How you fix a DEAD Macbook with a 50c part...

[@bblod4896]

My theory: Apple will not pay a real technician to repair their products, it's just easier to swap a board and send the whole lot off to China for refurbishment. Sad because, unlike in the past where manufacturers of consumer electronic equipment such as radios, TVs, and stereo systems encourage repair through local businesses offering service manuals, technical bulletins and parts; they have taken an anti consumer turn for the worse. Paul, thanks to you and everyone else who bucks the system and keeps repair work alive.

[@pldaniels]

I agree, from their business perspective, it's actually the right route. I've mentioned it many times before, and it would be to my own detriment likely, but Apple should consider providing iCloud storage with enough capacity for the device they sell as part of the original purchase price for the duration of the warranty. Would have at least a two fold windfall; 1) their customers would be somewhat more likely to go with the more expensive LB replacement since their data is fine 2) Apple gains an almost guaranteed iCloud storage subscription client long-term

[@sarahkatherine8458]

And the dangerous thing is: those boards still have the owner's data. I doubt they will wipe the data before sending off for refurbishment.

[@dingokidneys]

@@sarahkatherine8458 If the board's not bootable, I think that's 100% likely.

[@pldaniels]

@@sarahkatherine8458 that's a good point - if refurbished, and if the client doesn't have a complex password (or any) then their data would be up for grabs. While Apply may have a *policy* stating that all data is scrubbed, it's not to say someone at the refurbishing centre doesn't take an opportunity potentially.

[@zytechnology]

We still exist !!!!!!! Greetings from a Forensic SMT Rework technician in the US- FL

[@jimstand]

Paul, these type of repair videos are fantastic.

[@pldaniels]

Glad you like them. Trying hard to put more effort in to the work.

[@adrko]

Great video! I hope the shorter video format will keep bringing more people to the channel

[@pldaniels]

Likewise - and it does seem to be doing that.

[@SolderBrothers]

Love the channel. The protection circuit hides the bad cap. I have noticed, from before and after photos, the cap never sees enough current to show the micro fractures in the MLCC. once we inject voltage and get the cap hot, the fractures appear clear. Some devices I have seen that do show the bad cap, maybe have a slower shutdown of the protection, or they have attempted to restart so many times, they eventually start to show. Great repair.

[@gmorb666]

Funny that this popped up right when someone brought me an A2338, which had been sitting unused for a while, and ppbus is also shorted. No bubbled up battery. No 20v just 5v

[@pldaniels]

Hopefully you have an equally swift repair

[@gmorb666]

@@pldaniels easy, 1 shorted cap

[@ronlevin2339]

I think Luis posted a video few month ago (maybe more ), with a memo to all Apple employers, were they were advice customers to buy a new device no mater that fault with their device (by offering ridiculous cost for repair that more that a new device) due to the decline in the sale of Apple products.

[@pldaniels]

That sort of corporate behaviour suits my business.

[@marcellipovsky8222]

Finally something I can watch in a reasonable time :-D Thank you Paul! ♥

[@pldaniels]

Doing what I can to get things back on track - thanks for watching it.

[@DrTeddyMMM]

Continuing on your road of Awesomeness! Good on ya!

[@pldaniels]

Thanks. Now to get more videos done...

[@alexiekola]

Nice work on the edit Paul

[@pldaniels]

Thanks Alexie. Half the effort goes in to the thumbnail & title. If you see them changing around during the first 2 days it's becausae I'll be testing/chasing the CTR.

[@alexiekola]

The normal streams I miss I have on in the back ground, nice to have a little change where I can watch while I have a cuppa. Keep up the ongoing effort, should increase in watch numbers me thinks@@pldaniels

[@warrenstamps6553]

Great video Paul

[@TheTascam56]

I’m definitely enjoying these shorts Mr Daniels but missing the live streams! Have a great weekend 👍

[@pldaniels]

They'll return in due time. Thanks for dropping a word.

[@lallyji8051]

love the edited, to the point videos

[@pldaniels]

Thanks - trying hard to distill the right stuff and cull the cruft (leave that for the live-streams)

[@macrepairphoenix]

You are my hero. Every time I get one of those 4 usb-c boards I think maybe ill get lucky and it will be a bad cap and I spend days on it only to realize its nand/T2/cpu related or its been to another shop where they injected 1000v into the ppbus

[@pldaniels]

It's definitely a horrible number of times that a job has been prior-repaired and badly so at that. So many "techs" fail to verify the state of the rails before powering it up; losing that very small opportunity to save the day :(

[@macrepairphoenix]

I agree most of the time they are beyond recovery by the time we get our hands on them@@pldaniels

[@zizlog_sound]

Apple Genius Bar doesn’t deserve its name anymore.

[@pldaniels]

It's definitely a bit of a misnomer.

[@DrFiero]

Should be just "Apple Bar" - where employees come to gab, and get paid. While telling you all hope is lost.

[@parteibonza]

SUCCESS! beautiful and efficient!!

[@QsTechService1]

Nice repair Sure you tease us with 20 second kitty cat clips 😅❤

[@pldaniels]

It's a reward for the viewership. The original clip was quite a bit longer but I'll save that for another day ;)

[@QsTechService1]

😀@@pldaniels

[@tigheklory]

Thanks for everything you do Paul! I was wondering what would it take to add old arcade game boards, 8 bit computers and consoles to FlexBV? Do you have a video on how to bring in schematics into board view?

[@pldaniels]

Technically the simplest way to do it is to rebuild it in an EDA program like KiCAD or EaglePCB and then export out as GenCAD format.

[@tigheklory]

@@pldaniels thank you very much for the info!

[@mm0077]

Thank you for sharing

[@adnanabay]

I watched it with pleasure. Big job.

[@pldaniels]

Many thanks.

[@andrewverran3498]

Hi Paul, love your,knowledge, have you ever successfully replace the main chip( its clearly visibly cooked) on an older Seagate Barracuda 5.5" ATA hard drive? i it possible? Peace ✌️

[@pldaniels]

Is it the controller chip or the flash? Depends on the specific model; the physical process of the replacement isn't a big issue.

[@andrewverran3498]

i will dig it out and have a look...i have kept it since 1995 . @@pldaniels

[@dingokidneys]

Fellow Queenslander. I find many of these videos fascinating though I'm not a tech of any kind. Some years ago I lent a laptop to a mate who gave it back to me as a door stop. I wish I'd watched a few of these back then as I'm sure there couldn't have been too much wrong with it. As it was, I stripped parts and binned the rest; a real pity.

[@pldaniels]

Life does tend to be peppered with moments like that; the pain of knowing something could have been salvaged or useful after you've already dumped/discarded - - - turns us in to hoarders :D

[@Timpano_Francesco_Repairs]

Hi Paul, thank you very much for sharing your experience, i'm a business repair Lab, i'll buy as as possible your good FlexBV software for may Lab, please go on so for our right to repair.... OEM are today put a lots of lock to became impossible to us repair the machine...like Lenovo that if you remove a RAM ic the firmware recognize and don't start the Mobo.... i have uncle in Melbourne e cousins in Queensland... bye Francesco Timpano from Florence Italy

[@pldaniels]

That's interesting about the Lenovo RAM situation :(

[@richspillman4191]

Awesome, very logical.

[@computersrepaircotesaint-l7407]

thx Paul

[@paul5828]

Nice one Paul bet customer is well happy :)

[@pldaniels]

Most definitely happy, moreso too that the machine will continue to work for a bit more too ( assuming they at some point get that battery replaced )

[@asamrepair6193]

Nice with short crisp videos !!

[@pldaniels]

When the old ways aren't getting the content out there, it's time to change things up.

[@LaptopmotherboardrepairMTL]

Will that was interesting, very nice video.😀

[@themice42]

I see you use a Paul amount of flux rather than a Louis amount. nice work

[@pldaniels]

Indeed, I try very hard to not have to ultrasonic clean the boards these days, so minimal amounts of flux and immediate cleanup is usually the path taken.

[@thangkholenlhouvum5369]

Great technical skills sir. I have a battery dead due to no electricity whole night and my macbook cannot turn on anymore, I tried everything with all the methods in KZbin. However, no luck to power on. Please help me sir. I am from India (Manipur).

[@josephking6515]

The title says a AUD$0.50 part so I'm assuming you purchased a strip of 5,000 of those capacitors. 😁 1:28 In the top right corner of the screen, is that the new tool you've been working on and perfecting? Eyes are a bit blurred so I can't properly see it unfortunately. 7:20 Is this the fantastic and improved FlexBV v5 pldaniels.com/flexbv5/ on the screen. Demo version available here too. Purchase FlexBV v5 here: ( pldaniels.com/flexbv5/purchase.html ) It will pay for itself within 1 to 5 repairs 9:01 *KITTIES!!* 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 9:13 A chairful kitty. 🤦‍♂ *Thank You* for the video Paul. Much appreciated 👍

[@pldaniels]

1:28 That's the PLD USB-C meter, that one is in production somewhat, more waiting on me to finish dusting off the webstore to sell them. 7:20 Yes, new FlexBV5, well, that existing users can upgrade to, or new people can buy outright As for the caps, will have to buy a few more :)

[@catsmr]

Great video!

[@pldaniels]

Thanks!

[@microrepair398]

how many volt you injected the board with

[@pldaniels]

I started with 0.9V and 1A; because the short was quite strong the PSU hit the current-limit (1A) at only about 0.3V, so the iR camera picked up the ~300mW heat coming from the capacitor.

[@Arek_R.]

This is insane. Power rail short check and then power injection and then thermal camera is one of the easiest and simplest repair techniques, yet apple repair team can't do it. It's either people with next to 0 knowledge just following some lame test procedure or they are told to do it on purpose.

[@pldaniels]

I'd say it's a bit more of the latter; from Apple's perspective they're relatively happy to have "other people" deal with it - they just want to sell a new unit, and the less they help the person the more likely that's going to happen, because if you're already with Apple/macOS you're likely going to stay with it.

[@microrepair398]

thanks paul

[@LawpickingLocksmith]

Great!!

[@grahamhogg9802]

Great video speed up at the start of the video.

[@pldaniels]

The board removal?

[@tech4tress]

Expect nothing less from the pro

[@1kreature]

Imagine is this repair actually only took 9 minutes! 😸 Paul would be making an actual profit!

[@pldaniels]

That'd be quite something :) I'm happy if I can get these turned around in 1 hour; two or three of them a day and it's a decent living.

[@BryantAvant]

What if the whole world knew what we can fix? How different things would be.

[@jonjon3865]

👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@polor__]

696 views...nice

[@Adrian_Buliga]

Yahhh, baby :D

[@Moose254]

Some Geniuses they are huh 😂

[@pldaniels]

At least they stopped after pulling away the T2 & NAND covers. The worst bit is when people start digging in further than they should. On the upside, so long as people are aware of their options, it's a good business move for me if Apple continues with that mindset :)

[@onurolce]

Apple is constantly trying to reach into people's pockets and take money from there!

[@pldaniels]

Fundamentally they want to keep business as streamlined as possible and keep the machines churning over. Forcing people to suffer data loss will tend to train them ultimately to rely eventually on always-on type iCloud backups. While I can see the business perspective, it would be a reasonable compromise if Apple at least did advise people of alternative options ( and to be fair, some of the more savvy staff do ).

[@JCozzyphotos]

the real issue is apple are failing to care about the needs and wants of their customers. Yes people should always backup, but sadly they do not and it is a fact of life that even with regular backups one can lose something important. But apple by virtue of the soldered in nand show they do not care about the end user and only the $$$$$ for new mac's