Battery change ✅GARMIN Vivoactive 4 ✅ maintaining the tightness DIY

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@DJayAce4 Жыл бұрын

I actually just took my Garmin Vivoactive 4 apart 5 minutes ago and can confirm it is a quick connect. Separating the screen is easy. I used a heat gun for a couple minutes and a detail/precision flathead screwdriver to carefully pry it open without damaging it. The whole thing just popped apart the second I started to pry, it was super easy, much easier to separate than I thought it would be. HUGE WARNING!!!!!!!! In this video, once he separates the screen, he disconnects 2 harnesses and puts the screen off to the side. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT try separating the smaller of the 2 harnesses. It is not meant to separate. If you try, you will forever ruin your watch and will never be able to repair it without an expert, and even then I'd find it impressive that they could fix that part. You can easily disconnect the bigger of the 2 harnesses (it is sturdy, won't break), just use the small detail screwdriver to pop it off. Then just fold the screen off to the side. I know he disconnects the smaller one as well in this video, but idk maybe they started making the watches differently at some point, or it's just way too sensitive to try and disconnect. Believe me, it's basically impossible without damaging, no idea how he did it in the video, because it isn't possible without forever breaking your watch. The smaller harness is for the touch screen, so if you damage the wiring for that, you will no longer have a touch screen which you need to operate your watch. The watch is useless without the touchscreen. The bigger harness which is easy to separate, is the power and controls. Just separate that one and fold the screen to the side and you will have more than enough room to get to the battery. Then you must unscrew 2 small Philip head screws, and again just fold that circular chip board off to the side. It also has wiring that you cant just disconnect, so yeah fold it off to the side. Now you are at the battery! NEXT HUGE WARNING!!!! For the Garmin Vivoactive 4 watch (Not Vivoactive 3, they didn't do it for that one, otherwise it's the same process), they added some sort of heat monitor pad under the battery. So when you go to take the battery out, it'll act like it's stuck with a sticky pad under it. When you go to pry it off the sticky pad, you will damage and ruin a sticky heat sensor and rip it all up damaging the heat sensor wires and everything. Be extremely careful. Get your heat gun, heat it up really well, and very slowly and very carefully remove it from that sticky pad. I didn't use a heat gun and just pulled the battery out thinking they just used some sort of sticky substance under it to hold it in place, not thinking it would matter how rough I was with the "sticky pad". Big mistake, completely tore it all up damaging the heat sensing wire ripping it all apart. Use a heat gun, get it hot, and VERY carefully remove the battery from that pad... That's it! CONGRATULATIONS! Pop in the new battery and reverse all the steps. As far as what battery to buy. No idea. I damaged my Garmin being the ginny pig so I have to buy a new one. I'll just tell you everything written on the battery and you can do the research. Here is everything written on the battery: IS 16046/IEC 62133 361-00086-23 4.3V R-41134953 www.bis.gov.in 170mAh Rating: 3.8V, 178mAh, 0.67Wh. Pack finished in Taiwan.Rechargeable Li-ion Battery. Red Wire positive. Black wire negative. HJoules Miles Co. Ltd. 1ICP4/20/27 Garmin Model: 381-00086-23 ON24EN41B0288 Good luck. The job is easy to do as long as you are careful. Tools you'll need is a heat gun and flathead and Philips detail screwdriver. Smallest size you can buy for the most part. Klein tools sells a multi-tool precision screwdriver on Amazon. Look it up, those sizes are perfect.

@lyesmmm9521 Жыл бұрын

Thank you mate ! for sharing your experience and sorry for your watch. One watch dead to save other watches

@narekchannel 9 ай бұрын

thank you, if you have photo of the battery please share it somewhere and privide the link, that would be very helpfull. Otherwise, can you please also hint on where they might be selling sufficient batteries for 4S?

@schrundie 2 жыл бұрын

The battery in the link is for the Vivoactive 4S, not the larger 4.

@annelisabethcom 2 жыл бұрын

Update: Someone commented under this comment that there's actually a quick connect, so no soldering needed. Thanks! He's hiding how to actually connect the new battery, and even carefully hiding how the old one is connected. Needs to be redone. This is just to sell a battery, and then the QR code doesn't even work. My guess is some soldering needs to be done here. At minimum cutting the cords from the old battery and then cutting the ones from the new and soldering them together midway. This battery is not user replaceable, which normally means it's soldered to the motherboard. Also, there's the water proofing. It's dodgy on these watches anyway. Some of them just pop out and some are not water tight from the factory. If you're careful with it, it should last a while even if you don't manage the waterproofing as well as he did. But contact Garmin first of all. They might replace it. If they don't or they don't offer a good deal on a refusbished one, go check out videos for other Garmin battery replacements that include the attaching battery bit.

@DJayAce4 Жыл бұрын

Editing this as I came off a little too standoffish. OP edited post anyways. All is good! Was just saying that there is a quick connect for the battery. I actually just took my Garmin Vivoactive 4 apart 5 minutes ago and can confirm it is a quick connect. Separating the screen is easy. I used a heat gun for a couple minutes and a detail/precision flathead screwdriver to carefully pry it open without damaging it. The whole thing just popped apart the second I started to pry, it was super easy, much easier to separate than I thought it would be. HUGE WARNING!!!!!!!! In this video, once he separates the screen, he disconnects 2 harnesses and puts the screen off to the side. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT try separating the smaller of the 2 harnesses. It is not meant to separate. If you try, you will forever ruin your watch and will never be able to repair it without an expert, and even then I'd find it impressive that they could fix that part. You can easily disconnect the bigger of the 2 harnesses (it is sturdy, won't break), just use the small detail screwdriver to pop it off. Then just fold the screen off to the side. I know he disconnects the smaller one as well in this video, but idk maybe they started making the watches differently at some point. Believe me, it's not possible, no idea how he did it in the video, because it isn't possible without forever breaking your watch. The smaller harness is for the touch screen, so if you damage the wiring for that, you will no longer have a touch screen which you need to operate your watch. The watch is useless without the touchscreen. The bigger harness which is easy to separate, is the power and controls. Just separate that one and fold the screen to the side and you will have more than enough room to get to the battery. Then you must unscrew 2 small Philip head screws, and again just fold that circular chip board off to the side. It also has wiring that you cant just disconnect, so yeah fold it off to the side. Now you are at the battery! NEXT HUGE WARNING!!!! For the Garmin Vivoactive 4 watch (Not Vivoactive 3, they didn't do it for that one, otherwise it's the same process), they added some sort of heat monitor pad under the battery. So when you go to take the battery out, it'll act like it's stuck with a sticky pad under it. When you go to pry it off the sticky pad, you will damage and ruin a sticky heat sensor and rip it all up damaging the heat sensor wires and everything. Be extremely careful. Get your heat gun, heat it up really well, and very slowly and very carefully remove it from that sticky pad. I didn't use a heat gun and just pulled the battery out thinking they just used some sort of sticky substance under it to hold it in place, not thinking it would matter how rough I was with the "sticky pad". Big mistake, completely tore it all up damaging the heat sensing wire ripping it all apart. Use a heat gun, get it hot, and VERY carefully remove the battery from that pad... That's it! CONGRATULATIONS! Pop in the new battery and reverse all the steps. As far as what battery to buy. No idea. I damaged my Garmin being the ginny pig so I have to buy a new one. I'll just tell you everything written on the battery and you can do the research. Here is everything written on the battery: IS 16046/IEC 62133 361-00086-23 4.3V R-41134953 www.bis.gov.in 170mAh Rating: 3.8V, 178mAh, 0.67Wh. Pack finished in Taiwan.Rechargeable Li-ion Battery. Red Wire positive. Black wire negative. HJoules Miles Co. Ltd. 1ICP4/20/27 Garmin Model: 381-00086-23 ON24EN41B0288 Good luck. The job is easy to do as long as you are careful. Tools you'll need is a heat gun and flathead and Philips detail screwdriver. Smallest size you can buy for the most part. Klien tools sells a multi-tool precision screwdriver on Amazon. Look it up, those sizes are perfect.

@annelisabethcom Жыл бұрын

@@DJayAce4 I'm making assumptions because it wasn't shown, and this is someone who replaces batteries as a job. Thanks for letting me know!

@annelisabethcom Жыл бұрын

@@DJayAce4 Also, I don't know of any videos other than this showing a replacement for this watch. I didn't think to figure out which other Garmin watches would be similar enough. But with this video I might be able to get this done or do it myself if necessary. I don't use this watch anymore, but it's still a good watch.