soldering flux left on the board doesnt cause any problem immediately, but over the time flux will etch and corrode the unprotected copper traces and pads... have seen that many times, so always clean the flux off the pcb after soldering and protect traces with pcb mask...
£400 wow. I just done a HDMI port for some one at work on his Xbox...i never charged anything...i even bought the HDMI port for him :) i did feel abit sorry for him :) And thats all because i love watching these videos...taught me lots :) Many thanks and look forwrd to many many more.
Well, that's good for you. It doesn't mean that professionals shouldn't charge for their labour and costs. Obviously, anyone charging $400 for a no fix is a crook.
@23:05 :( The angelic heralding of the application for the perfect amount of thermal paste was not to be seen... I am renting my clothes and gnashing my teeth. You are awfully nice when referencing other shops and refrain from slaughtering them for their obviously faulty repairs, that is one thing more I love about your repair channel.
My guess is the pin was broken, and the technician didn’t wanna replace the whole port. So he lined the pin back up, and blob the crap out of it with solder.
The shop probably didn't mention how much it would cost to begin with. And the customer thought he would be getting back a working console. The bastards
@@mrmarr8308 Yeah then hes a mark. All businesses have standardized pricing setup for specific things like an hdmi replace (which was the obvious problem) so there shouldnt have been a scenario of the customer not knowing or the shop not having a price established for a specific service. Thats like walking into a Jiffy Lube and them not knowing how much its gonna cost for an oil change. Bad shop, dumb customer.
@@scotthallgv There shouldn't have been a scenario like that. People can be stupid. We all know that, but businesses shouldn't be taking advantage like that. So either the shop basically scammed this guy, or the $400 dollar repair was just exaggerated.
@@mrmarr8308 100 percent. We're only getting the customers story here so theres almost certainly going to be some bias from their end but we saw the work done so we can assume this wasnt a reputable shop. Buyer wasnt smart, shop wasnt good. Blame enough for both of them.
I don't think I've ever seen someone use the entire tube of thermal paste to put something back together and not clean it in the first place. Usually it's not done at all. That takes a special someone to go through that kind of effort.
I set my hot air station at 7000 degree F and air flow at force 12 (hurricane), guarranteed to lift something off. Works everytime, now I just need to replace my roof, again.
How is you treatment progressing. Wish you the best. Iam retired Navy. I was certified as a micro-miniature repair tech for multilayered boards in the early to mid-1980's. Kester flux was the goto, soder wick, for clean up I used medicinal grade pure grain alcohol. Leaves no residue and drys very quickly. Wish I had the opportunity to use the air station equipment with the precise temperature control that you have with them. Still alive at seventy-five, thanks for your entertaining videos.
Really wish you could call out these shady repair shops without fear of being sued for defamation. Instances like this one are the real reason why I refuse to go to any repair shop
It would make so much sense for manufacturers to put interface ports on a user-swappable interface board. Then there's no need to take the thing apart if you bend a port -just buy and plug in a new board.
Great job. Have you ever considered using ceramic tipped tweezers which are heat resistant? Using these it would prevent heat from the heat gun travelling up to your hand?
I can't believe the $400. Prices are disussed beforehand and during any sort of repair or work. Costumer needs to acknowledge and agree before proceeding. No one in their right mind will say ok fix it for that price, or agree to make any sorts of payments based on what a technician claimed he have done without consulting with you. I smell bs on this one. Still a solid repair as always Steve, love to see it.
To me, this looks like the previous shop used low melt at some point, but didn't clean it up. Something about the sheen on the mounting pin solder looks like low melt. Might also explain why that one pin had exposed copper on it and the pin just fell off the port.
Would it work to use a battery toothbrush to clean the boards when there is old thermal paste or burnt flux, or would that possibly do more damage? It just seems like it would be easier and faster to me.
sure new paste on top of old paste.. only the "decent skilled repairshops" do that?" really not the repairshop you have to praise for their so-called "repairshop work". 24:06 and not least scamming the owner out of 400? is it an experienced repairshop that put new paste on top of old?
He probably put the tape on the the HDMI port just to hold it on while you soldiered it to the board on the other side, but never removed it. And he most likely just used a soldiering iron and not hot air.... Oh and the video redriver chip (I think that's what its called) doesn't have ANY text on it.... it COULD be a fake chip, which we know are thing that you run into when source the cheapest stuff
I might have put an entire 3.5 g tube of thermal paste on when I tried to fix my brother's Xbox 360 S, but at least I cleaned off all the old thermal paste. 😅
10:42 bro you should’ve removed the old solder that was on the HDMi port that solder that was on there looks like that the stuff that they use on soldering plumbing on copper pipes you should’ve removed it from theanchoring points that sort of solder can destroy circuit boards it’s not designed for that application. It’s designed for putting on pipes if left unattended, it will go green and corrode£400 repair for a hdmi and another thing I know that PlayStation five has a problem with the HDMI sockets the Xbox series X has a very strong anchoring HDMI socket so I don’t know why people are forcing the plugs into the connector just take your time and be delicate with it $400 repair there’s a lot of cowboy repair persons out there be careful
I don't understand how people seem to have trouble with HDMI ports. I open the box on the NEW console plug everything in and play. I don't unplug and plug it in again and again. Once maybe twice ever.
I’ve got the same Xbox and my wired headset sounds awful sometimes the only way to fix is a restart and it still happens after does anyone have any solutions I know my headphone is not broken I’ve tried others and same issue please help 😢
400 Buckeroos? I´d take the 400, give the box to a shop for 150 and laugh into the sunset😂. And "The perfect amount of thermal paste"- Yeah…Right… No, serious: do I need a hot air for this? Couldn´t I use just my trusty vacuum soldersucker and some wick? Home gamer Banzai Style? Kind Regards
Sorry if this is a joke that is in bad taste as I am hoping to make you laugh. Are you going to go as uncle fester for Halloween? Lol Ps. I love your videos dude. I always look forward to new ones from you.
soldering flux left on the board doesnt cause any problem immediately, but over the time flux will etch and corrode the unprotected copper traces and pads... have seen that many times, so always clean the flux off the pcb after soldering and protect traces with pcb mask...
£400 wow. I just done a HDMI port for some one at work on his Xbox...i never charged anything...i even bought the HDMI port for him :) i did feel abit sorry for him :) And thats all because i love watching these videos...taught me lots :) Many thanks and look forwrd to many many more.
Well, that's good for you. It doesn't mean that professionals shouldn't charge for their labour and costs. Obviously, anyone charging $400 for a no fix is a crook.
How do people break their HDMI ports had my xbox series x since day one release and the port is still like new...
Aggression 😂
Yeah i plug mine in and leave it alone.
@@GhostLead65 exactly no need to keep plugging it
Right? I have a 13 years old PS3 still rockin' like new
It's mostly the mother, girlfriend or wife ripping the Xbox from the shelf or table.
@23:05 :( The angelic heralding of the application for the perfect amount of thermal paste was not to be seen... I am renting my clothes and gnashing my teeth.
You are awfully nice when referencing other shops and refrain from slaughtering them for their obviously faulty repairs, that is one thing more I love about your repair channel.
That amount of thermal paste looks like a hidden "Screw you" from the repairman 🤣
But that thermal paste application is a sign of the quality of work that business does. Pitiful.
My guess is the pin was broken, and the technician didn’t wanna replace the whole port. So he lined the pin back up, and blob the crap out of it with solder.
$400 FOR A REPAIR?! What a mark! Just buy a new one jeeze.
The shop probably didn't mention how much it would cost to begin with. And the customer thought he would be getting back a working console. The bastards
@@mrmarr8308 Yeah then hes a mark. All businesses have standardized pricing setup for specific things like an hdmi replace (which was the obvious problem) so there shouldnt have been a scenario of the customer not knowing or the shop not having a price established for a specific service. Thats like walking into a Jiffy Lube and them not knowing how much its gonna cost for an oil change. Bad shop, dumb customer.
When I heard this, I thought it was probably multiple repairs at $99.99 each and the sunken cost he had in the repairs made him keep coming back
@@scotthallgv There shouldn't have been a scenario like that. People can be stupid. We all know that, but businesses shouldn't be taking advantage like that. So either the shop basically scammed this guy, or the $400 dollar repair was just exaggerated.
@@mrmarr8308 100 percent. We're only getting the customers story here so theres almost certainly going to be some bias from their end but we saw the work done so we can assume this wasnt a reputable shop. Buyer wasnt smart, shop wasnt good. Blame enough for both of them.
I don't think I've ever seen someone use the entire tube of thermal paste to put something back together and not clean it in the first place. Usually it's not done at all. That takes a special someone to go through that kind of effort.
I set my hot air station at 7000 degree F and air flow at force 12 (hurricane), guarranteed to lift something off. Works everytime, now I just need to replace my roof, again.
at 22:18 the pins of the hdmi port seemed well connected, but the mounting pins of the port don't seem well soldered.
10:27 It looked like the right anchor point was cracked as well ...
How is you treatment progressing. Wish you the best. Iam retired Navy. I was certified as a micro-miniature repair tech for multilayered boards in the early to mid-1980's. Kester flux was the goto, soder wick, for clean up I used medicinal grade pure grain alcohol. Leaves no residue and drys very quickly. Wish I had the opportunity to use the air station equipment with the precise temperature control that you have with them. Still alive at seventy-five, thanks for your entertaining videos.
Poor guy was totally ripped off!!
Are these people playing their xbox?In the back of their bicycle
This guy lost his argument as soon as he accepted paying cash with no receipt. So many red flags and he kept giving cash, no leg to stand on.
Cash only and no receipt means the repairman is pocketing the money, not taking any responsibility and not paying taxes.
Really wish you could call out these shady repair shops without fear of being sued for defamation. Instances like this one are the real reason why I refuse to go to any repair shop
It would make so much sense for manufacturers to put interface ports on a user-swappable interface board. Then there's no need to take the thing apart if you bend a port -just buy and plug in a new board.
Manufactures want you to but a new one, not fix the old one. A swappable interface board would also add to the cost, so it will never happen.
This is some of the most egregious stuff I have seen on here yet. Amateurs. Great job Steve!
Great job. Have you ever considered using ceramic tipped tweezers which are heat resistant? Using these it would prevent heat from the heat gun travelling up to your hand?
I can't believe the $400. Prices are disussed beforehand and during any sort of repair or work. Costumer needs to acknowledge and agree before proceeding. No one in their right mind will say ok fix it for that price, or agree to make any sorts of payments based on what a technician claimed he have done without consulting with you. I smell bs on this one. Still a solid repair as always Steve, love to see it.
What happened to the boot up logo/sequence?
Theres also the sync button missing at the front of the case.
Also, why don't you add new soldier to the mounting pads?
Whoever worked on that was partially sighted, and has the intellectual ability of a small Belgian pastry.
To me, this looks like the previous shop used low melt at some point, but didn't clean it up. Something about the sheen on the mounting pin solder looks like low melt. Might also explain why that one pin had exposed copper on it and the pin just fell off the port.
Cleaning that thermal paste mess is so tedious. Awesome job.
Would it work to use a battery toothbrush to clean the boards when there is old thermal paste or burnt flux, or would that possibly do more damage? It just seems like it would be easier and faster to me.
6:50
That's not entirely true. With that much paste the heat sink can actually dump heat into the PCB and SMDs around the silicon. Not good.
These more realistic long videos are great 👍🏻
You missed a solder ball under the x-clamp between the caps under the apu
Good job Steve😊
I failed to see where the 4 extra pins connect that you talked about.
Guessing the customer was charged $400 because of the amount of thermal paste. Yes that will be 12 tubes at $25 each.
400$ is crazy bc the xbox cost 500$ brand new im sure this guy could build a xbox for cheaper than 400$
Haha, very true
How the heck do you break an HDMI port? That still baffles me. My PS5 sits in my entertainment center and doesnt move
Kids moving it probably
The ports on my PS2, 3, 4 and 5 all have pristine hdmi ports.. I just don't understand it..
The ports on my consoles are pristine. I just don’t understand how people do this.
sure new paste on top of old paste.. only the "decent skilled repairshops" do that?"
really not the repairshop you have to praise for their so-called "repairshop work". 24:06 and not least scamming the owner out of 400?
is it an experienced repairshop that put new paste on top of old?
He probably put the tape on the the HDMI port just to hold it on while you soldiered it to the board on the other side, but never removed it. And he most likely just used a soldiering iron and not hot air.... Oh and the video redriver chip (I think that's what its called) doesn't have ANY text on it.... it COULD be a fake chip, which we know are thing that you run into when source the cheapest stuff
With the thermal paste can you can you reuse it if you can get it cleaned off
I might have put an entire 3.5 g tube of thermal paste on when I tried to fix my brother's Xbox 360 S, but at least I cleaned off all the old thermal paste. 😅
What did that loose resistor go to?
10:42 bro you should’ve removed the old solder that was on the HDMi port that solder that was on there looks like that the stuff that they use on soldering plumbing on copper pipes you should’ve removed it from theanchoring points that sort of solder can destroy circuit boards it’s not designed for that application. It’s designed for putting on pipes if left unattended, it will go green and corrode£400 repair for a hdmi and another thing I know that PlayStation five has a problem with the HDMI sockets the Xbox series X has a very strong anchoring HDMI socket so I don’t know why people are forcing the plugs into the connector just take your time and be delicate with it $400 repair there’s a lot of cowboy repair persons out there be careful
Clip of the century at 6:28😂
hdmi port had to have taken an impact looked like it was pushed back a hair and the solder on one leg was broken
I don't understand how people seem to have trouble with HDMI ports. I open the box on the NEW console plug everything in and play. I don't unplug and plug it in again and again. Once maybe twice ever.
Maybe use gravity and heat from the other side?
I am far from a specialized repair shop but not once have i delivered something like this.. jeez.
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I’ve got the same Xbox and my wired headset sounds awful sometimes the only way to fix is a restart and it still happens after does anyone have any solutions I know my headphone is not broken I’ve tried others and same issue please help 😢
It’s cracking and robotic sounds btw
Was the shop called Video Game 911 in Denville, NJ? lol
what a normal price this repair?
I can't imagine charging a customer $400 for a job i couldn't complete due to lack of skill.
Looks like that shop applied as much thermal paste like Louis Rossmann applied flux 😂😂
There was no beep when starting it up. Seems like a SSD issue.
Or could be that the customer has that setting disabled. If it's an ssd issue. Then maybe it's dying from having it on instant on.
you should never use hot air to desolder through hole components.
$400 may have been enough money to justify cleaning off the thermal paste or clean out the dust. Not good work ethics. 😮
Is that $400 dollars worth of thermal paste?
No wonder they charged so much with all the thermal paste they must go through! 😂
$400 for a repair is diabolical. Should have name dropped the shop.....
Looks like the tape was used like a hack to push the port down but I might be rong
This customer should have taken that repair shop to judge judy ...🤔
At least 20 minutes to get all that new and old thermal paste!! 😄
well done Steve i bet you have lost count how many HDMI ports you have replaced? 😉
Oh definitely, lol
No angelic edit on the thermal paste!????? I want a refund
That's alot of Thermal Paste - Jeff Goldblum
Whole tube of thermal paste there
The customer definitely broke the hdmi port. They don't get bent like that for no reason.
broken internally?
YES! When I saw the video...
I hope the guy takes the video back to the store, demands his money back and a brand new Xbox for all the bullshit.
Repair work: 100 USD, thermal paste: 299 USD
You shouldn't have blurred the name of that cowboy.. Name and shame them for what they are.
400 Buckeroos? I´d take the 400, give the box to a shop for 150 and laugh into the sunset😂. And "The perfect amount of thermal paste"- Yeah…Right…
No, serious: do I need a hot air for this? Couldn´t I use just my trusty vacuum soldersucker and some wick? Home gamer Banzai Style? Kind Regards
The way people abuse their stuff is unreal…
They coulda have tapped it in place and then soldered it
3x the perfect amount of thermal paste
good thing they dont apply liquid metal
Holy thermal paste Batman!!
perfect thermal past 😂
400 for a repair? i would just say keep it and buy a new one
Solid, SOlid, SOLid, SOLId, SOLID.
400 dollar tape job. Too bad they didn't use duct tape, MacGyver doesn't approve.
Release the solder balls of KAOS!!!
You can buy a brand new console for £400.
NAME AND SHAME.
Whats going on with your hair 😮
Not first (or maybe I am?)
Sorry if this is a joke that is in bad taste as I am hoping to make you laugh. Are you going to go as uncle fester for Halloween? Lol
Ps. I love your videos dude. I always look forward to new ones from you.
Wow! I had this on 1.75x speed and there was still too much talking 😢
You are on the Longs channel. These are extended cuts of shorter videos.
Honestly...that story sounds made up.
I'm here
can i get shoutout 😇
no
Why is he rehashing his videos?
Yaweh,
In Jesus name give my friend
more time and let Raphael
heal him. Give him rest,
comfort and peace.
Stop with fake repair shop videos