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A DIY Hero Added a Working Headphone Jack to an iPhone 7
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j557j3/a-diy-hero-added-a-working-headphone-jack-to-an-iphone-7-plus
Soon after the iPhone 7 launched, a popular genre of YouTube video was that of false DIY experts who took drills to their devices to create a "headphone jack" by boring holes in the bottom of their iPhones.
This, of course, did not work, and a non-zero number of phones were destroyed in the process. Wednesday afternoon, I got an email from Scotty Allen, a Shenzhen-based software engineer who I had spoken to a few months ago after he "made" an iPhone out of spare parts he'd found in Shenzhen electronics markets. Like those early phone modders, Allen told me he took a drill to his iPhone 7, added a headphone jackāand everything in the phone still worked.