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.
I really hope you recover soon, stay strong.
ever since that happened tech never really felt the same anymore.
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.
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..
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!
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 love it when you find missing screws and repair show mistakes.
I’m surprised it even powers up! I love ❤️ t when you fix bridges with almost nothing! Great vid!!
I'm from Lithuania. Love your videos
Dude. You are amazing!
Nice effort Steve, had a feeling it was blod, send it the cod3r see if he can find the fault & repair it
Hi, greatings from Lithuania!! ❤
Hello there!
Black Friday fixes. Nothing better, Steve :)
So glad you enjoyed this one!
Thanks A LOT for your videos from Italy ❤️
Glad you like them!
Nice one! Brand new video!
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.
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.
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 :)
Great episode,Steve.
Man I thought the "Oooh wait" at the end was you going to tell us you fixed the PS4. 🤣
I know it will work because you're doing the work and I know that you're the best
Love your videos you are my favourite RUclipsr
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.
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
That's so sad. You had so much work to do and bluedeath is what you get for reward :( Great job!
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!
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.
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.
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!!
You're the man!
loved the vid !!!!
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
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 RUclips or Disney+ i get a static screen what causes this.
@TronicsFix im from latvia thanks for rembering about lithuania atleast
So the psu in a PS4 can work in 110 volt land as well as in 240 volt land?
Thank u!
Love all the content . We have the right to fix our own goods ..
The perfect amount of thermal paste fixes almost anything.
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
Man... they really went to town on this poor board...
Yes, they did.
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.
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
yo i got that tool kit today i recomed you get it very good
Lithuanian PSFro; not what you'd expect to run into every day. Makes for an interesting video!
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
I have an original 60 gb ps3 I would love to get repaired by you how do I go about doing that
Do you have any videos for ps4 "software" troubleshooting/fixing?
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.
Steve, do you still do your repair classes?
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.
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.
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
I wonder if reflowing the APU couldn't rix the Blod, partialy at least?
Even the perfect amount of thermal paste couldn’t fix this PS4! 😳
How did you get started in doing stuff like this?
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?
What does the blue light mean? It's not "posting"?
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
what thermal paste do you use??
Holy moly, very surprised this PS4 came from my country
I can never get my solder wick to take, what am I doing wrong?
This guy is a national treasure!
But did u managed to fix the problem with the blue light
You are so powerful!
Why not try checking out components to see what's causing the BLOD?
because he is too lazy. Many times he just make up excuses why not to continue working on. My favourite is "its APU problem" and this quote solves everything and give reason to give up lol
@johnnyhun1 Don't be so mean to him :D, check the merchant shop :D instead.
I've learned a lot from him to be true. And, any attempt of the repair is better than none ;). He can always send it to the TheCod3r if he can't fix it :).
But, I'd send to ToltecMerc in the USA rather than send it to the UK to be true. But hey, I run only an electronics repair shop and who am I to talk about it. It's not my YT channel :D. My has only over 220 subs :D.
@@screen-protector he is really good I am not denying it, but it just bothers me that he gives up sometimes halfway through either because he is not in expert in that area, or just lazy. If he is not expert then no problem, just admit it.
@@johnnyhun1 have to like it, agree ;). I admit to even worst things LOL. I admit to all :D. On the 25th of Feb on my YT here I'll show how I've damaged 128 legs CPU in one BENQ monitor :D. Did I want it? No. But, I fixed it and the customer is happy ;). So, what's the problem ;). Even if my customer wouldn't be happy and I'd try my best, I'd still show it to them ;). I can pay for what I do wrong ;).
Steve the best 💓😁
Were the missing thermal pads added?
how can i send in a Xbox one gears of war edition to get an HDMI PORT fixed?
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
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
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 do you stay so humble after all that and find blue light of death ! 😢 quality videos though!
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!
Where can I buy the consoles that you repair?
Why power slot is always getting ripped off? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.
Will there be a part 2 on the roombas
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.
Can the RAM chips be upgraded to 16GB?
If you please help me ...i have ps4 .. can not power on ...i open the power supply and i found stand by volt (4.7v) but i did not find 12 volts at all ... I short circuit the pin 5v and Ac Stand by to have 12 volts but no way ...would you please help me to get 12 volts ...or you think the problem is another issue ...thanks
You need a new power supply or you need new components or maybe a fuse
What it would take to fix this Steve?
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.
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
I have done some repairs without a microscope and that stuff is really TINY.
I'm sad that this one couldn't be fixed :o(
By any chance do you think you can fix my ps4? It keeps going into Safe Mode and I have to keep updating it with my USB or Wifi. When ever I get out of safe mode it will freeze and over heat alot and everthing is so slow
The hard drive is failing as they only last 3 to 5 years and overheating caused by old thermal paste so you probably need a new harddrive and new thermal paste and maybe a good clean
Isnt a blue light of death fixable?
WTF. How do you do something like this to a board. I've never seen something that botched.
This one was pretty messed up!
Some of your links in the description don't work. Maybe you need to update them.
Was it not the hdmi port?
Lithuania! :D
I'm having the worst lagging and freezing up. I've tried every tip and trick on RUclips. I can't get any help from Sony. Do you have any ideas on how to fix it.
What model ps4 if it's old you might have to replace thermal paste and do a system repair from the safe mode the hard drive might also be close to death as they only last 3 to 5 years and start getting slower as it ages
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."
I have a PS3 Slim that I tried to fix: it turns on, shows up the recovery screen on TV, but after some seconds it turns off by itself. I even opened it up and replaced the thermal paste, as my brother said it could be a thermal problem, but that didn't helped at all. :(
Hard drive failure maybe
Or faulty power supply 😊
do yopu sell parts hdmi filter coils and IC ps4
Very col
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
I just dont get it why all these companies are calling themselfes "repair shops" because if they cant even fix stuff like (micro)soldering or trace repairs (with wires or pad strips) than they dont have the right to call themself a repair shop xD
And thats also why I dont trust these shops. Whenever one of my electronics fail or has an issue I fix it by myself most of the time and if I end up doing more damage than there is no one to blame other than me :3