DASH CAM - No Display Fault - Can I Fix it? + NES Revisit

Hi, here we have a faulty NEXTBASE 112 Go Dash Camera which was sent in by John and has a no display fault. Can it be fixed?
Also in the middle of this video I do a quick revisit on my yellowed Nintendo Entertainment System which was used to fix the NES that had numerous faults. Chips have been sent in by Dan from ‪@NewRetroRepair‬ and also Duncan from Duncan's Deals.
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If you have an interesting 'non returnable' item for a 'trying to fix' video then my PO box is as follows. Please only use if you are from the UK and using Royal Mail.
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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.

[@masterbrown2002]

That’s my new favourite Vince quote “it wasn’t working, it’s just that it’s not working even more now” 😂😂😂

[@bparker86]

I got a laugh out of it too lol

[@GadgetUK164]

Great job Vince =D That low melting solder sure makes a mess lol - but it works so well and was a good idea to protect the CCD on the other side (and plastic parts).

[@Mymatevince]

Thanks Chris, lol it gets everywhere!!!!!

[@bparker86]

Definitely got some enjoyment for this liked and DEFINITELY subscribed!!

[@anxiousheart2429]

You dont give yourself enough credit for how good you are at fixing things man

[@tsbeech]

Vince you have come a long way. You're getting very good at this and it's very exciting to see you repair these. Well done!

[@invalidcactus76]

This guy needs more subscribers! Great video.

[@KorAllRBare]

🐨 Not sure but @ 35:19 I observed what may seem and I stress "SEEM" to be a fault if one is not aware of Power protection IC's and what triggers them "see pin 3 SHDN", Anyway when yo pulled out the SD Card while the Unit was operating I am pretty sure the entire unit's Power rails were momentarily grounded "A reason why it's recommended to have the Unit off "Unless prompted it is safe to insert an SD card while it's put into a safe mode", Which BTW such insertion at the wrong time can trigger that replacement chip into protection mode, by one of the IC pins going out of a specific voltage range ergo the IC will shut down the power and as long as power is fed to the rails that IC's pin will be held in a shutdown state "This state can also be possible with a bad or low battery", only way to reinstate normal operation is if ALL power is removed Eg: both the USB and battery, mind you I am only doing an educated guess here prompted by the IC's 3rd pin which is a "SHDN" Pin, of course it may just be a fault in the SD card slot. Only way to get to that seemingly faulty state is to Insert a SD card into both units and then power both the Units on and then remove the SD Cards while they are on, Pretty sure both should shut down and remain shut down until both the battery and the USB power supply has been removed, if you test this and I am wrong then I would like to know, of course if I am right this ole Aspie would like to know as will many many other people who are ignorant as to why it's good practice to ensure there is no power in a unit while removing and inserting Media Cards.. APU I dropped a 👉👍👈

[@watchmedraw4340]

Awesome again. Its like an Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes book where we are all guessing in our head until the end.

[@DigitalJunior2003]

Love your videos but I love that song more at the end. It’s called on and on.

[@fabianfarina2208]

Magic Vince

[@rfr653]

good job mate.

[@vwgolffancarreviews7111]

The dash cam is very nice

[@bparker86]

I LOVE chip quik it's the best best thing for removing pill style transistors with the cheesy tabs. I can remove finals wothout getting them over 70 centigrade which is pretty amazing PS you NEED a fine tip iron. I have half a mind to order one and send it to you

[@brycehenson4345]

Check the video pin on the nes connecter and dirty pins in game slot can make the screen do that I remember that my nes did that Bryce

[@rebug5614]

I'd do away with the PO Box & do this, if someone wants to send you something they send you an email with what there sending & the tracking information & send it to your local shop to collect. You can then see when it's arrived to go pick it up & you still don't give away your address & save all that PO Box money 👍🏻

[@harrynorton8573]

Hi Vince could you make a video testing if a plane sim controller works on cloud gaming on a Xbox one

[@TheGhost0339]

What's the end song?!! It's amazing! OK shazam is amazing. Its on and on by Lars Eriksson

[@bluetuscani5607]

What a mess trying to clean that chip and board, next time I suggest apply flux first. Watch Northridge fix channel for soldering tips.

[@rashira9610]

What are the songs?

[@iphonejsd]

The dash cam is acting like a button might be stuck down

[@iamwonderFil]

I would send you all sorts of damaged/faulty units of whateveer if it didnt cost me more than the item was worth to ship it to you, from canada. who is 'my friend, my buddy, my guy" Vince (or vinny, vincent) from canada? i got stuff to ship that guy!

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

Normally dashcam do not come with a rechargeable battery because it’s always plugged in to power when car is on

[@lesrogers7310]

All of the various models i've had have either come with a battery or a capacitor.

[@StezStixFix]

Great video, Vince! Really enjoyed this one 👍

[@Mymatevince]

Nice one Steve, thank you 👍

[@MrMikenIkes]

Vince, your videos inspired me to fix a computer keyboard that was faulty. Normally I would have tossed it in the garbage and spent $20 on a new one but you gave me the confidence to take it apart and see what I could do. Well, I fixed it! The problem was a faulty connection with the zebra connector between the circuit board and the keyboard receptor thing. I cleaned it up with IPA and wedged a piece of cardboard in to increase the amount of pressure on the connector and it works like a charm! Thanks for the entertainment and the inspiration! You’re a legend!

[@davidmelbourne5480]

Knowing (or just guessing) what regulated voltage the camera expected to see would be the clue here. The dropout voltage down to the 1V would have been a red flag. When I suspect a regulator, I vary the load & temperature to see if it partially works and/or post inject a bench supply to see if the load works/or is drawing excessive current (regulators often have fold over circuits built in) Funny how my soldering irons are so much smaller than yours....you have great skill with that one! Great fix Vince!

[@SiAnon]

I gave up buying anything from CEX years ago. Think everything i bought went back due to faults. Ironically they will swear blind that it was never faulty when they sold it so thank christ for UK selling laws. I wouldn't even buy a 3 pin plug from them these days, they can't be trusted most of the time.

[@jochenwuerfel]

Oh yeah.. starting the day with a new video 🥰 Very hyped about the NES revisit 👍 PS: As you except things via your PO box, please be careful. I already had a few other channels talking about getting tracking devices from some creaps sent to them.

[@patrickjmorgan]

I took on my sons 512w cam on as it kept shutting down (after covid lockdown ) I bought him a new one as he was traveling 160 miles a day and needed a dash cam for the M25. Anyway, 2 years on, new LiPo battery and the old 512 still works. I guess a good few Nextbase dashcams were binned due to the battieries going zero as our cars sat idle.

[@Manu-Official]

Nextbase is such a dreadful brand. I have spoken with a guy who installs dashcams (and mine), he pretty much said about 50% of Nextbase cameras fail within guarantee and are returned to the manufacturer. From that point, who knows if they refurb and resell old new gear...

[@Filippoilcane]

il regolatore non lavora bene perchè ha un eccesso di carico in uscita. presto anche il secondo si guasterà. c'è un condensatore ceramico guasto. non morto ma moribondo, che è diventato una resistenza. mettendo 3v sull'usita lui surriscalda ed è facile trovarlo....

[@technixbul]

Without swapping parts, you check the integrity of the parts, that is why you'll have to know how different parts work. Those chips wrapped in plastic nylon may be very well killed by static electricity, that is not how you pack and send bare electronic parts, especially CMOS chips will die like that, they must be in anti-static bag, not wrapped in anything to prevent electrostatic discharge on their sensitive capacitive MOSFET inputs. The caps are not always connected to ground, you should proper measure them for short between their two legs.

[@supercomputing942]

Yes capacitors are not always connected to ground, often they are connected in series with other components also. Must always check between the 2 points of the cap.

[@dodgydruid]

I'm still working on a review on one of them HDMI retro game sticks, came with two excellent wireless SNES type controllers that are above the normal Chinese quality and this thing has 900+ games already included but you can dump as many roms in as the 32gb SD card can hold. The controllers are very similar to the 8bitdo ones and no creaking plastics or tappity buttons.

[@cr4zyshotz211]

Love ur videos been watching for years back wen u we’re doing phone sockets faceplates not that I know how to fix stuff but interesting to watch 💙

[@mineshpatel1420]

I think it could be a firmware issue. Download the firmware from next base website. Load it on the card and give it a couple of minutes while it flashes. Good luck

[@electrickal1]

VINCE!!!!!! That voltage regulator soldering was painful to watch. You obviously have watched Alex from Northridgefix because you do and say some of the thing he says and does, but you didn't use flux! The most important thing when soldering/desoldering. For FLUX safe man you have to use flux and plenty of it.

[@zhapodbreebrelbox]

Vince, great video. But did you check a stucked reset button? Just a hunch.

[@Fifury161]

20:55 - that's what separates the hobbyist from the professional...

[@Marcel1984nl]

Hi Vince, I don't have much experience with a voltage regulator myself, but I do have experience with a voltage boost circuit that doesn't work, sometimes when you apply heat to the chip it suddenly seems to work and later it doesn't so I would replace that faulty voltage regulator because it will stop working again in the future. Nice video btw dashcam and Nintendo in one! (sorry i had not watched the very end of the video) Note: With a booster chip you always have to be very careful with heat supply to it, because otherwise it will break quickly, I have many that have broken and they give variable voltages, due to the overheating. Cheers ;)

[@Thecubemaster10]

Vince. I'm gonna send you my lenovo laptop.

[@dragon8102]

T12x cheap soldering station

[@Cra1gst]

i watched you very early on , i knew alot about repairs at general repairs, well now you know more than me , been a amazing journey seeing you learn !!! now i learn from you :)

[@professormoriarty703]

Another great video. Your troubleshooting skills and intuition are amazing. You won’t toot your own horn but you have fixed everything from watches to dash cams to reel to reels to tv consoles to monitors and everything in between and around. Your do an amazing job sir. What’s next Deloreans, Teslas or stargates 😂. Love you videos

[@mrjsv4935]

Nice fixes, both the dashcam and Nintendo :) About ten years ago or so I was inspired to buy some mini "spy" videocameras, after watching some reviews from Techmoan's channel. Had to do quite a lot of fixes and adjustments to some of them, before they were even somewhat usable. For example few cameras had fuzzy image, needed to adjust the focus, one camera showed black screen, because the lens assembly had detached from it's case, pressed it back together and it was fine. One dashcam didn't even have threads for the suction cup part, so had to "MacGyver" there another solution, etc. :D Stopped bying them really quickly. I still have almost all of them, but haven't used them in many years anymore.

[@thabenzAMG]

es this is another great video from vince i'm still asking if you could help me with a camera named fujifilm finepix hs10 i know that you have one and i think that it's suitable for my faulty one with a ribbon cable broken inside the lens and i found it so hard to fix keep your vids mate

[@zyspan]

snipping off the used end of the solder wick more often will help

[@ekens6344]

I think that low melt solder hasn't got a flux core in it so using it with separate flux might help stop it going everywhere!

[@Mymatevince]

Maybe, cheers ekens 👍👍👍

[@jaccoonderdijk1777]

For sure it creates a frikkin mess, defenately food for shorts!

[@coctailrob]

I bought a bar of low melt on eBay. (A lot cheaper than in a wire form) Using flux with it makes a world of difference

[@gamerX-wk7ct]

@@coctailrob sometimes there are some that won't no matter what you do until it becomes so mixed it's not really low melt anymore

[@pow9606]

I think adding flux and some leaded solder prior to clean up will help. The leaded solder will also help with the smearing.

[@wisher21uk]

I will put a “W” on the working one so they don’t get mixed up one is black in colour one is copper in colour 🤔

[@surrealfx]

Hi, Vince. Great video! I’m a bit late to the party and only recently discovered your channel. Currently working my way through it 😀 I had the exact same garbled image on my nes which was fixed by replacing the connector. Have you tried replacing the 72 pin connector that the game cartridge plugs in to? Even though the pins rang out fine on the original 72 pin connector. A new one fixed it. EBay £12 or so. Like you, I changed the RAM chips etc but ended up with the same garbled image upon game load. You may have already sorted it by now. If so, I haven’t gotten as far as that through your videos just yet so forgive me. Thought it was worth a mention just in case. Again, great video! I’ve picked up some good tips from your content 👍

[@toxichank6960]

Vince, you need to use flux. Flux is your friend, per Northridge Fix. Will make a major difference in solder flow. Apologies if I'm repeating something already said.

[@GothGuy885]

tackling those tiny surface mount components, you are braver then I gunge-din! I picture you standing on top of a building somewhere, with your cape billowing in the wind 👍😀

[@RandomTorok]

I was about 11 years old and my parent had an old clock radie that stopped working. I asked if I could take it apart. I was probing around inside it with a welding rod, however, I neglected to disconnect the radio from mains power. Well I scared myself when I shorted something out. I put the radio back together and low and behold the radio started working. I don't recall how long after that my parents continued using the radio.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

Vince, you should ask Farnell for a trade account even if without credit. You don't have to pay shipping and handling fees for ANY order big or small.

[@oldguy8177able]

i think people are far too hard on you i mean you are not an expert you an average joe haviing a go,personally i admire your curiousity and hard work and never say die attitude.i actually love fixing things,recent repair was dehumidifier 6 months working on it finally fixed it,it was a earth wire to fan lose,the thing that confused was sometimes it was fine,obviously sometimes wire had good connection.

[@we-are-electric1445]

The shutdown pin at 41:53 is active low so shutdown would happen if it were at 0 volts. A bad or intermittent voltage level on this pin could cause the camera not to work reliably.

[@GreggRoberts]

Pitch it and stop ordering junk from Ebay. Go to Microcenter or Best Buy. Plus that guy spelled Time wrong.

[@troyharwood3225]

Hey Vince about the NES when I watched the first video you done on it I noticed just under to the right by the jumper wire you added there is some through hole solder joints that where cracked or cold joint. Sorry if you already had messages to that I didn’t read them all. Hope that is it. I’m pretty sure it is. It was on the same circuit.

[@PlanetRuncorn]

OMG ... 48m into the video before the IPA came out ... i was getting withdrawals :-)

[@PunkNDisorderlyGamer]

I believe the video ram and work ram are the same chip you can flip them around.

[@AnotherDud3]

From my experience with NES garble graphics always tends to be that slot loader, the pins become misaligned and dirty or bent out of shape.

[@MrFujack103]

I found it strange how it worked with the sd card in then you took it out and it went back to having the fault. I was thinking bent or snapped pin in sd slot dragging the voltage down or showing a fault and shutting down, hence the sd error. Did it get fixed in the end? Don’t remember seeing it?

[@marksmith-ew7ir]

hi vince i have the same problem i bought two together and with in five minutes the secound one stopped working on the camera mind you only paid 15.00 with shipping .

[@MrAverageGamer87]

Love the channel and content gave you a sub. weird question i really liked the music any way you could shout out what the songs were?

[@Cra1gst]

also the tape i believe is meant to lower rf interference , try plugging the next dash cam in to computer see what shows up , maybe bad boot ? should have flash new firmware

[@dashcamuklee8949]

Good quality Flux is your friend! Flux to take off and put back on and on the wick. It will help you no end 😀 Amtech flux is my go to

[@OfficerSkull]

I have a dash cam and at one point the screen went black but it was on and couldn't figure it out till I swapped the memory card and it started working again.

[@RK-kn1ud]

Add a quality tacky flux to your solder wick...it will probably aid in desoldering. Solder will want to flow where there is heat and flux.

[@gamerX-wk7ct]

not the low melt solder some brands won't stick

[@catherinemorgan2741]

The hand Marvell superhero Vince comes to the rescue today to save a camera will the superhero succeed place your bets ROFL

[@jrumiano]

Tip for you. Please clean that soldering Iron tip! It looks like an only cigar butt...

[@leebox9911]

You won't have to spend anything just take it back to cex lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@anthonyhenryhoover9278]

Didn’t even know you had a P.O. Box, next time an item of mine breaks I’ll be sure to send it your way.

[@markmurphy3578]

I think I would buy another soldering iron tip and file it down to make it easier to work on these smaller items. When soldering was a large part of my job I used to have 2 soldering irons of different sizes and at least 2 tips for each. Good work though!

[@PAUL-1961.]

maybe the backlight is bad in the screen,just like a tv when a led go out and it flickers on for a second

[@worroSfOretsevraH]

...and you never turned it on with the camera UNPLUGGED!

[@kraiker1]

Didn't know you had one. Would love to send you my broken stuff to fix!

[@ManMountainMetals]

You have to blow on NES games 😅 everyone remembers that 😂

[@RaZZaR18]

23:12 You repair things right xD ? ( i know its faulty^^)

[@ValuedTeamMember]

I'm ready for my closeup Mr.DeMille.. 🎥🦁

[@davidhughes7251]

How do I send something to you. I’ve got a dead ryobi battery I could send you

[@kennethbarker852]

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth

[@radius.indrawan]

For the low melt solder clean up, maybe you could mix it with leaded solder first before wicking it with the braid, hopefully that would make it less messy to clean.

[@jaredl2239]

Vince, sometimes I have similar symptoms on my nes. The trick I use is to insert the cartridge only just enough to push it down. Clearly my issue is dirty contracts in the system and not a chip, but I thought I'd share in case your issue is the same.

[@johnhealy3671]

I have 2 NES, both are exactly the same as yours, they have both been stripped and thoroughly cleaned but will only load a game if the cartridge is only just in enough to push down, basically scraping as they go down, tried bending the contacts and everything but nothing helps, I think at this point the blinking light win mod may be my only option.

[@2009numan]

most people wouldn't an attempt to repair this as they are cheap throw away items now and cheap to buy

[@mahdiexo]

Love your work from iran

[@TheSkaldenmettrunk]

Two Items. One fixed. One almost fixed. Great entertainment.

[@baggiesjoe1608]

You have better saves than Ben Foster lol, great video as always 👏

[@ericrichardson3332]

Need a smaller tipped soldering iron for more accurate pin soldering

[@MrBrainFear]

I was getting so stressed with that solder mess. But you did great! Well done!

[@petemiddleton64]

wish someone send me few graphics cards fix ive nothing to fix

[@m7ncnnigel391]

i had a problem like you are having when i inserted sd card

[@theawfulgambler]

Tell me you got the other one the part to get it going?! For my ocd!!

[@echosmith6092]

it`s because it needs the sd card to function as it has no internal storage

[@VashStarwind]

Could of just been a cold solder joint on the regulator

[@TheAziz145p]

Chase McBride - Hello Ramona

[@andythomas7931]

Fun video thank you very much indeed

[@keefatronmaximus]

i got switch that does not power on wanna fix it?

[@catherinemorgan2741]

It is the superhero STR ROFL

[@taruna-vu2gl]

It showed the company logo

[@VoeViking]

Sometimes is just firmware...

[@marxman00]

If it aint broke ,fix it till it is !

[@SidneyCritic]

If you put the time(min:sec) in the description, it marks the timeline so people can quickly jump to the next chapter, ie, 2nd dashcam section.