He Tried to Fix His ROG Ally X But Made it Worse! Let's Fix It!
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- He Tried to Fix His ROG Ally X But Made it Worse! Let's Fix It! I paid $300 for this ROG Ally X from a viewer who tried to fix a stuck volume button but ended up breaking the battery connector in the process.
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Glade u got ur hair back brother and u fought cancer so happy for that
Man I wish I have enough knowledge to fix all electronics as he does.
@@farizakmal3393 it's all about trial and error man. Just take something apart, keep track of where your screws go and, if you need it, TH-cam will probably have someone that can walk you step by step on how to reassemble it. Also ifixit will have instructions on how to disassemble and reassemble items.
I know right! I'm just now dabbling in switch repairs and reselling. I have no experience whatsoever and am a mental health professional by trade. So, fingers crossed I won't just waste a bunch of money lol.
@@farizakmal3393 well, it's prett easy these days with more youtube guides than actual people reparing stuff.
if it's hardware it's "easier" to repair something than a softwareproblem. BUT finding the hardwareproblem isn't easy.
start somewhere easy, learn and repeat.
It's just a perfect amount of thermal paste, that's all. Steve have lot of experience but even he can't or won't fix many things (to damaged or to complicated). He sticks to things he's comfortable with, and that's fine. Sometimes he struggle with consoles cases, but it's a learning experience and we all have something to watch. Win-Win.
Hey man, long time no see, glad your doing well and so happy to see you man! Most awesome tech guy on youtube!
I know nothing about repairing electronics and watch you constantly. It fascinates me that people like you exist. Keep up the good work! Have a great weekend.
He is from a lost tribe. But people like him do exist.
the man is back ,happy to see you in good spirits and some great content been a tough road welcome from birmingham uk where the peaky blinders say ello.
You and ODD tinkering have inspired me to try this stuff I follow you guys to a tee and I've learned alot I've fixed cleaned and serviced a few of my own systems cuz of you two glad to see your healthy and still doing what you love
“That took about four minutes.” THAT’S the good stuff mate! I love the little callouts for those kinds of things, it gives me a point of reference for these kinds of things :)
Incredible work, glad to see you looking better!
Your repair videos are so relaxing and satisfying
Glad to hear that!
My lab teacher use to tell me "have you notice everytime you take something apart and put it back together, your always left with a few parts your not sure where its going. If you take it apart and put it back so many times you'll end up with enough parts to built two of them" 😂
That’s hilarious!
Big fan of your work, I’m not sure about the choppy editing. I actually enjoy watching the whole process
That's why we made the TronicsFix Longs channel!: www.youtube.com/@TronicsFixLongs
Hi Steve, your looking so much better. I hope everything is going your way. I really enjoy watching your content,, keep it up buddy! I'll pray for your health. My son and I really enjoy your repair posts, they have assisted in helping me repair my sons Nintendo Switch. Cheers!
Thanks! I appreciate the comment. Nice work fixing your Switch!
When you first plugged it in I was thinking "I wonder if the charging delay is going to make him worry..." It did!
Lol, I'm pretty new to actually using these things. I've fixed a number of them but haven't actually used them much.
Genuine question: 5:28 why did you need to heat the battery connector from the bottom? Were the components on top something you didn't want to get hot?
I'm new to soldering and fixing electronics and I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos! Thanks for the inspiration!
Absolutely amazed by each one of your videos. Hope you are doing well bro. Keep on keeping on 👍🏽
Have you ever tried the pin/trace repair tab you used on the game boards for rebuilding mounting tabs. The replacement pins you cut then heated up to stick on either Nes or snes game boards. I think they could be a good mounting plane replacement option for surface mount non conductive plane.
Steve is a absolute legend. One of the best you tubers
This reminds me of something my dad taught me: I wanted to replace the plastic screen of my gameboy and got a replacement. Then I‘d sit down put my tools together when he asked me what I was doing. I said, I need to open it to replace the plastic screen. He just had a look, took a piece of sharp plastic and popped it out right away. Then he told me: always watch out for the easiest way- there was no need to open it up completely and I probably would have broke something while doing that- just like cameron did as you showed, there was actually no need to remove the battery for fixing the actual failure with the button 😊
Nicely done Steve!😊
Outstanding episode!
Hello bro from the uk 🇬🇧 not sure if you done an update with your treatment just hoping everything went ok 👍 I’m only on TH-cam so haven’t seen an update on your health always clicking on your videos on a Friday evening hope you are well and your family too bro 😎 thank you for your amazing content ❤
I'm in remission!
16:28 I could feel the relief on that 'Yes."
What a way to tackle this one! Amazing!
I wish I had your self confidence to put it all back together befor testing the repair 😅 great vid
Nice job man!
Thanks!
Awesome work!
Thanks!
another asus device fixed!!, love your content steve, i'm so glad to see u doing well
Amazing work. How many layers is this pcb? And how did you figure out the ground plane and the power plane ?
Idk how many layers it is. I know the ground and power planes quickly because of the color of the battery wires.
For my curiosity: I’ve been wondering … Do you have a formal education for dealing with electronics or are you self taught? :)
This kind of work is always so fascinating to me.
No formal education for electronics repair. I did take a couple of electronics classes in college but that's it. I do have a degree in automotive technology.
@@TronicsfixI know that you are mostly self taught (I've watched your older videos as well). But after you really got into fixing stuff, professionally, haven't you taken any extra courses to help hone your skills?
No. Honestly I think TH-cam is better than most classes out there
First. That looked hard. Second, great to see you make mistakes "SSD". Wonderfull to see fixing stuf. Mayde to try some older gaming things?
I absolutely love your videos
Another relaxing repair video. 😌
As a craftsman, I appreciate your craftsmanship.
The Fixer could be a good series on Netflix or Prime!
I just recently started using ca glue and accelerator. It is a godsend.
Yes! Works so good.
I have one question for Steve: Do you ever consider soldering the battery pack directly to the board in such cases where the whole thing is torn off? If it was my own I would probably do that. Not so good for reselling though.
Nah, then it would be much more difficult to replace the battery. Those large wires would be prone to coming loose too.
I have question about full load, it would be 30w, and based on battery voltage is 7.4V or maybe 11v. It look like double wire for positive and negative, so at least 2A for single wire. Is that ok to using small wire like that?
I was wondering about that also. It should be safer to use thicker wires, or maybe a few o them in each power pin.
I have to wonder how reliable that will be. Obviously normal use is fine, but if anyone opens it up, it's not going to be as strong. I wish all connectors were through hole like HDMI ports are. They are so much stronger
Great Video 🔥
Resoldering all those cables looks like hell.
Lol, better than resoldering 19 pins on an HDMI port
Thanks for the content
Great Video! Thank you.
You are the best I can’t wait to see your next video
I hope that God will heal you completely like he healed me Steve. I really wish you the best from the bottom of my heart even though I used to rant about your thermalpaste jokes. God bless you! ❤
My only worry is from looking at the thickness of the original traces will that trace repair wire be able to handle the amps from the battery during extended use.
Looking good bro
Is it just me or is there like a weird slow mo while the camera is zoomed in?
Great video.
Question, where do you get the wire that you used to replace the traces? I've seen other enameled wire, but it was more for motors.
Yeah I was worried also because there was only extended version videos for months..is his wedding ring made of plastic?..lol..bc it looks like it's cracked?
We've been publishing the normal number of videos on the TronicsFix channel. One per week.
Lol, it's a silicone ring...I was a little rough with it apparently.
Hello steve, i have a question
I have been wondering for a while , where do you find the stuff you repair, and how?
I have tried but there is never something interesting or i don't look at the right places
It's hard to find stuff. This one is from a viewer. I find stuff on eBay, Goodwill and some liquidation websites but it's tough.
@@Tronicsfix thank you
Have a nice day!
Pure talent 🫡
Awesome video
Hope everyone has a amazing day!
@@thewavyshopofficial you too stranger
Thank you and you too ✌🏻
Thanks you too
Thank you! Ditto!! 😅🤓
HI, i learn a lot with your videos, can you say the temps and air speed that you use in you further videos?
Nice. But in my opinion you should first rebuild traces, then protect it with solder mask and solder the battery connection. But hey, it’s working in the end :-)
He should’ve prepped that Fetzer valve with some gauze pads and some three in one household oil, preferably Prestone. No, make that Quicker State.
Would it not be better to test before coating it! in case there was a problem still?
Probably, lol
getting good !
Pretty sure I saw the guy who sent this in post on Reddit 😂
15:38 guess this is how he broke the cable ...
That product looks like it was designed for attempts at DIY repair. Kudos to Asus for making a modern product somewhat repair friendly.
The battery connector looks like a standard asus battery connector, not limited to the ally, so you could probably harvest it from an old asus laptop motherboard
You keeping or reselling this one?
Idk, lol.
All of this could have been avoided if the owner would have just sent it in for RMA since it was new. I hate those connectors too,years ago i had a Dell laptop i had to take apart to repaste it and i ripped off the speaker connector from the board without even applying any crazy pressure on it. Sometimes these manufacturers build some things that are just impossible to not break without even trying
This coulda been me lol, I took the whole thing apparent, and fixed the joystick wobble
Nice work fixing it!
Thought this was a game gear when I saw the thumbnail
love you bro
15:40 that is most likely how it broke in the first place.
LET'S GET READY TO FIX!!!! Happy friday!
Do you think companies will ever change? That they will be more like Asus and actually allow repairs again someday?
I think there’s a chance but they’re going to continue to fight it because it’s less profitable
i have a gaming laptop i wont in a contest. funny when i restart it or shut it down for the night the turn it on and i enter my password it tells me i entered the password to many time and need to wait 2 hrs i cant fig out whats causing it. now i leave it on and dont shut it off due to that.
Man I can solder but I can't do anything at this level! 😵💫
How to send in consoles. I have trouble with my 2ds
Are you going to sell it now ?
That microswitch is toasted to me, you only gave it a few more click.
I'm just very surprised I got this video in my feed, I'm subscribed but, I've seen other subscriptions that haven't been showing up at all in my feed, so I'm glad this did
I'm glad it did too!
I wish I had half of your skills
nice vid, do you plan on uploading in higher resolution in the future? might make it easier to see smaller components when youre zoomed out in the video
How the hell did he even manage that?
Great to see you back in the saddle!!
No way dudes genius but I would make dude give half the money back for messing it up that bad I wouldn't have paid $300 lol
Definitely took some skill to fix that
Sure i saw this Ally posted on Reddit..
Edit; maybe not, very similar tho
Coulda been posted there. I see stuff on there all the time that I'd like to get my hands on!
@@Tronicsfix Yeah stuff on there will always make for great repair videos, keep up the good work!
NOICE!!!!!
Such a new connector costs $5 on Aliexpress.
nice
What? No 'perfect amount of thermal paste'? I'm insulted!
interesting
Why do I feel like red PCBs look cheap and tacky?
Idk. I love the look of the red
@Tronicsfix yeah I'm not sure what's made me feel that way. I think black PCBs look the nicest by far, but that's just me.
Try a green or an amber one like a lot of PC boards were in the olden days. I am pretty sure the GPU on my first PC I ever built (ATI 9800 Pro) was a red one and that was not so common back then. Most PC PCBs nowadays are black/white I guess or maybe blue, which I agree looks better but in the end it doesn't matter what color they are.
Why do people do that 😅
Tugging and tearing and these little connectors like they're indestructible... Jeez
Why did you not swap the motherboards.
I'd never swap the motherboard when something is so fixable. EDIT: The other motherboard was from one that wasn’t fixable
because the parts motherboard he said was for an ROG Ally, not the ROG Ally X. Slightly different if you look at the 2 boards in the video.
That was kind of a steal 300 bucks cheap
Agreed!
Nice one i wish i have some stuff to fix for my youtube channel its hard to get broken stuff here xD😊
Do you have cancer ?😮
Not anymore. I'm in remission
send it to me . i need new computer . location sweden
Thank you for keeping the quality of the work high, bro!! This is the best tech channel in the world!!
@@J3unG he is the most chill and one of the coolest tech repair channels but imho the best is northwestrepair. Still if you are reading this I love you Steve.
@@ArminasGondolinNWR is on different level stuff. I love watching Steve do things I probably could as well (but not as entertaining on YT). I watch Tony do things I couldn't do in a million years.