Building the ULTIMATE DIY gaming phone

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  • Опубліковано 11 чер 2023
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  • @jasondentler
    @jasondentler 11 місяців тому +2778

    That's a DIY Perks level build. Awesome job

    • @ariveahmmed
      @ariveahmmed 11 місяців тому +39

      Absolutely. This guy deserves more sub and view!!❤

    • @F0X0-93
      @F0X0-93 11 місяців тому +11

      This man deserves more

    • @llpBR
      @llpBR 11 місяців тому +15

      Now that is a compliment!

    • @creativename.
      @creativename. 11 місяців тому +2

      Frfr

    • @danniix9137
      @danniix9137 11 місяців тому +3

      0:00 frrrr

  • @HeroCP7
    @HeroCP7 11 місяців тому +1033

    To me I think if you made the sled out of aluminum and merge it with the heatsink you can reduce the weight, improve durability, and improve heat transfer. This change would go really well if you manage to overclock it.

    • @niveZz-
      @niveZz- 11 місяців тому +54

      you can't overclock snapdragon SoCs after the Snapdragon 865 and some early 870s

    • @detecta
      @detecta 11 місяців тому +3

      @@niveZz- what phone is it note 10?

    • @niveZz-
      @niveZz- 11 місяців тому +34

      @@detecta idk what you mean but in the video he used a samsung galaxy 21 fe (snapdragon 888)

    • @detecta
      @detecta 11 місяців тому +5

      @@niveZz- i thought it was a note 10

    • @idham97
      @idham97 11 місяців тому +41

      ​@@niveZz- you're right. But just a small note. Most android manufacturers underclocked the SoC. So having the chipset to turbo for 70% of the time would be an awesome improvement.

  • @mahinurislam4971
    @mahinurislam4971 11 місяців тому +219

    Geekerwan laughing in the corner

  • @TurboBass
    @TurboBass 11 місяців тому +100

    The SoC is on the other side of the motherboard. It touches the frame, screen and probably a heatsink to exhaust heat. You've added thermal mass but not in the most optimal place.

    • @bhoot1702
      @bhoot1702 8 місяців тому +10

      It will be too difficult to fit that big heat sink in front. I think back will also be fine since the soc also shares heat dissipation with the back part. It might not be as efficient but it will be better than it was imo

    • @TurboBass
      @TurboBass 7 місяців тому +4

      @@bhoot1702 Yeah he just mentioned that he thought it was the CPU but it is on the other side. Adding thermal mass is adding thermal mass, there'll be a net positive to the sink part of heatsink, but it could be loads better if there was more direct contact.

  • @AlmostBrokeLbs
    @AlmostBrokeLbs 11 місяців тому +23

    you can use universal android debloater to remove all google and meta services, and boost battery life for 20-40% (this does not need rooted phone, just enable usb debuging and thats it)

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +7

      Good call!

    • @AlmostBrokeLbs
      @AlmostBrokeLbs 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@ZacBuilds yeah, I used it on my old old android phone and it made my battery last even longer, I also removed stock samsung launcher using that tool and used nova7 as a launcher
      Also love those diy vids and I love do smth same, but I dont have amazon, ebay, aliexperss and money ;(

    • @hendra_joe_
      @hendra_joe_ 11 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, i did it on my mom's 2GB ram android 9.0 phone. It was pretty good, and the phone was so smooth.

    • @EmmanuelBitrus-dx5gc
      @EmmanuelBitrus-dx5gc 6 місяців тому

      Hey

    • @waffle5222
      @waffle5222 2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for the advice!

  • @jonathan__g
    @jonathan__g 11 місяців тому +460

    The handheld looks great! I think the wood does add in a nice bit of design to it. Although I guess you could always just glue on a wood veneer to get the same look.

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +70

      I did think about doing that at one point. Building the frame out of plastic and then just inserting some wood accents. But in the end I just went all wood because well... I cant help myself :)

    • @NicVandEmZ
      @NicVandEmZ 11 місяців тому +5

      @@ZacBuilds you should do diy project with android battery in iPhone or vise versa

    • @chriswright8074
      @chriswright8074 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@NicVandEmZpretty sure apple would reject it

    • @izayahm8557
      @izayahm8557 11 місяців тому

      @@ZacBuilds can i buy

    • @Dieverso
      @Dieverso 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@ZacBuildsNEXT DIY with SAMSUNG with Added chilling plated cooling fans and overclock🎉

  • @nizarlutfi5981
    @nizarlutfi5981 11 місяців тому +50

    This kinda content made me started to “hangout” in youtube 14 years ago. amazing work!! You just got yourself a +1 subs

  • @justanotherf2ppotatogamer61
    @justanotherf2ppotatogamer61 11 місяців тому +134

    Cool build but if we speak about value wise and performance Geekerwan's $150 DIY build is criminally underrated

    • @sheedyaja6465
      @sheedyaja6465 10 місяців тому +18

      this! Geekerwan's build is cool, but Zac's is more elegant

    • @YOUR_NARRATOR975
      @YOUR_NARRATOR975 9 місяців тому +2

      Until you need to spend hundreds of dollars on tools, schooling required for said tools, and a garage/workshop

    • @ryanmiguelmariano2576
      @ryanmiguelmariano2576 8 місяців тому +9

      For me, Geekerwan's build is definitely underrated and much more practical for an average joe. Not many can pull off 3D printing a custom chassis since it is very hard AF, but it depends on your end goal. Gotta still give it to Zac because his build is sick.

  • @artgajez2397
    @artgajez2397 11 місяців тому +20

    something about gluing a kishi to a phone feels wrong but dam, the end result speaks for itself, having it feeling like one solid unit at the end is gold, and yeah when you went from 3D printed prototypes to wood it made me tilt my head but it does look really nice. top-notch video!

  • @johnnymathes5215
    @johnnymathes5215 11 місяців тому +70

    I love your channel bro. As a man that is constantly tinkering i really appreciate how clean you keep the projects as well as the work area

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +7

      Thanks man! I think a lot of that comes down to my personality and the way my brain works haha. If I have a messy work area I can't concentrate or even get started a lot of the time. So I like to keep things tidy for my own sanity 😂

    • @johnnymathes5215
      @johnnymathes5215 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@Zac Builds my brain is on rapid fire all the way through a project and when i get done i look around at tools and material scraps laying every where and think..." i sure could get more done if I didnt have spend a half day cleaning my shop each project" haha

  • @sklungofunk
    @sklungofunk 9 місяців тому +2

    bro the stuff ive seen from you so far are on another level, i wish i had the patience to learn it myself, someday ill surely do some of these and you'll be a gold mine for me

  • @supermotomadness
    @supermotomadness 11 місяців тому +4

    This is fantastic work and craftsmanship, a big well done to that man!!. I would love a piece of your work!!.

  • @popcorn5968
    @popcorn5968 11 місяців тому +6

    This is awesome work. Almost the video I'm looking for. I hope to see you fully convert a smartphone into a console. Like a full shell with the controls and phone in one piece. But yet again, i believe this is a first that ive seen a youtuber made something like this

  • @beforedrrdpr
    @beforedrrdpr 11 місяців тому +11

    7:36 I experienced this first hand few weeks ago. I was doing some messing with my old torch battery, I thought it was such a small and old battery that nothing would happen, but all of a sudden it caught fire. Thank gosh it evaporated right away and I didn't die.

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +1

      Glad to hear it was a minor incident!

  • @hyperion9338
    @hyperion9338 11 місяців тому +1

    This is one of the few videos that I watched the whole time very carefully and sincerity.

  • @derekwatt4136
    @derekwatt4136 4 місяці тому +2

    I can't remember the last time I sat through a full add and watched it, what a great job.

  • @darkride196
    @darkride196 11 місяців тому +35

    Hey there.
    The first issue I wanted to note is the use of the copper in the heatsink replacement. Without a heat pipe, You're looking at the quick thermal saturation of any interface or its materials without a meaningful transfer of energy to the actual heatsink added to the copper. This is because based on Thermal Conductivity alone Copper does a good job of absorbing heat, but it doesn't do a great job of transferring it. Copper sits around 400W/Mk of thermal conductivity, while a heat pipe can be in excess of 5000-100,000W/Mk.
    This means that the heatsink would be slow to heat and hard to cool effectively. If you were to place a heat pipe across the length of the heatsink, it would work much better, to the point where you would near instantly see a difference in temperature from the SOC to the end of your heatsink.
    Secondly, The issue with the Double battery is apparent almost instantly- due to the fact that you double capacity, you double charging times quite readily, and without the BMS to consider the second battery's health, It will assume that one battery provides the charge for both. Since the BMS only controls voltage and wear leveling, and doesn't have a way to monitor each cell individually, you can very quickly end up with a situation where you see your battery jumping around levels depending on which battery's voltage reads the highest- since they are separate cells, there is the very real possibility of the internal resistance of one cell not matching the other, causing step voltage matching. This means that the batteries face the very real possibility of mis-matched wearing and eventually diminished capacity and failure of one or more of the batteries. Usually this is corrected in BMS monitoring of multi-celled devices through what amounts to a circuit that separates the cells from one another, but ties the output together allowing them to charge individually.
    The K5 Pro works but currently you have an issue with the setup of the heatsink- right now it goes (assuming the Mfrs used a thermal pad) SOC>Thermal pad>Graphite pad>Aluminum>K5 Pro>Copper>Solder>Copper>Solder>Copper>Solder>Copper>Solder>M.2 Heatsink. All those layers cause a loss in heat transfer, reducing the effective area of the copper and essentially pocketing areas of the copper that didn't fully get brazed (if you ever shear the heatsink apart, consider looking at the shims and you'll see pockets where the solder didn't reach fully, it's simply because of the change of Flux to a gaseous state causing solder to have voids." Ideally, the removal of the aluminum and thermal pads would mitigate this entirely, if in addition you swapped to a heat-pipe design. In this case you'd see SOC>TIM/K5>Copper>Solder>Heat pipe>Solder>Heatsink. Also, you *technically* don't even need the first layer of copper attached to the heat pipe, and could attach it directly to the SOC by flattening it on one side, making sure not to crush the actual pipe. This would also decrease the weight of the build.
    A final consideration is the fact that there is an opportunity here to fab the entire outside case out of a block of copper, that you would then attach to the heat-pipe through soldering, and get passive cooling without an open area for the M.2 heatsink. At their max, these SOCs use about 10-13W of heat, meaning it can be easily dissipated passively in this regard.
    All in All it is a novel idea and i appreciate the video- just some thoughts on what I would consider. (I was someone who built their own laptop heatsinks in the 2016-2020 years, particularly for Clevos)

    • @TedWilder
      @TedWilder 6 місяців тому +1

      These are the discussions I live for. ❤

    • @malikevans2615
      @malikevans2615 6 місяців тому +3

      Man who's reading all that if it blows up call it a note 7

    • @clashingblast5911
      @clashingblast5911 5 місяців тому

      Wow bro thanks for the info !

    • @eylemuyavul3055
      @eylemuyavul3055 5 місяців тому

      he already showed that the cpu and gpu was cold it was at 40 celsius?

    • @darkride196
      @darkride196 5 місяців тому +1

      @@eylemuyavul3055 While that may be the case, something done right the first time will lost longer than something that isn't done right. If you were to follow my instructions, you could reuse the heatsink assembly in the future for other projects if you decide.

  • @carrioncrow8191
    @carrioncrow8191 11 місяців тому +6

    You do some top notch builds. Keep it up

  • @echotree.prints
    @echotree.prints 11 місяців тому +64

    13:57
    Just a tip for playing with the sealant (and anything you can fit into a caulk gun tbh): you can buy, or in your case print, extra tips to fit most tubes, and you can cut them to specific angles.
    In the case of your sled, you can cut both sides to make a 45° angle, and with even pressue it will perfectly smudge the silicone so that you dont have to smear it with your fingers!

    • @kudaponi96
      @kudaponi96 5 місяців тому

      Xiaomi / poco device more cheap, capable, also more customizations..

  • @ryanmiguelmariano2576
    @ryanmiguelmariano2576 8 місяців тому

    A bit similar to geekerwan's gaming phone vid last 2022. Amazing though! I like the ingenuity you put into designing even a custom midframe. I am very happy people are doing modifications like this. I am quite amazed you did it in a s21. What a project I've been dreaming for. Too bad I could only afford a K20 Pro. Building DIY gaming phone is indeed a very fun project to do, it has its own set of challenges, especially if you'll give it better cooling. I would recommend also rooting the phone and overclocking the GPU if it is a Snapdragon CPU, and add active cooling so you could utilize the full potential of the phone.
    Still, awesome build! Keep doing more of these project please

  • @JasonCarr1979
    @JasonCarr1979 11 місяців тому +11

    Everything's perfect. The wood looks amazing and is not a fire hazard. I like the idea of selling your knowledge. Good job as always.

  • @bakerfx4968
    @bakerfx4968 11 місяців тому +9

    This was great and I love your idea of digital sales to offset the need for a sponsor! Keep up the good work sir

  • @philkiner4363
    @philkiner4363 10 місяців тому +1

    final unit is gorgeous!

  • @blissfullsakura1776
    @blissfullsakura1776 11 місяців тому +10

    Your creativity is on par with your execution. Both are amazing! Great vid, keep up this interesting content ♥

  • @Dtr146
    @Dtr146 11 місяців тому +127

    A little tip for anybody wanting to double up a battery in a project or something. As long as you put hot to hot and negative to negative when you're only wanting to increase the amount of battery life you want. You should be fine. Just make sure that you keep everything well isolated and do your best to try not to bridge any connections to ground

    • @chench1lla
      @chench1lla 11 місяців тому

      Have you come across any BMS board that refuse to work with multiple cells?

    • @Dtr146
      @Dtr146 11 місяців тому +8

      @@chench1lla no not really. But, I've never really increased the number of cells by what some could consider an unreasonable amount. I have a electronic air duster that lasts like 3 minutes at full blast which isn't enough time to really do anything. I opened it up and it had three batteries in series. So I took three batteries and combined them in series in the same way that they were in the device. I hooked those two up in parallel and connected them to the BMS. It doesn't last twice as long but it does last a good bit longer. You just need to make sure that if you're trying to increase capacity. You put them in parallel. Putting them in series increases the amount of voltage they can produce.

    • @SumitMishra-qm4ql
      @SumitMishra-qm4ql 11 місяців тому +6

      It's simple af ..
      Assume 4v 150mah battery example
      4v 150 + 4v 150 (in series) = 8v 150mah
      4v 150 + 4v 150 (in parallel) = 4v 300mah.

    • @Dtr146
      @Dtr146 11 місяців тому +1

      @@SumitMishra-qm4ql I mean when you think about it it is but you didn't really describe it simply. Series increases voltage parallel increases how long they last. That simple.

    • @SumitMishra-qm4ql
      @SumitMishra-qm4ql 11 місяців тому +3

      @@Dtr146 i told the same brother!! (Mah means milliampere-hour)

  • @DreamWorksWoodShop
    @DreamWorksWoodShop 11 місяців тому +5

    Awesome Zac! Thanks for sharing! I hope you’re doing well! 😎👊

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you! My pleasure this was a ton of fun to make. Hope you're doing well too!

  • @leomysky
    @leomysky 8 місяців тому +1

    Nicely done, Zac, thank you

  • @natas74d7
    @natas74d7 10 місяців тому +5

    Need more videos like this. I love tinkering with phones and pushing them to their absolute limit.

  • @RelentlessOhiox
    @RelentlessOhiox 11 місяців тому +29

    Great job. You also can use Thermal Grizzly Kryo sheets for thermal transfer if you don't have any K5 or prefer a less messy solution.

  • @kylehawton7483
    @kylehawton7483 11 місяців тому +80

    Man I wish I had the skills/tools to build this, this is amazing. Solid work bro it turned out awesome 🤙🏽

    • @MyAramil
      @MyAramil 11 місяців тому +7

      All it takes is the drive to start. Think of a project you want to try, research what you can then dive in(carefully)

    • @robertfarquhar2780
      @robertfarquhar2780 9 місяців тому +2

      If you have a basic understanding then you should be able to do it. It mat take you a little while but you can do it. I have enough understanding that I think I can do this. The only thing that may make thiw hard is the tedious stuff which is basically the whole thing. If you have experience soldering electronics then you can do it.

    • @Calibrumm
      @Calibrumm 4 місяці тому

      anyone can learn to do anything theyre interested in, get on it my dude

  • @shadeydave
    @shadeydave Місяць тому

    I used to listen to a cool ska/bluegrass fusion band called Silver Hearts. You sound and look like their Trombone player. And I'm glad I found your channel.

  • @bfbunny
    @bfbunny 11 місяців тому +11

    Two little advice that I think I can provide:
    I personally don't think that using copper as a heat conductor from the Soc to the fins is not very effective, even though copper is some of the most thermally conductive metal on earth. However, there is this thing called heat pipe, which is more effective than copper at conducting heat, especially at longer distances. Samsung used vapor chambers (basically a flattened out heat pipe) to cool some of their phones' Soc. Maybe you can use a heat pipe or two to get the heat of the Soc into the fins faster.
    I think the Soc of modern phones typically face towards the screen, so in this project you are likely to be cooling the back of the Soc through a metal shield, and there is a possibility that there is an air gap under this shield. It might not be too big of a concern, but for an "ultimate DIY gaming phone", it would be interesting to see whether desoldering that shield, adding a blob of thermal paste, and soldering the shield back on will help with heat dissipation.
    Other than that, great work, and thanks to you I now know an easy way to get cheap phones😆

    • @bulletpunch9317
      @bulletpunch9317 10 місяців тому

      Heat pipe is just copper in different shape.

    • @bfbunny
      @bfbunny 10 місяців тому

      @@bulletpunch9317 Actually, it is not.
      Heat pipes and vapor chambers both use the heat of evaporation and condensation to move liquid around inside the copper enclosure, allowing for a much higher thermal conductivity than regular solid copper.

    • @bulletpunch9317
      @bulletpunch9317 10 місяців тому

      @@bfbunny sure, i know its not solid, i thought you had no idea whay heatpipes were made of.

    • @marwanbaghdadi7321
      @marwanbaghdadi7321 10 місяців тому +2

      Great points. I thought he would desolder the shield. I always suspected that the soc will face the screen, and that somehow a better option would include both. If that's not possible, a heatsink to the back would work.
      A perfect option would add a small quiet fan, which would open the path for overclocking it a bit. I know Samsung phones have the game center power optimization which I assume overclock the phone to some extent. Otherwise Geekerwan had some crazy creations of their own. Seemed promising.
      I have a spare pocoF1 lying around. I might do something similar with it.

  • @vdfritzz
    @vdfritzz 11 місяців тому +9

    that phone has a desktop mode when connected through hdmi, you missed an opportunity to make it dockable. Maybe in the next revision

  • @Reap3rplayz
    @Reap3rplayz 11 місяців тому +326

    You should recalibrate the battery because the phone can't really recognize that it has a bigger battery and it will have some charging problems, you can just set the capacity manually if the phone is rooted but since you can't root it, it's worth trying to recalibrate it...just for the sake of it 🙂

    • @schwuzi
      @schwuzi 11 місяців тому +66

      You don't need to do that. The phone doesn't know how many Ah are in the battery. It can only use the voltage as a reference. Since the batteries are in parallel the voltage will be the same and will just drop slower (or charge slower for that matter)

    • @alexmcdaniel116
      @alexmcdaniel116 11 місяців тому +10

      ​@chizisj true, but that's more of a reference for the phone, as it's going to use the more important voltage as it's metric to determine how much is left especially given that the mAh/Ah of a battery will change/decrease over time

    • @kodedjackson
      @kodedjackson 11 місяців тому +2

      I love DIY perks voice

    • @SweBeach2023
      @SweBeach2023 11 місяців тому +12

      ​@@chizisjTo hardcode a certain capacity value would quickly turn disastrous as overcharging a degraded battery could make it explode. Voltage is the important metric. Of course current can and often is measured. But it doesn't impact the charging procedure.

    • @spr00sem00se
      @spr00sem00se 11 місяців тому +5

      I added a larger battery to an old phone and it shows the battery level dropping over time even though the voltage is via a regulator and never changes. Then at the end of the normal capacity, it throws a warning, which you can ignore and keep going, but it gets tedious. So yes! Android knows the original capacity and reacts accordingly

  • @mitchib1440
    @mitchib1440 6 місяців тому +1

    Wow this is a cool build!
    My phone is a standard gaming phone and actually came with a heat sync in the box (It's the ROG Phone 7 Ultimate, if you were curious as to what crazy phone maker does that) The only thing it didn't come with is a controller grip. The heat sync has extra programmable buttons on the back which is cool, but the main controls are still just virtual buttons. So maybe I should do something like this, though of course just making the controller. Food for thought.
    Awesome! I might need to subscribe to you, i just found your channel and there are so many cool projects there.

  • @upamanyusatpati6069
    @upamanyusatpati6069 11 місяців тому

    You're a legend..... subscription added..... indeed you can't skip that ad....lol

  • @LOL-cp6js
    @LOL-cp6js 11 місяців тому +4

    absolutely amazing 🔥🔥🔥🔥 i really like your work 👍

  • @bismuth4847
    @bismuth4847 11 місяців тому +15

    Amazing build, did you consider using a heat pipe to bridge the contact pad on the SOC with the heatsink instead of solid copper? They're pretty cheap and can be braised as well if you're careful with the heat.

  • @Offheap
    @Offheap 2 дні тому

    i love that the screen is so smooth, it starts sliding away on the table

  • @OnTheEdgex23
    @OnTheEdgex23 Місяць тому

    Might be a good idea to revisit this

  • @thehollowbox
    @thehollowbox 11 місяців тому +9

    Amazing vid! Thankyou for going beyond what other youtubers have done countless times before. And giving ideas on how to use black listed phones.
    Feel like this would be a good project for wood veneer on the outside for both stability and looks.

  • @boyyorbit
    @boyyorbit 11 місяців тому +13

    If you ever decide to make a V2, a kickstand would be overkill, but it'd be cool to see done. Regardless, this turned out great. Awesome video, definitely one of my favorite channels to watch!

  • @saltyken5406
    @saltyken5406 2 місяці тому

    I hope you make like this more in the future! In different model/brand of phones

  • @yagballs00
    @yagballs00 11 місяців тому

    Bro i hope you put this on market. Definitely gonna buy one of those. ❤❤❤❤

  • @beforedrrdpr
    @beforedrrdpr 11 місяців тому +6

    Ever since you teased it I was pumped up. And you didn't disappoint! Keep it up 👍🏿

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому

      Hell ya man, glad you liked it!

  • @rafatvaz
    @rafatvaz 11 місяців тому +13

    Man, the whole interesting part for me was seeing this get overclocked and how the battery and heat would work out in the end
    how was the phone the part you thought less about?
    Really great video, but this felt like a "it's the journey that matters, not the destination" type of vid
    would love to see something like this being pushed to it's limits while still being usable and looking nice

    • @demongod8600
      @demongod8600 11 місяців тому

      tbf, to most people phones are made to be the same so they may not realize the stuff the company's do to try to make them hard to repair. yes a bit of googling whoulda help avoid this problem in the first place but not everyone gonna do that cuz to some a phone is just a phone regardless of the make and model

    • @canguro1638
      @canguro1638 10 місяців тому

      Its a Snapdragon on Samsung phone, no overclocking =/

    • @eylemuyavul3055
      @eylemuyavul3055 5 місяців тому

      yeah that sucks if its exynos youre good but if its snapdragon youre screwed@@canguro1638

  • @umbrellacorp.
    @umbrellacorp. 9 місяців тому +1

    Impressive. And the wood brings a special uniqueness to your build.

  • @razikabdul3093
    @razikabdul3093 8 місяців тому

    Zac you are so underrated in UA-cam. Love your content 🙌🏻

  • @Lwuh.
    @Lwuh. 2 місяці тому +7

    did you edit the system to read the new bathery data?

  • @FaeezHendricks
    @FaeezHendricks 11 місяців тому +12

    Such a cool build. Well done.

  • @Danijamali1
    @Danijamali1 2 місяці тому

    one of the best videos on youtube, i am your latest subscriber, hope to see more content like this

  • @DanielOliveiraViolao
    @DanielOliveiraViolao 6 місяців тому

    That was awesome, dude!

  • @stillgray
    @stillgray 11 місяців тому +16

    I love your work. Your videos are consistently informative and entertaining. You deserve a million subscribers for these builds.

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +6

      Wow, thank you!

  • @timboschutte
    @timboschutte 11 місяців тому +7

    I was very skeptical about the use of wood, but from the looks of the final product, it turned out to be super cool.

  • @ProfesionalVideoWatcher
    @ProfesionalVideoWatcher 9 місяців тому

    I love it when i come across these videos

  • @Bricefriha
    @Bricefriha 9 місяців тому

    it looks so nice as well!!

  • @HelamanGile
    @HelamanGile 11 місяців тому +3

    You should have added a little fan in the back

  • @nomoredlc593
    @nomoredlc593 11 місяців тому +3

    There was someone who used a Xiaomi mi9 with a similar setup
    Just that he actually removed the camera module to install a fan,and was able to root the phone
    And the oc Game Performance was so great it was on par with the sd888

    • @mr.zuckowie587
      @mr.zuckowie587 11 місяців тому +1

      Even better than 8 gen 1 (Samsung fabrication)

  • @ssswan8527
    @ssswan8527 11 місяців тому +1

    Great work zac! It’s one of my dream that i could build one out of my old android phones.
    And recently, i only could make a simple heatsink only with graphite stickers and thermal paste on my ios. I wonder if you could giving me ideas how should I cooling this my XS Max(it’s framing only for online classes before applying thermal paste, it sucks you know). I looking forward of your ideas. Once again, your DIY builds are Awesome!

  • @richardrossu3153
    @richardrossu3153 6 місяців тому

    Hey, awesome one!
    Just to mention, there are great hub devices in the market, with usb-c plug, with pass-through charging, although this will fill the device more slowly, and HDMI output.
    Soldiering the kishi's plug to one of USB-A input of the hub, provide a port to transfer data to the phone, and make free way to the HDMI port, if the phone support it, should be not a problem for your skills!
    And yeah, the final product would be more bulky, I guess...

  • @ithildiess8305
    @ithildiess8305 10 місяців тому +3

    I would have loved to see you do this with Asus Rog phone 6-7 ultimate.
    Although it's expensive af.
    So maybe kinda defeats the purpose. But would be insane to see if they can actually emulate botw at 60fps because they are seriously powerful for being a phone.

  • @artfazil5355
    @artfazil5355 9 місяців тому +18

    Specifically for this unit you might want to make a Custom ROM to make gaming and emulations and stuff way neater and also to force the phone to be landscape oriented permanently. For the gamepad flanking both sides, it'll be weird if you have to go portrait mode i think hahaha

    • @Imix667
      @Imix667 6 місяців тому +1

      Fr

    • @shahtayyib
      @shahtayyib 6 місяців тому +2

      As he mentions, he can't because it is unrootable

    • @eylemuyavul3055
      @eylemuyavul3055 5 місяців тому

      he should have been used a unlockable bootloader samsung phone so that he could but he cant due to its being a locked version@@shahtayyib

  • @Chevifier
    @Chevifier 9 місяців тому

    We need a part 2 on just the battery performance. Thats something I've always that of doing for years without worry about the chunkyness it add😍😍

  • @aqshalfatwa
    @aqshalfatwa 7 місяців тому +1

    the sudden appearance of DIY Perks at 5:36 really burst the laughs off of me😂

  • @Djangselectronica
    @Djangselectronica 11 місяців тому +39

    When you doubled the battery your amps increased so you have to reprogram the phone to the new battery capacity

    • @shiftednrifted
      @shiftednrifted 11 місяців тому +10

      The phone uses the same amperage, each battery drains half as fast. Percentage is based on voltage, as the battery gets more drained its voltage drops. It should all still work fine

    • @PaperKhaos
      @PaperKhaos 11 місяців тому +8

      Amps are pulled, not pushed. If the phone was drawing a certain current at a certain voltage then putting batteries in parallel wouldn't change the voltage and have no effect on the current drawn.
      The charging of the batteries could be an issue though ...

    • @lands1459
      @lands1459 11 місяців тому +2

      the phone won't know the difference, it bases the battery percentage based on the battery voltage.

    • @tarunreddy1404
      @tarunreddy1404 9 місяців тому

      Here consoles are made so modern games gett better experience and not al mobiles run equally 😊

    • @bogzxo
      @bogzxo 8 місяців тому

      most modern phones track battery wear over time and this is done through a coulomb counter (literally measures charge) so yes, you need to change some kernel files so the charge controller is aware of the increase in size

  • @igorp
    @igorp 11 місяців тому +5

    @ZacBuilds have you considered that "blacklisted" very well could be due to being stolen

  • @gumiho.c
    @gumiho.c 11 місяців тому

    cool, would be nice seeing active cooling like in the geekerwan video and the software really makes a big difference

  • @perpetuaandy4224
    @perpetuaandy4224 11 місяців тому

    Bro, in my country that's a lot of money.. amazing work... Kudos

  • @beforedrrdpr
    @beforedrrdpr 11 місяців тому +3

    5:36 W Moment

  • @zachariahm.kemper7406
    @zachariahm.kemper7406 11 місяців тому +3

    You could use graphene pads by derbauer, they are better at thermal transfer than a puddy and don't dry out like a paste, but a paste or liquid metal would be better at thermal transfer, but for not having to touch something for a long time I think the pad is good for that, im so gonna make an octoprint device out of a old phone and soup it up like this so I don't have to worry bout having it on 247

  • @aripmkboiii
    @aripmkboiii 11 місяців тому

    that DIY Perks cameo got me, love that guy ❤

  • @kovrcek
    @kovrcek 11 місяців тому

    I made similar (but also much less sophisticated) build to my old phone. I used wooden sticks for starting fireplaces (very well machined, perfect rectangle/thickness on all of them, sold by Baumax I think), cut them to proper pieces and made a fitting "cradle" that attached the phone to GPU heatsink (with fans of course). Then used high capacity power bank to power the fans on the heatsink and could also charge the phone if needed (charging slows the performance of course but was neat). I could play for hours on my potato phone some really good games without fast thermal throttling. And the phone stayed cool so you didn't get those sticky/hot fingers after a while. It was quite heavy, also like 0,5kg maybe more. But totally worth it.

  • @TheVideoGameVault
    @TheVideoGameVault 11 місяців тому +4

    Great build! Hopefully you don't anger Nintendo with this one 😂

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +1

      Thanks! and hopefully they see the fact that I've bought basically every system and first party game they've ever made and leave me alone. But that's probably just wishful thinking haha

    • @TheVideoGameVault
      @TheVideoGameVault 11 місяців тому +1

      @@ZacBuilds lol same. I've been collecting for ~35 years now. Still have all my original consoles and games from when I was a kid. I would love to put some Nintendo content on my channel but they have a bad habit of confusing friend with foe.

  • @Noxuzen
    @Noxuzen 11 місяців тому +4

    Anyone else cringing at the thermal paste application?

    • @ShanerTheGrey
      @ShanerTheGrey 9 місяців тому

      Came to the comments looking for it.

  • @hawkfeather6802
    @hawkfeather6802 9 місяців тому

    This was really cool!

  • @Flip_Tech_Official
    @Flip_Tech_Official 3 місяці тому +1

    the DIY Perks easter egg makes my day as he's my favourite diy craftsman on youtube.

  • @1ecb1f032e
    @1ecb1f032e 5 місяців тому +3

    you can root it. i can help if you want to

    • @gtxthunderstorm6219
      @gtxthunderstorm6219 Місяць тому +1

      He's a content creator and the rooting process is not rocket science.
      Why would he need your help ?!? 😂

    • @Farabi607
      @Farabi607 Місяць тому

      He actually said in the video that he wasn't able to root the phone as it's locked.

  • @vi4ffx764
    @vi4ffx764 3 місяці тому +3

    I bought a, powerbank and a cooling fan...

    • @samuelortizs
      @samuelortizs 3 дні тому

      Any phone cooler fan will not make a measurable difference in temperature without making a lot of noise, as Zac did adding thermal mass, even with little to no active cooling it's better for low power usage, adding an m.2 cooler over the phone chasis would lead to similar results without voiding warranty.

    • @timothyrichmond7047
      @timothyrichmond7047 3 дні тому

      Lol 😂🤣😂

  • @sirleanalots
    @sirleanalots 9 місяців тому

    nice work love it mate

  • @DeltaGamingOfficialYt
    @DeltaGamingOfficialYt 11 місяців тому

    Geekerwan did this 1 year ago glad there's another one I can watch!

  • @kingofbingus468
    @kingofbingus468 11 місяців тому +3

    5:35 is this some sort of maker joke that im too normie to understand?

    • @rasaskitchen
      @rasaskitchen 11 місяців тому +6

      That's DIY Perks, dude is a legend.

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  11 місяців тому +1

      Indeed, I got the idea of brazing together the heatsink by watching one of his videos where he was working with brass.

    • @oluwatomisinbabatunde8426
      @oluwatomisinbabatunde8426 11 місяців тому

      Yes

  • @kaiperdaens7670
    @kaiperdaens7670 11 місяців тому +3

    Steamdeck 2.0 sort of

  • @1Grumpymonk
    @1Grumpymonk 11 місяців тому +1

    1:42 dude I had no idea, thank you!!

  • @einroller-zweitakte
    @einroller-zweitakte 8 місяців тому

    That was the best ad i have ever seen

  • @joneg7777
    @joneg7777 5 місяців тому

    the self sponsorship thing is so cool, and i definitely want to support it. will be back when i have a project going on

  • @tylerjohns
    @tylerjohns 9 місяців тому

    I'm glad I stumbled upon this just for the incredible sponsor section of the vid

  • @mndlessdrwer
    @mndlessdrwer 5 місяців тому

    In case you wanted the absolute best performance in thermal transfer, there are a handful of companies that will just sell you pre-bent, pre-flattened heat pipes of various dimensions. The only challenge is actually attaching other bits to the heat pipes. You can solder to them, but you need to use a relatively low temperature solder and you need to use a fair amount of heat because the heat pipe will be sinking that heat rapidly. But you can't use too much heat or the liquid inside will boil and it'll pop.

  • @rajarshibag3833
    @rajarshibag3833 8 місяців тому

    You have just solved two of the major problems of mobile gaming with DIY...
    Heating issues and Battery life...🔥🔥🔥

  • @DerPannseJim
    @DerPannseJim 8 місяців тому

    its lookin kinda intresting end of the vid but im most impressed about ur honest words about the failures with rom/ storage access etc.
    u talked about root not possible. first of all u dont need it. u can use a tool called odin to flash twrp and after that u can flash a custom rom with build-in root. u just need to access og usb port for that. storage access looks bad but im personally send all my data over wifi to phone etc. most funny way is using desktop whatsapp and choosin urself to mssg. yes u can send urself files with whatsapp. and funny mails too :D keep in mind whatsapp only support

  • @lninfo
    @lninfo 11 місяців тому

    you damn earned a sub and a like using the ad on the video !!

  • @vonshtoyven3060
    @vonshtoyven3060 5 місяців тому

    A cooling mod i used to have ip8+ piece of floor tile with thermal paste taped to the back over the cpu was, great cooling mod

  • @charlesmarkdolero1707
    @charlesmarkdolero1707 11 місяців тому

    Nice job sir big respect 👏

  • @Restricted-028
    @Restricted-028 11 місяців тому

    someone finally made my dream phone practical

  • @Im_nerd_
    @Im_nerd_ Місяць тому +1

    Bro i couldn't understand anything but i was enjoying the vedio i subscribed to your channel ❤

  • @kerimcanakkaya2852
    @kerimcanakkaya2852 5 днів тому

    Hey dude I like ur sponsor, they are soo cool!!

  • @arielfikruavicenna9933
    @arielfikruavicenna9933 4 місяці тому

    Awesome job

  • @adrianoperez2257
    @adrianoperez2257 10 місяців тому +1

    nice, just bought your pdf material,. very well explained, nice stuff indeed, thanks for the good material

    • @ZacBuilds
      @ZacBuilds  10 місяців тому

      Oh awesome, thanks for the feedback and so glad you liked it!

  • @charlesmarkdolero1707
    @charlesmarkdolero1707 11 місяців тому

    It's really cool man

  • @rowduk
    @rowduk 5 місяців тому +1

    this dude made a custom handheld, thats sick!

  • @epiciphones
    @epiciphones 11 місяців тому

    Inspiration 🔥thank you Sir 🙏