PS4 HDMI Port Reconstruction - Prior Repair attempt Nightmare

[@SPEXWISE]

When I saw how tiny the area really was at the end, you called it a mess but I call it a masterpiece. It all looks so big on the close up I forget that it's zoomed in that far. Amazing work, I hope the customer was happy and it functioned again.

[@muh1h1]

Looks like the customer tried to use a lighter and a 4 inch nail as a soldering iron.

[@ahyaan2552]

Yep

[@SOU6900]

Legend has it he did. 😉

[@IMDYT420]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@doanprasmana1444]

after watching 5 minute craft

[@gremlin5813]

LOL

[@wefukthenwo]

Ask the customer to take a picture and send it to you before the quote if they can. If not or they refuse, charge extra. This is the 21'st century. If they can text their Boss to have a sick day, they can send you over a photo of the damage! Anyway, full respect to you for finishing this abomination of a home repair.

[@HeLrAiSiNg1]

I tried such repair only with heat gun I said there Is no way I will fix it cause I dont have even microsoldering station I have very stable hands etc but still no equipment well my point is if I fixed it I would have workin console for 15$ the cost of the heat gun if not then I go to ps5 well I messed up and I lost even one of the capacitors in the board next to hdmi but I cant imagine how a guy can rip soldering pads I work with phone repairs etc and never encountered broken pads he did good job on breaking them

[@SOU6900]

I was thinking the same

[@M8cool]

@@HeLrAiSiNg1 goodness please use punctuations next time my dude

[@gillsejusbates6938]

@@HeLrAiSiNg1 try putting a period in your sentences

[@Notpoop906]

@@HeLrAiSiNg1 have you ever heard of punctuation? well, what more do i expect from someone who attempted MICRO SOLDERING WORK armed with nothing but a heat gun....

[@ShadowEli94]

I had a record of 10 jumpers on this same model of board. It took me 3 weeks to figure out where to run the jumpers! I wish I had this video then, it’s definitely saved for next time!

[@socialengineer1441]

You can get the schematics. After that it's easy.

[@tony001212]

@@socialengineer1441 sony does not provide squematics for fixing purposes, remember, they're bether if you buy another one.

[@stephenhood2948]

@@tony001212 Dosent mean you cannot get them in some sort of Reddit forum. Someone somewhere has dealt with this before. There is a wealth of home brewed info on these things online.

[@CIA-CYBER-CRIME-DIVISION]

@@stephenhood2948 "Cross your fingers and hope someone has done the hard work for you" It's really not that hard to use a multimeter.

[@markray3263]

I've done a fair bit of "blue wire" work, and it's always time consuming. I wish there had been videos like this when I learned how, you are providing a great educational service to future repair techs.

[@ThePols87]

There's no way this was worth your time! You definitely love what you do. Great work!

[@viralhunter3561]

Who else wanna see if it works or not?

[@cybermaus]

No complaint from customer means it worked.

[@RJ-s41ty]

@baz watts I see value in the knowing if somebody else can repair what was mangled. Perhaps because I seek after Christ, as I have done quite a botched job of it many times.

[@andrewrowell6807]

@@cybermaus the work wasnt warranted, so no point in the customer informing alex if the repair worked or failed.

[@tony359]

wait... so the board was repaired but not tested? Did the customer just send the board, no rest of the playstation?

[@casianreport3318]

@@tony359 YES, he speak in video about that

[@shanemaher5150]

Not many techs would attempt that. Which ever way you do it, it always looks awful. :)

[@apprananpil]

@@Millzieeeee what's this FB group called?

[@TheBruhGamer]

Never done one that messed up but I’ve done several with 5 or so pads missing.

[@tracyr5594]

Don’t matter what it looks like long as it works!

[@blugoose86]

Nice touch with the music background. After seeing this, I'm thinking about asking for photos when I hear they attempted to repair. And I thought the board from Jamaica was bad. This is why I call you the surgeon. Great patience. Great repair.

[@Type_R79]

i watch a bunch of you newer videos and love them and think you are a very talented person in this trade... but after watching this video you have blown my mind on how good you are at fixing these items...you are a modern day badass my friend!! keep up the great work!!

[@Johnathan_Waters]

I am SUPER impressed by this, and someone already said but we were all thinking it already. Not many other techs would have even attempted to repair that hot mess of a dumpster fire.

[@virgildeklerk]

What an amazing repair!!! if you look under the microscope you make it look easy but at the end if you see how small this all is... just amazing what skills you have.

[@snyper7979]

Omg, why do people think they are microsoldering specialists. This boards chance of working is still good, but only because it's in the hands on a specialist. Good luck sir on this repair.

[@thetechgenie7374]

On the PS4 I see repair shops do this all the on hdmi port repair, even experienced people that do microsoldering. The reason is the very thick ground plane and thick multi layer board. Trick is you have to use a preheater under and then hot air the top side and hdmi port will come out without lifting traces.

[@glenntinamiller6199]

man right when he starts cleaning and the music is going its so satisfying to watch that mess get cleaned right up by his hands to the music love the quality of your work but i must say the quality of you videos is awesome as well it really conveys the felling you must get when cleaning this mess of a board because i feel it as well :)

[@konstero]

very impressive, love your professionality. thank you for sharing!

[@AbrarManzoor]

You deserve an award for this patience

[@j.m.5995]

How do you keep those wires from shorting out to each other? Ps. I heard him say they were insulated towards the end of the video..

[@donaldfilbert4832]

Ya. You can see him burning off the insulation at the ends of each wire to prepare it for soldering.

[@garyr7027]

Wires have a epoxy type coating, same wires in electric motors.

[@Tiyagi99]

Someone tried their best to ruin the pads on the board and you still attempted to fix that. Respect+

[@Helloyousilverdevil]

Absolutely amazing. The fact you kept your price, still went for the repair, I mean... if that isn’t the biggest symbol of passion for your work and above and beyond service, I don’t know what is. Speaking of passion though- where did you acquire the skillset to do this? Self-taught with tons of experience or do you have an EE degree?

[@playdo93]

I have an EE degree. If I attempted this job, it’d probably end up like the customer’s job :^). University is great for learning about theory, electrical design, reasoning, etc. - but not really for hands-on skills like this. At least in my experience

[@Helloyousilverdevil]

@@playdo93 totally. I come from the other end, I’m a self-taught guy... but I always wonder if the concepts from formal EE training could fill gaps in understanding that self-teaching may miss.

[@PhilTheProf]

You should get them to send in photos of both sides of the boards in these cases. You would at least have a chance of quoting a realistic price for your time.

[@Fj3llis]

My god you are truly an inspiration sir! Hope you and Big Boss are doing great! Greetings from Sweden

[@BurnedUP78]

Did it work? Thats alot of patience and would be a big reward at the end...

[@kiddoss2826]

This deserved my like. I would never try to do that, that's mad soldering skills right there, closest I would've done is scrape what's left of the trace and jump from there.

[@chromestorms7311]

I'm so impressed that you guys actually work on customer attempts. Where I work we vehemently deny anything thats been attempted by the customer because of this. Our company has a fixed or no charge policy and so many people bring laptops that look like they've been through a shredder for us to fix. If they don't tell us they've worked on it we'll spend hours trying, fail, and not charge them. Such a waste!

[@motazsayed]

A whole lot of mess because someone thought that he was the soldering king, amazing job 👋👋👋👋👋

[@_mylastname]

Also, I am only half way through this video, all I have to say is, you're a madman genius!!!

[@matthewshaffer2022]

They sent you over an absolute Hiroshima. Mad respect for the patience and repair skills.

[@virgilbonnvillanueva4468]

This is what i like. Reconstructing or making jumpers especially when the pcb is damaged.. great work sir!

[@stephenhood2948]

True necromancy here!! Great job Alex, that board looked damaged far beyond repair.

[@billg7813]

I have come to two ... no... three conclusions watching your videos. 1. Get a bunch of scrap boards and practice, practice, practice. 2. Once I set up a device, stop pulling plugs. The plugs seem to be the weak points 3. If I have a device that I really want fixed right, send it to you

[@TheNancyGroove]

Northridge, o milagreiro, the king. 🙏🏻❤️

[@jcolonna12]

I enjoyed watching the video but you should have explained or mentioned how you found where the pins on the hdmi port connect to. I’ve briefly explained in some posts how you could have approached this problem, but a lot of people would have found this interesting.

[@ShR33k]

Excellent video. Must of taken a lot of patience. This is a dumb question... but what wire are you using? And why doesn't it matter that the wires are touching? At 16:40 you mentioned right at the end the wire was insulted - so guessing that's why they can touch, but I didn't see any insulation?

[@ShR33k]

@@danielsatko- didn't realise it was transformer wire. Didn't know transformer wire was used for solder trace repairs. Cheers for the heads up! :)

[@peekpt]

RIP track length tolerance

[@jcolonna12]

@@reacey some hdmi traces need to be the same length because of the differential pairs based on the spec and I’m sure there max are trace length requirements

[@ojustaboo]

I just repaired a PS4, I'm not a professional, but do electronics as a hobby (have decent microscope etc), was given it by a friend who has bought a replacement, just to have a play. Every single pad was ripped off. I basically did what you did for every pin, but only bothered with the pin 2 ground, leaving 5, 8, 11 and 17 not connected. I've checked with a cut hdmi cord that every pin is connected as it should be (pins 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19) and that they are not shorting against each other etc. The PS4 now works fine, had it on for hours, picture is 100% fine. However, I have a Sony TV with 4 HDMI ports and my sky box plugged in. I have the HDMI control turned on on the sky box and usually if I press a button on my sky remote, it turns on both the Sky box and the TV. But when the PS4 hdmi is plugged in, regardless of whether it's on or not, turning on my Sky box doesn't automatically turn on the TV (or change input device), as soon as I unplug the PS4 HDMI the tv works as expected. Any ideas what's missing/wrong please? It makes no difference whether I enable or disable the PS4 "Enable HDMI device link" Thanks

[@alonsonatividad9620]

You are such a virtuoso. It's inspiring to see you working.

[@Jooligan1]

We have a place in Birmingham (UK) that has an interchange of roads commonly referred to as the spaghetti junction !!! Your repair looks more complicated than this.

[@stevee7774]

Haha! We also have an interchange in Atlanta Georgia USA known as Spaghetti Junction and I was thinking the same thing.

[@ARC7IT3CT]

You really need some magnification tool huh! just a newbie here! probably I need to buy one

[@chasefournier]

I would’ve turned the customer away. It’s not impossible, but running that many jumpers for 100$ is just too much.

[@donaldfilbert4832]

Also - risky !!

[@Hirbodffm]

Did it work at the end? Some follow ups would be nice

[@Preacher_.]

A Man of few words and many wires. I like it.

[@hightttech]

Nice that you gave it a try. Please let us know the customer satisfaction.

[@Nerdyboi14]

I have a question what wire was that one you was using for the PS4 not the soldering iron or the solder wire the something wire?

[@dexsters5643]

The pads looked like they got deleted out of the board entirely. Im a new subscriber and love what you do

[@TheAziz145p]

and my local repair shop cant even solder hdmi port for a tv .... so sad :(

[@patriotic1526]

Thats not a repair, thats a refurbishment. A true master of your craft. Id find an acrylic case for that badboy. I sure hope the customer tipped well...

[@MarcioSilva-ig7vl]

congratulations, surgeon's job !!!

[@spreadingpeace7800]

interstellar's docking vs N.fix's jumping wires its not possibles but its necessary.

[@jaybird57]

Did it work? I run my wires on top of the original trace if possible.. makes for a cleaner finish.. i also glue each to the board as i go...

[@andreiandone4520]

me also, i prefer to run the wires on traces an repair the pads ...

[@philipcliff5680]

Jeeeeeez!!! I would of binned that! 3, 4 or 5 jump wires yes but not the whole port 😂 Good job regardless

[@alexplayslife7782]

Not the whole port, just 99.9 percent of it XD

[@arunmfive]

Would have*

[@cdurkinz]

Lol modern Alex would nope this so fast. Even though his tools are much better and more experience and everything too. This IS a nightmare title was right.

[@ahmadsibaai5236]

True

[@robp4616]

It's honestly ridiculous how many people ask about the wires touching when he mentions in the video that they're insulated. Not to mention the fact that every other comment asking this has been answered by either him or someone else. *facepalm* EDIT: Typo >_>

[@thehitman5007]

Its called enamel insulation, not insulted :D

[@robp4616]

@@thehitman5007 insulated* Good catch lol.

[@JusstyteN]

How did you know where to connect what if some of them was covered with the port itself

[@giliduran]

Schematics and/or board view.

[@karolisstanius3704]

Nice videos! I recently found your channel and it got me hooked. Did this actually work properly? I mean those are high speed HDMI data lines so I guess they originally had to be impedance matched?

[@marcusz.8620]

WOW, very good work!!! I have a Question. Is it not a problem that the wires are touching each other?

[@NorthridgeFix]

Wires are insulated as mentioned in the video. 16:36

[@marcusz.8620]

@@NorthridgeFix Ah ok, thanks for your answer!

[@Hadadoh]

Maybe noise but I doubt if it will be of any significance

[@Johnathan_Waters]

@@Hadadoh They are "enameled" (coated with enamel/clear coat paint)

[@Hadadoh]

@@Johnathan_Waters sure I get it. Thanks

[@_mylastname]

I need to do this on my Xbox series x, because during a simple HDMI port replace(I bought a broken console), the heat got too extreme and obliterated the wires on the board..I don't even know if I can fix it, but seeing you pull this off gives me hope.

[@rogercotten9064]

That is brilliant work sir. Did it work for the customer?

[@ACOnetwork]

That is also my question 😁

[@munchiesthesockmonkey]

Prior repair attempt... it looks like the customer smashed it with a chisel and Thor's hammer!

[@RealDenzity]

How do you figure out where each pin leads?

[@jcolonna12]

You don’t really need a schematic for this board I presume. You should just be able to follow the traces or the remains of the traces and test for continuity until you find what component it attaches to. The more layers on the board the more challenging it may be. You can also tell where the ground pins are normally based on the copper pour around it assuming the top copper pour is the ground plane.

[@puretoronto]

Little Johnny finds his dad’s soldering iron and thinks he can fix it himself…. lol 😂

[@erkanersoy]

Those are impedance controlled differential lanes. They have some tolerance but when they design it length matching is about 1mm. I really wonder if it worked.

[@RestoreTechnique]

You added silicon over everything at the end?

[@gilancadre6236]

You are a very hard working professional sir

[@RestoreTechnique]

Nice work!

[@KrotowX]

Another proof why proper flux and solder use for microsoldering is paramount. What is the wire you used for connector pin connecting to their appropriate components?

[@kryzoxy1]

Why there is not short between the wires? I see they are touching each other..

[@traaaaan]

so this is the insulated/jacketed solder you were talking about in a recent video

[@SuperRogeta]

Real question did it actually work? "When the client received it back"?

[@ireneirenel5283]

Wow you did an amazing job on such a tiny spot

[@Sisko125]

Hi there and THANKS for the video!! You have inspired me to do the same because I got a free tv that the HDMI was kinda ripped out so there was about 5 good pads out of 19. So decided to order an HDMI connector and .34awg magnet wire. I got the same tip as you do but I wonder at what temperature do you have it on?? On the video your soldering of this very thin looks so easy to solder on, for me it takes time to be able to solder the wire to a pad or a place that I have scratched to solder on. Any advice on temperature and to make this thin wire solder on pads and scratched self made pad. THANKS!!!

[@Sisko125]

Ok did the fix and it WORKS!!! THANK you very much for your video!!! I did a triple check with meter just to make sure no shorts!! So no land fill for this tv!!!

[@limebulls]

@@Sisko125 What temperature and what soldering tip did you use?

[@RichardOCallaghan]

What kind of wire do you use? Is it insulated? Brilliant work by the way.

[@NorthridgeFix]

yes insulated rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F40-AWG-Gauge-Enameled-Copper-Magnet-Wire-2-oz-4152-Length-0-0034-155C-Natural%2F322231509251%3Fepid%3D1380697764%26hash%3Ditem4b067ea103%3Ag%3AiZYAAOSwgQ9Vw7C2&campid=5338440312&toolid=20008

[@hiramrd21]

I just saw the video and i was woudering the same..

[@hamsterwolf]

Thing that most people who are new to soldering don't understand. Is how big of a difference a good soldering iron makes. It actually can be a little bit of a trap really for the inexperienced because most of the motivation I think is from wanting to save money by doing the work yourself. Parts are a few cents soldering iron is like 6 bucks and the guy in the video stuck the part on in like 2 seconds how hard could it be? Unfortunately what isn't obvious is that that the radio shack special soldering iron is only really good for soldering wires together and more often than not will end up destroying the circuit board your working on. When it comes to soldering the right tools and supplies make a massive difference.

[@hamsterwolf]

Also I would like to add skills are important as well but the right tools give you a fighting chance to get the skills.

[@saikanonojutsu]

The ps4 hard drive is formatted so you pretty much lose your data if it isn't back in the original system (without recovery software). New system will wipe it. So understandable that customer wants this particular system fixed if he has game clips on the HD. Good on you for honoring the estimate.

[@dracus6877]

Wouldnt those cables cross connect?

[@gabrielenitti3243]

nope, it's enamel wire, it's coated

[@tookitogo]

@@konigderkaiser It’s insulated with enamel. (“Shielded” means something else in electronics, namely another layer of metal, insulated from the inner conductors, to reduce interference.)

[@ldiazmdiaz]

That was a micro surgery on some multi octopus tentacles.

[@adrianbestboy98]

I was about to say about the solder mask because there are a lot of wires there and with solder mask it will stay in place but you read my mind on the end of the video :)

[@phadzpotes207]

Im from Phillipines i always watching you. Your so awesome when you solve the problem keep it up sir im watching your video tutorial and try it in actual i learn lots

[@charlesroberts8144]

Happy New Year to you and your family I am a new supporter I found you a video today and I supporting your Channel

[@DeeDee-pw9pm]

I get the feeling that some people perform d.i.y repairs with grinding wheels that are on fire. Or that they use burning gasoline as flux or something.

[@misfortune5007]

SpiderMan, SpiderMan. What are you sodering, SpiderMan?!

[@rndtv7656]

Hi, nice to meet you can you help me? I'm from Indonesia, my PS4 is damaged, there is no signal. I have replaced the hdmi ic, but the result is still the same. what should I do next. please help me 🙏🙏

[@paulisthebest3uk]

I know its a much older video, it came up as a recommended video to watch - did this work? Did you get feedback from the customer to say if it was successful or not it looked like a bit of a hard fix - and very impressed if it did work

[@TTT-V]

can you teach how to maintain soldering tip to avoid oxidation?

[@alexplayslife7782]

If you use it often and for long periods of time, oxidation will happen no matter what. You can clean your tips with brass wool, and you can tin them with tip tinner. Lowering the heat setting if possible is another good way to help.

[@LazorVideosDestruction]

Good repair, but I'm sad you couldn't test to see if it worked :(

[@Biffo1262]

Good grief did he use an angle grinder on it? I would do that repair if it were for myself or family but no-one else as it isn't worth any possible some backs.

[@andrewrowell6807]

@northridgefix. Did the customer ever inform you if this was functional? Either way, great effort for such a small area

[@lexander9686]

i know I comment this a lot but, still though Look at that shine 3:18 and as always (BETTER THAN FACTORY)👌

[@Mr97gilad]

King so hard work! Respect

[@garrygemmell5676]

Nice repair hard work! What wire are you using?

[@kat-zs7bd]

What is the problem with using isolated wires?

[@JoaoPedro-ht3lb]

Pins 8,10, 11 have any alternative points? I have one without the entire traces.

[@damianos.2954]

Very nice, i've recently buyed a notebook with the same problem on one ram socket. Since i had another broken one i tryed some repair, but as result i definitively broke also the other 😤

[@tinazill4870]

Nice video! What thickness copper wire did you use?

[@Notpoop906]

"a few missing pads" lmfao that is an understatement at best.... deceptive, i would say

[@srikarwarrior123]

Does pin no 9 also ground?..mine connects to the diode but it also grounds...

[@adamwilde8863]

better than factory? :) Awesome job Alex.

[@midodido1941]

😎😎you really master of repair

[@fireandwater08]

Que diámetro de alambre de cobre usas?Gracias de antemano,buen trabajo...

[@TheTheDevilwithin]

I have a question. Did you only use low melt solder to prepare and then leaded solder?