Yea the lite is basically the same process... This is the reason people pay silly money for unpatched switches. That and the mod chip itself is like £80
Vince's Ebay Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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Yea the lite is basically the same process... This is the reason people pay silly money for unpatched switches. That and the mod chip itself is like £80
Well beyond my capabilities then
I would take on a lite install
but then I'm a masochist. I have a few meetings etc this morning then I shall finish it up and we will see if it works... In my opinion the lite is the best of these handhelds as its the best handheld to actually use as a handheld. I just think anybody buying a chip thinking its a walk in the park and that nothing could go wrong needs to understand the complexities of the install and what you need to be capable of if it does in fact go wrong.Im using the time today before I finish the install to use my board (while its still working ) to test all my spare oled components and get them listed up... I have 4 or 5 OLED chassis with great screens just sitting there. Time to let them go 
Replacement screens for the oled (lcd only) come in at around £120 which is crazy money so I decided to list up full housings nice and cheap to get them gone. No point having millions of expensive spares laying about.
) to test all my spare oled components and get them listed up... I have 4 or 5 OLED chassis with great screens just sitting there. Time to let them go Replacement screens for the oled (lcd only) come in at around £120 which is crazy money so I decided to list up full housings nice and cheap to get them gone. No point having millions of expensive spares laying about.
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People try and fit the mod chip lol. Other than that the Hynix nand that some models use (like mine) is known to fail at a higher rate than the samsung chips you find in others. Take that for what it is though mine has now been reballed twice and has suffered 400 degree heat reflow a few times and is still kicking so its still pretty hardy stuff.
Compared to the OG its the same stuff and same common failure points as all the other switches. PMIC (power management), BMC (Battery management), Port damage pushing voltage down data lines to PI3. Just standard switch failure points tbh the oled'ness doesnt change any of those.
Great, good to know
What you should know is that they break all the time and are built like cheese. In the hands of adults they are seemingly pretty much bullet proof. You want to see one die quickly just give it to a kid
I'm back for more! Lets finish up the oled install story! I left it with everything kinda half connected up when we left it last night so all we needed to do is finish it up and hope it all works.
First up we needed to connect up the wires, connect up the chip, solder it all up, and make it nice so in that sort of order here are some pics:
First up from the nand we run a 0.1mm magnat wire to the c pad on the first flex cable.
From here:
To here:
Then we need to run a wire from the rear of the board to point B on the mod chip
Here:
To Here:
I got a new curing lazer beam
It does this... enough said really
Thats the wires sorted and secured into place. Somewhere in the middle I secured all the mod chip back in, put the shroud back into place and lined it all up:
Once you finished messing about lining it all up and making it good you end up with something like this the board is ready!
Then It was time to get it back together for some testing!
Anyway at this point it was time for some training, basically this is the moment you know if you gone messed up, this takes 1 to 15 mins. 15 mins? Luckily mine took about a minute and a half:
If you didnt mess up you get this:
Good news, now to button it all up:
And before you know it.....
And that ladies and gentlemen is how you do that. One pokemon OLED finished.
First up we needed to connect up the wires, connect up the chip, solder it all up, and make it nice so in that sort of order here are some pics:
First up from the nand we run a 0.1mm magnat wire to the c pad on the first flex cable.
From here:
To here:
Then we need to run a wire from the rear of the board to point B on the mod chip
Here:
To Here:
I got a new curing lazer beam
It does this... enough said really
Thats the wires sorted and secured into place. Somewhere in the middle I secured all the mod chip back in, put the shroud back into place and lined it all up:
Once you finished messing about lining it all up and making it good you end up with something like this the board is ready!
Then It was time to get it back together for some testing!
Anyway at this point it was time for some training, basically this is the moment you know if you gone messed up, this takes 1 to 15 mins. 15 mins? Luckily mine took about a minute and a half:
If you didnt mess up you get this:
Good news, now to button it all up:
And before you know it.....
And that ladies and gentlemen is how you do that. One pokemon OLED finished.
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Or not so much... I was sharing this install elsewhere and I've had 5 install requests (two of which is mates so ill make an exception). Honestly I'm not sure it's something I want to offer so much because of the time/effort/danger factor. I'm not bothered what people do with their devices in that way but id hate to mess up an install to the point I cant fix it and honestly with this install thats a very real possibility.
On the plus side my modded lynx sold for £225 the same day I listed it... Might have listed her slightly too cheap
IMO she was the best mk1 available at any price on ebay so I am not really surprised. There are some in similar condition without the quality of life mods and people are asking 300 to 500 for them which is madness.The new DMG backlight turned up so hopefully in a position to finish up that install tonight! Ive become what is essentially a mechanic for tech lol
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Today we finish the DMG and I've got a few other treats in store for the coming weeks as well so we shall see where that takes us, ill give you some little hints, what happens if you cross a gba sp with a gameboy colour? Think putting an IPS modded SP into a colour shell and modding all of the buttons on the colours motherboard to terminate on the SP board, this one is kinda a little project we are going to be getting on, yes I might kill both the sp and the colour but I might make something awesome, this one will probably involve taking a dremel to a gameboy color board which to some of you might be considered sacrilege.
Got another oled to do early next week as it's time for me and the dude that started this little switch adventure for me (he sent me his failed attempt board) to finish the saga. Quite a few other bits shifted today so I'm on the look out for some rarer handhelds to get my teeth into. Also got a few interesting board only projects on the bench ready for some action and another few board only projects on their way from new Zealand where apparently its impossibly to find somebody to work on a switch. I am also considering some major rework on an oled board I have here as im sure now after the learning from this that I can make 1 or possibly 2 working oled boards from these 4 I have here. 1 of them is a straight up loss though as on close inspection its way too far gone unless i feel like I can dig through layers of board and find a tiny little trace 3 layers down (if these board scans are anything to go by) without destroying stuff that runs nearby and aint nobody got time for that .
Graphics cards, I need to spend time on graphics cards as I might have had a breakthrogh with at least one of the two I have... Im also considering something a bit crazy on that 1080.. but will need to contact the owner and see if he is down
Got another oled to do early next week as it's time for me and the dude that started this little switch adventure for me (he sent me his failed attempt board) to finish the saga. Quite a few other bits shifted today so I'm on the look out for some rarer handhelds to get my teeth into. Also got a few interesting board only projects on the bench ready for some action and another few board only projects on their way from new Zealand where apparently its impossibly to find somebody to work on a switch. I am also considering some major rework on an oled board I have here as im sure now after the learning from this that I can make 1 or possibly 2 working oled boards from these 4 I have here. 1 of them is a straight up loss though as on close inspection its way too far gone unless i feel like I can dig through layers of board and find a tiny little trace 3 layers down (if these board scans are anything to go by) without destroying stuff that runs nearby and aint nobody got time for that
.Graphics cards, I need to spend time on graphics cards as I might have had a breakthrogh with at least one of the two I have... Im also considering something a bit crazy on that 1080.. but will need to contact the owner and see if he is down
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and the second oled install:
Some of the flex cables were damaged by the previous installer of the chip so we had to go wired for half of the install. The Oled saga is now complete and I can move on with my life with a few less broken oled boards and one happy fella that a few months later will now have his oled sorted This install went much smoother and no need to reball nand which was a win.
Some of the flex cables were damaged by the previous installer of the chip so we had to go wired for half of the install. The Oled saga is now complete and I can move on with my life with a few less broken oled boards and one happy fella that a few months later will now have his oled sorted
This install went much smoother and no need to reball nand which was a win.
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Soldato
Nice thread
Love reading posts like this
Love reading posts like this
Nice thread
Love reading posts like this
Ill be adding some more magic over the coming days got a few pretty cool things im working on right now
On a less positive note Evri have now lost 3 parcels this week all claiming to be lost/damaged and I will likely be out of pocket by quite a significant amount
- Gonna have to change it up and no longer offer cheap postage So that's a couple of restored 3DS consoles and also a ton of oled parts that I wave goodbye to... lesson learned...
And they all look like this:
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That's a killer, do they cover your losses at all?Ill be adding some more magic over the coming days got a few pretty cool things im working on right now
On a less positive note Evri have now lost 3 parcels this week all claiming to be lost/damaged and I will likely be out of pocket by quite a significant amount
So that's a couple of restored 3DS consoles and also a ton of oled parts that I wave goodbye to... lesson learned...
up to £25 on each parcel unless you buy additional insurance. Take a look at the image above, this is how it happens... Ive got images of all the boxes before they were sent and there is simply no way any of these items should have had any issues. I guess when your sending as much as I am at the moment you should expect some issues.
I've been sharing the switch stuff in various channels though and it seems the bottom dollar going rate for an install like the ones above is £150 so ive accepted a few jobs to try and recoup the cash. I just checked some stats and in the last 2 months I have shipped 111 items of which 45 are with evri, the remaining are a mix of In-Post and Royal mail. Of this 111 I have had issues with 6 and all of those have been Evri. 6 in 45 is a shockingly bad success rate.
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