So the owner of this device got very pissed at me for posting this video so much that he asked me to ship the device back to him. Accused me of being a liar for claiming that SVOD can repair batteries. I am pretty sure that i never said it can repair battery. All i was able to get out of it was read the data, thats all. Unlocking the battery was the only way to fix the battery in this video and if i had the commands and address to send to the chip via SVOD, in theory it would work but i cant say 100% unless someone can tell me what commands and to what address i need to send those codes. Either way, the battery analyzer goes back the way it came. I guess am not good enough to keep it. Who cares 🙂
Thats quite the over reaction, I mean its just a device that resets old batteries, one thats very expensive for what it does so I guess hes very protective of his limited market.
@@Borked1000 Indeed so. His market is very limited. If he wanted to get his device in the hands of solo repair guys like me, he would have to change his terms of sale in exchange for a global marketplace. i think $200 USD would be reasonable given the fact that it has only 2 advantages over SVOD4. It can balance cells and unlock process is much much easier. Everything else is just convenience rather than functionality.
I went back to the beginning of the video to figure out what device you were talking about. I guess he lost a subscription and possibly more due to word of mouth... Oh well.
To be honest you were quite complimentary with the pro one, and you basically showed that the black one definitely wasn't as easy to use and with no customer service.
@@Hossimo i think so too. i am not sure what he so mad about. Maybe language or a culture barrier ? he is Romanian from what i can tell. I worked with his people many years ago hand to hand doing hardwood floors, i know they think they are the best in the world somehow and thats basically is the vibe i get in every email how great and unique his tool is. Well, SVOD exists for a while so its not so unique i guess. Either way, i asked if he gonna let me keep it if i pay for it. I still want a toy to play with once in a while even if he takes my unlimited unlock license away and just grants me with a standard 10 unlocks per year. Ill be fine with that.
We're in Europe and use the NLBA1. Great thing. We're not bothered to get the subscription to reset the chip on a locked battery. We throw them away as well, because at the end of the day that makes us more money than resetting the chip, get some money for our service and sending it to the creator for the subscription. I made a board with serveal connectors on it with pin headers connector to them. For me that's the quickest way to connect the battery to the analyzer.
yeah i am in the process of leaning KICAD to create PCB with needed connectors. I would stay away from one PCB with multiple types simply because things change and need update. Easier to update one connector PCB than an entire stack.
@ It's manual work on an perfboard with about 10 connectors from dead laptops, connected to a pin header. I've got some dupont jumper leads between the green connector on the NLBA1 and the pin headers. some extra for power and some extra for ground/system present. This way I never had to use the odd connectors they supplied with it. I think a designed pcb would be way better, so I hope Tony will go on and make something. I'd buy it if he doesn't share it for free.
This was very interesting and informative in quite a few ways. Thank you for sharing these obscure things that you have figured out and learned. You are certainly clearing a path for others who are stuck at a brick wall not knowing how to proceed.
I used to have a programmer, I think Wellon vp990 or something like that, and I had dedicated software and technical support (theoretically lifetime) for it, which was constantly being developed by a group of Poles. The best thing is that whenever I came across an integrated circuit that was some strange "invention" that wasn't supported, the guys added support for this wonder on the fly.
The real important question here is HOW the NLBA1 has a database of the Unseal Codes for every different manufacturer's batteries. It is well known the procedure to communicate with the smart battery using Arduino or other cheap devices. However, the manufacturer often changes the Unseal code. Either this software has a lookup table for batteries, or they are brute forcing the code somehow maybe (unsure how long this would take or if feasible). It would be interesting for someone who have this device to connect a SMBus Sniffer/logger and then plug in some "unknown" battery and then ask the support to unlock it, or just sniff the unseal key of various batteries and chips. However I generally do agree that in the West, people rarely spend time repairing batteries. Unlocking the Permanent Fail is, IMO, useful, but is a good chance the battery will have a low capacity. I personally usually try to find a open box or used OEM genuine battery on eBay wherever possible, because that way the capacity is known good, and for most common laptops the price is about $30.
He told me he has people working on these codes and using some algorithms to crack them. I think he is not telling the whole truth here and possibly using AI to brute force the access codes. The firmware it's self is very small. It can be done rather quickly explaining why he was able to crack my battery in seconds. I wish I knew more about this process so I could automate the process until code is found but I don't.
I learned today that manufacturers set the lock code to what they want. Just need to find one that works. Since it took him seconds to unlock the newly unsupported battery, I think Asus is using common codes across many generations. I was also thinking about the sniffer to see what his device is doing while unlocking the battery so I could replicate it on SVOD but I am not smart enough to do that and I don't have time.
@@northwestrepair Just looked into this again, apparently the process to unlock the batteries is quite involved, newer MacBook batteries have a completely different firmware and it's uncertain how they managed to reverse engineer the process involving hundreds of commands, and to be quite honest it probably is quite an involved process in general. The price of the software is probably reasonable, considering the amount of faff that went into developing it, but it's too expensive for anyone except the factories that remanufacture these batteries. I wish they had a single unlocking option, maybe $15 or so for one battery.
@@liminalsunsetthat's exactly what he told me. Either way, while SVOD has the function, getting it to work is nearly impossible so nlba1 is a winner as i demonstrated. Either way, he is pissed and I don't know what I did wrong except making some uneducated claims in the comments assuming unlock process is not that complicated. He got mad before I made those comments so something in the video I guess, I don't know
mOhms this is internal battery resistance this is not about balancing is about battery physical state. New batteries have low internal resistance, after some using they degrade and resistance going up. Higher resistance higher woltage drops on the load and lower currents you can get from battery.
Laptop manufacturers: -We will create the same battery, but with reversed pins... and maybe lets make different connectors for similar models, because even if they do the same work, we should make like 20 variants of it, so we can charge more for laptops because we overcomplicated it, instead of using the same parts in every our models to save money and make repairs easier. -How about we make chips that will lock perfectly good batteries if user will discharge it completely so they will need to buy new one from us? -Holly damn! we have employee of the month here!
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we have no choice. Either pay with your time and money or throw it away and save big time. What would you do ? We dont have control over this. Things are made to be disposable and repair time/cost has to make some sense. To me, repairing this battery was a waste of time but i find satisfaction doing so. I am weird i guess.
I have a request sir, plz can u make a separate video how to reball memory chip and gpu chip, and how to solder them perfectly on the board without fancy equipment u use, i dont have much equipment without hot gun and stincel plz
Sorin love to use NLBA for fixing batteries and for me I will never buy a device that locked by a software to a specific computer I will not be in the mercy of the someone that might decide in 2, 3, 5, years to release a new device and stop support this one
Tony, for me there is no point to compare SVOD and NLBA. They are made for different purposes. SVOD is probably the best programmer out there for EC programming (among others) while NLBA is likely the only solution for battery diagnostics. It's apples and oranges. NLBA is a very expensive tool both in acquiring and buying the license and makes sense for a big shop and mostly in poor countries (in EU we have many and there are more to come as the economy worsens) or if you are Sorin and want to make some more money by advertising a product being made in your mother country. SVOD is the best tool for programming EC almost any EC being used or will be used and it's pricing makes it perfect for pros and amateurs as well and it doesn't require any subscription (hopefully it will stay like that). Now the fact that SVOD supports almost any protocol related to EEPRON/FLASH out there and therefore can read the flash of the battery management IC, doesn't put it in the same category as NLBA, not even close.
I agree. How ever the main issue is unlocking the chip. SVOD can unlock it i just need to know the address and the commands to send. There is no user forum or support from SVOD developer in this regard as far as i know. Maybe there is on telegram, not sure. But NLBA1 has great customer service and unlocking is available almost instantly. I also agree that SVOD and NLBA are two different animals and cannot be compared directly with one another but.....battery repair is 90% behind unlocking the chip. Both can unlock it, SVOD just makes it a lot harder for some reasons so for that, i think the comparison was fair.
Didn't even know there was a general purpose tool for this application. Sadly the price of the NLBA1 only makes this suitable for high volume applications or high paying industrial repair applications. I'm not saying it is not worth the price. But for jokers like me, I just don't have the volume, or time to offset the price of shipping a new battery from the US or China.
Hi Tony. Looks to me like the usual, pay a shit load of money for it and the important functions do not work! Ok he sorted it for you as you are advertising it, what the hell would we do if it happened to us?
As I said, you get 10 free unlocks per year. Otherwise all functions are available. I do agree that this is not acceptable at the price but its what he does. My guess is that he is not interested in bringing his device to a wider audience and sticking to supplying big shops with less quantity while getting a consistent flow of money from subscription fees.
@@northwestrepair Absolutely mate. I remember looking at this device a couple of years ago, if it wasn't this exact one it was a very similar one, and as I was only repairing my own Laptop Battery I could not justify that kind of money, so just replaced the battery, and in a lot of cases it's cheaper to just replace the BMS chip if it's locked out rather than pay for this. Bob
The NLBA creator has some stomach to charge a yearly "license fee"! I mean really?? Scamming people on a new level! Just buy a new battery and it will be much much cheaper. You can source good batteries. Not all non "OEM" batteries are second hand. You are wrong. Bought plenty of "non OEM" batteries which have worked just as good if not better than the "OEM".
is not scam, lol. in europe & africa & asia people are fixing even 100 batteries per day. this device "should be only used by trained and certificated people", in europe is in grey zone to repair batteries, so the creator is exposed to some risks, this is how he decided to have benefits over the risks
You misunderstood how it works. You dont need a license. You buy the product and you use it how ever long you want. Even software updates are free. License is not really a license. Its a subscription for latest and greatest battery unlock algorithms that him and his team are cracking down to keep up to date. I was a bit surprised to see that a 2023 battery was not supported and the amount of time it took him to get it working was literally minutes. Maybe i got lucky. You can use all functions except battery unlock. SVOD project can also do unlock it but how do you get that features ? No idea. With NLBA its easy and you get free X amount of times every year.
@ Stop it. I called my local repair shop who had one of these. I had a Asus gaming battery which was locked due to low voltage on the cells. I charged up the cells. Battery still locked. Local repair shop told me that they had not renewed the license so that the nlba would not work! So somebody is lying here..
@@ashystyle All PRO analysis functions are Free and included, all updates are free. For repairing batteries, yes, you must pay, 269$ for 1 year is the price of 2-3 Macbook batteries which can be repaired in few minutes.
@@ashystyle Exactly, all PRO analysis functions are free, unlimited, lifetime. For repairing you need to pay. 269$ the price for 1 year repairings, unlimited batteries is actually the price of 2-3 Macbook genuine batteries, people who are paying for the Chip Repair option recover the investment in just 1 day, so, what are we talking about ?
The math shows that you used each one for about 5 weeks and then replaced it with a new one. You would have to be completely unlucky to get one with a damaged battery that somehow avoided QC detection. I, on the other hand, am an IT service technician and have repaired (at a modest estimate) 60,000 laptops over the last 25 years and the vast majority of them had a damaged battery.
NLBA1 has a 10 year license which is most cost-effective for unlocking batteries but will I or the NLBA developer be around in 10 years. As Tony said here in N America simply replaces batteries. The software itself is locked to one computer and if you want to move the software to another computer you have to contact the developer.
Thats a very good point. That is exactly why i told him to sell a version of a complete finished product. Do your updates.Release new versions of software and hardware or sell software updates but let people own what they buy.
Most of the battery replacements are just poor fake batteries, open one and you will see what is inside. There is no other offer better than the NLBA1 Repair Option on the market at this moment. 1 year Chip Repair option is the price of 3 Macbook batteries which can be repaired in 1 day.
I don't find it very useful for repairing laptops and only diagnosing a charging or battery fault. I have many colleagues who have this instrument and don't use it. They consider they made a mistake when purchasing. the svod is another story you need yes or yes if you have to reprogram kbc or sio the main use that I give it myself. In Spain, batteries will not be repaired, they are changed directly, they cost very little and can be obtained without problems, where this is not the case, it is in Sadamerica, there the batteries, for example in Argentina, cost a fortune and if they repair them it is another story, I know it from good sources, I have colleagues there. a few I have definitely never needed a gadget like that to know that I have a board or battery fault.
So the owner of this device got very pissed at me for posting this video so much that he asked me to ship the device back to him.
Accused me of being a liar for claiming that SVOD can repair batteries.
I am pretty sure that i never said it can repair battery. All i was able to get out of it was read the data, thats all. Unlocking the battery was the only way to fix the battery in this video and if i had the commands and address to send to the chip via SVOD, in theory it would work but i cant say 100% unless someone can tell me what commands and to what address i need to send those codes.
Either way, the battery analyzer goes back the way it came. I guess am not good enough to keep it.
Who cares 🙂
Thats quite the over reaction, I mean its just a device that resets old batteries, one thats very expensive for what it does so I guess hes very protective of his limited market.
@@Borked1000 Indeed so. His market is very limited.
If he wanted to get his device in the hands of solo repair guys like me, he would have to change his terms of sale in exchange for a global marketplace.
i think $200 USD would be reasonable given the fact that it has only 2 advantages over SVOD4.
It can balance cells and unlock process is much much easier. Everything else is just convenience rather than functionality.
I went back to the beginning of the video to figure out what device you were talking about.
I guess he lost a subscription and possibly more due to word of mouth...
Oh well.
To be honest you were quite complimentary with the pro one, and you basically showed that the black one definitely wasn't as easy to use and with no customer service.
@@Hossimo i think so too. i am not sure what he so mad about.
Maybe language or a culture barrier ?
he is Romanian from what i can tell. I worked with his people many years ago hand to hand doing hardwood floors, i know they think they are the best in the world somehow and thats basically is the vibe i get in every email how great and unique his tool is.
Well, SVOD exists for a while so its not so unique i guess.
Either way, i asked if he gonna let me keep it if i pay for it. I still want a toy to play with once in a while even if he takes my unlimited unlock license away and just grants me with a standard 10 unlocks per year. Ill be fine with that.
we have Pitchure,,,,that's crazy 😁 Thank you for the video Sorin would be proud
We're in Europe and use the NLBA1. Great thing. We're not bothered to get the subscription to reset the chip on a locked battery. We throw them away as well, because at the end of the day that makes us more money than resetting the chip, get some money for our service and sending it to the creator for the subscription.
I made a board with serveal connectors on it with pin headers connector to them. For me that's the quickest way to connect the battery to the analyzer.
I think that you couldn't share this connection board which you fabricated? 😊
yeah i am in the process of leaning KICAD to create PCB with needed connectors. I would stay away from one PCB with multiple types simply because things change and need update. Easier to update one connector PCB than an entire stack.
@ It's manual work on an perfboard with about 10 connectors from dead laptops, connected to a pin header.
I've got some dupont jumper leads between the green connector on the NLBA1 and the pin headers. some extra for power and some extra for ground/system present.
This way I never had to use the odd connectors they supplied with it.
I think a designed pcb would be way better, so I hope Tony will go on and make something. I'd buy it if he doesn't share it for free.
This was very interesting and informative in quite a few ways. Thank you for sharing these obscure things that you have figured out and learned. You are certainly clearing a path for others who are stuck at a brick wall not knowing how to proceed.
Thank you for taking the time to give us your evaluation
I was gonna complain about the subscription but that was some nice customer service for your money.
I used to have a programmer, I think Wellon vp990 or something like that, and I had dedicated software and technical support (theoretically lifetime) for it, which was constantly being developed by a group of Poles. The best thing is that whenever I came across an integrated circuit that was some strange "invention" that wasn't supported, the guys added support for this wonder on the fly.
very nice video, thx for the info.
side note, I'm in Portugal and is very rare fixing bats, normally we also change them instead of fixing
I just check price of both NLBA1 and SVOD4... I think you are doing right!
The battery is both dead and alive until you look at it ..
Schrodinger's battery🤣👍
Some battery with same model on other side of the world gets the same fate
@YuNherd in a parallel universe, the battery connector will be wired backwards ..
"boot mode" will be when you give power to the batterie to the positive connector ,until that it was in "stand by"
Interesting,. I will give it a try. If that works, SVOD is a winner
We're using UFPI Red version with some xtra stuff, it beats both but not ez to get nowdays
awesome comparison.. so basically the NLBA1 is a must if you're refurbishing batteries!👌
Yes
The real important question here is HOW the NLBA1 has a database of the Unseal Codes for every different manufacturer's batteries. It is well known the procedure to communicate with the smart battery using Arduino or other cheap devices. However, the manufacturer often changes the Unseal code. Either this software has a lookup table for batteries, or they are brute forcing the code somehow maybe (unsure how long this would take or if feasible). It would be interesting for someone who have this device to connect a SMBus Sniffer/logger and then plug in some "unknown" battery and then ask the support to unlock it, or just sniff the unseal key of various batteries and chips. However I generally do agree that in the West, people rarely spend time repairing batteries. Unlocking the Permanent Fail is, IMO, useful, but is a good chance the battery will have a low capacity. I personally usually try to find a open box or used OEM genuine battery on eBay wherever possible, because that way the capacity is known good, and for most common laptops the price is about $30.
He told me he has people working on these codes and using some algorithms to crack them.
I think he is not telling the whole truth here and possibly using AI to brute force the access codes.
The firmware it's self is very small. It can be done rather quickly explaining why he was able to crack my battery in seconds.
I wish I knew more about this process so I could automate the process until code is found but I don't.
I learned today that manufacturers set the lock code to what they want. Just need to find one that works.
Since it took him seconds to unlock the newly unsupported battery, I think Asus is using common codes across many generations.
I was also thinking about the sniffer to see what his device is doing while unlocking the battery so I could replicate it on SVOD but I am not smart enough to do that and I don't have time.
@@northwestrepair Just looked into this again, apparently the process to unlock the batteries is quite involved, newer MacBook batteries have a completely different firmware and it's uncertain how they managed to reverse engineer the process involving hundreds of commands, and to be quite honest it probably is quite an involved process in general. The price of the software is probably reasonable, considering the amount of faff that went into developing it, but it's too expensive for anyone except the factories that remanufacture these batteries. I wish they had a single unlocking option, maybe $15 or so for one battery.
@@liminalsunsetthat's exactly what he told me.
Either way, while SVOD has the function, getting it to work is nearly impossible so nlba1 is a winner as i demonstrated.
Either way, he is pissed and I don't know what I did wrong except making some uneducated claims in the comments assuming unlock process is not that complicated.
He got mad before I made those comments so something in the video I guess, I don't know
mOhms this is internal battery resistance this is not about balancing is about battery physical state. New batteries have low internal resistance, after some using they degrade and resistance going up. Higher resistance higher woltage drops on the load and lower currents you can get from battery.
Yeah I know. It's voltage.
I was learning in the process but left that out unedited.
Laptop manufacturers:
-We will create the same battery, but with reversed pins... and maybe lets make different connectors for similar models, because even if they do the same work, we should make like 20 variants of it, so we can charge more for laptops because we overcomplicated it, instead of using the same parts in every our models to save money and make repairs easier.
-How about we make chips that will lock perfectly good batteries if user will discharge it completely so they will need to buy new one from us?
-Holly damn! we have employee of the month here!
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I dont get the joke
39:04 ACK is short for "acknowledgement"
hello Tony, why can't I see the video with the repair of the processor a month ago, I think it was
How many times did you say the word "battery" in this video?
you should try printing the latch from something else that is more pliable like tpu or petg, pla and abs is brittle
yeah but i just changed the design a little so it has more room to flex. Will see.
Where could I find SVOD? Is their website trusty? Their forum is dead.
svodproject something like that. I bought from them no problem.
Disposable goods is terrible sin of the West, not just the United States.
we have no choice.
Either pay with your time and money or throw it away and save big time.
What would you do ?
We dont have control over this. Things are made to be disposable and repair time/cost has to make some sense.
To me, repairing this battery was a waste of time but i find satisfaction doing so. I am weird i guess.
@@northwestrepair Oh yes, I agree. We are sort of stuck. The crapification of everything is real. It's still waste, massive waste.
Do the bounce test on the battery..
Oh well, I was hoping that you take the lnba apart to see the internals.
@northwestrepair Why have your videos been deleted?
personal reasons. no strikes, no issues at all. just me.
Sorin has one of the gray ones
I have a request sir, plz can u make a separate video how to reball memory chip and gpu chip, and how to solder them perfectly on the board without fancy equipment u use, i dont have much equipment without hot gun and stincel plz
sorry i dont plan on making videos like that
Sorin love to use NLBA for fixing batteries
and for me I will never buy a device that locked by a software to a specific computer I will not be in the mercy of the someone that might decide in 2, 3, 5, years to release a new device and stop support this one
Tony, would you be willing to put the stl file for that black box on your discord? I need something like that.
"no ACK" means command didnt get response usually in programmers ( Acknowledgment ).
I thought "once the short is gone, its a fix". Cmon Tony, whats this mumbo jumbo, you're better than this ! 🤪
41:08 there are some boring parts, but they can be skipped :)
Both devices are greedy priced for SOLO REPAIR GUYS and on top of that you need pay subscription on the pro device, greedy, greedy.
I hate subscription fees 😤
34:15 one could say its burning bright.
Tony, for me there is no point to compare SVOD and NLBA. They are made for different purposes. SVOD is probably the best programmer out there for EC programming (among others) while NLBA is likely the only solution for battery diagnostics. It's apples and oranges. NLBA is a very expensive tool both in acquiring and buying the license and makes sense for a big shop and mostly in poor countries (in EU we have many and there are more to come as the economy worsens) or if you are Sorin and want to make some more money by advertising a product being made in your mother country. SVOD is the best tool for programming EC almost any EC being used or will be used and it's pricing makes it perfect for pros and amateurs as well and it doesn't require any subscription (hopefully it will stay like that). Now the fact that SVOD supports almost any protocol related to EEPRON/FLASH out there and therefore can read the flash of the battery management IC, doesn't put it in the same category as NLBA, not even close.
I agree. How ever the main issue is unlocking the chip. SVOD can unlock it i just need to know the address and the commands to send. There is no user forum or support from SVOD developer in this regard as far as i know. Maybe there is on telegram, not sure. But NLBA1 has great customer service and unlocking is available almost instantly.
I also agree that SVOD and NLBA are two different animals and cannot be compared directly with one another but.....battery repair is 90% behind unlocking the chip.
Both can unlock it, SVOD just makes it a lot harder for some reasons so for that, i think the comparison was fair.
Didn't even know there was a general purpose tool for this application. Sadly the price of the NLBA1 only makes this suitable for high volume applications or high paying industrial repair applications. I'm not saying it is not worth the price. But for jokers like me, I just don't have the volume, or time to offset the price of shipping a new battery from the US or China.
Those discord notifications are criminal.
Hi Tony. Looks to me like the usual, pay a shit load of money for it and the important functions do not work! Ok he sorted it for you as you are advertising it, what the hell would we do if it happened to us?
As I said, you get 10 free unlocks per year.
Otherwise all functions are available.
I do agree that this is not acceptable at the price but its what he does.
My guess is that he is not interested in bringing his device to a wider audience and sticking to supplying big shops with less quantity while getting a consistent flow of money from subscription fees.
@@northwestrepair Absolutely mate. I remember looking at this device a couple of years ago, if it wasn't this exact one it was a very similar one, and as I was only repairing my own Laptop Battery I could not justify that kind of money, so just replaced the battery, and in a lot of cases it's cheaper to just replace the BMS chip if it's locked out rather than pay for this. Bob
All PRO Analysis functions are Free. You pay and get a PRO analyzer with all analysis functions included at a lower price than a Fluke multimeter.
30:35 Come on, you're always skipping too much with these jump cuts. How are we supposed to learn?
How do you make holy water you boil the hell out of it...
Discord notifications ahhhhhh. Interesting devices
18650 batteries were the goto batteries for laptops. What they have now is garbage!
The NLBA creator has some stomach to charge a yearly "license fee"! I mean really??
Scamming people on a new level!
Just buy a new battery and it will be much much cheaper. You can source good batteries. Not all non "OEM" batteries are second hand. You are wrong.
Bought plenty of "non OEM" batteries which have worked just as good if not better than the "OEM".
is not scam, lol. in europe & africa & asia people are fixing even 100 batteries per day. this device "should be only used by trained and certificated people", in europe is in grey zone to repair batteries, so the creator is exposed to some risks, this is how he decided to have benefits over the risks
You misunderstood how it works.
You dont need a license. You buy the product and you use it how ever long you want. Even software updates are free.
License is not really a license. Its a subscription for latest and greatest battery unlock algorithms that him and his team are cracking down to keep up to date.
I was a bit surprised to see that a 2023 battery was not supported and the amount of time it took him to get it working was literally minutes. Maybe i got lucky.
You can use all functions except battery unlock. SVOD project can also do unlock it but how do you get that features ? No idea. With NLBA its easy and you get free X amount of times every year.
@ Stop it. I called my local repair shop who had one of these. I had a Asus gaming battery which was locked due to low voltage on the cells. I charged up the cells. Battery still locked. Local repair shop told me that they had not renewed the license so that the nlba would not work!
So somebody is lying here..
@@ashystyle All PRO analysis functions are Free and included, all updates are free. For repairing batteries, yes, you must pay, 269$ for 1 year is the price of 2-3 Macbook batteries which can be repaired in few minutes.
@@ashystyle Exactly, all PRO analysis functions are free, unlimited, lifetime. For repairing you need to pay. 269$ the price for 1 year repairings, unlimited batteries is actually the price of 2-3 Macbook genuine batteries, people who are paying for the Chip Repair option recover the investment in just 1 day, so, what are we talking about ?
After 20 UA-cam useless adds, I'm back 😂
20 ?
I dont put ads in the middle. Usually there is no more than one at the beginning. Sorry.
U_Block_Origin = never any ads (remove the _ and Google, YT doesn't like when ppl mention it for obvious reasons)
@@catharperfect7036+ sponsorblock for the nasty in video ads it gets perfect
Cells
I had 100 laptops in the last 10 years and never got problems with bad batteries. I'm an IT manager. I hope you learned something.
The math shows that you used each one for about 5 weeks and then replaced it with a new one. You would have to be completely unlucky to get one with a damaged battery that somehow avoided QC detection. I, on the other hand, am an IT service technician and have repaired (at a modest estimate) 60,000 laptops over the last 25 years and the vast majority of them had a damaged battery.
@@tristankordek back to school, stupid, I manage the laptops that the users work with.
NLBA1 has a 10 year license which is most cost-effective for unlocking batteries but will I or the NLBA developer be around in 10 years. As Tony said here in N America simply replaces batteries. The software itself is locked to one computer and if you want to move the software to another computer you have to contact the developer.
Thats a very good point.
That is exactly why i told him to sell a version of a complete finished product.
Do your updates.Release new versions of software and hardware or sell software updates but let people own what they buy.
Most of the battery replacements are just poor fake batteries, open one and you will see what is inside. There is no other offer better than the NLBA1 Repair Option on the market at this moment. 1 year Chip Repair option is the price of 3 Macbook batteries which can be repaired in 1 day.
Well, people in Romania ....
I don't find it very useful for repairing laptops and only diagnosing a charging or battery fault. I have many colleagues who have this instrument and don't use it. They consider they made a mistake when purchasing.
the svod is another story you need yes or yes if you have to reprogram kbc or sio the main use that I give it myself. In Spain, batteries will not be repaired, they are changed directly, they cost very little and can be obtained without problems, where this is not the case, it is in Sadamerica, there the batteries, for example in Argentina, cost a fortune and if they repair them it is another story, I know it from good sources, I have colleagues there. a few I have definitely never needed a gadget like that to know that I have a board or battery fault.
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