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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2014
- What's inside the new GoPro Hero 4 Silver action camera?
And how to open your GoPro Hero 4 for repair.
Dave tears it down!
See the new Sony Exmor-R image sensor.
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It really is amazing at how much technology they have crammed into such a small space. It really shows that gopro cares to get out a quality product unlike some other manufactures. Great video, as a electrical engineering major, i definitely enjoyed it.
What a great camera!!! Great tear down, awesome to see someone who knows what they are talking about do this.
Thanks for showing the part where you fixed it back up! Loved the whole episode.
Teardown... Saturday?
I'm okay with this.
Who cares what day it is, it's a teardown :D
CrownGamingAU Striking the UA-cam search terms before anyone else has a teardown up, this is a world first AFAIK.
EEVblog quick, do a consumer review!
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What a great video, I really enjoyed your knowledge and it was giving me some real insight into the toys we use all the time. I feel it is important to know how at least as much as my limited experience can, how things are made and what goes into the toys we use in our everyday lives. Love your website.
Loved the video, and the timelapse rebuild at the end was so satisfying. Keep it up!
Fantastic teardown. Thank you. What a beautiful piece of gear.
Best deep review of the Gopro 4 ever :D
Happy new week
thumbs up for the teardown
thx for the video
and HUGE thumbs up goes to the guys from GoPro for this very cool camera.
respect!
16:55 , I think the FLIR TG165 scared you for life.
He did get the FLIR TG165 for free and he already owns a higher model.
So: Why be careful?
This GoPro seams to be paid with his own money and to be used for his other hobbies. So the teardown was not the main reason to buy it.
sarowie thanks Dave!
Thanks Dave. That was a pleasure to watch.
Thanks so much! Just used your breakdown to replace a scratched lens!
Very nice piece of equipment there. I'm glad to see they've finally added a screen to the back. Good teardown.
I admire your patience. I'm prone to snapping clicky pegs off things while disassembling :S
Thanks for doing this tear down Dave! I live for these little camera's and use them a ton! Their performance in cold weather (i.e. Snowmobiling) still worries me. Back with the Hero 1 we could go for hours on one battery, but with all these newer ones it seems I only get maybe an hour or less of record time.
So impressive, the power consumption and the use of space, techporn for sure.
"Don't Turn it on, take it apart ! " , awesome teardown Dave and the GOpro is the dogs nuts aint it cobber !
I really liked this teardown, thanks for the upload
It's amazing on how much you can Put in such a small form factor... Good Job to GoPro!
This was a great tear down, very interesting what was in there.
Nicely done Dave, thanks.
Yes! This is what I just wanted to see today!
Beautifully done. I especially enjoyed your explanation of the elegance of the design, something laypeople like me just take for granted.
Fantastic teardown Dave - Thank you :-)
Great tear down, was a fun watch.
Well done on the teardown, nice presentation, video and sound quality. One point if I may always missing from these teardowns is a little bit of detail, What is the smallest passive component on the board, smallest component pitch and PCB thickness?
As someone with the Hero3 Black, it's good to know the Hero4 Silver is basically the generation-jump comparison to the H3 Black.
And yeah, the 720p240 and 4K capabilities of the Ambarella A9 being limited to the H4 Black whilst the H4 Silver gets 720p120 and no 4K does make sense for keeping the thermal output of the chip a lot lower for the rather passive heat management in the Silver, whilst the Silver gets the LCD touchscreen and the Black doesn't.
It's rather hard not to drool over how beautifully designed the H4 Silver is, whilst watching the teardown. XD
Wow, that was an awesome tear-down, thanks!
I think GoPro's main driving force is the number of high spec Chinese copies appearing for a quarter of the price with almost undistinguishable performance. Like the SJ4000 WiFi which beat GoPro to having a screen on the back.
Not to mention the load of extra functionality like control over things like white balance. If you do a UA-cam search for SJ4000 GoPro comparisons it's almost identical side by side footage.
bigclivedotcom Not so really. With SJ4000 and clones you never really know what you get. GoPro is more expensive, but it just WORKS. Optics are high quality and you actually have warranty too. If you have time to play around, you can save few dollars with SJ4000, but it's a joke when you need to do professional work.
***** Well I've got a GoPro hero 3 black and it has some glaring omissions like manual control over white balance? Instead it just creeps the balance about in the background with very odd colour effects on static images. Looking at the side by side comparisons on UA-cam I'm actually tempted to buy an SJ4000 and see how it compares to my GoPro for workshop videos. If anything the knock-off's are the boot that GoPro need to write leaner firmware for their cameras and add the painfully missing features.
bigclivedotcom to be honest, i bought an sj4000 from t-mart when they had them on sale for £30... not a bad price so i got one... it is really impressive, but if you then buy a gopro black 3+ (beats the sj4000 by a mile in my opinion) and just got my gopro 4 black with a detachable screen on the back, the quality of that is just in a completely different league to my sj4000... from what i can see, the sj4000 looks very sharp, almost too sharp... very jagged pixel-ation going on... where as both my gopro's have very realistic clarity, the colours don't have a ridiculously high dynamic range like my sj4000 has... i was so excited when i received my sj4000, its unbelievable for the price how good it is, but its incomparableto the new gopro's that are coming out
Jack Allen At that cost I fear you may have got one of the SJ4000 clones. (Yes, a clone of a clone). When it's so cheap it may look like the original and have the same name, but it may be just a cheap dashcam inside.
Now i know why GoPro charge a premium price for this superb sub compact video camera.
The technology and research into designing this camera must have been very intense.
Love mine, it takes incredible video.
EEVblog Ive done alot of recording on a hero 3+. From my experiences the housing around the lens gets very warm after a short period. I think this is what they are using to dissipate the heat of the sensor. I believe thats why they changed the design of the hero 3 from that of the hero 2. It also works very well at keeping the lens from misting over, especially in under water shots
Looks like a great day to charge up the Sinclair, whack the GoPro 4 on and take a spin to see if the vibration dampening is any better. Have a great day Dave! Thanks for the teardown, interesting.
Nice one Dave !
Love a teardown, what a beautiful thing.
Great video!!thanks for sharing!!!
i fucking love EEVblog! Dave you're the best!
awesome tear-down...!
I'm giving a big thumbs up, luv your videos. P.s did it go back together easily?
About the heat dissipation: the lens itself is a "heat-pipe" itself and when you are using the waterproof case the heat go to the black "ring" around the lens!
Pretty cool and genious! (i discovered it becouse it get hot while doing 4k)
Nice. Please do a Hero 4 black teardown as well.
That shirt is freaking awesome!
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Damn, that is some inspiring design right there
Like your style .... New camera.... lets open it up most of us wouldn't do it great stuff
HUGE improvement since go pro 1! ;)
@EEVblog I do believe they're using the lens housing as the heat sink. Even when the camera is inside the waterproof housing you can feel the metal black square lens housing getting pretty hot.
Dave, maybe you want to do a teardown of the China-Clone SJ4000 in comparison to the GoPro?
great one!
This is so cool!
great video, thanks. I have a hERO 4 SILVER with a broken display. Is it likely that the screen is glued to the back?
Hi, great video. Could you do a video replacing the front lcd or how to just remove lcd. Ta Ian.
Looks like the first GoPro that has actually sharp image. Well done, well done, what do year we have now?
You can imagine how much better and more compact devices like this could be if we had more efficient batteries.
My Go Pro , drop in water ....swimming pool with case opened !
in 2 weeks dosent turno on again . do you think if i open it , and put in rise ....could be turno on again ?
oohjeay a teardown without destroying the device :D
Can you make a lipstick style housing for the the Gopro3 or 4? Motorcycle community would love it!
at 17:20, that thermal interface material on the two smaller chips looks like it did not even make contact with the heatsink?
Great Video. No need to open it myself. Just watch your video.
I'm going to take a guess that this couldn't wait till Tuesday? Lol. It just seemed like you were so antsy to dive into that piece of equipment that you couldn't wait. Otherwise, this was an interesting teardown, thanks Dave.
really cool to see a teardown of popular electronics and not just a wanky consumer review.
And 8 years later I ended up needing it 😂
which battery model is on the board so as not to lose the settings and date / time? I need to change mine, but before opening it, I already wanted to buy the battery. If you can help, thank you
Hi, do you know what chip is responsible for the LCD light? I have a Hero 4 Silver and the light is so dim, almost looks off. Have replaced the LCD but the problem never got solved, I think it has to do something from the board. Any info where to look at would be appreciated, thanks!!
I wonder what's the second chip to the processor? Is the Hero4 Silver locked down and it can actually match the black's perfomance?
Hi, do you have an idea what kind of internal microphone could fit in? Mine stopped working (on a GoPro 4 Black).
Thanks in advance.
12:00 What does that yellow pin/switch do, above right test point and to the left of wifi chip? It is pressed down by the battery compartment when assembled and supposed to do something. But what exactly? Camera switches ON regardless. .. even thought it freezes later, no matter what I do :(
hi..i have a go pro hero 4 silver but the wifi not working if open wifi not show wifi icon from lcd and also the led light no blingker...what is a problem? i need to fix..thank you
I'm sorry, what is the "pure markening" in phrase about LCD absence in black edition?
hi, i have a question, i dropped my gpro4 silver , lens is cracked and the unit does not turn on at all, i replaced the battery, NOTHING, i want to make sure it will turn on so i can purchase a new lens. let me know pls
thank you
Can i take the speaker off one of my busted gopro 4 silvers and put it in my good gopro 4 silver were its speaker is not working?
how did u get rid of the dust particles between sensor and the optics? :d it's not manufacture cleanliness anymore in your lab.
Would you happen to have a help video for reassembling? After I put it back together, it will not turn on.
Hi, where would the IR filter be on the Gopro 4 ? on the lens or image senor?
Nouice m8. .. wish I was there. Have fun.
Hi , did you teardown the china Xiaoyi camera ? is that possible to do a compare? ~
How did you remove de screw next to the lens con the top connector board?
You get what you paid for, overall quality is damn good.
At 17:54 it shows that the amberella is able to handle 4k 30fps, so why does the silver edition only shoot in 4k 15 fps?
Afternoon today I tried to change my lens in my GoPro I completed all the steps however when trying to take the lens out the sensor board came out (flat flex board 11:28) I through that I put it back correctly but when i now turn my GoPro on the screen come on but is black and even when I touch it nothing happen please help?
how to get to buttons?please help me,i use sj8000(sj9000) but they have almost same build,pls explain me because i need to fix teem
whenever i plug in the gopro in my computer it says that unplug the device that is causing too much power. It's the only device that is plugged in? what could the issue be?
If a GOPRO 4 silver gets wet outside the plastic housing, would it be a good idea to open it up and let it air dry? Whats the chances it would still work?
Great video!!
Can someone help me identify the wifi button connector? It got damaged and i wish to disable it
Hey dude. Thank you for you video. I need to change the usb connect.
I currently try right now to fix it
How you removed the screw below the lens between 15:32 and 15:33. It stuck below^^
Thank you
The first person with british accent that I understand! Hell Yeah!
Awesome teardown btw
+Kddv1993 He's Australian, mate.
+L4RRY LOL
You're a bit more careful with this than with the flir I see. ;-)
Hi, could i get the mode button flex with you? Thanks!
Was that the Victorinox explorer in the background.
Any videos on how to replace the microphone in this thing?
EEVblog It would be interesting to see a comparison between one of these and a cheaper action cam. Something like the Jaycar equivalent.
"bet chore bottom dolla..." ;-) love the accent...
wonder if they bothered to use arm9 and 11 built in flash ip security features or if you could jump the boot loader pins and boot in usart or something or jtag and flash the chip to create diy 720 240 fps? would be an immense amount of work but if we know it has the capability. i guess it's just a matter of data and clock speed or memory bus speeds and clock speed. could be the chip manufacturer says it can do it but gopro realized it really wasnt feasible.
Hi, could you help me with few gopros 4 silver and black that are like new but DEAD! I contacted the support team via gopro website but did not help. I believe a component needs to be replaced!
i start in 480p and cant belive it is srsl 480p, what the ? awesome quality, need to change my as100v
Can you do a thermal analysis of the gopro with your Flir camera? And maybe compare the Hero 4 with Hero 2 if you still have it?
3zuli I currently don't have either!
Wait for it, wait for it..... here it comes.... "and we are in like flyn!"
1:13 "and if we slide our tool in there *pop* bingo!"
The flex on the side has the touch controller, looks like it is hard to get to. Has anyone identified the touch controller on this?
Can someone please help me, my GoPro hero 4 silver fell of my helmet today and there is a black spot on the screen does anyone know where I can get instructions on how to fix it? Please help me! Thank you!
i have a hero black 3+ and when connected it never switches over from internal mic to external mic grrr
Hy, is there any board schematic on this model ?