Thanks so much for making a video on it! It’s really cool to see it on the channel and I’m surprised at how easy it was to come apart, I expected it to be a nightmare!… also thanks for using the yellow mat, I love it! Thanks so much again for all the videos you make, I watch every single one ☺️
Thank you Hayley for sending it in! Yes it came apart so easily, it was a joy. No annoying clips or glue!!!! Big thanks for sticking with the channel for so long 🙏😎
Long time viewer and fan. Recently been binge watching your older (2018-'19) 'Trying to fix videos' and I have to say it is awesome to watch how you've grown in knowledge,skill and confidence. Thanks for the hours of entertainment and free education!
Every day is a school day so they say. I think one of Vince's best videos was the omega watch. I think I would have called it a day (or wrote some code on a small microcontroller to do the same job) but his creatively on that one was outstanding! (Also he did give me a shout out on that one too so another reason why it's one of my favourites).
Yes indeed. I love that sound too especially the old plastic covers. Vince is very relaxing, a bit of a ASMR thing 😊. I hope Vince does make video where he doesn’t speed up the unscrewing things.
Nice little fix Vince 👍. I'd probably have replaced the switch with a new just in case the fault re-occurred on the old switch. Looks like your finger is doing a bit better!
I do have some of these switches as well Mick, but I keep forgetting about them. I think the lid/button might be higher on the spares I have. I need to buy a wider range of them as they always seem to fail on various products. Finger healing well. I have the bandage off now which feel great, but I won't be able to work on the car for a few weeks yet as it is still very tender. Hope your keeping well health wise👍
@@Mymatevince Thanks Vince. I've got a phone call today to arrange to go for an operation to get the stone removed... BUT.... I think I passed it last night! Talk about timing! I was so not looking forward to an op. Bad experiences when I was a kid. Glad your finger is doing better👍 I've still got the gearbox out of my car currently. Got the crankshaft oil seal done now. Just waiting on another seal on the gearbox and I can put it back together.
@@BuyitFixit It sounds like life is keeping you very busy at the mo. Well if you did pass it then that is a blessing, I read passing them is pain beyond relief so I don't envy you!!! Hopefully with less salt in your diet, exercise and drinking plenty of water they won't reoccur. Damn kidney problems...taking away valuable fixing time from one of the best fixers or possibly THE best on this platform!
@@Mymatevince Thanks Vince 👍The pain I had wasn't that bad, and I've not really had much since xmas. I'd say 6/10 I've stubbed my toe and been in more pain before! Yes I don't know how you do it tbh. I've found it a struggle at times to keep to two videos a week, it's almost like a full time job with buying, fixing, recording, and editing!
Great vid Vince, my 1st rule is to give the buttons a good spray with a quick drying switch cleaner. It's done a lot of favours in the past to save time...
Hey Mike! Yes, the dressing is reducing in size thankfully. It was like a novelty finger before. Still a long way of being 'fixed' though, but completely manageable for the smaller fixes. Hope you're keeping well 👍
This is nice repair video, similarly I found one knock off BT speaker discarded due to broken charging port. It worked on just one 18650 battery, I replaced the charging port and it works fine.
I’ve got a BeatsPill & I use mine all the time at work while cleaning. It’s so portable & works well. The only thing I had to repair on mine was the rubber rings on the speakers as they deteriorated over the years of use & age but some speaker glue fixed that problem. 👌🏼
Repairing that style button is usually a fools errand on anything that you intend to actually use. They get crushed down, like you noticed. Eventually the disc loses its spring and it either exhibits always on or always off, depending on the internal construction. My wife wore out the timer button on our stove. I bought the replacement control board for $90. Once I replaced it, I saw this style button. I cross referenced them, $.10 on Digikey.
Thanks for another great fix Vince. Hope there will be a part 2 of this speaker where you replace the batteries and this beats pill will be booming without the power bank.
@@BuyitFixit I like the electrical/mechanical ones in addition to video game stuff. The water power car, pull string talking toys, the horse race are some of my favorite MMV videos. Major nostalgia bombs.
@@discocriscoUnfortunately I've not done anything on TH-cam electromechanical just either mechanical or electrical lol. I worked on a few of those old fruit machines back in the day. They were all relays and timer modules which were micro switches on cams being driven by synchronous motors. They were a nightmare to work on!
Great fix! I remember there was lots of knockoffs of those speakers, it’s similarly priced Bose Soundlink Mini mk2 and Mk1 kicked it’s arse as you said 😀
Hi Vince, great repair video. That failure is quite common in *cheap* momentary switches. That contamination you saw was flux that wicked up into the switch because it is not hermetically sealed at the leads. I have seen this issue on production lines, the solution is to either use better switches or do a better post-solder wash (both are equally expensive). It is sad that a $200 device is using sub-one-cent switches - more money for Dre, I suppose! The internal construction was also very how-ya-doin' - not good 'nuff for Straya ;) Love the channel and the content. Cheers! p.s.: The major electronics vendors sell switches that are much better (C&K, Grayhill, etc) and cost under 50c/ea in quantities of ten, so I'd recommend spending a fiver and getting a few spares.
@@OldMan_PJ Apple Probably made it cheaper or left it the same, they don't really care about Beats, they just wanted the company so it has their employees to make their own products like AirPods, etc.
@@OldMan_PJ Apple will make it worth, they same money on every sh***t they can, like using boards without water coating, using chips whiteouts underfill that control SSD and so on
@5:00 - Yes...for Siri voice commands or phone calls. I've an Anker speaker that makes wonderful calls and sounds amazing. I keep one installed in a kitchen cupboard under an iPad for cooking ambiance.
Nice fix! I can’t work out how those volume buttons are working via only two connections? Surely you’d need at least three to detect button pressed on two buttons? The only thing I can think is that maybe the buttons are connecting different resistors into a circuit that picks them up on the main control board? Or diodes that allow the current flow one way or the other. That would stop both buttons being useable at the same time though. Which is fine for volume buttons I guess. Any thoughts?
I didn't notice that, but there's an arduino shield that has buttons and an lcd and it uses different resistance values to detect what button is pressed. I've also seen it done with diodes too as you said.
I believe (I may be wrong) that this product uses a TPA3116D2 stereo amp IC which includes a potential divider gain / volume control (implemented here as switched resistor values working in combination with a ramp generator included in the amp IC).
Funny I just fixed an Austin EFM Speaker that had the same problem - tactile switch on the power button was gummy. Different switch for me, I scavanged a direct replacement from an old VCR (the standby/operate button no less) and replaced it. It has awesome sound. Was in the seconds bin at a big box store for $5, and its a $300 retail speaker!
top tip for cleaning them type of switches, is to use blue tack to support the back so it does'nt dinge in , and use a pencil rubber on the back of a pencil, then give it a good clean .. re-assemble
Nice tidy straightforward repair Vince 🤩 Can I ask, did your son make any more progress with the excellent dog portraits he was painting? Or perhaps he's moved on to other things?
She stated that it was refurbished, which means it was disassembled. My wife had this very cheap system that eventually the battery died. Although I could have installed any lithium battery of the same rating, I chose to gut it for the speakers only. She got me a high quality one as a replacement and have seen enough tear downs to know once you open one, they are no longer water proof. I do not think these devices were ever designed to be repaired in the first place.
Nice repair Vince .. Tactile dome You should ask for a sample pack From A US company That manufacturers them Pretty nice kit its free ...I think I have a video on it
I must get round to fixing my Denon mini hifi, just about the awesome sound to it, tape and radio works but the CD tray keeps ejecting. Also got a Pioneer 6 CD hifi needing a total overhaul, suspecting laser is either crusted up or more commonly the lens has come off inside, very nice sounding machine lots of power but struggles to play any CD :(
Have you ever had a go at ear buds? I’m tempted to have a go at mine but destroying the superglue and not ripping anything has me worried but two batteries is like £10 and new ear buds is like £100
Had one of these a few years ago with failing batteries. Bought another from ebay for spares an it was a fake. The thing was horrible build quality and totally different inside with the cheapest components. Eventually got proper battery packs from China and fixed the unit. I was impressed with the sound quality.
What you have to remeber is these products are very cheeply made and then have a label and big price mark slapped on them so it's not surprising that it had a fult and paper used to hold batteries in
lil problem i have here. i have a samsung s9 or s8 which doenst charge, it last worked when i tried charging it with a wireless charger since i recorded in the pool with the phone and water got in the port. the charger cooked the device, it was very hot so i dunked it underwater to cool it then the low battery symbol showed up on the screen and the phone died. a little after that the battery went swollen so me and my dad replaced that but it still will not charge. just gets warm in the lower corner areas, i don't know if i can send this in any time soon, do you know what the fault might be?
Hi, i have an issue with my speaker Riva Arena disconnect from bluetooth or wi-fi after a few seconds of playing music and after is indiscoverible have you ideea what can be?
That black thing is possibly an NFC antenna. Some higher end BT speakers used NFC for instant pairing, by just tapping your audio source device (phone, tablet, etc) onto the speaker, and it would pair without having to push a button.
The LED next to that resistor does look a little discoloured compared to the other 3!!!! Either that or the yellow mat is playing tricks with our eyes 😂Which is entirely possible.
Mat Armstrong also a youtubber is rebuilding a murcielago and have a faulty instrument cluster. Maybe a fun project to repair it? he has no idea how to fix this. and is hopeless.
Jbl, Bose, Sony and UE are all far better speakers. Beats products are mostly about the brand and aesthetic. One product, the Pill XL Bluetooth speaker was so badly made, it even got recalled due to dangerous battery issues!
Why are you fixing a old broke tack SMD switch . These days SMD switch are very cheap to purchase it from any electronics components shops in UK. Under a 1 pound 💷
Yet another button fixed. Speaking of buttons - the button's membrane you cleaned, looked a bit like it's made of plastic with conductive coating and not from metal. P.S.> I am sorry your car got scratched 😞No matter what country, there still will be a moron who does not respect other's property.
Thanks so much for making a video on it! It’s really cool to see it on the channel and I’m surprised at how easy it was to come apart, I expected it to be a nightmare!… also thanks for using the yellow mat, I love it! Thanks so much again for all the videos you make, I watch every single one ☺️
Thank you Hayley for sending it in! Yes it came apart so easily, it was a joy. No annoying clips or glue!!!! Big thanks for sticking with the channel for so long 🙏😎
What a beaut x
Long time viewer and fan. Recently been binge watching your older (2018-'19) 'Trying to fix videos' and I have to say it is awesome to watch how you've grown in knowledge,skill and confidence. Thanks for the hours of entertainment and free education!
I love going back to watch his older videos. Especially his videos on older technology because of his ability to fix those with limited spares.
Every day is a school day so they say. I think one of Vince's best videos was the omega watch. I think I would have called it a day (or wrote some code on a small microcontroller to do the same job) but his creatively on that one was outstanding! (Also he did give me a shout out on that one too so another reason why it's one of my favourites).
Thank you for the video. For some reason I love the sound of you taking electronics apart. Very relaxing 😊
Yes indeed. I love that sound too especially the old plastic covers. Vince is very relaxing, a bit of a ASMR thing 😊. I hope Vince does make video where he doesn’t speed up the unscrewing things.
Nice little fix Vince 👍. I'd probably have replaced the switch with a new just in case the fault re-occurred on the old switch. Looks like your finger is doing a bit better!
I do have some of these switches as well Mick, but I keep forgetting about them. I think the lid/button might be higher on the spares I have. I need to buy a wider range of them as they always seem to fail on various products.
Finger healing well. I have the bandage off now which feel great, but I won't be able to work on the car for a few weeks yet as it is still very tender. Hope your keeping well health wise👍
@@Mymatevince Thanks Vince. I've got a phone call today to arrange to go for an operation to get the stone removed... BUT.... I think I passed it last night! Talk about timing! I was so not looking forward to an op. Bad experiences when I was a kid. Glad your finger is doing better👍 I've still got the gearbox out of my car currently. Got the crankshaft oil seal done now. Just waiting on another seal on the gearbox and I can put it back together.
@@BuyitFixit It sounds like life is keeping you very busy at the mo. Well if you did pass it then that is a blessing, I read passing them is pain beyond relief so I don't envy you!!! Hopefully with less salt in your diet, exercise and drinking plenty of water they won't reoccur. Damn kidney problems...taking away valuable fixing time from one of the best fixers or possibly THE best on this platform!
@@Mymatevince Thanks Vince 👍The pain I had wasn't that bad, and I've not really had much since xmas. I'd say 6/10 I've stubbed my toe and been in more pain before! Yes I don't know how you do it tbh. I've found it a struggle at times to keep to two videos a week, it's almost like a full time job with buying, fixing, recording, and editing!
@@BuyitFixit 🤣 Well a good toe stub is enough to bring any man to his knees!!!! Keep me updated on progress 👍
Great vid Vince, my 1st rule is to give the buttons a good spray with a quick drying switch cleaner. It's done a lot of favours in the past to save time...
Hey Vince, great watch as always and very pleased to see the finger dressing is looking smaller so hopefully its getting better.
Hey Mike! Yes, the dressing is reducing in size thankfully. It was like a novelty finger before. Still a long way of being 'fixed' though, but completely manageable for the smaller fixes. Hope you're keeping well 👍
@@Mymatevince good to hear Vince, all good here and hopefully your back to normal real soon.
This is nice repair video, similarly I found one knock off BT speaker discarded due to broken charging port. It worked on just one 18650 battery, I replaced the charging port and it works fine.
I’ve got a BeatsPill & I use mine all the time at work while cleaning. It’s so portable & works well. The only thing I had to repair on mine was the rubber rings on the speakers as they deteriorated over the years of use & age but some speaker glue fixed that problem. 👌🏼
Fun fix Vince. Hope that finger is healing well, it’s too cold to work on the car anyway.
Yeah, the damaged finger couldn't have happened at a better time 😂 A blessing in disguise!
Repairing that style button is usually a fools errand on anything that you intend to actually use. They get crushed down, like you noticed. Eventually the disc loses its spring and it either exhibits always on or always off, depending on the internal construction.
My wife wore out the timer button on our stove. I bought the replacement control board for $90. Once I replaced it, I saw this style button. I cross referenced them, $.10 on Digikey.
Brilliant fix Vince well done, sounds great too, think you’re right and for its age chances are the batteries had been changed in the past
Thanks for another great fix Vince. Hope there will be a part 2 of this speaker where you replace the batteries and this beats pill will be booming without the power bank.
Great work vince. You found the faulty reason fast.
Small electronics and toy fixes are my favorites.
What kind of toys? I've done quite a few 80s type space invader games.
@@BuyitFixit I like the electrical/mechanical ones in addition to video game stuff. The water power car, pull string talking toys, the horse race are some of my favorite MMV videos. Major nostalgia bombs.
@@discocriscoUnfortunately I've not done anything on TH-cam electromechanical just either mechanical or electrical lol. I worked on a few of those old fruit machines back in the day. They were all relays and timer modules which were micro switches on cams being driven by synchronous motors. They were a nightmare to work on!
just had to stop my movie to watch your upload again!!!
I have boxes and boxes of those small switches in lots of different styles, I have needed to replace them many times.
Totally agree. They do seem a common point of failure.
Great fix! I remember there was lots of knockoffs of those speakers, it’s similarly priced Bose Soundlink Mini mk2 and Mk1 kicked it’s arse as you said 😀
Hi Vince, great repair video. That failure is quite common in *cheap* momentary switches. That contamination you saw was flux that wicked up into the switch because it is not hermetically sealed at the leads. I have seen this issue on production lines, the solution is to either use better switches or do a better post-solder wash (both are equally expensive). It is sad that a $200 device is using sub-one-cent switches - more money for Dre, I suppose! The internal construction was also very how-ya-doin' - not good 'nuff for Straya ;) Love the channel and the content. Cheers!
p.s.: The major electronics vendors sell switches that are much better (C&K, Grayhill, etc) and cost under 50c/ea in quantities of ten, so I'd recommend spending a fiver and getting a few spares.
If this was from 2012 it was 2 years before Apple acquired Beats. Hopefully Apple made them better.
@@OldMan_PJ Apple Probably made it cheaper or left it the same, they don't really care about Beats, they just wanted the company so it has their employees to make their own products like AirPods, etc.
@@OldMan_PJ Apple will make it worth, they same money on every sh***t they can, like using boards without water coating, using chips whiteouts underfill that control SSD and so on
Good fix. The music sounded a lot like 'Inspector Gadget'
i had one of these ages ago hearing the sounds again was so nostalgic
@5:00 - Yes...for Siri voice commands or phone calls. I've an Anker speaker that makes wonderful calls and sounds amazing. I keep one installed in a kitchen cupboard under an iPad for cooking ambiance.
Nice & easy fix and ur dead right about rubber things falling apart after years, my electric toothbrush is starting too, well the rubber is.
Yes that rubber stuff is awful when it goes all sticky. I've had a couple of older devices I've looked at have that problem.
Nice fix! I can’t work out how those volume buttons are working via only two connections? Surely you’d need at least three to detect button pressed on two buttons? The only thing I can think is that maybe the buttons are connecting different resistors into a circuit that picks them up on the main control board? Or diodes that allow the current flow one way or the other. That would stop both buttons being useable at the same time though. Which is fine for volume buttons I guess. Any thoughts?
I didn't notice that, but there's an arduino shield that has buttons and an lcd and it uses different resistance values to detect what button is pressed. I've also seen it done with diodes too as you said.
I believe (I may be wrong) that this product uses a TPA3116D2 stereo amp IC which includes a potential divider gain / volume control (implemented here as switched resistor values working in combination with a ramp generator included in the amp IC).
Funny I just fixed an Austin EFM Speaker that had the same problem - tactile switch on the power button was gummy. Different switch for me, I scavanged a direct replacement from an old VCR (the standby/operate button no less) and replaced it. It has awesome sound. Was in the seconds bin at a big box store for $5, and its a $300 retail speaker!
top tip for cleaning them type of switches, is to use blue tack to support the back so it does'nt dinge in , and use a pencil rubber on the back of a pencil, then give it a good clean .. re-assemble
Nice tip!
Great video Vince!
Now its time to call Vince the SPEAKERBOOMINATOR
😂🤣
Nice one, no parts required, just fixing the existing part :)
That's the thing with Beats. It's more about the branding and Marketing than it is with the overall quality.
Yep, all there products are a bit shit.
Dodgy button? No challenge for Vince. Did I mention before that I love the yellow Mat?😬
😂
it's always a nice repair when it's a simple button :)
great fix Vince :)
Good job mate 👍
What a brilliant fix Vince. I hope you finger is feeling much better. Love and light to you and your family. Paul. 🥰😇😍
rare electronic product brand Sir
Very nicely done!
Great job again Vince =D
A real honest fix!
Nice tidy straightforward repair Vince 🤩
Can I ask, did your son make any more progress with the excellent dog portraits he was painting? Or perhaps he's moved on to other things?
Another nice video, you mentioned a beoplay, I have a A1 with bluetooth connection fault, do you think that has the same type of button?
Considering you've recorded that on a mic there is a decent amount of bass when I play it back. Must have quite a good low end.
I think for its size it is adequate enough, but it doesn't sound like other more premium Bluetooth speakers 👍
She stated that it was refurbished, which means it was disassembled. My wife had this very cheap system that eventually the battery died. Although I could have installed any lithium battery of the same rating, I chose to gut it for the speakers only. She got me a high quality one as a replacement and have seen enough tear downs to know once you open one, they are no longer water proof. I do not think these devices were ever designed to be repaired in the first place.
What _is_ designed to be repaired these days?
Good job on that one
Nice repair 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
That one was very satisfying
Can we all just take a second to appreciate that beautiful "Yellow" mat 😂😂
I'm still not a fan of it, perhaps I'm biased as I've got the blue one myself.
Nice repair Vince .. Tactile dome You should ask for a sample pack From A US company That manufacturers them Pretty nice kit its free ...I think I have a video on it
I must get round to fixing my Denon mini hifi, just about the awesome sound to it, tape and radio works but the CD tray keeps ejecting. Also got a Pioneer 6 CD hifi needing a total overhaul, suspecting laser is either crusted up or more commonly the lens has come off inside, very nice sounding machine lots of power but struggles to play any CD :(
nice video, hows the finger??
Noooo, the yellow mat!! :D,jk. Thanks for the upload Vince.
Have you ever had a go at ear buds? I’m tempted to have a go at mine but destroying the superglue and not ripping anything has me worried but two batteries is like £10 and new ear buds is like £100
Glad to see the bandage is shrinking Vince, looks less like having a corndog for a finger mate 🙂
I see a capacitor on each side of speakers, I think one speaker on each side is low-pass filtered so that the treble is attenuated.
When your looking on eBay for faulty items what do you search for? Or do you search for percific things?
Nice vid man!
This speakers pretty decent definitely not a Dankpods Nugget.
Had one of these a few years ago with failing batteries. Bought another from ebay for spares an it was a fake. The thing was horrible build quality and totally different inside with the cheapest components. Eventually got proper battery packs from China and fixed the unit. I was impressed with the sound quality.
What you have to remeber is these products are very cheeply made and then have a label and big price mark slapped on them so it's not surprising that it had a fult and paper used to hold batteries in
Seen these pill speakers before kinda cool just very expensive
Have you done the Ross yet love to see it running m8
Looks better than it sounds.
lil problem i have here.
i have a samsung s9 or s8 which doenst charge, it last worked when i tried charging it with a wireless charger since i recorded in the pool with the phone and water got in the port. the charger cooked the device, it was very hot so i dunked it underwater to cool it then the low battery symbol showed up on the screen and the phone died. a little after that the battery went swollen so me and my dad replaced that but it still will not charge. just gets warm in the lower corner areas, i don't know if i can send this in any time soon, do you know what the fault might be?
Hi, i have an issue with my speaker Riva Arena disconnect from bluetooth or wi-fi after a few seconds of playing music and after is indiscoverible have you ideea what can be?
The microphone is for hands-free calls.
I think the box it came in would sound better
That works the same as my Beats Headphones
Don't know why but the music reminded me of the "Inspector Gadget" cartoon theme tune 🤔
Vince can u make a video on how to fix my joycon r button. i can click it and it makes the click noise but i press it in a game and it dosent work
👏👏👏
Vince, I believe its time for a proper microscope!
I'm sure he has a stereo one a bit like the one I've got.
I have a few devices with that rubberized coating, and I agree, it's quite dreadful stuff.
That black thing is possibly an NFC antenna. Some higher end BT speakers used NFC for instant pairing, by just tapping your audio source device (phone, tablet, etc) onto the speaker, and it would pair without having to push a button.
Refurbished and they didn't replace an easy button?? Glad Hayley has the MMV team!
£200 brand new when released in the UK
I own a beats pill and we made the mistake of getting a white one because over the years its yellowed...
R72 @5:17 looks burnt..
The LED next to that resistor does look a little discoloured compared to the other 3!!!! Either that or the yellow mat is playing tricks with our eyes 😂Which is entirely possible.
Thanks for watching and commenting Scott 👍
Yes, Bluetooth phone device.
Mat Armstrong also a youtubber is rebuilding a murcielago and have a faulty instrument cluster. Maybe a fun project to repair it?
he has no idea how to fix this. and is hopeless.
18:25 what's the name of the music?
the button on the joycons always do the same
What about the roller, have you abandoned it !
Jbl, Bose, Sony and UE are all far better speakers. Beats products are mostly about the brand and aesthetic. One product, the Pill XL Bluetooth speaker was so badly made, it even got recalled due to dangerous battery issues!
Next video - battery replacement.
Missing Bluetooth on. Beats. Pill. 1.0. Speaker.
Why does the yellow mat look green to me? Anyone else see it too???
Why are you fixing a old broke tack SMD switch .
These days SMD switch are very cheap to purchase it from any electronics components shops in UK. Under a 1 pound 💷
Sounds like the battery on it has lost its lifespan
From the beginning it looks fake is real beats speaker 🤔🤔🤔
wd40s a good cleaner for that plastic
Your videos are (key)
Have to say i always fast forward through your massive name reading ( hate it ).
Don’t think apple would use paper lol they like shit loads of adhesive lol
Yet another button fixed. Speaking of buttons - the button's membrane you cleaned, looked a bit like it's made of plastic with conductive coating and not from metal.
P.S.> I am sorry your car got scratched 😞No matter what country, there still will be a moron who does not respect other's property.
My dads car got vandalised buy a brick
People who key cars definitely are low lifes. I hope somebody got video of the perp(s).
Nice repair but beats is cheap trash for kids cause its "cool" 😇
I thought the thumbnail was a picture of a hot dog. Lol.