PS4 HDMI Port Reconstruction - Prior Repair attempt Nightmare

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[@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....

[@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.

[@eliprovencher4542]

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.

[@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!!

[@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 :)

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@viralhunter3561]

Who else wanna see if it works or not?

[@cybermaus]

No complaint from customer means it worked.

[@baz7918]

It worked and it was a good repair but pointless to mind as it's past the point of worth bothering the damage warrants just buying a new board and being done with it

[@RJ-s41ty]

@@baz7918 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?

[@konstero]

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

[@ThePols87]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Fj3llis]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@alonsonatividad9620]

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

[@virgilbonnvillanueva4468]

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

[@dexsters5643]

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

[@TheNancyGroove]

Northridge, o milagreiro, the king. 🙏🏻❤️

[@AbrarManzoor]

You deserve an award for this patience

[@Mr97gilad]

King so hard work! Respect

[@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.

[@Thebigskullman]

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

[@Thebigskullman]

@@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@_mylastname]

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

[@faizsk864]

Master at his work. Super job 👍

[@hightttech]

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

[@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 :)

[@khayyam741]

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

[@MarcioSilva-ig7vl]

congratulations, surgeon's job !!!

[@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

[@stephenhood2948]

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

[@RestoreTechnique]

Nice work!

[@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 😤

[@gilancadre6236]

You are a very hard working professional sir

[@serdarxxx1073]

High Level Repair, respect 👍👍👍

[@hichamnad9107]

A lot of respect 👍

[@motazsayed]

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

[@Preacher_.]

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

[@statinskill]

I salute you for standing by your quote.

[@MrIsma75]

Superb work!

[@jasonudall8614]

Some of those traces looked like balanced or transmission lines....I guess routing and path length matching not critical.

[@ireneirenel5283]

Wow you did an amazing job on such a tiny spot

[@shadowarez1337]

Spaghetti Monster! That's very intense work love all these videos it's like a treasure trove of knowledge presented in a very easy to understand how this works. Can't wait to start doing this kind of work.

[@maku143]

Awesome work 👌🏻

[@melvinpervis6678]

God bless this hands bro you tha man

[@topgame4380]

I like your job so much very well Very professional

[@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.

[@joeyhenry7312]

Holy crap. Crazy! So good.

[@joshuamungasia4529]

nice one, I saw electronic surgeon ! reminds me of soldering tv fibre..no bonding machine,

[@MubeenFarooq]

Hats off to you

[@sunwalker2438]

awesome fine work

[@diegoknyte]

Damn, you are an artist

[@ModernCloudCoder]

you are a beast, beautiful job

[@jonnyheart303]

awesome work

[@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

[@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.

[@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?

[@xuuzde6824]

Hey i Hope u can help me out? I got a Ps4 Pro that i Replaced the Hdmi port, diodes, emi filters and 3 Times the Encoder chip. But the WLOD stay and i got no Signal ;( what can be i next to replace?

[@seanyem]

Skills.... Respect 🙏

[@ActivateMission2ThisTimeline]

I would have sent it back. Great effort!

[@superbaum]

How does soemone know where the wire needs to go? do you have to look at the schematics or is it possible to just follow the conductor tracks on the PCB?

[@kjuirteerdserty9618]

Thanks for sharing

[@matthewshaffer2022]

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

[@caboosevx9676]

I have a monitor that powers on and when you plug in tv or a console you can hear sound but no video iv taken it apart an pulled the psu board and then the video board where I believe the issue is at. How would I test to tell if it’s a chip or capacitor or is there away I can just send it to you have you test it and change the part if it’s possible or worth it and just pay you for the work

[@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.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Holy moly, that's alot of jumper!

[@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

[@sebarivas1]

Super good, muy bueno!

[@aysat]

Absolute nightmare!

[@dunndnn1]

what iron tip are you using and what size awg wire are u also using will a 38 awg or 40 awg magnet wire work well with this small space and functionality situation?

[@hovanhien2131]

very nice, perfect video

[@Fixingthingz4u]

Great Video mate mine looked the same like spaghetti i took all GNDs to 1 wire but yes all worked :)

[@_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.

[@spreadingpeace7800]

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

[@AsifKhan-le2er]

Good work bro

[@hardroch1000]

good job you are the master

[@jrp1531]

Bet you wish you had pen grinder and pad repair kits :) Amazing job bro!

[@tinazill4870]

Nice video! What thickness copper wire did you use?

[@harrymason1053]

I'm impressed.

[@TheAziz145p]

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

[@thomasdoherty6876]

Super super impressive 👍

[@ungabungus01]

Great work. My question when I try to do lifted pad repairs, how do you know where the pad connects to next in sequence without a service manual? Seems like guesswork to me

[@balajinarasimhan5346]

you do connectivity test with what is left of the pad and the nearby components.

[@amrishhirani6096]

Good video

[@jayrcool8256]

Man of patience 🤣 nice one👍

[@TheTheDevilwithin]

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

[@RestoreTechnique]

You added silicon over everything at the end?

[@donnierobertson3088]

Nice job again

[@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...

[@jakirhossainbablu3450]

thank you

[@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?

[@fireandwater08]

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

[@srikarwarrior123]

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

[@ldiazmdiaz]

That was a micro surgery on some multi octopus tentacles.

[@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 🙏🙏

[@garrygemmell5676]

Nice repair hard work! What wire are you using?