3 "Repair Shops" Tried to Fix This PS4 - Let's Try to Save It!
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3 "Repair Shops" Tried to Fix This PS4 - Let's Try to Save It! I bought this PS4 from a viewer in Lithuania who took it to a repair shop for a cleaning... and everything was downhill from there. Now I'm trying to fix what they broke to get this game console working again.
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No thanks, not while Spring is still involved. I bought the "perfect amount of thermal paste" shirt and they will not stop spamming my e-mail inbox, nor will they honor my unsubscribe requests. Downright terrible company, I will never give them another penny. If you ever get a different company for shirts, please advertise that, it'll be a huge selling point.
isn't the solder mess grounding a couple of those vias out?
@@mjc0961 Really? So sorry to hear this but thank you for letting me know.
@@Tronicsfix do you do repairs? I broke my xbox one s hdmi connector i dont know how to take it off or any prices?
@@Tronicsfix hey man, I messaged you about two devices a while ago and I was wondering if you'd be able to take a look and perhaps let me know what you think might be the issue?
What I've learned from your videos is that a lot of these "repair shops" are an abomination 💀
it could be the owner of the console not wanting to be blamed
Guy on the video didnt fix the ps4, it doesnt work like it should... i think what happened was, those repair shops powered the console some other way, they bypassed the broken socket and ended up with the same blue light as your man on the video... so yea, 'these repair shops'... and according to the video, your man is the 4th in the ' abomination' row and he is the last one, lol xD
@@grenzhochspannungshindernis They didn't even re-assemble it properly. Having screws missing and possibly bouncing around on the circuit is just wildly incompetent. As is jamming slim cables under a metal shield and leaving blobs of hardened solder randomly on the board, which was also to be seen. So yeah, critizising the work of prior repair attempts, if they leave behind a crime scene like that, is pretty damn valid. Especially since such a sloppy approach has you wondering, if they didn't mess it up further.
The panning an zooming on this and recent videos are taking your videos to another scale 👍
Glad you like that!
Not a fan of the SFX when zooming. It’s a bit much. Love everything else!
Great job resoldering that connector! You are doing miracle work Steve! That stuff isn't easy!
For him it is probably.
Its relatively easy in terms of things that are difficult.
Steve I just tried to literally repair a PS4 Pro for a mutual friend the other day and now you release this video. Outstanding. I was relying on your old 2016 videos for help 😂
same here my dads ps4 kept have a disk drive issue lol
So glad my videos have helped!
I really hope you recover soon, stay strong.
ever since that happened tech never really felt the same anymore.
You really know a Playstation 4 pro is a mess when it doesn't have the perfect amount of thermal paste.
Lol, that's true!
I think even Sony doesn't know how to apply the perfect amount of thermo paste
that's right!
Exactly! That is so true!
I'm from Lithuania. Love your videos
I just don't understand how these people can call themselves professional repairers and yet can't put things back from where they came from.
Me neither..
Hi, greatings from Lithuania!! ❤
Hello there!
I’m surprised it even powers up! I love ❤️ t when you fix bridges with almost nothing! Great vid!!
Thanks A LOT for your videos from Italy ❤️
Glad you like them!
Dude. You are amazing!
I love it when you find missing screws and repair show mistakes.
I know it will work because you're doing the work and I know that you're the best
Nice one! Brand new video!
Great episode,Steve.
Nice effort Steve, had a feeling it was blod, send it the cod3r see if he can find the fault & repair it
I had an idea for you one of these days. Would be cool and interesting if you could fix a broken Rooma Vacuum. I have one of those and love it. Would be cool to see how it works inside :)
Love your videos you are my favourite TH-camr
Ifixit kit is so nice because you dont have to get anything else to get started. Now I've worked on stuff for like 2 years I'm starting to look for specific tools. But for starting it was a great kit! Could work om Xbox, PlayStation,pc and nintendo.
Black Friday fixes. Nothing better, Steve :)
So glad you enjoyed this one!
Great work! what is the blue light of death? is that not repairable?
This is the type of stuff I'd like to do as a hobby as I have a lot of spare time I just don't know how I should get started with tools etc and types of products to start with
I'm hoping someday QSB places will open up locally for a reasonable fee. And we could just design a small QSB that can connect the standard header to the various alternative points.
It'd be much preferable to having to use kynar wire and solder bridges.
So interesting how to repair that problem, is more common to see that issue in ps4 pro and normal, i have one and is the same problem, thanks you!
Hello ! I have already watched the whole video and I appreciate the second wire in the second pad contacts with the 3rd one which I suppose is negative, minute 7:38 check it.
Greetings!!
@TronicsFix im from latvia thanks for rembering about lithuania atleast
That's so sad. You had so much work to do and bluedeath is what you get for reward :( Great job!
Man I thought the "Oooh wait" at the end was you going to tell us you fixed the PS4. 🤣
The perfect amount of thermal paste fixes almost anything.
It'd be cool to see a video where, in order to attempt a repair, you have to use allll the tools in an iFixIt toolkit .. or at least ones you've never needed before.
I think the other repair shops must've rejected the job. Think about it, the initial job description would've been a blue light of death followed by the destroyed connector. That's a heck of a pain in the neck if they had to keep soldering the connector every time they tried different ways to fix the BLOD and test.
I think it's all about money to those repair shops because whether they get to fix it or not they'll still get paid regardless.
Hey mate,
your videos got me interested in a new hobby! My basic problem at the moment is to properly identify components on the motherboard.
Is there any kind of more or less complete "circuit map", especially for the HDMI circuit, that you know of, where I could e.g. see what kind of resistors there are on which position and their ohm value?
Kind regards,
Michael from Germany
This is called schematic. You should have some experience from soldering small projects like led spinner an then tackle the pinnacle of electronics - the motherboards.
i was getting worried when you put the board back on when we didn't have proof of the perfect amount of thermal paste! also i got the pro tech tool kit for christmas last year it's great
That's awesome! That's such a good toolkit
loved the vid !!!!
yo i got that tool kit today i recomed you get it very good
You're the man!
Love all the content . We have the right to fix our own goods ..
Steve, do you still do your repair classes?
3:20 I'm not really an electronics expert, but I think those are resitors, not capacitors. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. Excelent job as always Steve! Always a pleasure to watch you doing your magic! Greetings from Argentina.
Cuál es la diferencia entre un resistor y un capacitor?
could be both SMD capacitor and SMD resitors looks almost the same.
Yes, generally caps are white, resistors are black.
@@vadnegru You're wrong about SMD caps, they are brown. Usually, fuses are white.
@@Cabeza492 oh, yes when i looked up individual capacitor they are definitely brown. When they are on board they seems whiteish creamy.
Fuses on another hand is green, yellow, black with gold on that website.
Lol I tore away the power supply cable from the motherboard, I soldered it back and it worked fine 😂 These guys sent it around town for someone to fix it 🤣 It was my first time soldering so Im proud of myself hehe
Hey @tronicsfix, I recently purchased this elite series controller and it has a malfunctioning lb button. I cleaned it spraying 91% isopropyl alcohol and it fixed it for a little but the issues comes back. I noticed corrosion on the motherboard so I cleaned it and it fixed it again for a little then came back. I was wondering if you have any suggestions. I love your videos I watch them even for consoles I don’t have. Thank you for all your tech help!
Try replacing the LB switch and see if that fixes it, i had a similar issue with a few xbox360 controllers
Lithuanian PSFro; not what you'd expect to run into every day. Makes for an interesting video!
Holy moly, very surprised this PS4 came from my country
Man... they really went to town on this poor board...
Yes, they did.
I might be wrong but looking close at the connector, looks like 2nd wire from the left on the connector is shorted to ground. Also looks like the first wire on the left may also be very close to the via under it.
2nd wire is not shorted to ground and first wire on left is soldered correctly.
Even the perfect amount of thermal paste couldn’t fix this PS4! 😳
He could have looked under the scope for knocked off components and replaced those. Sometimes that's all it takes. If not dumped the flash to enable debug and read boot logs through uart. Might have been a loose memory chip.
Not worth the effort IMO
Do you have any videos for ps4 "software" troubleshooting/fixing?
How do you stay so humble after all that and find blue light of death ! 😢 quality videos though!
This guy is a national treasure!
Thank u!
You really should try to work for Korn. You look like you could be Munky or Head's brother. I'm sure their equipment needs repaired from time to time
How did you get started in doing stuff like this?
Hey Steve, go to minute 7:20 and you will see that the second wire from left is touching the ground at it's end
I wonder if reflowing the APU couldn't rix the Blod, partialy at least?
What does the blue light mean? It's not "posting"?
You are so powerful!
I'm sad that this one couldn't be fixed :o(
Will there be a part 2 on the roombas
I have done some repairs without a microscope and that stuff is really TINY.
So the psu in a PS4 can work in 110 volt land as well as in 240 volt land?
Were the missing thermal pads added?
The second pin from left to right the thin wire you soldering is touching the board at the bottom i think 🤔
Looks like it is but it isn't.
what thermal paste do you use??
That's a real bummer at least you tried your best to get it going
Steve the best 💓😁
But did u managed to fix the problem with the blue light
I have an original 60 gb ps3 I would love to get repaired by you how do I go about doing that
Hi there on my series x the hdmi port is loose and is very sensitive live if i move it just a tiny bit i will lose a picture on screen also when watching media like TH-cam or Disney+ i get a static screen what causes this.
Just as a question why didn't you use one of the white light of death PS4s and take its power supply connector?
Edit: I should have watched through the whole video before commenting lol
Where can I buy the consoles that you repair?
If a PS4 already has the blue light of death, is it useless to send it in for repair even if it's never been repaired before?
Lithuania! :D
Tech: Hey boss, we got console cleaning request! It’s pretty dirty, what should we use?
Boss: Eh, get the hammer, it’ll get the stuck on grime.
Tech: Good thinking boss!
My city is full of these so called repair shops, but anything a little more complex than replacing a plug and play part theyll not accept the job or charge you a high price.
What it would take to fix this Steve?
Why power slot is always getting ripped off? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.
For those connectors you may need to try Farnells or Mouser. I believe in the UKJ we can get such stuff from RS Components? just ned the size etc but I have seen proper places selling such things. Those kind of places are good to start looking.
Also, for getting a good solid fix to the board? check out Sorin on Electronics repair school or Sorin Electronics on youtube as he seems to be the master at hot glue usage lol.
Can you help me with mine. It won’t update at all, I tried everything, the usb method doesn’t work. My last resort is to replace the hard drive & install the update that way.
That connector that you cant find anywhere is a 4 pin jst socket.
My friend had an original ps4 that was completely dead, no power or anything and they brought it to a repair shop and they said it was unfixable, here’s the weird thing, when I got it I took it apart and tested the psu, it tested good, but then after I put it back in all of the sudden it started powering on, after some screwing around I found that it wouldn’t power on with the blu ray drive data cable plugged it, what was the fix? I blew into either connector and it was fixed. I’m curious if anyone else has run into this kind of issue where a dirty blu ray drive connector has caused zero power.
Hi TronicsFix, i have one question? I have ps4 pro and have some problem for a while,and lots of users have the same. When is in normal horizontal position sometimes it didn't read the disc, so i must rotate it vertical to start reading,and after that is working fine until turned off. I have changed the laser,but the problem is again there . I have sent it to 2 repair shop, but no answer
That isn’t good
Hi! My sons PS4’s Hard Drive crashed so I bought a new one, installed it, installed the software, got it working and downloaded a game but the replacement hard drive crashed also. I re-installed the latest software on the replacement hard drive, downloaded a game and while trying to log into Fortnite it crashed again. Any recommendations on fixing it?
Was the drive brand new, a voltage disturbance or overheating could also cause a hard drive to fail and some games save files could also be a problem
You are like Picasso with a soldering iron.
Some of your links in the description don't work. Maybe you need to update them.
My ps2 fat console shut off after 10 seconds of turning it on. I didn't play it for a couple of weeks, playing with the on/off switch did nothing and the outlet works fine, I connected other things to it and they worked fine. Is it a DIY or do I need to junk it and buy a new one? Please help
I wonder when I'll get my hands on a ps4.
I can never get my solder wick to take, what am I doing wrong?
Repair shops, aka me (or my friend) bc I (they) own a soldering iron... Im willing to bet that's most of these "repair shop" fixes that fail.
What does the paste do lol cos you always put it on near the end but I don’t no why lol
The thermal paste lets heat travel to the heat sink that the fan blows air through to cool it down
Isnt a blue light of death fixable?
Lithuania lettttss goooo
So what do you think IS wrong with that machine? Not just a blue light of death....
Good day Brother my ps4 console is having issue of turning on; it come only one blink then it off and it won’t turn on again but I changed the power supply and it still have the same problem can you help me find the problem with it
Is it the blue light problem what model is it on the original ps4 the power button sometimes malfunctions and switches the console off try putting it on with a disc maybe if not might be a CPU problem
What causes the blue light of death? Not repairable?
from Tronicsfix website itself "The main problem that causes the blinking blue light is the solder joints under the main chip (the APU) seem to get a bad connection."
Was it not the hdmi port?
do yopu sell parts hdmi filter coils and IC ps4
Can the RAM chips be upgraded to 16GB?