hey folks. i... i just had my first time. i liked it a lot. and i think i found my true love. bga packages are awesome and easy to solder and reball
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Hey so I've got this PS3
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it isn't cost effective to mail it to me but you could bring it to any phone/laptop repair folks or do it yourself! i believe in you
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I'm not sure I'm quite to BGA levels yet, but thank you for your faith! Perhaps someday. :D
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i literally watched one 20 minute tutorial on youtube and got it working the first time. i'm not even that good at soldering and my hands shake
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I learned a while back that alcohol is literally a performance enhancing drug for soldering tiny things and fixing hand shakiness. The trick is to put down the work after the soldering is done and not apply any power till you've sobered up.
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lol. in my case, alcohol only makes me less near-sighted... which is actually a substantial issue with soldering and why I won't get LASIK. i don't get literally any other effects. i don't get dumber or like more aggressive or less shy or anything
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i mean, i imagine my reaction time slows down enough that i won't attempt to drive obviously, but i have never actually noticed it, not even in first-person shooters
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Huh. I'd be curious about doing accerometer measured steadiness tests. For me, 3 shots, 30 minutes, is a recipe for "can successfully solder two sizes smaller when using the microscope"
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> dead phone and i need data? get new phone, swap the flash* *except on an iPhone but I'm guessing that's not your platform choice anyways

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yeah and i'd store fde keys offsite anyway
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Yeah, Apple just finished moving their latest generation Mac storage keys to their Secure Enclave in the iMac Pro and MBP 2018. Now it doesn't matter if you extract the flash and have any recovery keys backed up. If it's not the same SEP, nobody is reading that flash.
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yup, I've read about that! It's a good move but I like my FOSS Android apps a bit too much to move to iOS
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You are incredibly lucky you have the skills and dexterity for this.
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i normally don't, clomipramine makes my hands shake way too much to even solder a single 1.5sqmm wire in half a hour for some reason it does that less recently, and i'm really lucky about that, yes
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How exactly did you do that? Buy some expensive machine?
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did what, reball BGA? no just the cheapest hot air gun the nearest shop had, an ok soldering iron, a stencil, balls, and some effort
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Cool, i always thought that you gonna need some expensive machinery.
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Caveat: basically all phones (should) use hardware-bound FDE these days. Back up your dm-crypt volume key in advance.
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