When I saw how tiny the area really was at the end, you called it a mess but I call it a masterpiece. It all looks so big on the close up I forget that it's zoomed in that far. Amazing work, I hope the customer was happy and it functioned again.
Ask the customer to take a picture and send it to you before the quote if they can. If not or they refuse, charge extra. This is the 21'st century. If they can text their Boss to have a sick day, they can send you over a photo of the damage! Anyway, full respect to you for finishing this abomination of a home repair.
I tried such repair only with heat gun I said there Is no way I will fix it cause I dont have even microsoldering station I have very stable hands etc but still no equipment well my point is if I fixed it I would have workin console for 15$ the cost of the heat gun if not then I go to ps5 well I messed up and I lost even one of the capacitors in the board next to hdmi but I cant imagine how a guy can rip soldering pads I work with phone repairs etc and never encountered broken pads he did good job on breaking them
@@HeLrAiSiNg1 have you ever heard of punctuation? well, what more do i expect from someone who attempted MICRO SOLDERING WORK armed with nothing but a heat gun....
I had a record of 10 jumpers on this same model of board. It took me 3 weeks to figure out where to run the jumpers! I wish I had this video then, it’s definitely saved for next time!
@@tony001212 Dosent mean you cannot get them in some sort of Reddit forum. Someone somewhere has dealt with this before. There is a wealth of home brewed info on these things online.
I've done a fair bit of "blue wire" work, and it's always time consuming. I wish there had been videos like this when I learned how, you are providing a great educational service to future repair techs.
@baz watts I see value in the knowing if somebody else can repair what was mangled. Perhaps because I seek after Christ, as I have done quite a botched job of it many times.
I am SUPER impressed by this, and someone already said but we were all thinking it already. Not many other techs would have even attempted to repair that hot mess of a dumpster fire.
i watch a bunch of you newer videos and love them and think you are a very talented person in this trade... but after watching this video you have blown my mind on how good you are at fixing these items...you are a modern day badass my friend!! keep up the great work!!
What an amazing repair!!! if you look under the microscope you make it look easy but at the end if you see how small this all is... just amazing what skills you have.
Nice touch with the music background. After seeing this, I'm thinking about asking for photos when I hear they attempted to repair. And I thought the board from Jamaica was bad. This is why I call you the surgeon. Great patience. Great repair.
man right when he starts cleaning and the music is going its so satisfying to watch that mess get cleaned right up by his hands to the music love the quality of your work but i must say the quality of you videos is awesome as well it really conveys the felling you must get when cleaning this mess of a board because i feel it as well :)
This deserved my like. I would never try to do that, that's mad soldering skills right there, closest I would've done is scrape what's left of the trace and jump from there.
I'm so impressed that you guys actually work on customer attempts. Where I work we vehemently deny anything thats been attempted by the customer because of this. Our company has a fixed or no charge policy and so many people bring laptops that look like they've been through a shredder for us to fix. If they don't tell us they've worked on it we'll spend hours trying, fail, and not charge them. Such a waste!
Omg, why do people think they are microsoldering specialists. This boards chance of working is still good, but only because it's in the hands on a specialist. Good luck sir on this repair.
Absolutely amazing. The fact you kept your price, still went for the repair, I mean... if that isn’t the biggest symbol of passion for your work and above and beyond service, I don’t know what is. Speaking of passion though- where did you acquire the skillset to do this? Self-taught with tons of experience or do you have an EE degree?
I have an EE degree. If I attempted this job, it’d probably end up like the customer’s job :^). University is great for learning about theory, electrical design, reasoning, etc. - but not really for hands-on skills like this. At least in my experience
@@playdo93 totally. I come from the other end, I’m a self-taught guy... but I always wonder if the concepts from formal EE training could fill gaps in understanding that self-teaching may miss.
On the PS4 I see repair shops do this all the on hdmi port repair, even experienced people that do microsoldering. The reason is the very thick ground plane and thick multi layer board. Trick is you have to use a preheater under and then hot air the top side and hdmi port will come out without lifting traces.
You should get them to send in photos of both sides of the boards in these cases. You would at least have a chance of quoting a realistic price for your time.
Im from Phillipines i always watching you. Your so awesome when you solve the problem keep it up sir im watching your video tutorial and try it in actual i learn lots
@@reacey some hdmi traces need to be the same length because of the differential pairs based on the spec and I’m sure there max are trace length requirements
I have come to two ... no... three conclusions watching your videos. 1. Get a bunch of scrap boards and practice, practice, practice. 2. Once I set up a device, stop pulling plugs. The plugs seem to be the weak points 3. If I have a device that I really want fixed right, send it to you
Spaghetti Monster! That's very intense work love all these videos it's like a treasure trove of knowledge presented in a very easy to understand how this works. Can't wait to start doing this kind of work.
It's honestly ridiculous how many people ask about the wires touching when he mentions in the video that they're insulated. Not to mention the fact that every other comment asking this has been answered by either him or someone else. *facepalm* EDIT: Typo >_>
Thats not a repair, thats a refurbishment. A true master of your craft. Id find an acrylic case for that badboy. I sure hope the customer tipped well...
Nice videos! I recently found your channel and it got me hooked. Did this actually work properly? I mean those are high speed HDMI data lines so I guess they originally had to be impedance matched?
I was about to say about the solder mask because there are a lot of wires there and with solder mask it will stay in place but you read my mind on the end of the video :)
I enjoyed watching the video but you should have explained or mentioned how you found where the pins on the hdmi port connect to. I’ve briefly explained in some posts how you could have approached this problem, but a lot of people would have found this interesting.
Very nice, i've recently buyed a notebook with the same problem on one ram socket. Since i had another broken one i tryed some repair, but as result i definitively broke also the other 😤
I just repaired a PS4, I'm not a professional, but do electronics as a hobby (have decent microscope etc), was given it by a friend who has bought a replacement, just to have a play. Every single pad was ripped off. I basically did what you did for every pin, but only bothered with the pin 2 ground, leaving 5, 8, 11 and 17 not connected. I've checked with a cut hdmi cord that every pin is connected as it should be (pins 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19) and that they are not shorting against each other etc. The PS4 now works fine, had it on for hours, picture is 100% fine. However, I have a Sony TV with 4 HDMI ports and my sky box plugged in. I have the HDMI control turned on on the sky box and usually if I press a button on my sky remote, it turns on both the Sky box and the TV. But when the PS4 hdmi is plugged in, regardless of whether it's on or not, turning on my Sky box doesn't automatically turn on the TV (or change input device), as soon as I unplug the PS4 HDMI the tv works as expected. Any ideas what's missing/wrong please? It makes no difference whether I enable or disable the PS4 "Enable HDMI device link" Thanks
Excellent video. Must of taken a lot of patience. This is a dumb question... but what wire are you using? And why doesn't it matter that the wires are touching? At 16:40 you mentioned right at the end the wire was insulted - so guessing that's why they can touch, but I didn't see any insulation?
really great repair. I'm no expert but I would have done the signalling pairs first which were the closest to do to keep them side by side and as short as possible
I need to do this on my Xbox series x, because during a simple HDMI port replace(I bought a broken console), the heat got too extreme and obliterated the wires on the board..I don't even know if I can fix it, but seeing you pull this off gives me hope.
I'm new at soldering and all that stuff, i started like 3 months ago, but bruh, the customer made sure to really kill that board before stopping the "repair".
When I saw how tiny the area really was at the end, you called it a mess but I call it a masterpiece. It all looks so big on the close up I forget that it's zoomed in that far. Amazing work, I hope the customer was happy and it functioned again.
Ask the customer to take a picture and send it to you before the quote if they can. If not or they refuse, charge extra. This is the 21'st century. If they can text their Boss to have a sick day, they can send you over a photo of the damage! Anyway, full respect to you for finishing this abomination of a home repair.
I tried such repair only with heat gun I said there Is no way I will fix it cause I dont have even microsoldering station I have very stable hands etc but still no equipment well my point is if I fixed it I would have workin console for 15$ the cost of the heat gun if not then I go to ps5 well I messed up and I lost even one of the capacitors in the board next to hdmi but I cant imagine how a guy can rip soldering pads I work with phone repairs etc and never encountered broken pads he did good job on breaking them
I was thinking the same
@@HeLrAiSiNg1 goodness please use punctuations next time my dude
@@HeLrAiSiNg1 try putting a period in your sentences
@@HeLrAiSiNg1 have you ever heard of punctuation? well, what more do i expect from someone who attempted MICRO SOLDERING WORK armed with nothing but a heat gun....
Looks like the customer tried to use a lighter and a 4 inch nail as a soldering iron.
Yep
Legend has it he did. 😉
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
after watching 5 minute craft
LOL
Not many techs would attempt that. Which ever way you do it, it always looks awful.
:)
@@Millzieeeee what's this FB group called?
Never done one that messed up but I’ve done several with 5 or so pads missing.
Don’t matter what it looks like long as it works!
I had a record of 10 jumpers on this same model of board. It took me 3 weeks to figure out where to run the jumpers! I wish I had this video then, it’s definitely saved for next time!
You can get the schematics. After that it's easy.
@@socialengineer1441 sony does not provide squematics for fixing purposes, remember, they're bether if you buy another one.
@@tony001212 Dosent mean you cannot get them in some sort of Reddit forum. Someone somewhere has dealt with this before. There is a wealth of home brewed info on these things online.
@@stephenhood2948 "Cross your fingers and hope someone has done the hard work for you"
It's really not that hard to use a multimeter.
I've done a fair bit of "blue wire" work, and it's always time consuming. I wish there had been videos like this when I learned how, you are providing a great educational service to future repair techs.
There's no way this was worth your time! You definitely love what you do. Great work!
Who else wanna see if it works or not?
No complaint from customer means it worked.
@baz watts I see value in the knowing if somebody else can repair what was mangled. Perhaps because I seek after Christ, as I have done quite a botched job of it many times.
@@cybermaus the work wasnt warranted, so no point in the customer informing alex if the repair worked or failed.
wait... so the board was repaired but not tested? Did the customer just send the board, no rest of the playstation?
@@tony359 YES, he speak in video about that
I am SUPER impressed by this, and someone already said but we were all thinking it already. Not many other techs would have even attempted to repair that hot mess of a dumpster fire.
i watch a bunch of you newer videos and love them and think you are a very talented person in this trade... but after watching this video you have blown my mind on how good you are at fixing these items...you are a modern day badass my friend!! keep up the great work!!
What an amazing repair!!! if you look under the microscope you make it look easy but at the end if you see how small this all is... just amazing what skills you have.
very impressive, love your professionality. thank you for sharing!
Nice touch with the music background. After seeing this, I'm thinking about asking for photos when I hear they attempted to repair. And I thought the board from Jamaica was bad. This is why I call you the surgeon. Great patience. Great repair.
man right when he starts cleaning and the music is going its so satisfying to watch that mess get cleaned right up by his hands to the music love the quality of your work but i must say the quality of you videos is awesome as well it really conveys the felling you must get when cleaning this mess of a board because i feel it as well :)
Someone tried their best to ruin the pads on the board and you still attempted to fix that. Respect+
This deserved my like. I would never try to do that, that's mad soldering skills right there, closest I would've done is scrape what's left of the trace and jump from there.
My god you are truly an inspiration sir! Hope you and Big Boss are doing great! Greetings from Sweden
I'm so impressed that you guys actually work on customer attempts. Where I work we vehemently deny anything thats been attempted by the customer because of this. Our company has a fixed or no charge policy and so many people bring laptops that look like they've been through a shredder for us to fix. If they don't tell us they've worked on it we'll spend hours trying, fail, and not charge them. Such a waste!
You deserve an award for this patience
A whole lot of mess because someone thought that he was the soldering king, amazing job 👋👋👋👋👋
Omg, why do people think they are microsoldering specialists. This boards chance of working is still good, but only because it's in the hands on a specialist. Good luck sir on this repair.
Absolutely amazing. The fact you kept your price, still went for the repair, I mean... if that isn’t the biggest symbol of passion for your work and above and beyond service, I don’t know what is.
Speaking of passion though- where did you acquire the skillset to do this? Self-taught with tons of experience or do you have an EE degree?
I have an EE degree. If I attempted this job, it’d probably end up like the customer’s job :^).
University is great for learning about theory, electrical design, reasoning, etc. - but not really for hands-on skills like this. At least in my experience
@@playdo93 totally. I come from the other end, I’m a self-taught guy... but I always wonder if the concepts from formal EE training could fill gaps in understanding that self-teaching may miss.
Northridge, o milagreiro, the king. 🙏🏻❤️
Also, I am only half way through this video, all I have to say is, you're a madman genius!!!
This is what i like. Reconstructing or making jumpers especially when the pcb is damaged.. great work sir!
On the PS4 I see repair shops do this all the on hdmi port repair, even experienced people that do microsoldering. The reason is the very thick ground plane and thick multi layer board. Trick is you have to use a preheater under and then hot air the top side and hdmi port will come out without lifting traces.
True necromancy here!! Great job Alex, that board looked damaged far beyond repair.
congratulations, surgeon's job !!!
You are such a virtuoso. It's inspiring to see you working.
They sent you over an absolute Hiroshima. Mad respect for the patience and repair skills.
A Man of few words and many wires.
I like it.
You should get them to send in photos of both sides of the boards in these cases. You would at least have a chance of quoting a realistic price for your time.
The pads looked like they got deleted out of the board entirely. Im a new subscriber and love what you do
Nice work!
You are a very hard working professional sir
Nice that you gave it a try. Please let us know the customer satisfaction.
King so hard work! Respect
Some of those traces looked like balanced or transmission lines....I guess routing and path length matching not critical.
Im from Phillipines i always watching you. Your so awesome when you solve the problem keep it up sir im watching your video tutorial and try it in actual i learn lots
God bless this hands bro you tha man
RIP track length tolerance
@@reacey some hdmi traces need to be the same length because of the differential pairs based on the spec and I’m sure there max are trace length requirements
Happy New Year to you and your family I am a new supporter I found you a video today and I supporting your Channel
Jeeeeeez!!! I would of binned that!
3, 4 or 5 jump wires yes but not the whole port 😂
Good job regardless
Not the whole port, just 99.9 percent of it XD
Would have*
Damn, you are an artist
Wow you did an amazing job on such a tiny spot
😎😎you really master of repair
I have come to two ... no... three conclusions watching your videos.
1. Get a bunch of scrap boards and practice, practice, practice.
2. Once I set up a device, stop pulling plugs. The plugs seem to be the weak points
3. If I have a device that I really want fixed right, send it to you
High Level Repair, respect 👍👍👍
Master at his work. Super job 👍
Spaghetti Monster! That's very intense work love all these videos it's like a treasure trove of knowledge presented in a very easy to understand how this works. Can't wait to start doing this kind of work.
It's honestly ridiculous how many people ask about the wires touching when he mentions in the video that they're insulated.
Not to mention the fact that every other comment asking this has been answered by either him or someone else. *facepalm*
EDIT: Typo >_>
Its called enamel insulation, not insulted :D
@@thehitman5007 insulated*
Good catch lol.
Thats not a repair, thats a refurbishment. A true master of your craft.
Id find an acrylic case for that badboy. I sure hope the customer tipped well...
I would’ve turned the customer away. It’s not impossible, but running that many jumpers for 100$ is just too much.
Also - risky !!
I would have sent it back. Great effort!
Nice videos! I recently found your channel and it got me hooked. Did this actually work properly? I mean those are high speed HDMI data lines so I guess they originally had to be impedance matched?
Awesome work 👌🏻
I was about to say about the solder mask because there are a lot of wires there and with solder mask it will stay in place but you read my mind on the end of the video :)
How do you keep those wires from shorting out to each other?
Ps. I heard him say they were insulated towards the end of the video..
Ya. You can see him burning off the insulation at the ends of each wire to prepare it for soldering.
Wires have a epoxy type coating, same wires in electric motors.
Did it work? Thats alot of patience and would be a big reward at the end...
Good video
Superb work!
Hats off to you
That was a micro surgery on some multi octopus tentacles.
A lot of respect 👍
I like your job so much very well
Very professional
I enjoyed watching the video but you should have explained or mentioned how you found where the pins on the hdmi port connect to. I’ve briefly explained in some posts how you could have approached this problem, but a lot of people would have found this interesting.
Skills.... Respect 🙏
awesome fine work
Very nice, i've recently buyed a notebook with the same problem on one ram socket. Since i had another broken one i tryed some repair, but as result i definitively broke also the other 😤
SpiderMan, SpiderMan. What are you sodering, SpiderMan?!
I just repaired a PS4, I'm not a professional, but do electronics as a hobby (have decent microscope etc), was given it by a friend who has bought a replacement, just to have a play. Every single pad was ripped off. I basically did what you did for every pin, but only bothered with the pin 2 ground, leaving 5, 8, 11 and 17 not connected.
I've checked with a cut hdmi cord that every pin is connected as it should be (pins 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19) and that they are not shorting against each other etc.
The PS4 now works fine, had it on for hours, picture is 100% fine.
However, I have a Sony TV with 4 HDMI ports and my sky box plugged in. I have the HDMI control turned on on the sky box and usually if I press a button on my sky remote, it turns on both the Sky box and the TV. But when the PS4 hdmi is plugged in, regardless of whether it's on or not, turning on my Sky box doesn't automatically turn on the TV (or change input device), as soon as I unplug the PS4 HDMI the tv works as expected. Any ideas what's missing/wrong please?
It makes no difference whether I enable or disable the PS4 "Enable HDMI device link"
Thanks
Absolute nightmare!
That is brilliant work sir. Did it work for the customer?
That is also my question 😁
you are a beast, beautiful job
Super super impressive 👍
What a F'n repair! Bravo!
Prior repair attempt... it looks like the customer smashed it with a chisel and Thor's hammer!
interstellar's docking
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N.fix's jumping wires
its not possibles but its necessary.
Excellent video. Must of taken a lot of patience. This is a dumb question... but what wire are you using? And why doesn't it matter that the wires are touching? At 16:40 you mentioned right at the end the wire was insulted - so guessing that's why they can touch, but I didn't see any insulation?
@@danielsatko- didn't realise it was transformer wire. Didn't know transformer wire was used for solder trace repairs. Cheers for the heads up! :)
really great repair. I'm no expert but I would have done the signalling pairs first which were the closest to do to keep them side by side and as short as possible
Good work bro
Did it work at the end? Some follow ups would be nice
Holy crap. Crazy! So good.
nice one, I saw electronic surgeon ! reminds me of soldering tv fibre..no bonding machine,
thank you
what the actual fuck
this is some next level stuff
"a few missing pads" lmfao that is an understatement at best.... deceptive, i would say
very nice, perfect video
You really need some magnification tool huh! just a newbie here! probably I need to buy one
What a nightmare, I would be ashamed to sent something in this condition to any repair shop
Holy moly, that's alot of jumper!
I'm impressed.
Look at that spider nest of wires great job!
better than factory? :) Awesome job Alex.
I need to do this on my Xbox series x, because during a simple HDMI port replace(I bought a broken console), the heat got too extreme and obliterated the wires on the board..I don't even know if I can fix it, but seeing you pull this off gives me hope.
I'm new at soldering and all that stuff, i started like 3 months ago, but bruh, the customer made sure to really kill that board before stopping the "repair".
Thanks for sharing
and my local repair shop cant even solder hdmi port for a tv .... so sad :(
awesome work
hello, i did a job like this and it is very satisfying to do it cheers..