Vince's Ebay Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)


I got bored so here is a stock but refurbed vs a modded screen GG. I currently have about 4 copies of sonic and about 6 game gears ready for restoration.... I think you know what is coming!
 
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Tinders said:
@Vince didnt think of a boom, that might be the next upgrade to this, nice idea. I need to track down a R47 inductor for this water damaged inductor, all teh fets seem fine and i cant see any other other damage around the damaged inductor, so fingers crossed i might actually have fixed something :p
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Did you track down r47 - Realised I have a load of inductors here.
 
Vince said:
All of the bits for this build are now on the way :) Excited to build another gameboy with all the goodies! we are talking q5, lipo mods, full recap, amp/speaker, flash cart, shell, buttons... the whole hog :D

What about internal LED kits and clicky buttons? do we want switch like uprated buttons and internal led mods? - Do they even do them on the colour let me see :)

Edit: mod kits for LED are a big fat yes, there are plenty of options on that. Just on the clicky button hunt the GBA mod kit might work but we shall take a closer look. Mind you it starts stacking up in cost pretty quickly - The screen alone is like £50 but worth every penny :)
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@Vince I think I would go for the clicky buttons, how extra would this cost?

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Tinders said:
No I didn’t, the wife has had me painting decorating :( all hobbies have been on hold for the next few weeks.

I need to sit down with the card and make sure it’s just the inductor, nothing can be that simple of a fix.
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Are you certain it's an inductor? Inductors are usually marked on the board with code "L", code R is possibly a resistor.
 
@Vince received your package.. thank you very much!!! you're a star..

I managed to fit the shoulder button and the 2 thumb sticks without any drama. No photos as it would be mainly of my thumbs, all twelve of them!! :)

Hopefully I didn't break them while in there, (see below! :) ) .. I will test them later when I see my son, and I can get access to his switch!)


However... I'm not sure I can use the rail you sent.. It appears to be broken (have something missing?), and I can't find any 'extra' plastic in the envelope.. so i'm not sure it happened in transit..

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the original is on the left, and the one you sent is on the right..



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is the original in situ, so you can see the little plastic hole holds the rail bracket into the joycon.



While in there (like an ijit!) I also did this..

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to the ribbon lock connector, so i'm now in doubt whether even if I get a new rail part it will work, as that looks very 'not' connected :)

do you reckon the ^^ is fixable? or is it a whole new mainboard for the joycon?

Thanks again for sending the bits, and I still need to pass some beer tokens the other way, so please do let me know the easiest way to do that for you.

R.
 
SimonRigga said:
@Vince received your package.. thank you very much!!! you're a star..

I managed to fit the shoulder button and the 2 thumb sticks without any drama. No photos as it would be mainly of my thumbs, all twelve of them!! :)

Hopefully I didn't break them while in there, (see below! :) ) .. I will test them later when I see my son, and I can get access to his switch!)


However... I'm not sure I can use the rail you sent.. It appears to be broken (have something missing?), and I can't find any 'extra' plastic in the envelope.. so i'm not sure it happened in transit..

20230704_114217_s.jpg


the original is on the left, and the one you sent is on the right..



20230704_114359_s.jpg


is the original in situ, so you can see the little plastic hole holds the rail bracket into the joycon.



While in there (like an ijit!) I also did this..

20230704_113550_s.jpg


to the ribbon lock connector, so i'm now in doubt whether even if I get a new rail part it will work, as that looks very 'not' connected :)

do you reckon the ^^ is fixable? or is it a whole new mainboard for the joycon?

Thanks again for sending the bits, and I still need to pass some beer tokens the other way, so please do let me know the easiest way to do that for you.

R.
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I only sent the rail, there are a load of parts that make up the rest of the assembly. I assumed that you would remove the rest of the parts to build up the new rail :)
 
oh the actual rail broke? I see what you mean now... how random I am 100% that that was good when I sent it. Well that sucks let me have a look I think I probably have some more. Test it with that rail regardless though see if it fixes your issue. Also that connector on the board is pretty easy to swap over for a not broken one :) it is surface mount though.
 
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Vince said:
oh the actual rail broke? I see what you mean now... how random I am 100% that that was good when I sent it. Well that sucks let me have a look I think I probably have some more. Test it with that rail regardless though see if it fixes your issue. Also that connector on the board is pretty easy to swap over for a not broken one :) it is surface mount though.
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Yeah it's definately broken,

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You can see above the piece with the hole that fits onto the lower joycon body has snapped off, and as I said I checked the envelope and couldn't see any plastic in there.

Ah well, there is good news, as a test given the mess I made of the ribbon lock thingy, here,

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I thought i'd plug it in to the switch and see if the things works at all. And guess what.. it's now being recognised by the switch as being plugged in.. it's all very bizarre, but i'll take the win!

So all's well that end's well. :)

Do let me know how I can send you a few beer tokens, as your help and the bits have been much appreciated.!

R.
 
kakarott said:
@Vince apparently some people in China installed/soldered 32gb ram in the Ally. Any idea where to buy from?

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Yea man - how many IC's does she have? Ok i looked its got 4 x 4GB LPDDR5 modules from samsung. So you need 4x8gb modules.

£16 a module plus shipping for samsung modules and you need somebody that is comfortable with bga rework.

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I have done this before, I doubled the memory capacity of a gpu. Oh and my oled, as you know my oled is made of different things :)

One thing is for sure its going to be a slow week this week! I am in the office most days so ability to just pick up a random repair when I am bored goes out of the window.
 
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