REVISIT: Nintendo Switch Lite BACKLIGHT FAULT (Black Screen)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Hi, this revisit video is on the Nintendo Switch Lite with the faulty backlight. I have now managed to find some spares, so I am going to attempt the repair again.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things.
I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series.
Many thanks, Vince.
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Well done Vince, I'm a fully qualified elec/electronics engineer and I still learn so much from you battling through these faults. It's great. Keep up the good work and keep learning.
Thanks so much Blagzster :-)
I've just found your channel and watched this trilogy of you repairing these two damaged Switches. I now feel like I've just watched a very nice detective/investigation movie. Your storytelling is very nice and emotions are real. Wow, thanks for introducing me to a new experience, didn't know tech repair videos can be so captivating! All the best Vince!
My Mate Vince, I’ve watched your videos for a while now. I’ve always had an interest in working on electronics and various things. Recently my sons Nintendo switch game card reader quit working. Luckily through watching your videos I knew this was a job that I could tackle myself. The repair went well! It’s now working and my son is happy! Thanks and keep up the great work and videos!
Ryan
Excellent, well done Ryan. One happy son and one happy dad not having to pay out for another Switch :-)
Hey good job
This is why it's important to keep old boards for components, even the banana rage board is valuable for the components, I hate seeing things this complex just being thrown in the rubbish
Thanks ever so much for the shout Vince =D This is perhaps your most epic repair!!! You followed it right from the initial burn marks to all of the faulty components! I don't know about Switch Killer, your new name should be Switch Master =D BTW the reason the voltage doesnt drop much when the backlight is not visible, its using PWM rather than just DC. Test your scope on it and you will see some pulses rather than straight DC!
GadgetUK164 - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods i wis you good luck mate
The Switch Whisperer. Ressurecter of dead switches.
Switch Master....I like it ;-) Thanks Chris for all the help and advice on each video :-) I will surely be back to burning, breaking and device killing in the months ahead :-)
My Mate VINCE you should try repairing more computer like MacBooks or laptops i think it would be more easier because there is schematics and replacement parts
Vince: "hey kids, guess what I've got you for Xmas?",
Kids: " A Nintendo switch?"
Vince: "how did you know?",
Vince "guess what I've got you for your birthday?",
Kids: "another switch?",
Vince: "nope a switch lite!"
Haha :-)
Why not? I got some socks for my birthday when I was young.....
@@TheSkaldenmettrunk yea usually simpsons ones lol
@@missionpassed4584 Not even those.. just regular black socks..
@@TheSkaldenmettrunk damn thats a bummer
Vince, I suggest looking for a used entry level infrared soldering station, like the T862, for these kind of BGA jobs.
22:10 - I came for the "Yes!", I wasn't disappointed. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Please Revisit those 2ds xl you tried to fix over a year ago, top screen are now very cheap on aliexpress.
Definitely will. I ordered up 2 screens over a year ago!!!!! I just need to get motivated to do it :-)
Well done Vince. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Hey mate, loving all of your videos because your are so detailed which makes it much easier for new guys to follow and learn. The pros skip so much of the basic stuff just because it’s 2nd nature to them. Keep up the amazing work.
Also where did you get that component tester? Didn’t see a link to it and it would surely save me loads of time figuring these what these micro parts are.
Vince i absolutely love your videos they are so entertaining and relaxin keep up the good work. Greetings from Croatia.
I'm glad it worked, by the way you could mark the chips or parts by color coding them to their parent board, maybe with color pencils or something else
Great video. I think, I became addicted. Keep going, love the content. Happy eastern and greetings from germany!
Nice job, dude. Way to keep at it.
At minute 18:00, when you moved the console, you can see the backlight flashing on for a moment in the conector under the cartridge slot. It's was kinda "working" there. The problem doesn't look to be the BGA but a connection problem
Hey Martin, it does look like the backlight lighting up but I think it is the mirrored finish on the back of the LCD catching the bright lights in the room shining down on it. The Switch wobbles just as it happens. Well spotted though, I didn't see this while editing :-)
Can confirm what@@Mymatevince said.
@@Mymatevince Not true vince bro.. at 27:20 you can see the backlight in the same place lighting up still when you move it.. very handy to know if the backlight is working or not.. i got a switch lite here with the exsact same problems as the one in the video.. i swapped the connector over.. still no luck.. its the 9 pin chip that seems dead :(
@@Mymatevince you can also see the backlight die in the same place when you shorted it at 25:18
Vince you brilliant buffoon, I love it when you solve the problem.
Now that I know you are reading this: very well done! You had me at the edge of my seat!
All switch lites with no backlight should be called switch no-light.
Switch Dark Edition
Great result Vince, superb job.
BIG THANKS!
For showing me chris channel, I really like retro repairs(I do them myself but in German).
And i am always searching for new/unknown youtube channels which do stuff like that.
Greetings from Germany, cris crafter
You should try and battle it out like that with a broken laptop from a popular brand, you'll learn so much more both hardware and software wise.
Hi Vince good video as usual ,where did you get that extending screwdriver from ? Thanks
Great fix vince I am amazed you can even work on work on chips that small 🙂
I have put soooooo many hours in BOTW but had to sell my Switch :( Glad you got it working.
Well done Vince. It's an inductor, if you look under the microscope it will almost look like glitter, this is (as far as i know) the ferrite composition, a resistor on the other hand will be a flat shaded colour, unfortunately that particular revision of your component tester isn't sensitive enough to measure a lot of ranges of inductance.... sometimes simply soldering wires to the component is enough to trigger a good reading. The component tester isn't technically incoreect as techinically an inductor is a resistor... :)
Thanks Dom, it did have a silver glittery coating on it but the camera didn't really pick it up. That will hopefully be an easy way to maybe identify them in future fixes. Nice one :-)
Brilliant, well done for sticking to it and fixing the problem.
I don't see how it's possible to create 17V from a 3.7V battery without a inductor. The topology of the circuit perfectly matches a boost converter, in which the inductor is the key component. Also the fact that is was broken (open circuit) fits perfectly, as shorting the output of a boost converter essentially creates a direct short trough the inductor thereby frying it. It's possibly just a inductor with a very low value. You can use your little scope on the side of the inductor that goes to the diode on a working Nintendo switch - You should be able to see that node alternate between ground and freewheeling (inductive spike). (Might look distorted as the converter might be switching faster then the bandwidth of the little scope, but you should still be able to see something)
Thanks Unimportant. Apparently that little component tester will not test low value inductors so it tests them incorrectly as a resistor. Like you mentioned in the last video it looks like it is an inductor and not a resistor as I stated in this vid :-)
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Brilliant Vince. Couldn’t have been happier to see this revisit. Even happier to see the result!! Look forward to more consoles/gadget videos!
That is an inductor. From my experience, they look exactly like that. Also, all resistors have markings on them. And it's normal for a board to have a lot of inductors, cause there is many voltages needed for different circuits.
Thank you :-)
Hi Vince, great video. I've got the same problem with my switch lite. I have a shorted capacitor near that BGA chip, do you think it's the same chip as the original switch? For some reason you can get the original switch BGA, but not the lite. Thanks in advance.
I has same problem and I change that chip like 3 times and reball it with a stencil and nothing just sound no image I don’t know what to to only reads 15.50V must be the LCD?
Haven't finished watching yet, but just wanted to comment that if you try to measure an inductor on those cheap meters that's outside the measurement range it'll incorrectly just measure as a very small resistance (an inductor is just a coil of wire with a small parasitic resistance afterall).
And that part is 100% a chip inductor and not a shunt resistor (I've only ever seen precision shunts in a thin film package and not a multi-layer ceramic one like that).
Thanks SJM, I will hopefully remember this if I am testing small SMD inductors in the future on that little component tester :-)
Love watching you fixing Nintendo switch system. Can you do mirco sd reader module connector 16 pin FPC replacement I havent seem anyone does it on UA-cam .
Come on Vince, don't get to big for yourself, you need to keep up PR, you need to reply to some comments. I scrolled through the comments section, of your last few videos, and nothing, no hearts, no comments at all. I get you can't reply to all, and I don't expect that, but when you're relying on views to make money, you need to pay bit of attention to those viewers.
It is not a resistor, it is a coil but sometimes this multimeter couldn't show exact element and show only one of the parameters, a coil have resistance and can act as resistor. Without Inductor you can't boost 3.3V to 17V efficiently. You can also use a capacitor to boost voltage but for very small currents. Inductor stacks energy under high frequency while capacitor stores energy. A resistor 0.5 Ohms hasn't got the same properties as an inductor 0.5 Ohms, it is a different element. The chip provides frequency pulses for the inductor to form a boost converter.
You've become a veritable pioneer in the Switch repair game, Vince, congratulations! Well done, sir!
Haha, why thank you kind sir :-)
Vince, you can try to reball those bga chip using bga stencil and bga solder flux paste.
I just subscribed to Gadgetuk164 and he is at 20.1k subscribers now
hi it is a inductor not a resistor it is the main part of a boost converter 1 way you can verify is if it sticks to a magnet
sorry this comment won't be relevant or anything I just wanted to say that I just watched an horrifying thing but watching you video after it helps me see what's amazing in the world so thank you keep on doing your awersome work !
Edit : Just finished the video and damn, that one was tough and full of twists and turns congrats !
Am I the only person who wonders if he ever got the switch OLED
It’s amazing how your able to fix this and how far you have come from the start
Keep safe and keep the videos coming I get so excited when you release every video
I like ur persistent 👌. U did it at last... The way i do this small BGAs i put the solder balls on the motherboard it self.. and i put the IC without the balls and it well catch the balls on the motherboard when heated
Brilliant vince great fix... Don't listen to haters .. Not worth it 👌👌
Great revisit, you had me thinking Vince is giving up; but you fixed it!
love watching these kinds of video and I am just hoping big companies like Nintendo have talented techs such as My Mate Vince. or else the warranties of our devices will just be all for naught.
9 pin BGA chip replacement ay? I guess it wont be too long and I will come across a video where you successfully replace a "Gazillion" or is that "Bazillion" BGA GPU or CPU Chip :| :) :D
Hang on a minute!!! that makes you a freak-n repair GAWD!! I mean is there anyone else that can repair at home and I do stress "AT HOME" with a basic toolset all what you have repaired thus far? freak-n legend is what yo be..
Haha, I like it Koala, especially coming from a true legend :-)
Awesome work Vince. That chip must be the backlight controller. The resistor you changed there is an inductor which prevents interference caused by low frequencies on the voltage lines and filters out stable voltage. Technically, even if you shorted it, you would get backlight to work but you would have seen some flickering as well. Backlight issues are generally caused by a bad backlight driver and diode (if you see, there are some diodes also on the backlight circuit). An inductor usually never burns out but turns out this Nintendo Switch actully had it blown from what I suspect, water damage or moisture.
I have an old monitor with a similar problem and I was unable to fix it. Turned out the backlight needed 30V to turn on. So I took a 32V adapter from a dead HP printer and fixed it that way. The backlight control does not work from the monitor and the brightness is fixed (not adjustable) but it is functional that way. I gave it to one of my friends and it has been more than 2 years and he still uses it.
Funny thing is, I was subbed to gadgetuk164 before i was subbed to you. Lol I think I subbed to him in 2017ish and you in early 2018
Of course the board can have multiple inductors. Because each dc - dc converter need an inductor. Since these devices need different voltages for different components/chips there will be multiple dc-dc converters. The tester most probably doesn't measure it , because it's value is too low( 2-33uh commonly) for it.
You simply identify a dc-dc converter , all the components grouped together, one driver chip + inductor + schottky diode.
Great job vince
Thanks Adrian :-)
Love you vids
AMAZING congratulations
I would love to own the "Rage Quit Refit" Switch Lite, just to say that it has been frakenstien'd from the dead and destroyed yet lives as new.
this felt like a quickie
Amazing work mate. GRATS.
nice video as always
Hi Vince at minute 18:00 when you moved the console you can see the backlight flashing it looks like a connection problem.
It does doesn't it. I think that part is a mirrored finish on the back of the LCD and it is catching the light from the room bouncing of it when the Switch Lite wobbles a bit. I have quite bright lights shining down on the blue mat :-)
GadgetUK164 is a legend. I love watching the thoroughness of his work.
Never had the urge to shout "No, not like that" through the screen at Chris! ;)
Excellent vince! i was already preparing myself for a fail but you managed to save it
Hello, great video. Does anyone know what the “bga 9 ball chip” is called or where one can find a replacement one? Thanks!
Amazing video yet again!
Thank you for these good vids
Well done 👍a great try and try again video .
Great fix Vince
I have a Switch Light I bought broken to Attempt to Fix for my UA-cam Channel. You inspired me to do Console repairs. I'll use all your switch videos as help for me to problem-solve. Thanks for being AWESOME
I had a look at your channel and its amazing I subscribed
Thanks man, good luck with the fixes and your channel :-)
great video, love your stuff
Woohoo, haven’t seen one of your vids in a while
Same
TexasInar and Joaquin V, He has been posting videos lately.
Nice fix and shows that persistence pays off :) Thanks also for the GadgetUK164 UA-cam channel link, as a Commodore Amiga 500 owner, that channel looks very interesting.
Nice, congratulations 🙂👍
a resistor can only be used to reduce voltage while an inductor under the right circumstances can increase voltage, so you cloud easily verify whether it's a resistor or an inductor by trying to see if a voltage higher or similar to the 18volts coming out gets supplied to the circuit...
Very good job!! I was cheering when you showed it working. Excellent job!
Problem is these cheap chines meter cant measure low inductance and instead show resistant beacuase is t small for measurment. If you want measure smal inductance yoou are need RCL meter . This meter measure inductance , capacitance and resistance . and alsou on capacitor ESR and some one ESL (equivalalent series inductance) .
Man, I've been dying to get a Switch Lite. With all that's happening right now, I can barely purchase one due to how awful things have been. It's been on my to-buy list ever since it was released back in September.
Your switch videos are always fascinating to me. I'm blown away at your resourcefulness. Would you ever consider making another switch mini and this time filming your process?
Job well done on the BGA, an unenviable tasks with basic kit. Best X-ray it to now make sure the jobs definitely a good un! 😂
Nice work Vince, I knew you could get this working, even quicker than I expected :)
I love the chinesse LCR meter. But of course it has its limitations . Being said that, I use heavily on repairs. A proper LCR is way expensive and does not worth the risk (I repair PSUs and charged caps are an issue). But on tiny values can fail. Getting 17V from 3.7 requires an inductor somewhere.
Credit where it's due but well done Vince. Apologies if I've ever made any negative comments in the past. Not exactly in a great place or frame of mind me. Keep up the great work
Mymatevince, I suggest you keep doing this videos :p
Now honestly, just discovered your channel, and have to say this make me still sane with this neverend curfew. Thank you.
woohoo! 😀
Congratulations Vince, I wouldn't have given you grief, but I'm glad to see you got it working.
Persistence pays of
Vince, take a look at EEVblog's latest video, the laptop repair! It just so happens he has to deal with one of those inductors, apparently they actually are inductors!? Anyway, he explains a bit about them and what not, thought you might find it interesting.
Chuffed you got it working!
Nice fix, just wished you recorded the section where you resolder the same chip multiple times.
So if the switch lite won't have image this is the only reason or could be a bad screen? asking because I have a Nintendo switch with this same problem I hope you can respond to me.
That'll be it for this video, continuous recording LOL
@MymateVince,Love your Playstation Repair Videos ! Satisfaction when you get it to work is 10+ .
Vince, excellent fix! I can’t believe the progression of your skills from where they were when I started watching you a year or two ago. I look forward to more of your videos!!
Thanks :-)
Very impressive Vince
What a nice fix haha. Things like this are not easy to fix.
Glad you made it working. I really enjoyed this revisit.
I wonder what caused it to fail in the first place? Maybe the resistor failed and it just took and cooked everything else along its path? But what would've caused the resistor to fail I wonder.
I don't get why people hate the switch lite. The "it can't switch" agruement has been debunked because it has tabletop mode.
I think Its because its not advertised as having tabletop mode.
Vince, just wanted to say thank you for all of this content. No need to respond just wanted you to know you are appreciated. Stay safe out there.
I was almost disheartened for you but wow!! Glad you made it work
you should also invest in low melt solder to do jobs that require unsoldering so that it could lower the temperture without burning any components
Novice warning. Trying to fix no backlight switch lite. 4:50 Vince is calling it a naught 050 shunt resistor. 0.50 ohms. I am getting no resistance(100 % continuity). Measures same as component that is about 1/2 " to the lower left of the fan. Mine looks like it popped! i.ibb.co/ZBdqFH6/nintendoswitch.jpg I am not sure if #4 caused the right side of cable to burn thru or if I fried #4 while testing #3. One second I was getting 41vdc at #3. I saw a flash and now I only get 3.7v from # 3. # 1 and # 2 are 0 volts. If I am able to locate a 0.50 resistor on a radio or other component, will it work as a replacement? Thanks. Yes, that is a yellow tape measure to the left showing 1/16ths. This minute tech is amazing.
I never know about that device, you measure capacitor or resisters.
What is the name of that device? And where to get it.
Thank you!
How I can send you pictures or small videos? I have 2R2 coil fell of my Nintendo switch motherboard, will attempt to put back. I didn’t find any similar videos from you or any other people. Think that you may want to see. Console is working, but don’t take charge.