@@ap_poto be fair that was a justified case, the woman was handed a coffe so hot that She couldnt hold It and It dell' on Hero giving Hero severe third degree burns, She had to get operations that costed her likes 30k and McDonald's refused to pay her medical bills, She only wanted the amount She paid in medical bills mind you but the judge thought that She deserved more and that McDonald's needed to be punished so she got a few millions
Lmao people please don’t do what Austin did. Heat gun in a battery is a really bad idea. Just alcohol and pry slow and carefully. Battery will come right off. Source: I have a repair shop, I replace batteries for a living.
you could but you gotta know the battery isn't punctured or bloating. other than that ive found it completely fine just as long as you have the gun at low temperatures. i will agree that the good ol alcohol and patience works just fine and i guess it is the 'safer' way to work with batteries but whatever works best for us right? i will say some of these devices have some pretty damn good adhesive so whatever you do, its still pretty damn tedious sometimes.
The obvious fix is STOP GLUEING BATTERIES YOU DINGUS MANUFACTURERS IT'S NOT GONNA FALL IN A CLOSED UNIT! Had to remove a few myself, no alcohol on hand, bent a few of those few. UGH! 'member the time when batteries were replaceable? I 'member.
Hey Austin fun fact: I tried your method and it worked wonders!!! I'm here with my buddies in Heaven and no-one has battery problems anymore with switch lite, since electricity just runs through everything in the realm. Thanks!!
I mean, he lost his credibility when he suggested that the PS5 2021 revision running 1 degree celcius hotter would ruin the console and make it live a shorter life.
@@jmtthepixelmon16 Nah - that's not recent enough! Here - I'll put it in even _more_ recent terms: "Heating up a lithium battery with a heat gun is even more un-rizz than if Skibidi Toilet were to hit the griddy in Ohio while Freddy Five Night does the lightskin stare in Pizza Tower!" ...or maybe "YOLO" isn't so bad.
@@jmtthepixelmon16 Don't say what again? You mean don't say "Heating up a lithium battery with a heat gun is even more un-rizz than if Skibidi Toilet were to hit the griddy in Ohio while Freddy Five Night does the lightskin stare in Pizza Tower!"? Yeah - I'd better not.
You should never use heat in a battery, you may cause one explosion 💥! It's true that the glue it's very hard, but if you pour some alcohol or another dielectric solvent, it came out pretty easy.
not totally true, if you keep the temperature at 100° and the airflow at minumun and continously move around you are fine beacuase the heat it's not concentraded on a single spot, still not recommended but doable.
Bro I remember back when his house burned down a long time ago and being so heart broken for him because I remember all the old personal tech he would have in the background of his videos I think he had like a old green game boy
where did he recommend it. If someones dumbass decides to try to recreate what someone who clearly has more experie did with use of a HEAT GUN, how could you attribute this to him. Unless i missed something in the video then let me know
@@InTheKitchenWristStirFrywhy wouldn’t it be his fault? As a guy with a platform and (I’d assume) good credibility, just watching his video and seeing what he’s doing could make some people who have the same problem want to try what he does to fix their problem. Some people might just not have enough experience to judge whether or not some things are good or bad. All this being said, you’d have to be pretty stupid to do any of this, experienced or not, after reading the first 3 comments.
Austin you should probably re upload this short, it’s really bad advice to be telling your audience to blast their batteries with a heat gun. I know you guys don’t primarily do electronic repair, but this is genuinely dangerous advice.
Recommending people use a heat gun on a lithium battery rather than just using isopropyl is one of the most carelessly dangerous things I've seen a TH-camr of this size condone
it takes about a week to re-calibrate the battery or 20 to 30 charge cycles. it happened to mine when my charger got messed up during a lightning storm. it's been a year or 2 since then and it still works fine, and as you said you got the battery to 1 hour. you still had more cycles to go before the charging chip was re-calibrated. also it was dumb to use a heat gun on a battery
Not advised but 99% of the times nothing will happen really. Batteries take a lot of heat when our devices get hot anyway. if they were that sensitive they will be exploding all over the place.
@@SIPEROTHyeah devices do get hot but not as hot as a goddamn heat gun depending on what type of heat gun it can reach around 1000 fahrenheit heat can cause the battery to swell and possibly leak and combust
TH-cam please bring back the dislike counters for videos like this, he has a heat gun on a lithium ion battery this is beyond stupid, also my app opened up to shorts not my home page stop with the bullshit analytics and fix the app
@@woolunderwear2522 It's something that would allow people to repair their stuff themselves rather than make it effectively impossible and either only allow the companies that made the product to repair it (like how Apple does with iPhones and MacBooks), or not have repair be possible at all and just have to throw the item in the trash adding to the landfill.
@@DrewTNaylor Fake Apple because they are not the original Apple, but yea Right to Repair is needed by us all. As of now we can't repair things like this because not only it is illegal but it is also impossible to buy the tools to do these repairs.
The horrible genius of this video is that he knows using a heat gun on a battery is lunacy, but now you spent more time reading the comments about it and he got more revenue and views out of it.
Before: removable batteries without a single tool. Then: removable batteries with a screwdriver. Now: glued batteries (for absolutely no reason) We evolved backwards.
no way lol it says on Nintendo's own site that its a battery drain glitch, but all you have to do is charge to 100% and de charge it to 0% a few times to calibrate the battery, and it will work as normal after! same thing happened to my OLED switch, but i was able to fix it by doing these steps lol this issue happens after you leave a switch dead for MONTHS! it happens to almost all battery devices such as smartphones too
Use a couple drops of 91% isopropyl along the battery’s edge so it can get behind it. After it soaks for a minute the battery should come out with ease
ffs never apply heat to literally any battery, use isopropyl alcohol for soften the adhesive. only mad guy uses heat gun to remove batteries’ adhesive.
Thermal runaway often occurs at high temperatures as they can trigger exothermic reactions in the battery. As the reactions produce more heat and increase battery temperature (with say, a heat gun), it can lead to the destruction of the battery, as well as workplace fires and explosions. TL-DR: Heat + Battery = fire. Use rubbing alcohol.
Don't think he cares about that since he is getting that battery out anyways. No point on caring for the battery's life. If it does catches up in flames he could take it out easier and just throw it to the side. (for explosions, that is why we have safety goggles) Also how do you reach it with alcohol? Everyone talks about using this but doesn't explain on how to do it. In other words you can't just put alcohol on the adhesive when you can't even reach it.
It's been 8 months lol, the battery life is fine but it does do the "drop to 1% and sit there forever" thing. Letting it die makes it better temporarily but it's not that much of an issue
Leave it in the sun, safer than heat gun. Use a syringe (or just drip it in there) to add some rubbing alcohol under the battery. Pry it out with an old credit card carefully. Don't heat your battery with a heat gun.
For all you know, that may have been the indicator glitch, and you spent $20 on a new battery when all you had to do was let the Switch idle until it died on its own a minimum of 6 times. It would've eventually fixed itself
My Nintendo Switch once didn't turn on, and my battery was at 100%. Maybe it was frozen with the screen turned off. IDK, I fixed it by plugging the charger for a few seconds, and it worked.
Nintendo really sucks at installing a battery inside the Switch, I had to have a wrestling match with mine to replace it, what the hell were they thinking to use such strong glue to hold a battery?
This. The Gameboy SP just requires one screw to be removed and the battery is easy to swap. I think the same may be true for the Wii U Gamepad. What was Nintendo thinking when they made the decision to glue the battery in place?! Not to mention the hassle it is just to get to the battery (especially on the regular switch). As much as I love Nintendo, I think something needs to be said about this. They’ve got such a huge fan base who will continue to collect their consoles for years, and the thought that years from now, Switches will slowly become unusable unless you go through this painful process to replace the battery is just such a huge shame. I really wish they would have thought it through more. Some simple foam would have been more than sufficient.
@@ssjoel3k I agree with you, even the Wii U gamepad is super easy to replace the battery from it, using such strong glue for the Switch is not only bad, but also dangerous in my opinion. Image someone uses a sharp tool to remove it, and he accidentally pierces the battery, it will catch on fire fast. Hopefully Nintendo will do it differently for their upcoming "Switch 2" console.
I have a lite that I put a clear shell on, had to replace both joysticks and all the buttons while I was at it, then I broke the fans cable so I had to replace that too. I'm no hardware wiz but I found it to be super easy and fun. It's good to know once my battery goes on it I'll be able to replace it easily
Do not folloow this guide it is dangerous, simply use isopropyl alcohol to weaken the glue and gently prise it out with something non metalic for safety
Nintendo: this Switch Lite console has more battery than the previous model so players can enjoy it anytime anywhere Pokémon: lol say goodbye to your console, also no cloud saves
My sister's Switch had that problem. I kept forcing it on for about 4 hours whilst on 1% fully charged it, and then it worked fine again. I did a few more cycles to be safe
Happened to me. Please don’t do this. I just let a TH-cam video play for a several hours to kill it completely then charge it up and it’s fine again. Problem is not using the switch frequently. Happened to another switch where all I did was disconnect the battery for 30 seconds, plugged it back in, works great now. Sometimes it just needs a reset! 1 don’t take it apart unless you have to 2 don’t buy anything until you try the battery disconnect
I also feel like the DLC is draining batteries quickly as well. My regular Switch is still really good and I’ve noticed I have an hour less of playtime on Violet than I previously did, or with any other games I have…..
for switch battery replacement: I just suggest draining it till turns off and won’t turn on again so very little energy left and just pull it out destructively with a pry tool. Yea probably better ways but pretty efficient when you needed to refurb a few units in a short period. But Don’t use heat because that could cause a fire with lithium batteries or damage plastics at a min for bad shit that could happen.
love seeing all the experts talk about "oh im a professor and you shouldn't do this!!" Yeah maybe you shouldn't but if the battery is empty and you heat it evenly and dont plan on using the battery ever again, you are safe.
I know I’m 8 months late here, but instead of heating up the battery, you should be dropping isopropyl alcohol on the sides of the battery and letting it work its way under to dissolve the adhesive
It's important to remember that when reassembling to not ruin the threads, turn your screw in the opposite direction until you hear the click of the thread jumping, then you know the screw is aligned and ready to go
Austin I can't imagine how you didn't once consider it being a bad idea to recommend your audience to blast a lithium battery with a fucking heat gun
Lmfao
😆 🤣
most people that own a heat gun would be smart enough to know that isn't a smart idea
@@NoCluYT people sued mcdonalds because of coffee being hot and they won....so...i doubt it.
@@ap_poto be fair that was a justified case, the woman was handed a coffe so hot that She couldnt hold It and It dell' on Hero giving Hero severe third degree burns, She had to get operations that costed her likes 30k and McDonald's refused to pay her medical bills, She only wanted the amount She paid in medical bills mind you but the judge thought that She deserved more and that McDonald's needed to be punished so she got a few millions
Lmao people please don’t do what Austin did. Heat gun in a battery is a really bad idea.
Just alcohol and pry slow and carefully. Battery will come right off.
Source: I have a repair shop, I replace batteries for a living.
90% isopropyl alcohol and elbow grease
you could but you gotta know the battery isn't punctured or bloating. other than that ive found it completely fine just as long as you have the gun at low temperatures.
i will agree that the good ol alcohol and patience works just fine and i guess it is the 'safer' way to work with batteries but whatever works best for us right? i will say some of these devices have some pretty damn good adhesive so whatever you do, its still pretty damn tedious sometimes.
The obvious fix is STOP GLUEING BATTERIES YOU DINGUS MANUFACTURERS IT'S NOT GONNA FALL IN A CLOSED UNIT! Had to remove a few myself, no alcohol on hand, bent a few of those few. UGH!
'member the time when batteries were replaceable? I 'member.
honestly, one you get used to it, it's pretty simple to take them off@@ujiltromm7358
@@ujiltromm7358 Was not expecting a South Park reference. Lol
Hey Austin fun fact: I tried your method and it worked wonders!!! I'm here with my buddies in Heaven and no-one has battery problems anymore with switch lite, since electricity just runs through everything in the realm. Thanks!!
Can’t believe Austin would recommend people heat a lithium battery with a heat gun. You think he wouldn’t want anyone else’s house to burn down 😂
Now we know why he's house burn 🤣
They should probably take this short down kek
hm.... That's precisely WHY actually..
Misery likes company!
I mean, he lost his credibility when he suggested that the PS5 2021 revision running 1 degree celcius hotter would ruin the console and make it live a shorter life.
Lol😅😅😅😅
Heatgun on Litium Battery 🔋 🫨 new meaning to YOLO
Let me translate into non outdated terms “wow dude using a heat gun on a lithium battery is really risky business”
@@jmtthepixelmon16 Nah - that's not recent enough! Here - I'll put it in even _more_ recent terms:
"Heating up a lithium battery with a heat gun is even more un-rizz than if Skibidi Toilet were to hit the griddy in Ohio while Freddy Five Night does the lightskin stare in Pizza Tower!"
...or maybe "YOLO" isn't so bad.
@@MineCrapStevenever attempt to say that again please
@@jmtthepixelmon16 Don't say what again? You mean don't say "Heating up a lithium battery with a heat gun is even more un-rizz than if Skibidi Toilet were to hit the griddy in Ohio while Freddy Five Night does the lightskin stare in Pizza Tower!"? Yeah - I'd better not.
i’ve literally never seen that second emoji in my life, when did they add that
“tHE FiX iS SimPLe”
HEAT GUNNNNNN
That is how you activate a firewall in your house
@@Huh.19“you need a fire extinguisher to continue“
my spain (without s) b like:
Isopropyl alcohol in a syringe helps a ton with battery removal.
phew good thing I had some meth syringes lying around. thanks homie
@@Evan-ru6ro I was gonna say insulin syringes, but sure
@@Evan-ru6robased
Thanks, thankfully I had a few intramuscular syringes lying around.
Luckily, I never threw out the ones that the dentist gave me when they took out all of my wisdom teeth.
You should never use heat in a battery, you may cause one explosion 💥!
It's true that the glue it's very hard, but if you pour some alcohol or another dielectric solvent, it came out pretty easy.
Shit on it
Copyed
@@moonlight19483 *copied
not totally true, if you keep the temperature at 100° and the airflow at minumun and continously move around you are fine beacuase the heat it's not concentraded on a single spot, still not recommended but doable.
Of course Austin has the sharkgeek charger
Probably what destroyed his battery lmao.
What's wrong with the charger
You say that like you know him weirdo
@@playhouseluckey80 what?
@@playhouseluckey80what’s your point?
Austin tryna get revenge for all the house fire memes with that heat gun on battery 😂
Bro I remember back when his house burned down a long time ago and being so heart broken for him because I remember all the old personal tech he would have in the background of his videos I think he had like a old green game boy
Dude is gonna cause another house fire wdym?
Twitters be like: "Just doxxed Gamefreak so they stop uninnovate our f-ing Pokemon franchise ☠️"
y'all remember when Austin's house burned down? This clip kinda gave me an idea how it went down
Heat gun on battery, disaster about to happen,
If u want to remove battery, use rubbing alcohol to dissolve the back glue of the battery
U right
99% isopropyl does wonders people use 75% and wonder why it doesn’t work sometimes
It's kinda hard to get it in on switch lite. But it could just have been me.
Will that require you to dunk it or something? Because how can you reach behind the battery?
@@CripStreamJesus They don't sell 99% here sadly...
Lithium battery + heat gun = Bomb has been planted
Austin is lucky that battery DIDNT FUCKIN EXPLODE with that heat gun
As many have said: Take this video down. You literally recommend a dangerous act.
where did he recommend it. If someones dumbass decides to try to recreate what someone who clearly has more experie did with use of a HEAT GUN, how could you attribute this to him. Unless i missed something in the video then let me know
like i get hes like “haha heres a fix” I just think people should only have themself to blame when they try to recreate something like this
@@InTheKitchenWristStirFrywhy wouldn’t it be his fault? As a guy with a platform and (I’d assume) good credibility, just watching his video and seeing what he’s doing could make some people who have the same problem want to try what he does to fix their problem. Some people might just not have enough experience to judge whether or not some things are good or bad.
All this being said, you’d have to be pretty stupid to do any of this, experienced or not, after reading the first 3 comments.
@@InTheKitchenWristStirFry ?????
@@InTheKitchenWristStirFry🧠't?
Austin you should probably re upload this short, it’s really bad advice to be telling your audience to blast their batteries with a heat gun. I know you guys don’t primarily do electronic repair, but this is genuinely dangerous advice.
Recommending people use a heat gun on a lithium battery rather than just using isopropyl is one of the most carelessly dangerous things I've seen a TH-camr of this size condone
it takes about a week to re-calibrate the battery or 20 to 30 charge cycles. it happened to mine when my charger got messed up during a lightning storm. it's been a year or 2 since then and it still works fine, and as you said you got the battery to 1 hour. you still had more cycles to go before the charging chip was re-calibrated.
also it was dumb to use a heat gun on a battery
Put isopropyl alcohol under the battery where the engisive is and it would help the battery come off too.
Where the what is?
And how do you do this if you can't even get to the back of the battery?
@@TechDove They mean adhesive.
@@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris thanks
@@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris theirs a bottle that’s has a nozzle that is a thin and long and you can spray it under.
Heat gun on the battery tho💀
I never expected to see an tech youtuber use an dryer of all things on a lithium battery O_O
Thats not a dryer that is a heat gun, which is significantly hotter, making this significantly more dangerous
@@csharp48…
I wish Steve from Tronicsfix was there too slap Austin in the back of his head from doing it wrong 😂😂😂😂😂😂
HEAT GUN ON A BATTERY💀💀 BRO COULD HAVE BLOWN UP ANY MOMENT THANKS NINTENDO
Using a heat gun on a battery? 🤢😳
I literally held my breath during that part 💀
I was thinking that was a little sus there
Not advised but 99% of the times nothing will happen really. Batteries take a lot of heat when our devices get hot anyway.
if they were that sensitive they will be exploding all over the place.
Isn't it safe if the battery is fully dead?
@@SIPEROTHyeah devices do get hot but not as hot as a goddamn heat gun depending on what type of heat gun it can reach around 1000 fahrenheit
heat can cause the battery to swell and possibly leak and combust
“heats up battery w a heat gun”
SIR DID YOU NO FORGOT WHAT HAD JUST HAPPENED TO YOU YEARS AGO 💀
This man just told his audience to blast a lithium battery with a heat gun. Holy. Just use alcohol and patience people.
kinda crazy how he still hasn’t made a comment addressing how much of a bad idea this actually is
How you have a tech channel baffles me every single day.
I’m surprised that the battery died before the joysticks tbh
*Next video* “Hey guys a battery blew up in my face and I’m permanently disfigured!”
The fact that he hasnt replied or apologized to the comments that he clearly must have seen shows what type of person he is
Insane
Yeah, I lost respect for him
Dont use heat, use alcohol. It doesnt damage the components and it dissolves the adhesive
I'd rather risk slightly damaging the Switch trying to pry out the battery rather than shooting a heat gun at a lithium battery.
TH-cam please bring back the dislike counters for videos like this, he has a heat gun on a lithium ion battery this is beyond stupid, also my app opened up to shorts not my home page stop with the bullshit analytics and fix the app
This is why we need Right to Repair.
I am asking cause I literally have no idea what you’re talking about. What is right to repair?
@@woolunderwear2522 It's something that would allow people to repair their stuff themselves rather than make it effectively impossible and either only allow the companies that made the product to repair it (like how Apple does with iPhones and MacBooks), or not have repair be possible at all and just have to throw the item in the trash adding to the landfill.
@@DrewTNaylor thank you.
@@woolunderwear2522 You're welcome.
@@DrewTNaylor Fake Apple because they are not the original Apple, but yea Right to Repair is needed by us all. As of now we can't repair things like this because not only it is illegal but it is also impossible to buy the tools to do these repairs.
🎉congratulations 🎉 that new battery will probably burn your house down some day.
Heat gun? Battery ??? Sounds like a bad mix
The horrible genius of this video is that he knows using a heat gun on a battery is lunacy, but now you spent more time reading the comments about it and he got more revenue and views out of it.
Before: removable batteries without a single tool.
Then: removable batteries with a screwdriver.
Now: glued batteries (for absolutely no reason)
We evolved backwards.
i sense a few house fires about to happen after that advice
no way lol it says on Nintendo's own site that its a battery drain glitch, but all you have to do is charge to 100% and de charge it to 0% a few times to calibrate the battery, and it will work as normal after! same thing happened to my OLED switch, but i was able to fix it by doing these steps lol this issue happens after you leave a switch dead for MONTHS! it happens to almost all battery devices such as smartphones too
everybody talking about the heat gun but he BOUGHT A $20 BATTERY OFF OF AMAZON 😭
it doesnt matter the heat gun will make the $20 battery explode nonetheless LMAO
Please, please don't do this. Don't heat the battery. Use some iso. Also reapply some thermal paste.
Use a couple drops of 91% isopropyl along the battery’s edge so it can get behind it. After it soaks for a minute the battery should come out with ease
ffs never apply heat to literally any battery, use isopropyl alcohol for soften the adhesive. only mad guy uses heat gun to remove batteries’ adhesive.
The lite was actually just trying to save you from playing THAT dlc.
Why?
@@CharisSemhe's tripping it's a good dlc
@@megamanx1291 i want to buy it after finishing the main story
Thermal runaway often occurs at high temperatures as they can trigger exothermic reactions in the battery. As the reactions produce more heat and increase battery temperature (with say, a heat gun), it can lead to the destruction of the battery, as well as workplace fires and explosions.
TL-DR: Heat + Battery = fire. Use rubbing alcohol.
Don't think he cares about that since he is getting that battery out anyways. No point on caring for the battery's life. If it does catches up in flames he could take it out easier and just throw it to the side. (for explosions, that is why we have safety goggles) Also how do you reach it with alcohol? Everyone talks about using this but doesn't explain on how to do it. In other words you can't just put alcohol on the adhesive when you can't even reach it.
"Aaaaaany second now, any second now."
"SEE, DEAD"
The biggest sin of this short wasn't the heat gun being a fire hazard. It actually was paying for that DLC
The dlc is pretty okay imo. The biggest sin is that he bought a switch lite
The biggest sin is that he bought a switch in general
@@Hirotehkidit’s worth it for the exclusive Nintendo games
another device that would benefit from the europa law for removable battery.. why we need that, it was common years ago :(
lmfao its so easy to replace
@@0reomcflurryy There is zero reason to glue the battery. Companies are just being pricks.
That's really bazzare I have never had a dead battery but there's so many things that can go wrong with them so I'm not surprised
Or you could just lower the brightness....oh wait he got glasses my bad
This reminds me that I haven't taken my switch out of its dock in a long time... hope the battery is ok
It's been 8 months lol, the battery life is fine but it does do the "drop to 1% and sit there forever" thing. Letting it die makes it better temporarily but it's not that much of an issue
What‘s the name of the pop filter for the mic? Looks so nice!
Bros tryna go for "It's All Gone 2: Electric Boogaloo"
Nice! Such an easy repair. I was just about to find the solution to your problem of you didnt know what the problem was. Very nice.
Now I wonder how the switch is gonna detect the battery’s serial number 🤨
Removes battery with heat gun ☠️
be smart use isopropyl alcohol
This was actually a good tutorial i didnt needed but ik i will need in the future.Straight to the point
My favorite underscore remix. The Beat Saber map of it makes it even better.
Leave it in the sun, safer than heat gun. Use a syringe (or just drip it in there) to add some rubbing alcohol under the battery. Pry it out with an old credit card carefully.
Don't heat your battery with a heat gun.
I wouldn't leave it in the sun for too long. Might fuck with solder joints on a hot day
For all you know, that may have been the indicator glitch, and you spent $20 on a new battery when all you had to do was let the Switch idle until it died on its own a minimum of 6 times. It would've eventually fixed itself
This is just like that episode of King of The Hill when Peggy put the recipe to mustard gas in the paper 😂😂😂
28:26 being someone who's never played a fallout game, hearing spiderman as a hyped up, insane gambler was... an experience.
Thank you for making actually interesting shorts rather than just clipping stuff we saw in a longer video.
Possible battery upgrade too?
Not an upgrade if it is the same battery. It is just a replacement.
YOU PUT A HEAT GUN ON A BATTERY?!!??!
Can’t believe Austin would be using the Nintendo switch that can’t switch
Beatemups are you watching this 👀
“The fix is simple”
“Just burn everything to the ground!” 💀
I was going to talk about the Max brightness but people are going off about the heat gun
Finally someone who used the skull emoji for its intended purpose lol 😂😂😂😂
My Nintendo Switch once didn't turn on, and my battery was at 100%. Maybe it was frozen with the screen turned off. IDK, I fixed it by plugging the charger for a few seconds, and it worked.
Heatgun on litium battery = BOOM....
Me = Oh I love explosions. Let's try this at home.
Nintendo really sucks at installing a battery inside the Switch, I had to have a wrestling match with mine to replace it, what the hell were they thinking to use such strong glue to hold a battery?
This. The Gameboy SP just requires one screw to be removed and the battery is easy to swap. I think the same may be true for the Wii U Gamepad.
What was Nintendo thinking when they made the decision to glue the battery in place?! Not to mention the hassle it is just to get to the battery (especially on the regular switch).
As much as I love Nintendo, I think something needs to be said about this. They’ve got such a huge fan base who will continue to collect their consoles for years, and the thought that years from now, Switches will slowly become unusable unless you go through this painful process to replace the battery is just such a huge shame. I really wish they would have thought it through more. Some simple foam would have been more than sufficient.
@@ssjoel3k I agree with you, even the Wii U gamepad is super easy to replace the battery from it, using such strong glue for the Switch is not only bad, but also dangerous in my opinion. Image someone uses a sharp tool to remove it, and he accidentally pierces the battery, it will catch on fire fast. Hopefully Nintendo will do it differently for their upcoming "Switch 2" console.
Future TTAR jumpscared the sh*t out of me!😂
ah, thanks Austin! Next time I replace a battery I will try the heat gun method.
The terror on my face as he put a heat gun to a fucking battery
I have a lite that I put a clear shell on, had to replace both joysticks and all the buttons while I was at it, then I broke the fans cable so I had to replace that too.
I'm no hardware wiz but I found it to be super easy and fun. It's good to know once my battery goes on it I'll be able to replace it easily
Do not folloow this guide it is dangerous, simply use isopropyl alcohol to weaken the glue and gently prise it out with something non metalic for safety
*Laughs in permanently docked full Switch*
Nintendo: this Switch Lite console has more battery than the previous model so players can enjoy it anytime anywhere
Pokémon: lol say goodbye to your console, also no cloud saves
Nintendo: Ooooh your cheating, no Switch Online for you!
Ahh austin and fire hazards are a mix that surely wont go wrong
If someone's wondering, that's how his house caught on fire 3-4 years ago
My sister's Switch had that problem. I kept forcing it on for about 4 hours whilst on 1% fully charged it, and then it worked fine again. I did a few more cycles to be safe
Instructions unclear 🥲, now I can't hold my switch lite properly with my HAND.
Bro's headlocked 💀
I like to use isopropyl alcohol to soften glue, sometimes it works way better than others, but usually is helps a lot.
Happened to me. Please don’t do this. I just let a TH-cam video play for a several hours to kill it completely then charge it up and it’s fine again. Problem is not using the switch frequently. Happened to another switch where all I did was disconnect the battery for 30 seconds, plugged it back in, works great now. Sometimes it just needs a reset!
1 don’t take it apart unless you have to
2 don’t buy anything until you try the battery disconnect
Honestly this is decent repairability which I wouldn’t expect from Nintendo lol
"Remove a few screws , take off the back metal plate"
What i see when i open up a device : araña .
I also feel like the DLC is draining batteries quickly as well. My regular Switch is still really good and I’ve noticed I have an hour less of playtime on Violet than I previously did, or with any other games I have…..
Powerbanks: DUDE I EXIST
Austin looks like real life Milhouse. About as smart as him too
for switch battery replacement: I just suggest draining it till turns off and won’t turn on again so very little energy left and just pull it out destructively with a pry tool. Yea probably better ways but pretty efficient when you needed to refurb a few units in a short period. But Don’t use heat because that could cause a fire with lithium batteries or damage plastics at a min for bad shit that could happen.
DO NOT USE A HEATGUN ON BATTERIES. Use isopropyl alcohol to eat away at the glue
It was a dead battery plus it was on very low temp
@@Ak-we2un a dead battery still isn't a safe thing to be heating up lol
love seeing all the experts talk about "oh im a professor and you shouldn't do this!!"
Yeah maybe you shouldn't but if the battery is empty and you heat it evenly and dont plan on using the battery ever again, you are safe.
I know I’m 8 months late here, but instead of heating up the battery, you should be dropping isopropyl alcohol on the sides of the battery and letting it work its way under to dissolve the adhesive
It's important to remember that when reassembling to not ruin the threads, turn your screw in the opposite direction until you hear the click of the thread jumping, then you know the screw is aligned and ready to go
Bro got balls of steel for using the heatgun on a lithium battery