Nowadays, when technology is pushing its limits with each passing day, many phone manufacturers use technology at the cutting edge of technology to produce the “best” smartphone. Of course, all this R&D work and production costs cause phone prices to rise all over the world. Our country is one of the countries where these rising prices are felt the most.
When this is the case, some smartphone users are trying to reuse their old phones with alternative methods and even combine several phones to make a new phone. Today, we focus on this issue and “How can you make your own phone at home?” We will try to answer the question.
If you want to convert your fake iPhone, which you bought cheaply from a strange Instagram page, into a real iPhone, you can try the method directly below.
What is a DIY smartphone?
The word “do it yourself” (DIY) means trying to make a product on your own, as the name suggests. In general, the DIY category includes hobby products, accessories, jewelry, and items such as tables and chairs. In the technology part of the business, we can see different DIY projects such as portable monitors from laptop screens, media servers from old laptops.
DIY smartphone is a different matter. At this point, there are 2 methods you can apply. The first is to replace the parts of your old phone you already have, and the second is to produce a phone completely from scratch. The first option is usually the easiest. Let’s take a look at what you can do with both options.
Bring your old phone back to life
Let’s say you have a veteran Samsung Galaxy S10. The back of the phone, which you have been using for years, is full of dents and scratches, and the front glass is completely shattered. When we look at the inside of the phone, the WiFi card, battery and charging port are completely broken. At this point, the first thing you need to do is to detect all the faults on your phone. Next you need to find out if the faulty parts are individual parts or connected to the motherboard. You can access all of this information online.
Then it’s time to order these parts online. Although parts of many old and popular phones can be found easily in our country today, sometimes it is necessary to procure some parts from abroad. After purchasing the parts, we move on to the assembly phase.
The biggest thing we need to pay attention to at this stage is not to damage the already solid parts when taking the phone apart. For this reason, you can take help from the guides available on the Internet to open the phone correctly. After opening the phone, we carefully remove the damaged parts and put the new parts in their place. At the end of this process, we carefully assemble the phone again and we have a phone as solid as before.
Let’s come to the difficult option: We will make our own phone from scratch.
If your old phone is unusable or you don’t want to use it, the second option is to make a phone from scratch. At this point, unfortunately, it is not possible to combine parts of multiple phones. In other words, it is not possible to put the iPhone 14’s motherboard in the Samsung Galaxy S22’s case. In this case, the best advice we can give you is to choose a specific phone brand and model and manufacture that phone from scratch. Let’s assume that we will produce an iPhone 13 Pro in this scenario.
In order to manufacture the iPhone 13 Pro, we will first need a phone case, motherboard, battery, screen, cameras and other parts. At this point, we should definitely not forget about the vibration motor, battery adhesive and waterproof insulation strip, which seem insignificant but are very important. Of course, almost none of these parts are available in our country. At this point, the easiest place to buy parts is, of course, China.
Unfortunately, ordering parts from China is not easy nowadays. However, if you want to take a short trip to China to manufacture your own phone, you can find plenty of parts in the technology market in Shanghai. These parts are usually solid parts of scrapped phones. After testing and trying the parts you find on the market with the help of the sellers, all you have to do is assemble the phone. At this point, if you do not trust your manual skills, you can get this service very cheaply from the people who do it almost every day in the technology market in Shanghai. If you are going to assemble the phone yourself, at this point it is definitely useful to get help from the repair guides on the internet. After placing all the parts as they should be, you can start using your device with peace of mind.
Of course, you can also go for various modifications while producing your own phone. For example, you can replace the Apple logo on the back of your iPhone with a more transparent and luminous logo. It is possible to find such different modifications easily in the Shanghai technology market and on the internet.
Scott, the founder of the famous YouTube channel Strange Parts, stated that with the method we just mentioned, you can get an iPhone manufactured in China cheaper than the price in the Apple Store. But, of course, the exchange rate difference also has an effect here.
So, would you like to manufacture your own smartphone? Do not forget to indicate your ideas in the comments.
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