over to our work bench and begin cracking away this glass. When breaking off the again glass, we’ve to be tremendous cautious to not let the blade puncture by way of the telephone and harm an inner element. I exploit a collection of instruments to take away the again glass. It depends upon the harm. If an iPhone has massive chunks lacking on the again glass and it has easy accessibility to get beneath that cup, I will simply go forward with a blade much like a scalpel, and I will go in there and I will simply pry off that cup. As you may see, the center of the telephone nonetheless has shade within the glass. Apple began utilizing glass backs beginning with the iPhone 8 due to the wi-fi charging coil. That is the primary mannequin to have the wi-fi charging coil. The rationale why it wants a again glass is in order that there is not a bit of steel that is affecting the electrical energy going by way of and charging the telephone. The schematic within the laser machine particularly omits the world over the wi-fi charging coil.
In the course of the second laser run, proper right here, you may see we’re vaporizing the residual glue left over after eradicating the glass. As soon as the second laser spherical is completed, we’ll take it again over to our workstation and we’ll brush off the remainder of that glue. [brushing] I exploit a steel brush that will get in and scrubs that adhesive proper off of there. You need to have a surgeon’s precision, as a result of in the event you go in and get these steel brush tooth into a niche, you would harm a element.
Now that I’ve eliminated all of the glass, I can lastly begin placing the telephone all the best way again collectively. After I’m re-adhering the again glass to the body, I exploit industrial-strength glue. It is referred to as B-7000. Straight from the Apple manufacturing facility, they use chilly press glue. We attempt to not get too near the sides. That approach we do not have a variety of seepage. After the restore is completed, if there’s any additional glue, we’ll go forward and clear it up with some glue remover.
[glass crackling] Shifting on to the iPhone 8, as you may see, this one, it is cracked, however it’s positively not as unhealthy because the XS. And it simply has hairline cracks in every single place, however fortunately it isn’t lacking any chunks, so it seems like the within elements must be superb. So, this again glass comes off nearly precisely like how the iPhone XS did. The one distinction is, with it being the primary iPhone that Apple used the again glass on, they really made the glue loads stronger for some motive. So, this restore, I are inclined to go a little bit bit slower once I’m breaking off the glass, and it tends to fling loads farther simply ‘trigger it is on there tougher.
[glass crackling] One key distinction with the iPhone 8 again glass restoration is that we’ve to watch out across the flash module. As you may see there, there is a massive gap to the suitable of the digicam lens, and in contrast to the iPhone XS, the place the flash is embedded inside the digicam lens, this one is definitely positioned off to the suitable, and it is uncovered. For the reason that laser machine avoids the wi-fi charging coil, the adhesive that holds the glass above it’s truly nonetheless there, so we’ve to decelerate and use a warmth gun and loosen up that adhesive. [heat gun whirring]
Proper right here we’ve the iPhone 12 Professional Max. This gold tends to cover the cracks a little bit bit, however you may see them. Whereas fixing this 12 Professional Max, we’ll observe the identical primary steps with any again glass restore. The important thing variations are the raised glass in between the digicam lenses and being cautious after we’re going across the MagSafe elements. As you may see, the glass is a little bit bit thicker across the digicam lenses. Beginning with the iPhone 11, Apple began producing again glass with glass that is about twice as thick across the digicam lens. We do face a problem when we’ll break that cup. Because it’s thicker, it’s tougher to get out of there. To get it out, we truly should fragment it. And to try this, we’ve punch instruments, and that is much like one thing that firefighters use to interrupt a windshield. Fortunately, this punch instrument is particularly designed in order that it solely breaks it on a floor stage and would not create sufficient stress to break any inner elements.
With the iPhone 12 Professional Max, we face a brand new situation, and that is the MagSafe. There are strips of magnets that go across the wi-fi charging coil, and people could be ripped off together with the glass once you’re pulling it off, so you must be very cautious that we do not rip the wire linked to these magnetic sections. [scrubbing] Though it would appear to be a nightmare of a course of, I discover it actually enjoyable, and it is also very enjoyable to see the earlier than and afters. And that is one of many essential the reason why I do what I do, simply to see the transformation of bringing issues again to life.
