Sometimes things just do not work out the way they should...
..., but why? Why does it sometimes feel like you can run from Austria all the way to America just to get that one tool you need to make a hardware hacking almost impossible to fuck up and still you fuck up? We blame so many things as the cause for this often occuring phenomenon upon hardware hackers:
1.) The guide from someone else
2.) Our tools
3.) The tools of the m8 that assits you
4.) The m8 who normally is gr8
etc.
Whatever it is that you are blaming when you have such a day, if we're honest to ourselves than we have to accept that none of these are true and sometimes we just have bad luck.
One of those days was the 22.07.2016 for me and Manfred.
Manfred and I had taken apart an iPhone 5 before and swapped it's battery, so we were confident enough that we could replace the battery of his iPhone (an iPhone 5s) as well. This time I even bought the amazing and astonishing iSclack so that we wouldn't have to rip apart the screen like we did with the iPhone 5 (still don't know how it survived that..., but hey it worked! xD).
We had the best equipment for the job. We prepared ourselves enough for the procedure and we even had prior knowledge on how to do a battery swap on a iPhone. So what could go wrong?
Well everything honestly.
Manfred started to screw out the two pentalobe screws and than it was time for the iSclack to show what he can do. We put him on and Manfred started to pull and voila the whole thing came out of the case with ease... or at least we thought so for some seconds...
We celebrated for a second before Manfred noticed something strange: The electronics and the battery were nowhere to be seen despited of the whole other stuff being... "Oh god no...", that was the first sentence out of my mouth when both of us dawned that we might have already fucked up big time.
After some closer inspections we had bitter certainty: Only the glas and the screen came out! And of course there is no way to fix that aside from doctoring around with different kind of glues and even than the clearances would have been big enough for something harmful to get through, which meant that using the phone in the even slightest rain would be dangerous as fuck! And of course nobody of these experts at these amazing shops help you (if they even know what you are talking about...) and of course the all mighty Apple that cares so much about its customers won't help you, because no warranty means "Fuck you!" in business language apparently...
But you may ask: "Why did that happen? What did you guys do wrong?". Nothing. We did everything right.
The glue that held the glass and the screen to everything else was lose (I have no idea why.) and when we pulled on it, it couldn't hold on to everything else resulting in the shitty situation that we have now! In other words: We simply had bad luck. And that is exactly what I meant beforehand. Sometimes you can be so well prepared like we are and you will still fuck up.
So yes guys, sometimes you can have the best equipment in the world and are prepared like no other and you will still fail because the device that you tried to hack had a problem already before you started to work on it.
Nobody can prevent bad luck, sometimes it just happens, but my god does it suck!