I can only imagine how rewarding it must be to bring back to life a phone that looked so destroyed. Your skill and experience make it look straightforward, but this level of repair is not for the fainthearted, and there's always the risk that the previous repair attempts destroyed something. Hugh; the master at work!
That was a phone?! I'm surprised they even decided to sell it!? Amazing just how many individual components are involved let alone having to transfer it into a new frame! Either way, a great save Hugh! 😎
For anyone confused by the battery, it's actually two at that capacity. The fast charging technology that they use splits the battery into 2 with half of the capacity so that the phone can be charged faster. It's the same case with my Oppo find N, which charges at 35 Watts so the battery is divided for that as well.
These restorations are awesome and a really good value. The only problem I see is finding good quality or original parts for a variety of phones. If that would be readably available, a lot more phones would be fixed and not thrown away
13:01 I just got an iPhone 12 for free from someone I know. I paid about 150€ for parts and now it looks like new again. It was the most time consuming fix I ever made with all the small parts inside the housing and those magnets that have to be individually transferred and glued down into the new housing.
as far as I remember, oppo likes to embed very strong reset protection in their smartphones. but, apparently, this phone was an exception. Great job, Hugh!
I can imagine the sense of accomplishment you get from repairing everything you do. Swapping batteries in an SE and a note 9 gave me that feeling, and i want to keep fixing crap.
i've just realised how easy the repair of a samsung a20e was... had the display with a frame, so that brought the hardiness down by a lot, but still... this seems awful lot more complicated that what i had to go through with
I personally like using Oppo devices. I have been using this phone for many years now, my first smartphone was the Sony Ericsson, then got an Oppo F1. I loved the phone instantly. Then I got Oppo F2 because it was more good, then the F5 and the F9. I also got Oppo A9 2020 because it had a very very good camera quality. And it was an absolute beast for games! Now I am using the 2 newer Oppo phones, F19 and F21. When Oppo F21 was released I bought it on the 2nd day and they gave me an extremely fantastic Bluetooth speaker! For being a long-time consumer I got many gifts from them. This is why I love Oppo. All these aside, amazing repair job! I never knew Oppo was a bit complicated to repair. I love these kind of videos, keep it up Hugh!
Yet another beautiful repair. I can't afford fixing phones anymore because it's getting a bit too expensive for me, but I can at least vicariously live through your videos hahah 💕
I'm sad for that. Saw another comment of yours done 11 months ago saying you would start doig repair videos and went to check it ou and found this comment instead... I'm sorry for that.... hope your finantial situation gets better, i know bulgaria is f up... good luck.
08:23 - I think 🤔, I would have ALSO ADDED a thin smear of CPU/Thermal Paste on the copper heat transfer part, so that it ensured a good full thermal contact with the copper on the back of the screen to aid in cooling (considering that the black carbon film is missing too)... BUT other than that, bit of a mighty job for a complicated built phone, Nice work! 👍👌 😎🇬🇧
I remember seeing this phone in the hands of tech reviewers and I was in love with the design. The display is way too expensive so I'd never be able to take on a project like this. But for example, I fixed a Oneplus One (made by Oppo as well) where the display was only $20 from AliExpress and it felt amazing getting that thing up and running!
3:18 correction: The Find X3 Pro actually has a 4,500 mAh battery. It is divided up into two cells. It is not a 2,250 mAh battery. That would be ludicrous for a phone released in 2021.
The thermal paste applied probably wasn't enough, that amount is enough to fill the gap between desktop cpu and its heatsink, but phone heatsink and the cpu usually has quite a big gap. You can see just how much the thermal paste was in there needed to cover enough surface area.
OPPO have fast become my favourite manufacturer. A recent Android updated recently killed HD and HDR streaming on Netflix on my Find X2 Pro (Widevine DRM). As it turns out, it ruins it on a hardware level. I contacted OPPO support and they replaced the entire mainboard even though the phone was out of warranty. Support even sent me photos of the repair as it was happening.
As a true true OPPO fangirl, and after seeing this absolute outstanding revival of an OPPO findx3 there's only one question going through my mind... Can we marry? I just need a man who can fix OPPO's in my life! Just kidding! But big thumbs up for doing this! Wish you was my neighbour instead! 😂 Spot on, and I love to watch all these repairs. Wish I had the right equipment and knowledge to do this myself. Keep up the good work! 👍🏽
Hi Hugh I love ur vids and I’m a big fan I was watching you when I was 9 and now I’m 12 I notice we have some similar interests I like restoring and repairing phones and I have decided to get a ifixit minnow tool kit and it’s made such a big difference from the cheap tool.thanks for ur recommendation
I am all for nice features like mari-sillicone X etc... but if a $1500 device has that kind of security, I am not buying it even if it is that cheap after repairs. Great repair work though!
Not surprised that the test display works with Oneplus phones. After all, they’re owned by the same OEM, BKK Electronics which owns Oppo, Vivo and Oneplus.
Haha I loved that windows 98 reference skit, although it's very sad that FRP has to be a thing. I feel that even if a phone was to be stolen, FRP would do nothing anyway. I absolutely wouldn't mind if you were able to bypass FRP with the caveat that the phone must be fully reset (which is the way it was before Apple started their iCloud activation lock BS, of course it always comes back to them...)
Absolutely amazing skills you have sir 👍 I have this phone brand new works like a charm.. Only thing I do regret that it lacks wonderful cases if you want to protect your phone.. Like Samsung and Apple you will get all the top brands but for these it's useless.. I like otterbox but to my surprise nothing so that lets me down Phone is fast and great the only reason I bought this phone is it's ultra sonic fast charging it's really get you back on your feet in no time thanks I really enjoy watching your content
Ok i know this will sound strange, but i'm studying to become an electronics engineer and your videos helped me a lot. But we only dissasemble old phones like Galaxy s6, S7 models etc, so it's way easier.
I think one of the reasons they dont put glue adhesive just beneath display these days is cos when the phone is heated up the glue intensifies the heat and this shows up on the display visible to the user especially on white screen. It will appear as a glow/bright spots in the same way glue has been laid. Because displays are especially so much thinner these days. This is the reason why the heatsinks are manufactured in the way manufacturers knows they would need to sink in all the heat away from the body.
This was a very pleasing video to watch. Made me feel good :D But in all seriousness, this looks like a relatively repairable phone right? I love stuff that can be fixed. Good job
I don't mean to sound like a drag but you should mention that the back glass is a cheap alternative (since it looks and costs 15$) and it will not come close to the quality of the original part which by looks alone shows significant difference. Cheap parts like this also have a high possibility of not fitting properly, messing up all the hard work you've put on the very last step. Otherwise great video as always!
Nice video, I do repairs too and I have a question, every time I get a back glass replacement, I can’t use the glue that comes with the new back panel, it doesn’t stick on the phone and eventually it falls apart… so I decide to apply my own liquid glue but I see you use the actually glue that comes pre installed in the back panel. My question is, do you something else to make sure it doesn’t falls apart ? I know you put two extra stripes of orange glue, but do you do something else?, thank you for sharing.
It was no bypass. He was wrong. It was asking for his old phone's password in which he logged his gmail account for restoring backups present in google one. Standard procedure for all androids over 10. Do you really believe android after 13 years will have that?? I am surprised how he made that mistake.
11:00 I have never seen easier bypass than this 😂 Btw, this phone reminds me iPhone 4s on iOS 7.0.2 which I got completely disassembled and had to guess which screw gets where. I ended up disassembling another 4s to check the right places for screws, using it as a “navigator” (hope you got it 😂)
Actually he was wrong. The phone was asking for his previous phone's password in which he used the gmail account. This is a standard procedure for androids to ask for copying settings from previous android and is not mandatory. You can even see "checking for backup" just before it asks for password. Phone is actually checking backup on his google account and is asking for his password and not the password of previous owner of the phone. He cancels it and it goes ahead without restoring any setting. There is no such thing as "reset protection" on android. TBH i can't believe he of all people made this mistake.
hey jeff, I really enjoy such videos with a successful attempt at the end. while Im not sure you posted this before but it would nice to see a failed attempt and see what goes wrong
Kudos man, I would have just binned that. My shaky hands would have ripped every ribbon in that thing and they don't make glasses strong enough for me to see all that tiny crap. Rick Moranis would need to shrink me with his zapper, maybe then.
What do you think of oppo's hugh? I find they are the best at taking apple design and improving it, mostly on the software side not hardware design though
oh, it's very similar to the oneplus. Could you tell me if you can change the logic board of an LE2127 for an LE2125?...It's that the 2125 is 12/256 and the LE2127 is 8/128 and without 5g.
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This phone sounds like a math problem
This phone sounds like a meth problem
HAHAHA TRUE
OPPO really seems to love their Maths problems; Oneplus, Find x, etc. I guess Maths class was important after all!
Omg yea ahahaah
You need X amount of small screws, and Y amount of big screws. However, you have 5 more screws than needed. Find the correct screws.
I can only imagine how rewarding it must be to bring back to life a phone that looked so destroyed. Your skill and experience make it look straightforward, but this level of repair is not for the fainthearted, and there's always the risk that the previous repair attempts destroyed something. Hugh; the master at work!
That was a phone?! I'm surprised they even decided to sell it!? Amazing just how many individual components are involved let alone having to transfer it into a new frame! Either way, a great save Hugh! 😎
The ammount of parts is nothing compared to an iphone
@@Zach.O I need iphone 13 pro max
For anyone confused by the battery, it's actually two at that capacity. The fast charging technology that they use splits the battery into 2 with half of the capacity so that the phone can be charged faster. It's the same case with my Oppo find N, which charges at 35 Watts so the battery is divided for that as well.
These restorations are awesome and a really good value. The only problem I see is finding good quality or original parts for a variety of phones. If that would be readably available, a lot more phones would be fixed and not thrown away
Now that's a lot of damage!
That was certainly a non-trivial repair. Well done!
Wow! that was an amazing restoration! You do have a lot of patience my friend! Cheers!
Great to see something different to Apples and Samsung. Well done Hugh.
Thank you for watching our videos
@@Vladimir-Putin-1952 what
13:01 I just got an iPhone 12 for free from someone I know. I paid about 150€ for parts and now it looks like new again. It was the most time consuming fix I ever made with all the small parts inside the housing and those magnets that have to be individually transferred and glued down into the new housing.
I own this phone and you're the only person to have uploaded a detailed video showing it's internal hardware, thank you so much!
9:47
I've personally used old junk speakers of all shapes and sizes as screw holders. I got a feeling this bag of screws is exactly that.
The battery is actually 4500MaH, each cell is labeled per it's specification, not the combined spec of the two.
4500mAh split into 2 is equal to 2250mAh
I'm pretty sure that the 2200mAh marking on the battery is per cell, since there are 2 cells and 2 markings. So the pack in total would be 4400mAh
I love the b-roll footage once it's done. So clean.
as far as I remember, oppo likes to embed very strong reset protection in their smartphones. but, apparently, this phone was an exception. Great job, Hugh!
I can imagine the sense of accomplishment you get from repairing everything you do. Swapping batteries in an SE and a note 9 gave me that feeling, and i want to keep fixing crap.
i've just realised how easy the repair of a samsung a20e was... had the display with a frame, so that brought the hardiness down by a lot, but still... this seems awful lot more complicated that what i had to go through with
I personally like using Oppo devices. I have been using this phone for many years now, my first smartphone was the Sony Ericsson, then got an Oppo F1. I loved the phone instantly. Then I got Oppo F2 because it was more good, then the F5 and the F9. I also got Oppo A9 2020 because it had a very very good camera quality. And it was an absolute beast for games! Now I am using the 2 newer Oppo phones, F19 and F21. When Oppo F21 was released I bought it on the 2nd day and they gave me an extremely fantastic Bluetooth speaker! For being a long-time consumer I got many gifts from them. This is why I love Oppo.
All these aside, amazing repair job! I never knew Oppo was a bit complicated to repair. I love these kind of videos, keep it up Hugh!
This was an amazing restoration and proves the importance of device reparability and true ownership. Congrats and keep up the great work!
Dude. This is one of your most hectic repairs. Well done
Yet another beautiful repair. I can't afford fixing phones anymore because it's getting a bit too expensive for me, but I can at least vicariously live through your videos hahah 💕
I'm sad for that. Saw another comment of yours done 11 months ago saying you would start doig repair videos and went to check it ou and found this comment instead... I'm sorry for that.... hope your finantial situation gets better, i know bulgaria is f up... good luck.
08:23 - I think 🤔, I would have ALSO ADDED a thin smear of CPU/Thermal Paste on the copper heat transfer part, so that it ensured a good full thermal contact with the copper on the back of the screen to aid in cooling (considering that the black carbon film is missing too)... BUT other than that, bit of a mighty job for a complicated built phone, Nice work! 👍👌 😎🇬🇧
I remember seeing this phone in the hands of tech reviewers and I was in love with the design. The display is way too expensive so I'd never be able to take on a project like this. But for example, I fixed a Oneplus One (made by Oppo as well) where the display was only $20 from AliExpress and it felt amazing getting that thing up and running!
3:18 correction: The Find X3 Pro actually has a 4,500 mAh battery. It is divided up into two cells. It is not a 2,250 mAh battery. That would be ludicrous for a phone released in 2021.
Ludicrous, but not for iPhones
What an absolute madlad. Its like a Doctor moving all the organs into a new body. Bravo!
The thermal paste applied probably wasn't enough, that amount is enough to fill the gap between desktop cpu and its heatsink, but phone heatsink and the cpu usually has quite a big gap. You can see just how much the thermal paste was in there needed to cover enough surface area.
12:48 I'm now bothered by the batery percentage but it's working!
Your content has been increasingly interesting the past while! keep up the good work!
OPPO have fast become my favourite manufacturer. A recent Android updated recently killed HD and HDR streaming on Netflix on my Find X2 Pro (Widevine DRM). As it turns out, it ruins it on a hardware level. I contacted OPPO support and they replaced the entire mainboard even though the phone was out of warranty. Support even sent me photos of the repair as it was happening.
Wow! You’re the god of phone restorations! I love watching your repair videos and it’s like an amazing 🤩 experience.
This is the most awesome thing I ever seen 😊
How can you remember all those pieces back to the right place, amazing!! Well done Hugh!
As a true true OPPO fangirl, and after seeing this absolute outstanding revival of an OPPO findx3 there's only one question going through my mind... Can we marry? I just need a man who can fix OPPO's in my life!
Just kidding! But big thumbs up for doing this! Wish you was my neighbour instead! 😂 Spot on, and I love to watch all these repairs. Wish I had the right equipment and knowledge to do this myself. Keep up the good work! 👍🏽
I love it when you say the buttons will fly into another galaxy
I fixed my phone screen by myself because of you and your videos
Hi Hugh I love ur vids and I’m a big fan I was watching you when I was 9 and now I’m 12 I notice we have some similar interests I like restoring and repairing phones and I have decided to get a ifixit minnow tool kit and it’s made such a big difference from the cheap tool.thanks for ur recommendation
btw the oppo branded screw goes on top of the battery cover section of the mid plate its a tamper proof type screw used by most of the Chinese brands
Watching this kind of video is a 幸せ moments
I am all for nice features like mari-sillicone X etc... but if a $1500 device has that kind of security, I am not buying it even if it is that cheap after repairs. Great repair work though!
7:18 to quote Eric O. - "Every tool has a hammer side" :)
Not surprised that the test display works with Oneplus phones. After all, they’re owned by the same OEM, BKK Electronics which owns Oppo, Vivo and Oneplus.
Haha I loved that windows 98 reference skit, although it's very sad that FRP has to be a thing. I feel that even if a phone was to be stolen, FRP would do nothing anyway. I absolutely wouldn't mind if you were able to bypass FRP with the caveat that the phone must be fully reset (which is the way it was before Apple started their iCloud activation lock BS, of course it always comes back to them...)
even after 2 years its not easy to replace, one of the best phones i had so far
Thank for you❤
You earned your Peso's on that one, Buddy.
Well done 🙂
I love the iFixit! It would be weird now if there was a repair without the trusty old iFixit kit! 💖💖
If This Dude Fixed A Broken Phone , I'll Consider It As A New Phone ❤️
3:19 it is a 2x 2250mAh battery for fast charging, so it is actually 4500mAh ;)
Astonishing to see how you tackle these projects! Your skills are outstanding 😅
Absolutely amazing skills you have sir 👍 I have this phone brand new works like a charm..
Only thing I do regret that it lacks wonderful cases if you want to protect your phone..
Like Samsung and Apple you will get all the top brands but for these it's useless..
I like otterbox but to my surprise nothing so that lets me down
Phone is fast and great the only reason I bought this phone is it's ultra sonic fast charging it's really get you back on your feet in no time thanks I really enjoy watching your content
Hugh. I love to know the time it takes you to doe these?
"It goes flying into the next galaxy"
Haha reminds me of the springs from my pen when i used to take it apart.. No chance of finding them ever again.
that part of the video was funny
"Fly into the next galaxy, never to be seen again" I've had that happen with screws, and small parts in old laptops
Keep up what you are doing Hugh
Loving the restoration Video Hugh nice work!!!
Ok i know this will sound strange, but i'm studying to become an electronics engineer and your videos helped me a lot.
But we only dissasemble old phones like Galaxy s6, S7 models etc, so it's way easier.
I think one of the reasons they dont put glue adhesive just beneath display these days is cos when the phone is heated up the glue intensifies the heat and this shows up on the display visible to the user especially on white screen. It will appear as a glow/bright spots in the same way glue has been laid. Because displays are especially so much thinner these days. This is the reason why the heatsinks are manufactured in the way manufacturers knows they would need to sink in all the heat away from the body.
Love watching what is in these devices
never to be seen again remark was funny
Dude I really appreciate your videos and why you do them. Thanks a lot!!
One impressive phone repair!
12:00 the lenses look mad dusty
Excellent work as usual! Nicely done video..
Does the fingerprint work after screen replacement? The new under display fingerprint sensors require calibration after after you replace the screen.
Great video, the oppo is in my opinion the best phone on the market. I would never own an iPhone. I own an X3 and I love it.
This was a very pleasing video to watch. Made me feel good :D
But in all seriousness, this looks like a relatively repairable phone right? I love stuff that can be fixed. Good job
I don't mean to sound like a drag but you should mention that the back glass is a cheap alternative (since it looks and costs 15$) and it will not come close to the quality of the original part which by looks alone shows significant difference. Cheap parts like this also have a high possibility of not fitting properly, messing up all the hard work you've put on the very last step. Otherwise great video as always!
Fixing someone. Failed. Repair. $30. Opp find. X3. Pro. Restoration
Broke my heart seeing that phone in such a condition.... I have that handset and I love it, great vid and repair!
Nice video, I do repairs too and I have a question, every time I get a back glass replacement, I can’t use the glue that comes with the new back panel, it doesn’t stick on the phone and eventually it falls apart… so I decide to apply my own liquid glue but I see you use the actually glue that comes pre installed in the back panel.
My question is, do you something else to make sure it doesn’t falls apart ? I know you put two extra stripes of orange glue, but do you do something else?, thank you for sharing.
Replacement parts will be hard to find
There’s just so many parts in that phone. The last phone I repaired was an iPhone 6, and it definitely didn’t have as many
I love your job I’m trying to collect all the old iPhone
I have one question I've been wondering for a bit, considering how many phones you've repaired and how many you have, what is your daily phone?
You've inspired me to try replacing the battery on my iPhone 6.
11:00 LMAO it is I have fought with the lock on some phones It’s always painful you got lucky
It was no bypass. He was wrong. It was asking for his old phone's password in which he logged his gmail account for restoring backups present in google one. Standard procedure for all androids over 10. Do you really believe android after 13 years will have that?? I am surprised how he made that mistake.
Isn't it 2200-2250mAh x 2 in that battery? They use 2 batteries to increase charge speed..
Awesome work! Great video
11:00 I have never seen easier bypass than this 😂
Btw, this phone reminds me iPhone 4s on iOS 7.0.2 which I got completely disassembled and had to guess which screw gets where. I ended up disassembling another 4s to check the right places for screws, using it as a “navigator” (hope you got it 😂)
Actually he was wrong. The phone was asking for his previous phone's password in which he used the gmail account. This is a standard procedure for androids to ask for copying settings from previous android and is not mandatory. You can even see "checking for backup" just before it asks for password. Phone is actually checking backup on his google account and is asking for his password and not the password of previous owner of the phone. He cancels it and it goes ahead without restoring any setting.
There is no such thing as "reset protection" on android. TBH i can't believe he of all people made this mistake.
that's some real Windows 98 technology
@@TheRealGigaCat there is a reset protection called “FRP lock”, google it
Not sure if you cleaned the camera lens there before you close the back glass.
This is better than watching Indian FAKE restoration
Good work! I am fixing my iPhone 5 today which shoud be a cool process
That was a rather advanced repair!
hey jeff, I really enjoy such videos with a successful attempt at the end. while Im not sure you posted this before but it would nice to see a failed attempt and see what goes wrong
Does the UD fingerprint sensor work?
It sounds so different without music haha. Great video
Just one time I want to hear him say “Crikey”
Oh god…😂😂😂
Kudos man, I would have just binned that. My shaky hands would have ripped every ribbon in that thing and they don't make glasses strong enough for me to see all that tiny crap. Rick Moranis would need to shrink me with his zapper, maybe then.
What do you think of oppo's hugh? I find they are the best at taking apple design and improving it, mostly on the software side not hardware design though
I also worked on another phones stuck buttons, they are the most difficult parts to move from one frame to another
You forgot to remove little bit of plastic protective film from rear glass (top left corner) 12:28
Good day Hugh! What Chinese Phone Brand is reliable for you? I'm thinking of buying Infinix Brand, is it good? Hope you answer this one, thanks you...
Great video, but how you removed FRP? Im struggling with a samsung one given to me by my relatives
oh, it's very similar to the oneplus. Could you tell me if you can change the logic board of an LE2127 for an LE2125?...It's that the 2125 is 12/256 and the LE2127 is 8/128 and without 5g.
I would test that before adhering the screen, not the back panel.
Goddamn that’s a lot of work. Amazing.
beast of a phone.. and it have a microscop camera
Exceptional job! Beautiful.
Beautifully done. How about a gaming laptop, next?