3 "Repair Shops" Tried to Fix This PS4 - Let's Try to Save It!

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3 "Repair Shops" Tried to Fix This PS4 - Let's Try to Save It! I bought this PS4 from a viewer in Lithuania who took it to a repair shop for a cleaning... and everything was downhill from there. Now I'm trying to fix what they broke to get this game console working again.
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[@Tronicsfix]

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[@mjc0961]

No thanks, not while Spring is still involved. I bought the "perfect amount of thermal paste" shirt and they will not stop spamming my e-mail inbox, nor will they honor my unsubscribe requests. Downright terrible company, I will never give them another penny. If you ever get a different company for shirts, please advertise that, it'll be a huge selling point.

[@AllanWorks]

isn't the solder mess grounding a couple of those vias out?

[@Tronicsfix]

@@mjc0961 Really? So sorry to hear this but thank you for letting me know.

[@MODEDGES]

@@Tronicsfix do you do repairs? I broke my xbox one s hdmi connector i dont know how to take it off or any prices?

[@RimFaxxe]

@@Tronicsfix hey man, I messaged you about two devices a while ago and I was wondering if you'd be able to take a look and perhaps let me know what you think might be the issue?

[@camorreetinsley8719]

What I've learned from your videos is that a lot of these "repair shops" are an abomination 💀

[@dudeofdudovia]

it could be the owner of the console not wanting to be blamed

[@grenzhochspannungshindernis]

Guy on the video didnt fix the ps4, it doesnt work like it should... i think what happened was, those repair shops powered the console some other way, they bypassed the broken socket and ended up with the same blue light as your man on the video... so yea, 'these repair shops'... and according to the video, your man is the 4th in the ' abomination' row and he is the last one, lol xD

[@MightyJabroni]

@@grenzhochspannungshindernis They didn't even re-assemble it properly. Having screws missing and possibly bouncing around on the circuit is just wildly incompetent. As is jamming slim cables under a metal shield and leaving blobs of hardened solder randomly on the board, which was also to be seen. So yeah, critizising the work of prior repair attempts, if they leave behind a crime scene like that, is pretty damn valid. Especially since such a sloppy approach has you wondering, if they didn't mess it up further.

[@5twvl]

I really hope you recover soon, stay strong. ever since that happened tech never really felt the same anymore.

[@jesusperez3215]

The panning an zooming on this and recent videos are taking your videos to another scale 👍

[@Tronicsfix]

Glad you like that!

[@Olmovk]

Not a fan of the SFX when zooming. It’s a bit much. Love everything else!

[@chasefournier]

Great job resoldering that connector! You are doing miracle work Steve! That stuff isn't easy!

[@craftymulligar]

For him it is probably.

[@clayton9136]

Its relatively easy in terms of things that are difficult.

[@FernandoRivero80]

You really know a Playstation 4 pro is a mess when it doesn't have the perfect amount of thermal paste.

[@Tronicsfix]

Lol, that's true!

[@Lougardeixion]

I think even Sony doesn't know how to apply the perfect amount of thermo paste

[@JorshPodGaming]

that's right!

[@daboomer2277]

Exactly! That is so true!

[@guitarhero918]

Steve I just tried to literally repair a PS4 Pro for a mutual friend the other day and now you release this video. Outstanding. I was relying on your old 2016 videos for help 😂

[@AidanBenny]

same here my dads ps4 kept have a disk drive issue lol

[@Tronicsfix]

So glad my videos have helped!

[@MorbidCrow666]

I just don't understand how these people can call themselves professional repairers and yet can't put things back from where they came from.

[@ThePrivateGamer19]

Me neither..

[@gviperx7871]

I'm from Lithuania. Love your videos

[@vytautasnemunaitis5113]

Hi, greatings from Lithuania!! ❤

[@Tronicsfix]

Hello there!

[@UltimateTechHub]

I love it when you find missing screws and repair show mistakes.

[@colinboneham7387]

Nice effort Steve, had a feeling it was blod, send it the cod3r see if he can find the fault & repair it

[@MikeGervasi]

Black Friday fixes. Nothing better, Steve :)

[@Tronicsfix]

So glad you enjoyed this one!

[@JamesWSleight]

I think the other repair shops must've rejected the job. Think about it, the initial job description would've been a blue light of death followed by the destroyed connector. That's a heck of a pain in the neck if they had to keep soldering the connector every time they tried different ways to fix the BLOD and test.

[@Moa_Smug]

I think it's all about money to those repair shops because whether they get to fix it or not they'll still get paid regardless.

[@nancymoore9499]

This is the type of stuff I'd like to do as a hobby as I have a lot of spare time I just don't know how I should get started with tools etc and types of products to start with

[@appwraith]

Man... they really went to town on this poor board...

[@Tronicsfix]

Yes, they did.

[@Electrocus]

Dude. You are amazing!

[@TheXV1CT0Rx]

Great work! what is the blue light of death? is that not repairable?

[@andreapasqualin5958]

Thanks A LOT for your videos from Italy ❤️

[@Tronicsfix]

Glad you like them!

[@buschify1990]

Lol I tore away the power supply cable from the motherboard, I soldered it back and it worked fine 😂 These guys sent it around town for someone to fix it 🤣 It was my first time soldering so Im proud of myself hehe

[@urukadooedwards7637]

I had an idea for you one of these days. Would be cool and interesting if you could fix a broken Rooma Vacuum. I have one of those and love it. Would be cool to see how it works inside :)

[@lbdjthethird1240]

Man I thought the "Oooh wait" at the end was you going to tell us you fixed the PS4. 🤣

[@shanez1215]

I'm hoping someday QSB places will open up locally for a reasonable fee. And we could just design a small QSB that can connect the standard header to the various alternative points. It'd be much preferable to having to use kynar wire and solder bridges.

[@thegees]

i was getting worried when you put the board back on when we didn't have proof of the perfect amount of thermal paste! also i got the pro tech tool kit for christmas last year it's great

[@Tronicsfix]

That's awesome! That's such a good toolkit

[@slickrx6908]

He could have looked under the scope for knocked off components and replaced those. Sometimes that's all it takes. If not dumped the flash to enable debug and read boot logs through uart. Might have been a loose memory chip.

[@vadnegru]

Not worth the effort IMO

[@yotoprules9361]

What does the blue light mean? It's not "posting"?

[@whodatdere1]

I might be wrong but looking close at the connector, looks like 2nd wire from the left on the connector is shorted to ground. Also looks like the first wire on the left may also be very close to the via under it.

[@Tronicsfix]

2nd wire is not shorted to ground and first wire on left is soldered correctly.

[@Cabeza492]

3:20 I'm not really an electronics expert, but I think those are resitors, not capacitors. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. Excelent job as always Steve! Always a pleasure to watch you doing your magic! Greetings from Argentina.

[@jorgemerino4268]

Cuál es la diferencia entre un resistor y un capacitor?

[@Flyingdutchy04]

could be both SMD capacitor and SMD resitors looks almost the same.

[@vadnegru]

Yes, generally caps are white, resistors are black.

[@Cabeza492]

@@vadnegru You're wrong about SMD caps, they are brown. Usually, fuses are white.

[@vadnegru]

@@Cabeza492 oh, yes when i looked up individual capacitor they are definitely brown. When they are on board they seems whiteish creamy. Fuses on another hand is green, yellow, black with gold on that website.

[@djkris9688]

Love your videos you are my favourite KZbinr

[@johnsr2462]

Hello ! I have already watched the whole video and I appreciate the second wire in the second pad contacts with the 3rd one which I suppose is negative, minute 7:38 check it. Greetings!!

[@mix-stuff]

The second pin from left to right the thin wire you soldering is touching the board at the bottom i think 🤔

[@Tronicsfix]

Looks like it is but it isn't.

[@ramza78]

I’m surprised it even powers up! I love ❤️ t when you fix bridges with almost nothing! Great vid!!

[@screen-protector]

Why not try checking out components to see what's causing the BLOD?

[@johnnyhun1]

because he is too lazy. Many times he just make up excuses why not to continue working on. My favourite is "its APU problem" and this quote solves everything and give reason to give up lol

[@screen-protector]

​ @johnnyhun1 Don't be so mean to him :D, check the merchant shop :D instead. I've learned a lot from him to be true. And, any attempt of the repair is better than none ;). He can always send it to the TheCod3r if he can't fix it :). But, I'd send to ToltecMerc in the USA rather than send it to the UK to be true. But hey, I run only an electronics repair shop and who am I to talk about it. It's not my YT channel :D. My has only over 220 subs :D.

[@johnnyhun1]

@@screen-protector he is really good I am not denying it, but it just bothers me that he gives up sometimes halfway through either because he is not in expert in that area, or just lazy. If he is not expert then no problem, just admit it.

[@screen-protector]

@@johnnyhun1 have to like it, agree ;). I admit to even worst things LOL. I admit to all :D. On the 25th of Feb on my YT here I'll show how I've damaged 128 legs CPU in one BENQ monitor :D. Did I want it? No. But, I fixed it and the customer is happy ;). So, what's the problem ;). Even if my customer wouldn't be happy and I'd try my best, I'd still show it to them ;). I can pay for what I do wrong ;).

[@LeroysHangout]

That's so sad. You had so much work to do and bluedeath is what you get for reward :( Great job!

[@HD-wf3bp]

Ifixit kit is so nice because you dont have to get anything else to get started. Now I've worked on stuff for like 2 years I'm starting to look for specific tools. But for starting it was a great kit! Could work om Xbox, PlayStation,pc and nintendo.

[@wybuchowyukomendant]

what were they thinking packing this? Packages like this should get instant -$30 refund.

[@kevinfowler7482]

Tech: Hey boss, we got console cleaning request! It’s pretty dirty, what should we use? Boss: Eh, get the hammer, it’ll get the stuck on grime. Tech: Good thinking boss!

[@rinaldslibeks1592]

@TronicsFix im from latvia thanks for rembering about lithuania atleast

[@angelcruz2559]

I know it will work because you're doing the work and I know that you're the best

[@ilmih91]

Hey Steve, go to minute 7:20 and you will see that the second wire from left is touching the ground at it's end

[@James_D.]

Even the perfect amount of thermal paste couldn’t fix this PS4! 😳

[@trymem8]

How do you stay so humble after all that and find blue light of death ! 😢 quality videos though!

[@jpnicosia4028]

The problem was that you had the TV in xbox one mode 😆 🤣

[@Clanner666]

Hey mate, your videos got me interested in a new hobby! My basic problem at the moment is to properly identify components on the motherboard. Is there any kind of more or less complete "circuit map", especially for the HDMI circuit, that you know of, where I could e.g. see what kind of resistors there are on which position and their ohm value? Kind regards, Michael from Germany

[@vadnegru]

This is called schematic. You should have some experience from soldering small projects like led spinner an then tackle the pinnacle of electronics - the motherboards.

[@ClassicGOD]

WTF. How do you do something like this to a board. I've never seen something that botched.

[@Tronicsfix]

This one was pretty messed up!

[@error262]

7:20 did you check 2nd pin (from left) isn't grounded to the ground plane? Looks way too close. Also you could of probably ran the 3rd pin straight up to the ground. Probability of their bad repair shorting out directly on the board is pretty high, who knows what blew up but something probably did.

[@Tronicsfix]

I rechecked all pins multiple times

[@Juliett-A]

The perfect amount of thermal paste fixes almost anything.

[@smashICE1]

what do these "repair shops" do for a living? ripping off customers? holy mother of circuit boards! the power connector repair was outstanding. everyone else just would have said "nope", scrap this. sad to see, it was "worthless". thanks Steve!

[@chriskaprys]

It'd be cool to see a video where, in order to attempt a repair, you have to use allll the tools in an iFixIt toolkit .. or at least ones you've never needed before.

[@Linkziz]

You really should try to work for Korn. You look like you could be Munky or Head's brother. I'm sure their equipment needs repaired from time to time

[@realdragonrude]

not to knock the repair shop that messed this up but dang dood use some flux and properly solder before you make people pay for your services it really does look like they just no fluxed it and burn into the board itself

[@media3338]

Nice one! Brand new video!

[@earlbond2929]

Why power slot is always getting ripped off? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.

[@MoPoTime]

Holy moly, very surprised this PS4 came from my country

[@zephalon]

I have done some repairs without a microscope and that stuff is really TINY.

[@zaptyz954]

So interesting how to repair that problem, is more common to see that issue in ps4 pro and normal, i have one and is the same problem, thanks you!

[@steveaustin330]

Great episode,Steve.

[@deamondeathstone1]

So the psu in a PS4 can work in 110 volt land as well as in 240 volt land?

[@MarkSynthesis]

Lithuanian PSFro; not what you'd expect to run into every day. Makes for an interesting video!

[@PCJesus0]

Just as a question why didn't you use one of the white light of death PS4s and take its power supply connector? Edit: I should have watched through the whole video before commenting lol

[@andrewtomashaska4985]

Steve, do you still do your repair classes?

[@leocortez4658]

Hey @tronicsfix, I recently purchased this elite series controller and it has a malfunctioning lb button. I cleaned it spraying 91% isopropyl alcohol and it fixed it for a little but the issues comes back. I noticed corrosion on the motherboard so I cleaned it and it fixed it again for a little then came back. I was wondering if you have any suggestions. I love your videos I watch them even for consoles I don’t have. Thank you for all your tech help!

[@arbiter-pe3xg]

Try replacing the LB switch and see if that fixes it, i had a similar issue with a few xbox360 controllers

[@wendy-uc9rj]

If a PS4 already has the blue light of death, is it useless to send it in for repair even if it's never been repaired before?

[@ashfrost2050]

You are like Picasso with a soldering iron.

[@ventrue6516]

I wonder if reflowing the APU couldn't rix the Blod, partialy at least?

[@ElGhostPresents]

Can you help me with mine. It won’t update at all, I tried everything, the usb method doesn’t work. My last resort is to replace the hard drive & install the update that way.

[@kyorin6526]

I'm sad that this one couldn't be fixed :o(

[@tigershinobi1844]

Do you have any videos for ps4 "software" troubleshooting/fixing?

[@dusty80]

That's a real bummer at least you tried your best to get it going

[@will891410]

My city is full of these so called repair shops, but anything a little more complex than replacing a plug and play part theyll not accept the job or charge you a high price.

[@gungan5822]

That's gotta be the worst tear of a connector to work with.

[@leem4017]

What causes the blue light of death? Not repairable?

[@tony--james]

from Tronicsfix website itself "The main problem that causes the blinking blue light is the solder joints under the main chip (the APU) seem to get a bad connection."

[@craftymulligar]

Goes to the spare parts bin.? Alright

[@Kazuto_Wildcat]

I just dont get it why all these companies are calling themselfes "repair shops" because if they cant even fix stuff like (micro)soldering or trace repairs (with wires or pad strips) than they dont have the right to call themself a repair shop xD And thats also why I dont trust these shops. Whenever one of my electronics fail or has an issue I fix it by myself most of the time and if I end up doing more damage than there is no one to blame other than me :3

[@realityanalyst]

Some of your links in the description don't work. Maybe you need to update them.

[@Ogk10]

Here's an idea. Try to fix a fat PS3 yellow light of death.

[@daniel2134]

Hi there on my series x the hdmi port is loose and is very sensitive live if i move it just a tiny bit i will lose a picture on screen also when watching media like KZbin or Disney+ i get a static screen what causes this.

[@jasonmc6997]

Repair shops, aka me (or my friend) bc I (they) own a soldering iron... Im willing to bet that's most of these "repair shop" fixes that fail.

[@12345.......]

How does a "repair shop" not know how to unplug a cord or reassemble a Playstation? That gives competent independent repair shops a bad name.

[@ZapNetOfficial]

yo i got that tool kit today i recomed you get it very good

[@LilithTitan]

whoever they brought it to, butchered it. If it was actually a shop that did this, they should never have touched it or maybe it was far beyond their capabilities and there is no shame in bowing out and asking for help elsewhere when it's stuff you do not own not to mention this is was a customer. Also, anyone who has ever tried to solder as I do batteries for the RC hobby with ESC's etc, you make soldering look easy.

[@tg6952]

Lithuania! :D

[@wadestanion4617]

So what do you think IS wrong with that machine? Not just a blue light of death....

[@venialgaming4295]

My friend had an original ps4 that was completely dead, no power or anything and they brought it to a repair shop and they said it was unfixable, here’s the weird thing, when I got it I took it apart and tested the psu, it tested good, but then after I put it back in all of the sudden it started powering on, after some screwing around I found that it wouldn’t power on with the blu ray drive data cable plugged it, what was the fix? I blew into either connector and it was fixed. I’m curious if anyone else has run into this kind of issue where a dirty blu ray drive connector has caused zero power.

[@rixas20]

Lithuania lettttss goooo

[@societyisboring]

Yo man, 20 bucks. I have an entire ps4 worth of parts if you want it. I used it for a disc drive. It needs a new fan plug sodered on. Up to you though.

[@ThatPhilBurgGuy]

That connector that you cant find anywhere is a 4 pin jst socket.

[@krishneelsingh1072]

But did u managed to fix the problem with the blue light

[@daveyio87]

How did you get started in doing stuff like this?

[@brisingr14]

I wonder when I'll get my hands on a ps4.

[@herbgartman860]

I have an original 60 gb ps3 I would love to get repaired by you how do I go about doing that

[@ekspatriat]

Were the missing thermal pads added?

[@samljer]

That solder looked cut, not ripped.

[@teslameccano9046]

Will there be a part 2 on the roombas

[@mitchellward2536]

I can never get my solder wick to take, what am I doing wrong?

[@Mantas18]

Lithuania 👍

[@isaaccervantes5955]

Love all the content . We have the right to fix our own goods ..

[@kasparsstepinsh2000]

Latvia is the neighbor 🇱🇻

[@bobbilderson8556]

Not sure I love the new metal music... It makes it less relaxing for me... But idk. Maybe no one else minds.

[@briandoss9232]

Where the heck is Lithuania?