A 512GB iPhone Exists! How To Upgrade Storage 1600% #Helpful Post

it's really hard to believe but the

first iPhone Apple ever sold was a four

gigabyte model with an a Cabaye upgrade

option today in this video I'll be

showing you the world's first and only

512 gigabyte I phone and it's a one of a

kind because it's just never been done

years in advance of Apple even selling

one of these Federico cerva of London he

actually works on a bunch of iPhone

projects he repairs the unrepairable

managed to build a 512 gigabyte I phone

and in this video I'm going to take a

look at how fast is it how much stuff

can you store on it how it was made just

all-around it's kind of an interesting

project because it's it's amazing that

it even works in the first place but

some do you even need a 512 gigabyte

phone that's another question I gotta

answer anyways let's go ahead and take a

look at it see how it runs basically is

there any difference just everything you

need to know about a 512 gigabyte I

phone so storage is kind of funny

because it always seems like you need

more than you actually do I always opted

for the higher gigabyte iPhone models

and how much I filled up of that is 56

gigabytes of 256 so I have it an even

200 left on my iPhone 256 gigabytes if

Apple were to offer a 512 gigabyte

option would I or even you'd get it

that's the question it just seems like

overkill for storage but with file sizes

on the rise if you like to keep a lot of

stuff locally on your phone it could

make sense I'm seriously baffled that

this is even working that it's possible

to do and the iPhone of choice is an

iPhone 7 plus in this matte black this

certainly isn't the first time a

transplant has happened I've seen it go

from 16 to 128 or 32 to 256 but the

first time ever as you can see right

there we've got 512 gigabytes on an

iPhone so while let's go ahead and get a

quick look at this guy you reseal the

iPhone for me that's cool and I'll turn

the camera around take a look at that

alright so let's dig in and I've

actually prepared a benchmark because

usually when you go higher in storage

the speeds increase as well and I'm

curious to see if the 512 gigabyte has

any effects on this the 256 I know

outperforms the smaller gigabyte series

and on the surface looks just like a

regular iPhone 7 plus really nothing

differ

although this has had an extensive

surgery so it's open it up and power her

on I'm assuming this is on a newer

firmware it doesn't work and I was 11 oh

and by the way this iPhone did start its

life as a 32 gigabyte I phone seven plus

so that is a sixteen hundred percent

increase in actual storage here now the

setup menu has finished let's see what's

in store for us inside I'm going to

general about and Wow for the first time

ever you are able to get over 500

gigabytes of available storage Apple

takes away about seven for the iOS

version and that is just ridiculous iOS

eleven point two point five I do wonder

if this works in Iowa's eleven point

three tried that out later but for now I

want to go ahead and get some benchmarks

and compare it to a regular iPhone 7

plus 128 gigabyte and then a 256

gigabyte iPhone 8 plus let's see which

of these three is the fastest using this

storage alright do keep in mind this

iPhone is completely empty so these

speeds are gonna be pretty quick here

and let's go ahead and start so it'll

give us a read and write speed here of

the 512 gigabyte and then a random test

with 4k content I'm gonna start the same

test here on the iPhone a7 plus series

and see what we can get so we got 580

megabyte read speed 437 write and in

real world test of 4k 4.38 megabyte

writes 17 point 11 read in the very same

test on an iPhone 7 plus which is 128

gigabytes you can see actually write

speed is a little bit slower and a read

speeds just about the same and it's a

the read speed in real world is a little

bit better to make a bit per second a

little bit faster so a little bit better

and Layton sees a little bit better

write speed is about the same so overall

scores 983 on the modified 512 gigabyte

I phone alright let's try that on the H+

and Wow as you can see the iphone h+ is

actually slower on 256 gigabytes versus

the 512 of the iPhone 7 plus so it did

get a slightly higher score on a 512

here faster read speeds but the write

speeds are a little slower in this one

for some reason

huh overall though the winner of speed

is the 512 gigabyte model so check this

out oh my gosh this is just ridiculous I

thought having 256 gigabytes was crazy

this is on another level check it out my

entire music library which is twenty

three gigabytes apparently I thought it

was more this is what little of a dent

it makes a tiny little bits right here

so about five megabytes songs you can

have about one hundred and two thousand

of them loaded on this locally on your

phone so that's pretty much a lifetime

of music right there that's so funny so

I've got my entire music library synched

up and it's barely made a dent here so

next up I wanted to go ahead and update

to iOS eleven point three and see if

that affects us in any way if it's able

to update if Apple implemented any sort

of protection basically it's just kind

of amazing that Apple hasn't done

anything to stop this I just don't think

they prepared for anyone to actually do

this to their device and look at that

iOS eleven point three upgrade was

successful and very happy to see that it

was kind of nervous about updating it

knowing how much was messed with inside

so let's go ahead and get to the how-to

how much does it cost everything he

needs to know in between if you guys

even want it to remotely do this

yourselves so believe it or not as

simple as this seems it's not quite so

that was a joke this is extremely

difficult nobody here will be able to do

it unless you have all these specific

tools step one is to find a donor now

buy an iPad that's either broken iCloud

locked something really damaged online

and remove the 512 gigabyte chip this is

the only iPad or eye device right now

that Apple offers this storage capacity

in go ahead and remove that from the

logic board but first remove the logic

board and then using specific tools you

want to heat the actual logic board and

remove the NAND flash chip this is not

an easy process it takes a while you can

break many components in the process but

once you do have that removed everything

is easier from here of course after

repeating this process on the iPhone so

go ahead and prepare your iPhone of

choice for the sacrifice the iPhone 7

Series is the only one that can receive

a 512 gigabyte chip at this time as the

tools to do this do not exist yet or are

not very accessible for the iPhone 8

series but of course that shouldn't be a

problem

and if

in any case if you wanted to do this to

an older iPhone you certainly could so

go ahead and remove the logic board and

play some copper coins around the NAND

chip before actually heating it's this

way the heat can dissipate through the

frame and not damage other components

it's very important you do this now

removing this is no easy thing

Federico actually recommends a 420

degrees Celsius hot air gun that's set

with a 2.5 centimeter nozzle and go

ahead and nudge around the edges with

this little pry tool to remove it and it

does take a long time so be very gentle

you don't want to damage anything else

in the process but eventually it will

pop off so next up you want to go ahead

and remove the chip and cleaning

connection point on both of the chip and

the logic board it's very important you

do this as reinstalling it you want to

make sure they're getting as clean of a

connection as possible and of course

when you're gonna reball it with new

solder it needs to be really clean for

all the connection points to line up so

this is very important to do but once

you've cleaned it

next is the some what's easier parts

programming as long as you have the

necessary tools for this you should be

able to go through it's fine the

programs pores are not very

user-friendly but you are able to copy

the contents of any other iPhone chip

and paste it onto this one while

clearing out all of the original iPad

settings so you want to copy all of your

contents and then go ahead and put it on

to this sheet to reball it's with the

solder and as you can see melt sits with

the heat gun and it's ready to reapply

on the actual logic board now while this

all looks very intimidating it's not

super super hard to do as long as you

have all of the tools for it there's a

lot of shops that offer this service in

China so you know it's definitely

possible and the fact that it's 512

gigabytes doesn't change a much and

finishing up this installation apply

some flux set the actual chip into the

original spot make sure it's heated

properly inset and you'll know it's

working when you reinstall it into the

iPhone you should get some sort of

response now unless it's already pre

programmed you're gonna have to restore

the iPhone in iTunes and only then will

it turn on so there is the original chip

and going into settings you can see the

installation was a success 512 gigabytes

and now go ahead and load an entire

life's worth of content on your iPhone

so after finishing he took it to an

Apple store and the reactions are

priceless

okay so today guys we will be seeing

what the Apple think about the iPhone 7

512 gigabyte let's go see hi guys so

it's whether you can ask you a quick

question

do you guys sell the iPhone 7 512

gigabytes it doesn't okay well you lucky

because this is the first one oh yes so

it's been a project of mine it's the

first one out of China that I've put

together Wow what you think it's cool

huh interesting yeah that's what I said

but yes it's one of the first ones out

of China it's actually the first time

last thing I wanted to cover is the

price and whether or not this is even

worth doing so Federico it costs him

about $300 he said he sold the other

iPad after transplanting the chip from

the iPhone back to its and all in all

just cost about $300 and that's about

the cost you can get an iCloud locked

iPad for maybe a broken one with a 512

gigabyte chip on eBay I've seen so $300

at the cheapest four to five hundred on

the more expensive end is it worth it I

mean you definitely future-proof your

iPhone in terms of storage speed wise I

think the 7 plus is still amazing the 7

Series so you definitely have a healthy

life left to them so I don't know I

definitely will never fill even close to

that 500 gigabytes but I know some

people are definitely heavy users so for

me 256 is already a stretch 500 is just

too much so in any case just wanted to

say thank you to Federico for providing

this iPhone to me definitely a really

fun project to see in action and I'd say

definitely check out his Instagram he

has a lot of crazy repairs on here where

he works with so many different types of

iPhones he drills into motherboards CPUs

just does the craziest stuff so check

him out on instagram at federico serve

them thank you again to him and thanks

so much for watching guys the 512

gigabyte I phone is real before Apple

even made

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