Asus ROG Ally Teardown (Complete Disassembly) 

Your vid on the Go shows that Lenovo have a more robust product.

Im gonna pickup my ally tomorrow! 2 fans for that apu you know ASUS is serious.

Hi, is there a video of the re assembling?😅

Great Video 🎉🎉🎉

Can you show how to disassemble the sticks? Like once they’re out, how to take off the metal bracket that holds the stick in place

Any chance you could get close ups of the microcontrollers on the boards? It would be a huge help for those out there looking to reverse engineer various components of the device that will benefit tools like Handheld Companion, HandyGCCS, etc. I saw ITE and Winbond chips but I'm unable to read what is printed on them.

Could you do a video about your thoughts about some of the recent hardware issues such as SD card reader allegedly getting hot and cooking microSD cards?

Are the triggers hall effect? If so, would replacing the joy sticks with hall effect cause interference issues?

Looks to be very repair friendly

thanks for this

hi, maybe you know why the right cooler makes an odd sound when it is turned on. It is when the right cooler turns on that you can somehow fix it.

Wait, question because I do have a Rog Ally myself, but I dropped by accident and my left and right front bumper gets stuck when I press it so should I just change it or just fix it?

I was wondering why the screen felt hollow when you tap on it. Its gonna be difficult to replace the screen if it does get damaged.

I gotta remove the cable from the lcd screen how do I remove it? Have a new cable on the way, never seen that connector and how to take out the cable from screen to motherboard, mine is damaged, just didn't wanna break it, how does it remove?

How can I get a replacement cable from screen to motherboard...mine got damaged..cable says mb on it

Hopefully valve looks ad the allys easy to remove battery,and put that in the upcoming steamdeck 2

Thanks for video...I took mine apart to install new SSD but it's missing the black insulation that covers SSD, should I be concerned?

Thank you for this one! Is there a specific way to put back the lid back again? My back buttons stay flat, they aren’t clicking or have travel/depth anymore 😕, tried a few times and still loke that.

Notice how the SD Card reader sits right underneath the right side heatpipe? Also there is no heat insulation between the heatpipe and the SD Card reader either.

If you unplug the battery/ remove the battery, can you play the rog ally while it is plugged into ac power? Or does the device require the battery to be present? Thanks in advance

I have my ROG Ally, here short DETAILS: - The Z1 Extreme is equivalent to a Ryzen 7 1700 with 11,7gb ram + the gpu is exactly a GTX 1060 with 4GB vram. - 10 watt set, use under or exact 10w, except you play, then it reachs max 16w shortly. - No noise at silent mode, silent at performance mode, clearly hearable-loud at turbo at 30w use. - Can connect it to a monitor + mouse + keyboard + lan + power plug. While akku its 25w, with power plug via usb hub its 30w. Optimize: Set the pagefile to 16gb at least to outsource unused ram to ssd. While gaming, only turbo mode max 30watt/h. Cpu 1,6ghz, gpu 2ghz (arround 6tflops raw gpu performance) Conclusion: no AAA Gaming device. For me a good portable PC to take everywhere with me and can play small games/watch videos/listen music or program something.

Also, my left bumper, for some reason is clicking two times. When I press the left bumper down slightly, it clicks. If I press it down more, it will do the normal left bumper click like it's supposed to. Is there a way to tighten the bumper or is there any other solution for the issue?

No wonder it is frying sd cards, it is located exactly beneath the heat pipe.

You did not disassembled R1 and L1 ... I have a loose R1 Button and now i never see the solution.

Does the Rog Ally just have thermal paste on it or is it something else?

Any fix for the fan whine noise????????? I was thinking to open it up and see whats up..

whenever the D-pads broken, u have to replace the whole mainboard

Too bad the wifi module isn't replaceable. Mediatek wifi chips aren't really good at all. I'd far prefer Intel AX210 but that's impossible with the Ally. What a shame.

Please show factory reset process step by step.

Is it battery replaceable?

Please tell me you are saying Allie instead of Ally as a meme. Its Ally like Allied forces. The device is your Ally for gaming.

Is the ram upgradeable*

I'm watching these tear downs hoping to spot something that's causing the LB button to not work that I'm experiencing but also others have reported on reddit, its definitely a hardware issue but its bloody difficult to spot what's the cause

Just broke my screen today 10-21-2023. Looked up a new screen and it's the whole front to where he got down to last, comes with new wifi. Current price is 173$ usd

no replaceble usb c chargin port....like the deck.... dissapointed

RAM

To much work for just replacing buttons ^^

it doesn’t look very good, even the steam deck had an internal part made of magnesium alloy, to which everything else was attached, but here it’s only plastic

"complete teardown" doesnt show how to replace left and right bumper.

the insides could be alot nicer

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