Well I think I should finally write my intro! - GSM-Forum

repairgal · 06-30-2018, 12:28

Hello GSM forum and thanks for your help to my previous inquiries.

I'm a lady in my mid 30s and I work from my home, but not really lol..I'm always out on my bike meeting people/customers. I live in Toronto core so most of my stuff is done down here.

Most of my business comes from facebook/social networking and of course large group of friends who are fellow bike messengers. I work as a bike messenger too, but end up picking up a fair amount of business that way.

My formal education is BA psychology with minor in comp sci, graduated when I was 23.

I went to school again in my mid 20s and took fashion design- kinda ties into how I got into phones! lol

How did I get into phones?

A few years ago a friend of mine had an LG that was overheating/boot looping. Phone was LG G3 and he had just bought it. Only 6 months old and he was going to toss it. At that time I was kinda into arduinos/adafruit stuff as I liked making clothes that light up. I knew how to solder and how had a pretty decent understanding of micro controllers.

He told me he took it to a repair shop and it worked somewhat fine for 3 weeks- then went back to overheating/booting. He gave me the phone and said he was going to spend $700 and buy another phone...I told him he was stupid because he wasn't working at the time. I told him I could save it.

Anyhow I opened his device, reflowed the chip and added a heat sync (copper tape on shields and in a few other key spots). Cleaned it up a bit too. Looked and felt like a new phone and my friend was envious! LOL joke was on him...

The phone thing kinda took off from there.

I was using ADB and command terminal to unlock phones for a while there, but recently got these unlock boxes. I think they're cool and streamline the process to work faster!

Tools I got:

Hakko soldering iron
Tenma rework station
power supply
large magnifying glass (free standing) with light. This sorta works for micro soldering but I plan to upgrade a scope eventually.
ZXW dongle
iMac 27 inch i7 computer and a beater laptop that runs windows.
tapes,wires, cables etc etc
various other micro controllers and bits..

Unlock boxes:

Chimera tool
Octoplus box

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repairgal Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2018 Posts: 18 Member: 2842417 Status: Offline Thanks Meter: 1	Well I think I should finally write my intro! Hello GSM forum and thanks for your help to my previous inquiries. I'm a lady in my mid 30s and I work from my home, but not really lol..I'm always out on my bike meeting people/customers. I live in Toronto core so most of my stuff is done down here. Most of my business comes from facebook/social networking and of course large group of friends who are fellow bike messengers. I work as a bike messenger too, but end up picking up a fair amount of business that way. My formal education is BA psychology with minor in comp sci, graduated when I was 23. I went to school again in my mid 20s and took fashion design- kinda ties into how I got into phones! lol How did I get into phones? A few years ago a friend of mine had an LG that was overheating/boot looping. Phone was LG G3 and he had just bought it. Only 6 months old and he was going to toss it. At that time I was kinda into arduinos/adafruit stuff as I liked making clothes that light up. I knew how to solder and how had a pretty decent understanding of micro controllers. He told me he took it to a repair shop and it worked somewhat fine for 3 weeks- then went back to overheating/booting. He gave me the phone and said he was going to spend $700 and buy another phone...I told him he was stupid because he wasn't working at the time. I told him I could save it. Anyhow I opened his device, reflowed the chip and added a heat sync (copper tape on shields and in a few other key spots). Cleaned it up a bit too. Looked and felt like a new phone and my friend was envious! LOL joke was on him... The phone thing kinda took off from there. I was using ADB and command terminal to unlock phones for a while there, but recently got these unlock boxes. I think they're cool and streamline the process to work faster! Tools I got: Hakko soldering iron Tenma rework station power supply large magnifying glass (free standing) with light. This sorta works for micro soldering but I plan to upgrade a scope eventually. ZXW dongle iMac 27 inch i7 computer and a beater laptop that runs windows. tapes,wires, cables etc etc various other micro controllers and bits.. Unlock boxes: Chimera tool Octoplus box