Do you think it’s possible to add a headphone jack to an iPhone 7 I’m Scotty with Strange Persona. You probably know me as the chap who built his own iPhone in China I’m here in Hong Kong in front of the Apple store And I came down now a few months ago To buy a new iPhone 7 because I want to shoot better video when I’m out exploring the advanced industrial countries But I was actually annoyed it doesn’t have a headphone jack and I actually require one so I was stewing on it And I was stewing on it because I know Apple’s not gonna include it back But I did end up buying one and I went home and I woke up the next morning And I speculated why don’t I have my own headphone jack how hard could it be now other beings have tried doing this Don’t do that it turns out it’s really bad for your phone.I want to do it for real is it possible I? I don’t know I’m gonna manager to Shenzhen and find out I’m here in Shenzhen, the electronics producing capital of the world. We’re here in Huaqiangbei Which are the electronics of wholesale sells and you can get just about anything here I need a phone I can take apart, and I don’t really want to take apart the delightful shiny one I just got at the Apple store So I searched around for an iPhone 7 logic timber that I could use to build up my own telephone And I’m not really witnessing very many so instead I bought a abused phone This is my screen cracker.See if we can open a chink down now where we can get either our fingernail Or a implement in there Yep. There we go. You can see there’s not a whole lot of empty space in this phone, a little bit extra room But not much. I wanna know what this thing is here Because that’s where the headphone jack would have gone So iFixit says according to Apple, The, this little plastic thing in the reces is a barometric vent-hole in order to have an accurate altimeter that’s Just a piece of plastic. Yeah, I don’t I don’t believe that that’s a barometric episode I don’t really know what I’m talking about it Exactly gapes to me like a plastic time that holds some connectors on.Here is the headphone jack if this was in here Would it fit? Oh, it would it might? Might stick out a little. Wonder how much I can cut this down without So Holy shit, I was expecting to say that there’s no space now, and I don’t think that’s true I thought it was gonna look like that where I was gonna have this big bulge on the outside But now I make I could throw it on the inside. I don’t want to change the subject at all I exactly want to drill a defect I Didn’t think that was possible.I didn’t think there was enough office inside, but I think there might be. That’s kind of crazy I’m on my space to the markets to get a dremel to grind out more room in the case Okay, I think that’s what I require. Let’s see if that’ll use This right here is, where I just wanted to kept the headphone jack This departs now, battery will go up now. So this Now it needs a hole to come out through. Right now That is getting quite far out there The taptic device is still in the way, perhaps I can move the artillery up oh I am a luck motherfucker I can totally Exactly articulated the taptic engine in sideways so battery only a little higher It sits right up against the top of the reasoning timber which I think is fine It’s totally cockeyed, but it runs I’m starting to get worried about the horizontal opening. That’s fully flush on that corner, but over here.It’s sticking up That’s a pretty big problem. So this is the bottom of the screen, that’s the that’s the button this Bracket right here goes right on top of where we want to articulated the headphone jack. Let’s start making that off That is very close to at least allowing at the top connector to fit in if I grind off the area Man , now there are difficulty with the connector is getting unplugged It’s these two connectors right here that are giving me the problem. That’s really hard to show this but they both sort of Come together like liberty in these areas, and I’m worried They’re colliding with each other so it does, does work it comes Pretty much flush at this site, but I’m worried that that distres is popping that connector off. The other option I was thinking about is if I keep moving this connector over far enough, then this actually can go on the bottom again I’m not sure if that’s gonna fly I’m getting ahead of myself though.First, I precisely need to get the electrical line-up of things making I remembered maybe I’d get lucky, and I’d determine a arrange inside the phone that I could just wire up a headphone jack to and After doing some research online and talking to beings. I don’t think that’s the case, so I’m gonna have to get smart I started thinking about this headphone adapter that Apple gives you with your telephone It’s got a lightning plug on one cease and a headphone jack on the other and then we belief Could I cable that into the back of one of these lightning jacks like this and then have the headphone adapter stick out the front So I’ve come to the Apple store here in Shenzhen It’s the only official Apple store run by Apple to get some more official adapters( Want buy this ?) yeah, I want to buy this yeah Okay, thank you.Well that was pretty easy , not cheap, but easy. Let’s piece this open That might … I simply transgress something. Yeah damnit. That might have been bad That’s bad. Dang it. should have bought more than one Hi, you guys have lightning to headphone adapters?( Yes) I didn’t see it here. Oh, it’s Perfect, need a duo actually. I’ll give three.( Three) Yeah, I continue break-dance them 200 and 36 But, do you need a receipt for that, in case it has some problems? Although it’s very … I think it’s okay I suppose the next step is for me to try and solder cables on to the back of a Lightning jack And onto the headphone adapter, and then try and connect them together But this is finer solder work than I’ve ever done So I went to see my favorite implement booth in the markets and I got their fanciest tweezers.This one okay, this one good, and this one the best Switzerland fetus, and they come in a tube, which means they’re extra fanciful Switzerland fetus, and they come in a tube, which means they’re extra fancy Good. Super nice guy High temperature, okay High temperature sounds good( What is it you people want ?) Maybe I’ll come red, the higher temperatures, yeah My $10 USB microscope is total crap so it’s time to go get a brand-new one So that was a normal, but amazing know. She took everything out of the box, showed me how everything went together Debugged it all just to prove everything cultivates and make sure I have no problems Here proceeds nothing This is what I’ve been working on for far too long now, well over a week at this detail. This is the lightning dock that would go in the bottom of an iphone 7 I’ve soldered cables on the back of that to each of the bolts to this breakout header here. This is my taken apart lightning to headphone jack adapter. I’ve just taken all of the pins on the Lightning jack And I’ve attached them to these header pins here.The next thing to do is to connect them together This is exactly the same thing It’s just plugging the adapter into the Lightning jack But it’ll only test the dock that my wire right before I start trying new things. Now it runs Yes, it runs Nice Now I need to figure out how to blame the phone. If I’m gonna wire up this headphone adapter instead of the Lightning jack Then the Lightning jack won’t be connected anymore, so I got to figure something else out We’re just talking with some friends over beer and street barbecue tonight And and I’ve been telling what I’ve been working on and struggling with and They suggested that I oblige my own circuit to simply switch between the Lightning jack and the headphone adapter Apparently the report contains chippings that can switch USB, so maybe something like that will work I think I received a microchip that’ll piece. I’m on my direction to the markets to meet a chipping middleman that a friend recommended Ni hao. Are you Andy?( Yeah) yeah Scotty, nice to meet you. Oh, you got em already ready?( Yeah) excellent I precisely want to give a immediate the purpose of explaining what’s happening here This is the headphone adapter, and this headphone jack will stick out of the phone This is the Lightning jack that you’ll discover on the outside of the phone And then this is where it’s all connected to the phone where the Lightning Jack used to be connected And then this is the switching chip that substitutions between Connecting the headphone adapter to the phone or the Lightning jack to the phone Depending on whether something’s plugged in to the Lightning jack or not.Here runs so let’s start by putting the Lightning jack in. First test, do the headphones work. It says iPhone, right? Plug this chap in. Now it says headphones sugared Amazing holy shit it runs Okay , now here’s the real assessment. Can i switch over to the other jack Okay, headphones are connected. Now let’s permutation it to one and bingo headphones, again, accusing Headphones, plug in, blaming Headphones, I remember I got it Yes. Time to make a circuit board. Really elicited to get this degree Next, I need to figure out how to get this inside of here Primarily, I reckoned I’d be able to side wire it, but I recall things are way more complex for that now So I’m gonna make a printed circuit board or PCB.You’ve probably determined these before They ogle really complex, but they’re really time a cluster of cables glued on to a strict piece of fiberglass and The cool division about these is that I can describe them on the computer and then have a factory make a really precise copy The first tour prohibit to clear isn’t not gonna fit inside the phone. It’s gonna be way too big I’m gonna use big chips that are really easy for me to solder I’m gonna add lots of test points to make it easy to debug and then I’ll use what I learn from this To design a much smaller board that will fit inside the phone Okay Finally done aim the circuit card. I’m spent I’ve been working on this for the past two days.Hopefully I didn’t screw anything up too badly It’s about 10:30 in the morning here on a Sunday, and I just got the delivery Circuitboards. There, is our finished prototype board. Sweet, time to framed it together Let’s give this a shot. You can position it together with the iPhone 6s, seven is still in the shop Oh no. So headphones don’t work straight out of gate. That’s not right Yeah i just altogether wired these downwards Okay, well there’s probably an easy solution to this which is To remove the headphone jack and cable it up with the cables Right about now, I was hoping to say there it is the prototype is done, and it’s working But not so much.The only part that’s not working right now is this little guy, which is the Lightning to headphone adapter But, I have wired up the headphone adapter that I hand soldered, that I was using before for prototyping and I can get that to work. I picture I’m gonna certify victory and move on Now it’s time to fit all this circuitry inside the phone. Now apparently this big board isn’t gonna fit So I’m gonna have to make a smaller one, a much smaller one I’m going to try making a adaptable circuit board.Now these are the same as the normal circuit boards, except that instead of gluing the cables down to a strict article of fiberglass, They’re glued down to a flexible slouse of plastic instead. This allows them to bend around other fractions They consumed a good deal in cell phone and cameras, where room is certainly at a premium They’re sometimes called origami routes because they often have really complex folds I’ve never designed one of these before so we’ll see how this starts I Went get printer so that I can figure out whether the flex PCB design fits as sucked on the computer inside the phone Time for a little ghetto lamination I’m going to the markets to see Lisa, who is my contact at the adaptable circuit board Factory.Hi, how are you? So this is an iPhone 7. I am adding a headphone jack( Oh, you change it? you vary the phone ?) Yeah, yeah, so that’s what this board does( Okay, good one)* laugh* This is my first flex PCB design, so I want to make sure I’m not making any major mistakes( You time need one piece ). I probably should get like at least five pieces just in case, I have five or ten parts just in case I’ll have questions Yeah, and I’ll send you the record when I’m done. Hopefully the end of today. I’ll get onto to you Thank you. Good seeing you Lisa. Good seeing you Nana. Okay, bye-bye. Feeling pumped up again Things are moving forward lastly Alright, I merely sent documents off to Lisa and she said she got em. So just waiting on them to shape the spawn the actual councils now.I’m super roused I’m rushing over to meet Lisa to go out to the factory. All freedom, so we’re here at the FPC factory Let me give you a quick overview of what we’re gonna see before we go into the factory Remember I was pointed out that circuit board were just a bunch of small-scale cables Well they etch those wires out of a membrane of copper applying acid. First we need the copper That’s gonna become part of our circuit card. They cut it off a roster It’s actually two membranes of copper with a mantle of special plastic in the middle Next, they drill any gaps the human rights committee needs they use these really cool robotic drilling machines, which can automatically substitution between different sized drill fragments Wow, it’s super strong reek in here Okay, so it’s for copper plating the vias When they drill a excavation, then they need to fill the hole back in with copper so it imparts between the two coatings They then run for your lives through these machines which edge off all of the rest of the copper, leaving only the cables I’ve depicted Now it’s time to reach the solder mask.The solder cover-up is another layer of plastic that Mask up the wires where I don’t want solder to adhere when I go to solder on the chippings This is the, some screening area here where they’re put on the silkscreen for any counts or letters or writing that needs to be on the board Gradual stacking up of a mantle of Sandwich We’re testing all of the electrical contacts everything that should Connect, connect and things that shouldn’t connect, don’t connect every time a board is established Then we need to form the tool, a test tool for it Finished? Okay, that’s the whole process Great. And ultimately they ship out the human rights committee to the customer That’s me. So Lisa precisely texted me on WeChat and was pointed out that the Flex PCB committees are done.Hoping the board members precisely makes If it doesn’t it’ll be at least a week’s delay maybe more Hi, Lisa. How are you? Good, oh, you’ve got them privilege in your hand Awesome, yeah Yeah, they gape good. I got the boards and I’m super-psyched. Great question now, is do they wreak and can I solder them. I’d be lying if I I didn’t say I was at least a little bit annoyed, and this is the smallest soldering I’ve ever done So I’m hoping I can pull it off. So I’m gonna start with the cheap chippings first I signify, I belief the programme here is to apply a little bit of solder paste this solder paste is A little minuscule microscopic metal chunks, solder dances suspended in flux in like a flow adhesive. Alright, I’ve got something everywhere. Now, when I apply the hot air, all of this, all of these little tiny solder bullets are gonna melt and Turn into a solid section of metal Wherever they are so I’m trying to make sure it’s they’re all in the best place Surface strain is totally your best friend when you’re doing this kind of nonsense so I precisely require everything to be kind of connected enough that skin-deep antagonism will attract it all together when it melts I suspect let’s frame the passives on first the little capacitors and material Okay now, Chips.All claim these are the BGA chippings, these are the ones that are the smallest and have a little solder bullets on the bottom This could This could to be translated into massive los if I precisely blow all these microchips everywhere, merely require like a baby’s breath of hot air See everything moving around? That’s what should happen Boy that looks great. I envisage I’m gonna stop saying that. If that was actually it, that’s really darn simple Just looking for that everything got adhered properly and there aren’t any major Connections between pins or pads. There it is, that’s our little launch of microchips here. Sweet Awesome. Next step, the other side I will accept that, as Maybe working. So many things have to go right for this to work I’m hesitant This is the moment of truth* music playing* How cool was that? Months of study eventually coming through Headed over to your best friend, Nick’s locate He’s a mechanical operator, and he just got a desktop CNC mill. CNC’s are super cool They’re mostly super precise robotic teaches So he’s gonna try and help me mill better excavations in the instances for the headphone jack And what I can do by myself simply with a handheld dremel You got a proper lab in now I can set up the basics of this, okay I’m still figuring out how to use this software so It’s gonna sit like this, right Yep, so and the important measurement is the height of the hole from this face.Okay, So it’s doing a helix, and then these blue threads or yeah, precisely trims. I’m gonna laden the g-code Just try it. Yeah, let’s give it a shot one of these one of these spare backs I hope this isn’t a bad project. Alright, here disappears good-for-nothing* instruct use* Well, I don’t think our feeds and hurries were ideal. There’s definitely a good deal of pulse going on Oh man, I wonder how many like Noob things we did all in one go I’m gonna Cut out the inside now, and that’ll allow us to actually like test fit the the Jack and see if this all handiworks There croaks, oh shit.I guess we’ll have to have a 2.0. Oh yeah absolutely – The box is destroyed- But it still– It’s got a sticker on it – I examined it up on Taobao, and they’re about 180, so … – Yeah. Cool. So we are caught up this xbox3 60 controller So we are caught up this xbox3 60 controller Now it works with Mach 3. Cutting plastic like a video game. Yeah, I really miss one of the following options now Ogles a lot better than first time we tried this. It was a lot less terrifying than last age. That looks pretty damn good I thoughts. It virtually looks like we know what we’re doing now That’s, that’s beautiful. Next is to machine one of these headphone jacks Around the figurehead to get that perfect circle so that it fits in the hole. Okay, So it looks just like you spoofed the shit of this connector Yeah I truly did.So I took the dremel to it and mostly really reduced it off until I hit metal on every slope Okay, that’s enough That’s pretty damn good, I think that’s it Hopefully this case is the one. Time to go home and go to sleep Last thing I need to do is fit inside the phone, so Have it mounted here in the bottom the case.It’s one of the ones I drilled out by hand, and I only made to ensure that the screen fits on, still Pretty decent size gap there still. That’s a problem That’s … That’s real bad. It fits together, but the screens are breaking smashed two screens in the past 24 hours, and they’re Just being too crushed here i am thinking, by the headphone jack I don’t know guys, I truly want to give up at this item Precisely feels like now it’s a matter of not shafting up , not bursting something, which isn’t very much amusing It’s also coming really expensive Hundreds and several hundreds of dollars in ended parts.Like, just this week alone dismissing the rest of my payments I I knew this project was gonna be hard. I had no idea of how hard it was gonna be I’ve heard from so many AVU via emails Facebook messages, and a great deal of you said how inspired “youre gonna”, by, by what I did. And I demanded this story to be another story of revelation, of success. And right now it’s not* beep* I actually want to show you guys, like a finished phone. I actually wanna be able to say here it is, it wields* sighs* :(( Yeah, I can’t stop here. I’m gonna go make it one more shot and Be really careful this time. I feel like I’m gradually learning, how to not separate trash. It gets a little bit better each time but Wish me luck Finally got it working.I finally articulated it together Without interrupting anything check this out. Okay? Here’s the speaker and Here Is the headphones. How awesome is that. Work buttons toil, Can pause it and play video games. And when I unplug the headphones, It stops. How cool is that and lastly the hardest part was going it so that it would blame Check this out* TADA* That, is a pretty sweet view. So one question you might be asking is how does this compare to an iPhone 6s, which was the Last model of iPhone that Apple obligated with a headphone jack This here is my old-fashioned 6s, and “youre seeing” the headphone jack Now is a little bit closer in on the 6s, and wires a little bit further out And then my fault is a little bit more jagged than theirs um, but hey not too shabby for a handmade phone, right? But wait, there’s one more thing I’m sure a good deal of you are asking how do I get my own iPhone with a headphone jack? Be patient I’ve already talked to a lot of people who want a modern iPhone with that telephone jack and unfortunately.I’m not your Savior just yet. You can see how hard it was for me to put together with exactly this one phone This motif isn’t quite ready for primetime. But for you diehard strange characters devotees, I’ve made a limited edition board just for you Go now to find out more. Next, to Apple: I genuinely want to buy an iPhone with a headphone jack in it from you.I I hear you’ve got a brand-new phone coming out soon. So if you want improve adding a headphone jack, let me know I’ll go one stair further, if you’re an Apple engineer and you can email me any acceptable proof I’ll send you a free circuit card. I really want to help, guys. If you’re a strange personas fan, I need some facilitate. Please comment below with what you’d like to see me do next. And if you think you’ve got a really awesome thought, Send me an email to gratuities at strangeparts.com I’m really looking forward to exploring outside of precisely cellphones and China I travelling full day, so if you live somewhere interesting, or you’ve got an idea for an interesting story in an out-of-the-way place Hazard are, I’m interested in going to check it out.Also to the brothers and sisters in Huaqiangbei and the broader cellphone ecosystem here in Shenzhen, You’ve cured me so much better, so I got a present for you I want to give you the design for this , free of charge, to make and modify so many of you are way more skilled than I am, I hope that you can improve on this intend and make it available to The average person. Believe me, they really miss it I give you my full permission to make and sell these. The data are on my Weibo account and website now Likewise, I have some extra PCBs to give you, mail me a message on Weibo And I’ll tell you how to get one.I hope that one day. We’ll feel like we truly own our manoeuvres That will feel free to modify and amend our telephones as we satisfy, to upgrade them and to add whatever features we can dream up Until then thank you for watching. I’m Scotty with Strange Percentage, reached that agree button down below and bide chanted for more adventures Oh, and lastly I wanted to give a huge shout out to everybody that’s cured me with this video. Go check out the description there’s a lot of parties doing really amazing things I know a lot of you are gonna ask can this be done on an iPhone 8, I don’t know. I haven’t seen one hitherto.
