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

Strange Parts · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Repair, teardowns & right to repairConsumer devices & gadgets

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “it gives such a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to make and modify things”

    Gives a cool sense of Shenzhen as a place to modify things.

    tzakrajs, 2018-04 · Recommendation · in “Weirdstuff Warehouse is closed”

  2. “There's a video of a western guy living in China learning to desolder Flash memory chips from an iPhone”

    Desoldering and upgrading iPhone flash memory in Shenzhen.

    GeekyBear, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD”

  3. “Another cool episode is where he upgrades a 16GB iPhone to 128GB”

    Upgrading a 16GB iPhone to 128GB by soldering a flash chip.

    G3rn0ti, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “How I Made My Own iPhone [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: shenzhen, iphone, flash memory, repair, electronics

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