I've replaced batteries on 8 surface books and 4 surface pros and ifixit aint lying... such a difficult balance of heat and pressure to get the screen off without cracking it.
Although I appreciate Microsoft making their newer products more repairable and upgradable, I think it's ridiculous that being able to repair a product has become a significant feature instead of something that is taken for granted.
Well, they never thought that the earlier version lasted that long. They thought it was only a niche and thought the people who uses will get something else a few years down the road.
Repairs can still be done on their products by third party repairs. Apple on the other hand, if you change any hardware any of the hardware especially on their iPhone 12. It will greet you with plenty of errors.
Aditya Narayansreejith Yeah, it’s hidden behind the Kickstand and I never noticed it. I even went out and bought a USB-A to micro-SD card dongle to loose when I was doing some Raspberry Pi work. I remember looking at the Surface Connect cable, thinking it was SD-Card, but realising it wasn’t. I forgot that it was even a feature.
"And were done." I love his content. It is therapeutic to view and enjoyable to see someone devoted to not increasing our landfill volume. Three cheers to you, Mr. Jefferys.
Wow, it’s very interesting see the different ways that companies have engineered its own products, I haven’t seen so many shields in a single device, but way too cool understand how it works
im glad about the upgradeability for the new surface, what we need now is sodimm slots and a desktop cpu socket with accessories desinged to add watercooling like a thin ass radiator and thin tubing with thin ass fans
@@WantBadtime Pineapple was still anti repair with their for example on the iPhone 2g the made metal clips on the back to clip in the metal frame which made a high risk of injury and destruction of the back panel to open the phone and with imacs they used very strong neyodinium magnets to hold the front glass. They were anti repair and always will.
Explore Gadgets that's because it's the original and it's sort of a public beta. Apple doesn't know what the costumers want so they just made something that works and listen to what the costumers want. Take a look at iPhone 4-6S, the screen/back pops out with the removal of only two screws (same for iPhones today but there's glue now and many different types of screws). You don't lose any features of you replace parts of these iPhones. Macs before 2012 are also easily upgradable. You just need to remove some screws (or twist the bottom of the Mac mini) and you can easily upgrade RAM and storage. You can even upgrade the CPU and GPU in the iMacs (the front glass is held by magnets that are strong, but not insanely strong. You can easily get it off with a plastic card). Then Apple f-cked everything up by soldering everything to the board.
WTH?! Me and my brother were just talking about how cool it would be if you would upload a video fixing a Surface Pro 4 and BAM! You upload it the very next day?! Do you read minds sir?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You are the luckiest man on earth getting that off without breaking it. I've been working in a repair shop for 3 years now (nowhere near as long as you have been doing these) but the surface 3 4 and 5 have the most fragile thing I've ever worked on. Although after that they use more flexible glass and I personally daily a surface pro X with windows 11
I remember back when Hugh had this ariana mouse pad where he used to do his tiny gadget repairs / upgrades. You've come a really long way. Keep up the good work!
Hi, I was wondering why don't you use a migration tools to copy the software from one drive to another (Seagate disk wizards). It will ensure all the driver will be as same as the original so it will work better. I used to do this for my hdd to ssd upgrade for my laptop
For the adhesive removal, use a "caramel wheel" or automotive pin stripe removal tool. Works great on that type of adhesives which usually see on car badges.
In regards to removing the adhesive, try a razor blade. Worked great for me on ipads. You just run it down the side and take off most of the adhesive in one go. Don't use it on the non metal parts though.
What is the small PCB called attached to the LCD screen? A touch control board? 2:48 You installed Win 10 Pro? 3:43 could you also have replaced the existing ribbon/ flex cable (that didn't fit) with one that would, and kept that first (new) replacement screen? Thank you
Nice one 👍🏽 can’t wait to see you get to 500k!! A huge mile stone! Congrats man you deserve it you’ve inspired many many people to restore there old broken phones (including me)!
one thing i learnt from laptop repair is always run the screen numbers before ordering anything as there is so many variants and alot of the time you find the part way cheaper also some displays can be changed from a 1366 panel to a 1080 one.
I'm sure someone has pointed it out before, but they make heating pads for reptile enclosures that I've found help a LOT when trying to loosen glue, since it only actually heats up to about 10 degrees above ambient, it's also pretty handy to use before using a hot air station on it. just put it on the pad and come back to it an hour later.
I heard people using wd40 to remove the silicone around bathtubs which works beautifully, but after a while, it tends to eat the new silicone as well. Not sure how true it would be for adhesives though.
I did my own replacement of the surface pro 4 display and I found that using the heat gun to heat the adhesive you were having such a hard time with allowed it to come off much easier. Heating and removing over and over.
i am not that type who writes comments when early, i watch the whole video, then say I LOVE IT! keep up hugh im A BIG fan since 2015 :) you inspired me to start my channel keep it up man! :D
For a year at this point, I have been looking forward to Saturday afternoons at work cuz when I’m on my break, your uploads are always between 15 minutes to an hour old. Thaks for giving me something to look forward to 🙏🙏
Yay! Glad to see that someone has repaired one of these unrepairable devices! Only problem is... what happens when the battery eventually fails, as it will do at some point? Those batteries are glued in like no tomorrow! P.S. I have a Surface Pro 3 myself and that is a great device, shame about the lack of repairability though.
I’ve done several, pain in the ass.. Toptip: for removal of the adhesive: use heat. It doesn’t break as much and sometimes you peel whole strings. I’ve never had the screenassembly in one piece pulled from the frame. Good job!
Great Video. I have an sp4 with a cracked screen which I would like to repair. Is there anyway to tell if you have an LG or Samsung screen without opening/dismantling the device ?
For removing the adhesive I'd use a sharpened metal spudger. Wrap some sandpaper around a block of wood and use it to sharpen each side. Works a treat!
I took mines apart recently and yes, that glue was strange. I did leave it in place so I could tack the screen back onto that sticky tar-like surface. It holds quite well, but is able to be pulled off carefully. Leaving it like that till I need a new battery. At that time I'll use repair tape to remount the screen. Awesome videos.
Great work Hugh! Like you, I am a firm believer in fixing old equipment - it can often be used for many years more. I still have a Surface pro 3 that serves as a ‘family’ shared computer, and while I am a Mac user, I do also have a Surface laptop 2 for the times when I need to use a Windows machine. I would love to replace the battery on our old Surface pro 3, but I don’t have the courage (or skill) to remove the display! Thanks for another great video.
The 'gap' you noticed while dissasembling was most likely caused by battery swelling, pushing the screen out of the chassis. Same thing happened to my SP4 (albeit much worse), other SP4 owners will have experienced the same thing too.
It'd make more sense to leave it connected and being cautious considering that disconnecting the battery requires him to take out literally everything else, including the motherboard (which could be shorted out if you try to take it out).
Kyan I might be wrong but there’s a higher chance to short when you are connecting cables with many pins to the socket. You just can’t do this with single movement. I’ve killed my iPhone 5 motherboard doing this, maybe just a bad luck, but I’ve learnt my lesson😀
1217257 There is a high chance but the way the surface battery connects is with a pad that uses the motherboard’s pressure when connected to the case to make contact, so to disconnect the battery to prevent shorts, he’d have to remove everything from the housing which has the potential for shorting something out doing that.
The surface isn't really repairable. In 90% of the cases you'll break your panel while removing it. And inside only the ssd is changeble and maybe the battery. An iPhone can be at least opened without completely destroying it.
@@riceexe You're a close minded salty pineapple fanboy/fangirl who can't accept the truth and always argue with people that Pineapple shit is the best.
Hugh, Sorry to be a pc nerd, but I think that's a surface pro 3. I have my surface 4 pro with windows 10 22h2 with an core i5-7300U but you have a i5-6300U. Is it a different model or it's a surface pro 3?
After lots of research and doing this myself, here's a few points to note, 1. If you have to replace the screen do not get an original Samsung screen. These are prone to failure due to overheating the connection. LG is the way to go, as as per the video go for the SP5 screen 2. You should replace the thermal paste. The old stuff will be dry and useless 3. A new battery is £30, so just replace that as well. 4. The touch L shaped board needs to have good contact with the screen for earthing. The original is attached with conductive paste. So I'd get conductive glue to hold it down to the new screen. 5. Take your time removing the screen. I can easily take up to an hour. I use playing cards, heat and alcohol and work my way round. 6. Take care when removing the screen at the top. The antennas are there and easily destroyed. You can get a new one from AliExpress for I think £15 if you do break it, or I've seen folk just using tinfoil.
i TOTALLY feel your pain with the adhesive. i had to repair a surface book 2 a month ago and it took me around 2 hours to remove all the former adhesive stuff. god knows what they used to glue it together...
Also the orginal or "same as orignal" adhesive can be bought on aliexpress. It's either the original or a laser-cut adhesive which is cut the same way as the original. Aliexpress is probably the best place where you can find most of the surface pro parts even like the wifi antena, LG screen or the battery.
If you like to live dangerously like me, I've found a chisel-tip razor / craft knife helps immensely for removing tough adhesives from devices like the Surface series. The issue is the inherent roughness of the metal its adhered to. More surface area from all of the microscopic bumps and etches in the metal give that already strong adhesive more to bond and cling to.
If you have a surface pro 4, it's about the time where it's scheduled to replace the screen. Flicker gate and an expanding failing battery. Both items has it's hardware failure that causes the time to replace to occur. I would recommend if you are replacing your battery, just replace the following: 1. Battery --> and some specialized double side tape. 2. Screen --> get the sp5 version with the new cable to work with sp4 motherboard. (getting the sp4 screen will give you the same problem down the road). 3. Bigger hard drive SSD (get a new one if you can afford it as this would be a perfect time, largest installed so far is 2 TB ssd m.2 evo). 4. CPU Thermal Grease (if you are going to clean out the fan, which at this time around should be clogged with lint). ** The only down side is the memory is welded down and can't be upgraded. Unless someone knows how to solder or I won't attempt to do this upgrade. Suggestion: I would not glue down the screen more than needed to or just enough to hold the screen down. Since you know there is some maintenance bound to occur in this machine. This will it will be more easily accessible.
I did a battery replacement on my Surface 2 RT. It's a big job since the battery is at the bottom of the stack; nearly everything had to be removed. Successful too. The original battery was bulging which at least made the screen removal very easy, since it was already popped out in places, due to the bulging battery. Cheers.
I'd swear that adhesive looked like the same stuff they use for automotive glass like the windshield and rear window. To get those windows out they use a wire tool that slices through the tar like goo with ease. I'm surprised you got the screen off first try without breaking it. Well done.
Worth noting to be extra careful on the bottom left and not go in too deep with the pick on that side. Was working on a free unit with a bad hard drive and now the screen is broken in the process.
Hello. My surface screen is/ was broken at the time of removal. How do I tell which type of display to buy? The one I have has the green circuit board on the display where the cable connected. How do I tell which one is a Samsung and LG display? I didn't see the LG code thing you saw there and I don't want to buy the wrong one.
Great dismantle for the surface, but I would like to know what the wattage of the heat gun you used as i would not want to crack the the screen as item has a not starting poroblem.? Can you add this to my comment.🤓
In the future, I suggest a citrus-based solvent to remove the adhesive. Just use a Q-tip to apply, allow to sit for a few minutes, then start scraping.
Hello, I have a question, my SP4 has a pen signal issue, on some parts of the screen it doesn't pick up pen signals or sensory. Would that be a digitizer issue? I am clueless in what needs to be repaired
as someone who has worked at a computer store repairing devices. I will definitely say that the surface computer is very difficult to repair this requires a lot of experience. and I will also say that this is a very difficult device to repair especially if the glass is shattered because if the glass of the panel is completely shattered it will take you 10 times longer and to be able to work on one of these because of Microsoft's glue being so damn strong. and I also too had the same problem with the LG/ Samsung display problem with the mix-up with the weird cable problem that he had. not to mention if you are working on one of these he made it look super easy but you do need a lot of heat to be able to pry off the display because also up where the webcam is on the tablet at the top of where the display is Guess what Microsoft did they put the Wi-Fi antennas at the top of the display so if you're prying off the glass of the display you are also damaging your Wi-Fi antennas completely. like we're talking about completely ripping the antenna cable so terribly that you get worse Wi-Fi performance once you're done not even joking. I'm surprised he didn't even have that trouble!. I have done 4, 5, and 6 and even 7 surface pro repairs I did one of each model and after a while we just quit doing screen repairs. because of the glue being so terrible to work on and also damaging the antennas.
I got a Surface Pro 4 and I need to replace the screen. How do I know which model to choose between the 2? It isn't specified in the "device information" tab?
That black spot on the bottom right seriously looks like a person with a cape or hoodie walking 😂
Lol true.
Intel UHD Graphics 617 if you follow Hugh on a Instagram he posted it on his story about how weird it was
Your name Is amazing
Can you run crisis?
I actually thought that black blotch was a person, and part of the desktop wallpaper. I was looking around thinking "what black blotch?" XD
iFixit: surface pro 4 has the repairability score 2 / 10
Hugh: hold my beea
hmm yes
*beea*
@robert PerkTheClown no, it's an Aussie joke
us texans like to say it as "holed mah bee er"
I've replaced batteries on 8 surface books and 4 surface pros and ifixit aint lying... such a difficult balance of heat and pressure to get the screen off without cracking it.
Right
Although I appreciate Microsoft making their newer products more repairable and upgradable, I think it's ridiculous that being able to repair a product has become a significant feature instead of something that is taken for granted.
At least there doing it unlike apple
Well, they never thought that the earlier version lasted that long. They thought it was only a niche and thought the people who uses will get something else a few years down the road.
CB
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Do you feel the same for every single mobile device manufacturere out there too? if not,, well,,, hypocrisy ;)
Clearly enough space to use screws + clips on the display panel. Microsoft really loved to make repairs difficult.
Yeah they don’t want you to repair it yourself they want more money
Officer Harroberi it was just apple at first then It spread
@@three_sheeps_in_a_trenchco3134 yeah but unlike microsoft apple designs it so you can't open it microsoft could've made it easier too open 😂
what about apple lol
Repairs can still be done on their products by third party repairs. Apple on the other hand, if you change any hardware any of the hardware especially on their iPhone 12. It will greet you with plenty of errors.
I see you changed your profile picture nice!
He did it ages ago
@Cassius Sexton yep
@Cassius Sexton ye I know a few days ago is a long time I noticed it last week
True
Good eye
You don't see a lot of surface pro repairs on yt... This is refreshing to watch! Keep it up!
How you Ausies manage to do such a good job whilst standing on your head amazes me. Well done.
I’ve had a surface pro 4 for years and never noticed the SD-card slot!
What??
Aditya Narayansreejith Yeah, it’s hidden behind the Kickstand and I never noticed it.
I even went out and bought a USB-A to micro-SD card dongle to loose when I was doing some Raspberry Pi work.
I remember looking at the Surface Connect cable, thinking it was SD-Card, but realising it wasn’t. I forgot that it was even a feature.
Me too. It’s nice to know I’m not alone 😂
Yeah, I've heard that a few times from various people.
Haha. Now you know! ;)
"And were done." I love his content. It is therapeutic to view and enjoyable to see someone devoted to not increasing our landfill volume. Three cheers to you, Mr. Jefferys.
Thanks mate! have a loverly day
I was waiting for that “And were done!”
Yeah, so legend has it he is still working on that thing to this day.
Windows
Still doesn't hit as much as "get that crunch".
@@BJsTrashChannel on god
10:05
Wow, it’s very interesting see the different ways that companies have engineered its own products, I haven’t seen so many shields in a single device, but way too cool understand how it works
im glad about the upgradeability for the new surface, what we need now is sodimm slots and a desktop cpu socket with accessories desinged to add watercooling like a thin ass radiator and thin tubing with thin ass fans
Microsoft: anti-repair -> repair friendly
Samsung: meh -> meh
Apple: repair friendly -> anti-repair
Nah, apple is anti-repair for years
Not for older Apple products 2012-under
@@WantBadtime Pineapple was still anti repair with their for example on the iPhone 2g the made metal clips on the back to clip in the metal frame which made a high risk of injury and destruction of the back panel to open the phone and with imacs they used very strong neyodinium magnets to hold the front glass. They were anti repair and always will.
Explore Gadgets that's because it's the original and it's sort of a public beta. Apple doesn't know what the costumers want so they just made something that works and listen to what the costumers want. Take a look at iPhone 4-6S, the screen/back pops out with the removal of only two screws (same for iPhones today but there's glue now and many different types of screws). You don't lose any features of you replace parts of these iPhones. Macs before 2012 are also easily upgradable. You just need to remove some screws (or twist the bottom of the Mac mini) and you can easily upgrade RAM and storage. You can even upgrade the CPU and GPU in the iMacs (the front glass is held by magnets that are strong, but not insanely strong. You can easily get it off with a plastic card). Then Apple f-cked everything up by soldering everything to the board.
@@LuisMan123 apples pc and laptop products are highly repairable dont just take the mobile market, also the i liked 2g
10:45 Nice 128MB memory card :D
🤣
You can technically increase space with a memory card of that size but what you're basically doing is blocking your Micro SD card slot
GB!
Oh wait.. I thought it was the frame with the 128 GB card.. Apologies!
Harira Normal normal vc eh normal?
WTH?! Me and my brother were just talking about how cool it would be if you would upload a video fixing a Surface Pro 4 and BAM! You upload it the very next day?! Do you read minds sir?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
J Sanchez LOL
LOL
You are the luckiest man on earth getting that off without breaking it. I've been working in a repair shop for 3 years now (nowhere near as long as you have been doing these) but the surface 3 4 and 5 have the most fragile thing I've ever worked on. Although after that they use more flexible glass and I personally daily a surface pro X with windows 11
I remember back when Hugh had this ariana mouse pad where he used to do his tiny gadget repairs / upgrades. You've come a really long way. Keep up the good work!
Hi, I was wondering why don't you use a migration tools to copy the software from one drive to another (Seagate disk wizards). It will ensure all the driver will be as same as the original so it will work better. I used to do this for my hdd to ssd upgrade for my laptop
For the adhesive removal, use a "caramel wheel" or automotive pin stripe removal tool. Works great on that type of adhesives which usually see on car badges.
Wow, that's such a good call! Also, doesn't that adhesive look like RTV?
In regards to removing the adhesive, try a razor blade. Worked great for me on ipads. You just run it down the side and take off most of the adhesive in one go. Don't use it on the non metal parts though.
Hey！Hugh, the adhesive clue, to my experience, can be removed by the nail polish remover. You can have a try.
What is the small PCB called attached to the LCD screen? A touch control board? 2:48 You installed Win 10 Pro? 3:43 could you also have replaced the existing ribbon/ flex cable (that didn't fit) with one that would, and kept that first (new) replacement screen? Thank you
Nice one 👍🏽 can’t wait to see you get to 500k!! A huge mile stone! Congrats man you deserve it you’ve inspired many many people to restore there old broken phones (including me)!
You are MAGIC, Hugh, you are just what the customer needs for repairing hard-ware and soft-ware, kind regards.
Road to 500K!!!
he deserves millions of subscribers
@@luiis6674 nah he deserves billions (:
Ikr he deserves 500K or even more
Road to 600K
one thing i learnt from laptop repair is always run the screen numbers before ordering anything as there is so many variants and alot of the time you find the part way cheaper also some displays can be changed from a 1366 panel to a 1080 one.
This is the first time Hugh repair a Microsoft Surface, Good job!🎉
I'm sure someone has pointed it out before, but they make heating pads for reptile enclosures that I've found help a LOT when trying to loosen glue, since it only actually heats up to about 10 degrees above ambient, it's also pretty handy to use before using a hot air station on it. just put it on the pad and come back to it an hour later.
Try to use WD40 to remove the hard to remove adhesive😊
I heard people using wd40 to remove the silicone around bathtubs which works beautifully, but after a while, it tends to eat the new silicone as well.
Not sure how true it would be for adhesives though.
You should clean the area first before you apply a new adhesive
No.. Go to a hardware store and get some goof off removal.
Oh no
Superbly informative. No fast forward or skipping details thank you.
Windows is activated automatically because of SLP (System-Locked Preinstallation), where the key is embedded in the UEFI firmware.
Also makes old Lenovo clients really easy to repourpose :)
same with all laptops that have Windows 10 pre-installed. Just run the windows 10 installer from Microsoft and you're good to go.
@@rudskyful And make sure to have a spare product key or try transferring it over when swapping out a motherboard.
I did my own replacement of the surface pro 4 display and I found that using the heat gun to heat the adhesive you were having such a hard time with allowed it to come off much easier. Heating and removing over and over.
i am not that type who writes comments when early, i watch the whole video, then say I LOVE IT! keep up hugh im A BIG fan since 2015 :) you inspired me to start my channel
keep it up man! :D
For a year at this point, I have been looking forward to Saturday afternoons at work cuz when I’m on my break, your uploads are always between 15 minutes to an hour old. Thaks for giving me something to look forward to 🙏🙏
Yay! Glad to see that someone has repaired one of these unrepairable devices!
Only problem is... what happens when the battery eventually fails, as it will do at some point? Those batteries are glued in like no tomorrow!
P.S. I have a Surface Pro 3 myself and that is a great device, shame about the lack of repairability though.
Repairing a broken machine is sort of a virtue in respecting what we have and minimise our consumption!
Keep it up!
10:38 128mb sd card? That thing still exists!?!?
I’ve done several, pain in the ass.. Toptip: for removal of the adhesive: use heat. It doesn’t break as much and sometimes you peel whole strings.
I’ve never had the screenassembly in one piece pulled from the frame. Good job!
Looking fresh Hugh!
Great Video. I have an sp4 with a cracked screen which I would like to repair. Is there anyway to tell if you have an LG or Samsung screen without opening/dismantling the device ?
Now there's something you don't see everyday. Great work! Keep up! 😃
WORLD needs more peoples like hugh! HE can restore every device! Less trash more working cheaper devices
Relax it's not like he's getting them out of the sea he's buying them off eBay
Microsoft learning the wrong things from Apple, making somethings hard to repair
Been subbed since 7k it’s great to see your channel grow!
I’d imagine that if the microphone was left on during the adhesive removal that this video may have been demonetised 🤷🏼♂️😂😂
I just realized that all techs use whatever keyboard is available near by xD. Uve helped me quite a lot at my job so keep up the awesome vids!
Love your channel for your restoration content, it’s good to see that there are people in this world that care about restoration and repair
Dear Hugh, nice to see you work again, thanks for showing and kind regards.
10:43 After installing the new ssd, he just installed another 128MB memory card😂
AAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
For removing the adhesive I'd use a sharpened metal spudger. Wrap some sandpaper around a block of wood and use it to sharpen each side. Works a treat!
I thought the dark broken LCD part was a person
I took mines apart recently and yes, that glue was strange. I did leave it in place so I could tack the screen back onto that sticky tar-like surface. It holds quite well, but is able to be pulled off carefully. Leaving it like that till I need a new battery. At that time I'll use repair tape to remount the screen. Awesome videos.
I love the final words “and we’re done” 😂👍 keep up the good videos Jeffrey
Great work Hugh! Like you, I am a firm believer in fixing old equipment - it can often be used for many years more. I still have a Surface pro 3 that serves as a ‘family’ shared computer, and while I am a Mac user, I do also have a Surface laptop 2 for the times when I need to use a Windows machine. I would love to replace the battery on our old Surface pro 3, but I don’t have the courage (or skill) to remove the display! Thanks for another great video.
The 'gap' you noticed while dissasembling was most likely caused by battery swelling, pushing the screen out of the chassis. Same thing happened to my SP4 (albeit much worse), other SP4 owners will have experienced the same thing too.
Where is the best vendor and price to order a replacement surface pro 5 - 1796 screen from?
Yeah, it’s okay to mess around anything with connected battery.
1217257 yeah, I mean, that was a bit...
It'd make more sense to leave it connected and being cautious considering that disconnecting the battery requires him to take out literally everything else, including the motherboard (which could be shorted out if you try to take it out).
Kyan I might be wrong but there’s a higher chance to short when you are connecting cables with many pins to the socket. You just can’t do this with single movement. I’ve killed my iPhone 5 motherboard doing this, maybe just a bad luck, but I’ve learnt my lesson😀
1217257 There is a high chance but the way the surface battery connects is with a pad that uses the motherboard’s pressure when connected to the case to make contact, so to disconnect the battery to prevent shorts, he’d have to remove everything from the housing which has the potential for shorting something out doing that.
Kyan didn’t know that:( we’ll, I hope Microsoft do better now with their new surface machines
I love watching your vids. They're so calming and informative. Your voice isn't annoying like many other UA-camrs.
Ooooo I'm early! Love your videos!! 😎
Great video! could you please give a link to the NVMe enclosure you used to repurpose the old SSD? I've been looking to get one for NVMe m.2 M Key
Love your content Hugh's Hope You Get to 500k subscribers! :P
I've done a screen replacement on this tablet. Getting rid of the black adhesive was piss easy, with a sharp knife it scrapes off like butter
Microsoft: making Surface more repairable.
Apple: making their products more difficult to repair, puts tremendous amount of repair price
The surface isn't really repairable. In 90% of the cases you'll break your panel while removing it. And inside only the ssd is changeble and maybe the battery.
An iPhone can be at least opened without completely destroying it.
I hear an isheep coming.
@@exploregadgets1774 I hear a closed minded person coming (android user here btw)
As the first guy said, Surface is not repairable. Whats your point?
@@riceexe You're a close minded salty pineapple fanboy/fangirl who can't accept the truth and always argue with people that Pineapple shit is the best.
Hugh, Sorry to be a pc nerd, but I think that's a surface pro 3. I have my surface 4 pro with windows 10 22h2 with an core i5-7300U but you have a i5-6300U. Is it a different model or it's a surface pro 3?
Mf, you have a PRO 5! The Surface Pro 3 has a Windows Logo button on the right side and uses 4th Gen Intel. The Pro 4 uses 6th Gen Intel.
7:27
Microsoft:*evil laugh*
goof off products: *enters the chat*
After lots of research and doing this myself, here's a few points to note,
1. If you have to replace the screen do not get an original Samsung screen. These are prone to failure due to overheating the connection. LG is the way to go, as as per the video go for the SP5 screen
2. You should replace the thermal paste. The old stuff will be dry and useless
3. A new battery is £30, so just replace that as well.
4. The touch L shaped board needs to have good contact with the screen for earthing. The original is attached with conductive paste. So I'd get conductive glue to hold it down to the new screen.
5. Take your time removing the screen. I can easily take up to an hour. I use playing cards, heat and alcohol and work my way round.
6. Take care when removing the screen at the top. The antennas are there and easily destroyed. You can get a new one from AliExpress for I think £15 if you do break it, or I've seen folk just using tinfoil.
Surface Pro 4 BIOS looks like Windows settings lol
It's a good design honestly
@@SkynetCyb Not just good. It is the best.
my hp bios looks like ms-dos
@@Ev11nroo i want to install Windows 10 but when i press on my New HP. Noos optipns: tEsTs
Its nice that a company actually made a good looking BIOS.
i TOTALLY feel your pain with the adhesive. i had to repair a surface book 2 a month ago and it took me around 2 hours to remove all the former adhesive stuff. god knows what they used to glue it together...
Theyre only giving you 2 pcie lanes ... seriously :D
Also the orginal or "same as orignal" adhesive can be bought on aliexpress. It's either the original or a laser-cut adhesive which is cut the same way as the original. Aliexpress is probably the best place where you can find most of the surface pro parts even like the wifi antena, LG screen or the battery.
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Sad that you are commenting something completely unrelated to this video.
Jeff you have not mentioned the cost of the spares used. Can you share. A few days back, I damaged my display of mu surface pro purchased 6 years ago.
Hello. For the 'tar like' adhesive removal you need to heat it up. It scrapes easier.
Microsoft really cares about the eco system! They knew about the electronic waste issue!
If you like to live dangerously like me, I've found a chisel-tip razor / craft knife helps immensely for removing tough adhesives from devices like the Surface series. The issue is the inherent roughness of the metal its adhered to. More surface area from all of the microscopic bumps and etches in the metal give that already strong adhesive more to bond and cling to.
If you have a surface pro 4, it's about the time where it's scheduled to replace the screen. Flicker gate and an expanding failing battery.
Both items has it's hardware failure that causes the time to replace to occur. I would recommend if you are replacing your battery, just replace the following:
1. Battery --> and some specialized double side tape.
2. Screen --> get the sp5 version with the new cable to work with sp4 motherboard. (getting the sp4 screen will give you the same problem down the road).
3. Bigger hard drive SSD (get a new one if you can afford it as this would be a perfect time, largest installed so far is 2 TB ssd m.2 evo).
4. CPU Thermal Grease (if you are going to clean out the fan, which at this time around should be clogged with lint).
** The only down side is the memory is welded down and can't be upgraded. Unless someone knows how to solder or I won't attempt to do this upgrade.
Suggestion:
I would not glue down the screen more than needed to or just enough to hold the screen down. Since you know there is some maintenance bound to occur in this machine. This will it will be more easily accessible.
That black spot looks like a person chilling on the screen 🤣❤️
Would loved to see how a battery replacement would go. I have the same laptop with a new SSD and battery waiting to install. Thanks for the video.
Hey from that lot can’t you get iPad unlock by Apple by showing them proof that u bought them???
10:00 Why didn't you finish peeling the plastic off? Why? Why??
Do you sell these devices that you repaired? I would buy this surface
I did a battery replacement on my Surface 2 RT. It's a big job since the battery is at the bottom of the stack; nearly everything had to be removed. Successful too. The original battery was bulging which at least made the screen removal very easy, since it was already popped out in places, due to the bulging battery. Cheers.
I'd swear that adhesive looked like the same stuff they use for automotive glass like the windshield and rear window. To get those windows out they use a wire tool that slices through the tar like goo with ease. I'm surprised you got the screen off first try without breaking it. Well done.
You talk very politely about previous users! Great video, better mentality!
Worth noting to be extra careful on the bottom left and not go in too deep with the pick on that side. Was working on a free unit with a bad hard drive and now the screen is broken in the process.
Hello. My surface screen is/ was broken at the time of removal. How do I tell which type of display to buy? The one I have has the green circuit board on the display where the cable connected. How do I tell which one is a Samsung and LG display? I didn't see the LG code thing you saw there and I don't want to buy the wrong one.
Great dismantle for the surface, but I would like to know what the wattage of the heat gun you used as i would not want to crack the the screen as item has a not starting poroblem.? Can you add this to my comment.🤓
Hugh you should use nylon scrapers for the adhesive, it’ll prevent scratches as it’s not a hard enough material.
My old IPad 2 has ghosting on the display even though it’s not damaged! Weird!
In the future, I suggest a citrus-based solvent to remove the adhesive. Just use a Q-tip to apply, allow to sit for a few minutes, then start scraping.
I had a Surface Pro for 4 years before upgrading and giving it to my GF who is still using it to this day. Love how long they last
I love my Surface tablet. The quality is very good and the performance is great. Thank you for this video Hugh.
4:20 what you have also done is get a replace ribbon cable matching the samsung display.
Hello, I have a question, my SP4 has a pen signal issue, on some parts of the screen it doesn't pick up pen signals or sensory. Would that be a digitizer issue? I am clueless in what needs to be repaired
How did you install manually using windows installation? you should be using Recovery Image
Wow you managed to take the panel off without destroying the glass. Good job.
Would a special E6000 or Y6000 remover work for the display adhesive? I'm guessing that's what they use for it.
how can you differentiate whether a surface pro 4 having a samsung lcd or LG lcd panel ? without dissembling the screen.
as someone who has worked at a computer store repairing devices. I will definitely say that the surface computer is very difficult to repair this requires a lot of experience. and I will also say that this is a very difficult device to repair especially if the glass is shattered because if the glass of the panel is completely shattered it will take you 10 times longer and to be able to work on one of these because of Microsoft's glue being so damn strong. and I also too had the same problem with the LG/ Samsung display problem with the mix-up with the weird cable problem that he had. not to mention if you are working on one of these he made it look super easy but you do need a lot of heat to be able to pry off the display because also up where the webcam is on the tablet at the top of where the display is Guess what Microsoft did they put the Wi-Fi antennas at the top of the display so if you're prying off the glass of the display you are also damaging your Wi-Fi antennas completely. like we're talking about completely ripping the antenna cable so terribly that you get worse Wi-Fi performance once you're done not even joking. I'm surprised he didn't even have that trouble!. I have done 4, 5, and 6 and even 7 surface pro repairs I did one of each model and after a while we just quit doing screen repairs. because of the glue being so terrible to work on and also damaging the antennas.
I got a Surface Pro 4 and I need to replace the screen. How do I know which model to choose between the 2? It isn't specified in the "device information" tab?