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People Are Drilling Holes Into Their iPhone 7 To 'Make a Headphone Jack' (craveonline.com)
TechRax -- a popular YouTuber who destroys technology for fame and riches -- has uploaded a video where he drills a hole into an iPhone 7, claiming it to be a "secret hack" to reinstall a headphone jack in the device. The only problem is that he didn't tell people it was a joke, and of course, some people fell for it. Crave Online reports: The YouTube video has amassed over 7.5 million views since being posted online last week, with it attracting 81,000 dislikes in the process. The comments section is currently torn between people who are in on the joke, people who criticize TechRax for damaging his iPhone 7, and most unfortunately, people who have tried the "hack" out for themselves. Although this is YouTube so you can never be quite sure of whether or not these folks are trolling, parsing the comments section reveals some pretty convincing complaints lobbed in TechRax's direction. It's also firmly believable that there are people dumb enough to attempt drilling a hole into their iPhone 7, which is unfortunate but that's the way the world is in 2016. You can read the comments under the YouTube video for more "convincing complaints." But as if the report didn't make it clear enough already, the video is a joke. Apple removed the headphone jack and there's no way to get it back, unless you use an adapter.
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You have to be stupid to buy an iPhone in the first place, so how can you expect them not to be stupid enough to fall for this?
i drilled the hole, just lime he showed in the video. you noobs just don't know how to do it.
Am I on Digg?
After you drill the hole for the 3.5mm head phone jack, you have to purchase a special iPhone plug to make it waterproof again. I'd be willing to sell you the plugs for $10 each.
Mark
There's absolutely zero proof anyone has done it bar the video. Yet it's being reported as fact?
Between this sort of "news" and the click bait SJW stuff (no not all the discrimination is SJW) I'm wondering why I bother anymore.
Shell of what it once was.
And you people still wonder why Trump and Clinton are on the ballot??
But is not even remotely as simple as it appears from the video. You need to carefully drill the whole exactly at the place shown in the video. That's because (obviously) they only covered it up and didn't physically remove the headphone connector - why would they, costs like a few pennies, much more expensive to redesign the board. Try it out for yourself, if you do it the right way it works!
Wait that actually was true... with floppy disks.
Don't believe everything you read... Don't believe everything you seen on tv... Don't believe everything you watch on the internet...
Yes, it's unfortunate some who are more gullible now have bricked products. BUT, there are companies who take these devices and disassemble as soon as possible, to disseminate the information for those who can make money repairing them. A few minutes of research or second thought would have prevented something like this.
Perhaps now some of them might spend some time researching something before just blindly believing it was true. And maybe using this to fine tune their BS filter. One can only hope.
If enough gullibles drill out their iphone 7s, maybe Apple will consider putting the goddamned thing back in next time around.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Whoever thought this was a 'story' is officially retarded. If you think the people joking about actually doing this are sincere, you are retarded. If you want to give credence to people who 'actually' did this, they are retarded, and you are retarded. Any way you look at this, the person who made this into a story is retarded, like lower 60's iq retarded.
For example, if you can't take a joke (even a poor one), maybe you shouldn't have a new phone.
If you're ignorant enough to buy a $700 cellphone that comes with no headphone jack, then chances are you're ignorant enough to take a power drill to it. You'll find my sympathy somewhat lacking here.
Good people go to bed earlier.
You'd think that, that many views would tell apple that people would like the headphone jack to remain. But I know they don't care. Hopefully other manufacturers will realize this and not remove it too. Regardless, I have no plans to get a new phone until my currently 2 generation old phone dies.
Courage
I don't mean if you believed the drill guy, I mean if you believe this story about other people believing him is real.
People like to tell a good story, to be seen on youtube, etc. Even if you think everyone is dumber than you you have to be a bit smarter than to fall for this.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
Nobody is doing this except from the guy who did the original 'joke' video. Nobody is microwaving their phones to charge them either.
The real story here is that there apparently is enough space in the iPhone 7 for a headphone jack!
There are stupid people in the world
I actually saw Drumpf trying to stick an icepick in his iPhone 7.
Well there's room for the audio jack, and there is clearly demand for that jack, so this joke won't be a joke for long.
I went further and drilled a hole for a 1/4" jack. Success! I now can use my expensive Bosendorfer headphones. Now I'll try it on my dog's iPhone (I got him eight of them) using a Bantam (TT) jack. If this works I might next try it with banana plugs.
If you microwave an iPhone 7 it becomes waterproof, so easy to check -- microwave for 15 seconds, then dunk in water for 60 seconds, and you'll see that it really works.
You need a headphone jack like you need a hole in the head.
(Low hanging fruit, but no one picked it yet?)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
if you are dumb enough to buy a product that does not meet your requirements, THEN are even are even dumber to follow the first asshole telling you how to "magically fix" problem #1 just go walk out in front of a bus already and do the world a favor you twat
You are the weakest "editor" at the new Slashdot.
Taking away the headphone jack or drilling a hole in your phone trying to restore it.
we know Appleholes will fall for it, and sure enough they did.
iDIOTS.
COME ON! I've read through a million of these comments and I haven't found one person who commented that sounded like they genuinely actually tried this! :-( Has anyone seen any very convincing comments about someone destroying their new iPhone 7 ??? :(
buzz killer man
The 5.25" 360k Full height Single sided drives that were in the OG IBM XT computers could put twice as much on a Double Sided Disk, if you cut the notch on the opposite side of the case.
As was said, you couldn't write to the other side of the disk without cutting a notch out of the case. :)
The capacity of the drives went to 1.2MB, Still single sided, then 720k and 2.44MB, just before the conversion of pretty much everything to 3.5" disks.
One thing I've noticed; 30 years in, some of my old 5.25 disks read just fine, few of the newer 3.5 disk set worked. :)
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
wow... this 'thing' was on 4chan many weeks ago. surprised there was no suspicion that the 3.5mm drill-jack was fake.
no wonder a douche or a turd sandwhich will win as prez.
Wait until he brings out the followup where he shows you how to find the hidden media card reader by using a Dremel on the side of the iPhone 7 Plus!
You're doing it wrong.
Live actually... At EScrap conference. As I recall there's a small plastic plug in the hole where the headphone could be, it is there to allow air for the GPS and other air pressure sensative stuff. Link here https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow...
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I don't think anyone who is allowed to use power tools is dumb enough to actually try this, but clearly plenty of people are dumb enough to believe the comments on the video are real.
Frankly I'm surprised that the people who are willing to dish out $400+ every 1.5 - 2 years for a new phone would bat an eye over buying the new wireless ear buds that apple is selling right next to them at the store.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
the queens of Slashdot...
I hear if you squirt a caulking gun inside the hole you drilled it'll keep it water resistant as well.
....to fall for buying yet another iPhone are dumb enough to take this as a serious suggestion.
Ideas? Are there any clones using the same mod system?
I refuse to believe anyone actually did this.
If it is really true then I wish he had shown people how to drill a USB port into their forehead
Hmm...I just got an idea for a Youtube video!
So according to Apple it's better to have that big Taptic Engine than either a headphone jack or a bigger battery. Makes sense.
How stupid must you be to think that drilling a hole in a device will result in a headphone jack? Technical education seems to be ineffective. At least with some people.
Submitter is so ignorant and out of touch with anything beyond his own tiny space that he thinks 2016 is the only year the world has had stupid people.
We get it! So you don't like Apple, fine. Can't see why anyone would buy an iPhone, fine, we all get it! Now, try really, really hard to imagine why someone might want one beyond what you already believe. Perhaps the fact that an update doesn't have to filter through twenty layers of business major who can't understand either the code or the implications or the full impact of the hole in the code. Perhaps it is the FBI's inability to overreach past an iPhone 5c (and remember, Steve did NOT want to make it in the first place) or the fact that even the slightest security flaw --and they almost always turn out to be all about the 5c-- is big news whereas Android is such a sieve that no security flaw, regardless of how big a flaw it is, is news anymore. Sure, there are some who just want to show you the Apple in the back but if you can get off your high horse long enough to notice that only tech inclined people ever root their Android phones and most people never change anything other than the screen an icon appears in, maybe you could see why someone might buy an iPhone.
That being said, anyone that thinks that by drilling a hole (not even using a drill press) in the case they are going to find a hidden jack has also already bought into the "secret 90 mpg carburetor" or the car that runs on a 9 volt battery. People do not like the things they do not understand and many people (trump supporters are, for the most part, found among these) feel that the world is not merely passing them by, it left them behind! Sadly, what they do not understand includes history, they forget the rough times and the horrid things people did to one another, they forget why they had not bought a Chevy or a Ford in decades, they forget that someone helped them when they needed it, most of all, they forget when they needed help because they voted for someone who clearly did not have their best interest in mind. Drilling a hole in a phone (for which you just paid more than 700 dollars) and expecting to find that there indeed IS a conspiracy and that the jack is still there is a symptom of a much larger problem. Nostalgia is not yearning for what was, nostalgia is yearning for a fantasy; yearning for what never was.
Then there is the fear of what will be that seems unimaginable and unintelligible; not understanding "what" makes it nearly impossible to understand "why".
To those who actually did this. Do humanity a favour. DON'T breed. That is all lmao
Ypu realize the people who harp on i device security flaws are only because every stupid person thinks that i things are safe from being hacked. It doesn't help that the mothership all but propogated that myth.
Side note: that FBI terrorist phone was hacked. The FBI just wanted it to be easier and less risky.
... we've now had what, about 1,000 stories about Apples fscking headphone jack, isn't it about time to give it a rest? This is getting worse then Bennett Haselton.
... you’ll scratch the screen and casing using a metal jawed vice.
Seriously, I commend this TechRax's IRL Trolling Skillz - level up!
"IOS7 is now waterproof", "IOS8 enables fast charging in the microwave", "Set your IPhone date back to Jan 1st, 1970 to see a great surprise after rebooting", ...
Yes indeed, it looks like a certain stupidity helps to stomach Apple products.
So stupid. Apple didn't cover up the jack, they removed it.
You have to buy a jack at an electronics store and glue it to the side of the phone.
I did it, and it works fine. Sound's a little faint unless you turn the volume up all the way.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to the cargo plane I'm building out of rocks and bamboo.
I drilled my phone, but all I got is an old analog video-out jack.
Did I drill at the wrong place ?
Or do you need a special "Apple"-branded drill bit for this hack to work ?
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