Phone repair egocentric video: tiny parts, steady hands, close range.
Close, first-person footage of phone technicians at their benches: heating and lifting screens, unscrewing tiny screws, swapping batteries and ports, soldering under a lamp, then testing the phone with the customer.
Free 10-hour sample first. A person replies within one working day.
Phone repair, step by step.
Phone repair stalls and benches in Lagos, the best known being the Computer Village electronics market in Ikeja.
Opening the phone
Heating the edge, using suction cups and picks to lift the screen, removing back covers.
Part swaps
Unscrewing shields, disconnecting flex cables, swapping screens, batteries, charging ports and cameras.
Board work
Soldering and desoldering under a lamp or magnifier, cleaning contacts, applying adhesive.
Testing
Powering on, checking touch, charging and cameras, then closing up and cleaning the phone.
What is in the worker’s hands.
- Precision screwdrivers
- Tweezers, spudgers and picks
- Suction cups and heat guns
- Soldering iron and flux
- Multimeter
- Phones, screens, batteries, flex cables
Interactions worth labelling.
- Precision grasps on millimetre-scale parts
- Two-tool coordination: tweezers in one hand, iron in the other
- Slow, controlled force: lifting glued glass without cracking it
- Connector mating: aligning and pressing a flex cable
- Rotations and flips of a small object in the fingers
Why phone repair footage helps robotics and video models.
Fine-grained hand pose
Finger-level motion on tiny objects is where hand-pose and dexterous-manipulation models still struggle.
Electronics assembly
Screens, screws and connectors look like factory assembly tasks that robot makers want to learn from human video.
Close-range camera geometry
Work happens 20 to 40 cm from the eyes, a useful contrast to room-scale egocentric footage.
How each clip is recorded and delivered.
- Camera
- Head-mounted smartphone, 1080p at 30 fps (H.264), wide field of view
- Sensors
- IMU (accelerometer, gyroscope) and GPS recorded alongside the video as CSV sidecars
- Your hardware
- Stereo, depth or multi-camera rigs supported if you ship them: we fit them and train recorders
- Label layers
- Curated minutes, 21-keypoint hand pose, action segments, captions
- Privacy
- Faces of bystanders and number plates blurred in every delivered file
- Formats
- MP4 + JSON per clip, IMU/GPS CSV sidecar, LeRobot or RLDS on request
- Delivery
- Weekly batches over signed links, with a manifest and a QA report
- Framing
- Recorders tilt the head strap down so the bench fills the frame; we cut minutes where hands leave view
- Screens and data
- Phone screens showing a customer’s personal content are blurred or cut
- Light
- Benches use desk lamps; strong glare on glass is labelled
Four checks before a minute reaches you.
ID-checked recorders
BVN or NIN plus a live selfie matched to the ID, and a bank account in the same name, before any paid task.
Consenting workplaces
Each workplace is registered in person by a TrustAm field agent, with the owner’s consent and a location fence.
Live capture only
A spoken challenge code, motion sensors and GPS show each clip was filmed live, at work. No camera-roll uploads.
Blurred and reviewed
Bystander faces and number plates are blurred; a trained reviewer approves or cuts every minute before delivery.
Buyers usually ask.
Can the camera resolve the small parts?
At 1080p from a head mount, screws and connectors are visible but small. If you need more detail, ship us a higher-resolution or macro rig and we fit it and train recorders to wear it.
Do you capture customer phone content?
No. Any minute where a customer’s personal content is readable on screen is blurred or cut before delivery.
How do I order phone repair egocentric video?
Email [email protected] or use the request form with the phone repair tasks, hours, label layers and format you need. We record a free sample of about 10 hours to your spec first. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.
How many hours can you deliver?
We are a Lagos pilot collecting to order and scaling. After the free sample, a paid pilot is usually 100 to 500 hours in weekly batches. We do not promise hours we have not recorded.
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Tell us what you need. We send a free sample first.
Email [email protected] with the data type, hours, languages or trades, labels and format. Pricing is quoted per approved hour after scoping.