I can only imagine how rewarding it must be to bring back to life a phone that looked so destroyed. Your skill and experience make it look straightforward, but this level of repair is not for the fainthearted, and there's always the risk that the previous repair attempts destroyed something. Hugh; the master at work!
That was a phone?! I'm surprised they even decided to sell it!? Amazing just how many individual components are involved let alone having to transfer it into a new frame! Either way, a great save Hugh! 😎
For anyone confused by the battery, it's actually two at that capacity. The fast charging technology that they use splits the battery into 2 with half of the capacity so that the phone can be charged faster. It's the same case with my Oppo find N, which charges at 35 Watts so the battery is divided for that as well.
These restorations are awesome and a really good value. The only problem I see is finding good quality or original parts for a variety of phones. If that would be readably available, a lot more phones would be fixed and not thrown away
13:01 I just got an iPhone 12 for free from someone I know. I paid about 150€ for parts and now it looks like new again. It was the most time consuming fix I ever made with all the small parts inside the housing and those magnets that have to be individually transferred and glued down into the new housing.
I can imagine the sense of accomplishment you get from repairing everything you do. Swapping batteries in an SE and a note 9 gave me that feeling, and i want to keep fixing crap.
as far as I remember, oppo likes to embed very strong reset protection in their smartphones. but, apparently, this phone was an exception. Great job, Hugh!
Yet another beautiful repair. I can't afford fixing phones anymore because it's getting a bit too expensive for me, but I can at least vicariously live through your videos hahah 💕
I'm sad for that. Saw another comment of yours done 11 months ago saying you would start doig repair videos and went to check it ou and found this comment instead... I'm sorry for that.... hope your finantial situation gets better, i know bulgaria is f up... good luck.
08:23 - I think 🤔, I would have ALSO ADDED a thin smear of CPU/Thermal Paste on the copper heat transfer part, so that it ensured a good full thermal contact with the copper on the back of the screen to aid in cooling (considering that the black carbon film is missing too)... BUT other than that, bit of a mighty job for a complicated built phone, Nice work! 👍👌 😎🇬🇧
i've just realised how easy the repair of a samsung a20e was... had the display with a frame, so that brought the hardiness down by a lot, but still... this seems awful lot more complicated that what i had to go through with
I personally like using Oppo devices. I have been using this phone for many years now, my first smartphone was the Sony Ericsson, then got an Oppo F1. I loved the phone instantly. Then I got Oppo F2 because it was more good, then the F5 and the F9. I also got Oppo A9 2020 because it had a very very good camera quality. And it was an absolute beast for games! Now I am using the 2 newer Oppo phones, F19 and F21. When Oppo F21 was released I bought it on the 2nd day and they gave me an extremely fantastic Bluetooth speaker! For being a long-time consumer I got many gifts from them. This is why I love Oppo. All these aside, amazing repair job! I never knew Oppo was a bit complicated to repair. I love these kind of videos, keep it up Hugh!
I remember seeing this phone in the hands of tech reviewers and I was in love with the design. The display is way too expensive so I'd never be able to take on a project like this. But for example, I fixed a Oneplus One (made by Oppo as well) where the display was only $20 from AliExpress and it felt amazing getting that thing up and running!
3:18 correction: The Find X3 Pro actually has a 4,500 mAh battery. It is divided up into two cells. It is not a 2,250 mAh battery. That would be ludicrous for a phone released in 2021.
Hi Hugh I love ur vids and I’m a big fan I was watching you when I was 9 and now I’m 12 I notice we have some similar interests I like restoring and repairing phones and I have decided to get a ifixit minnow tool kit and it’s made such a big difference from the cheap tool.thanks for ur recommendation
OPPO have fast become my favourite manufacturer. A recent Android updated recently killed HD and HDR streaming on Netflix on my Find X2 Pro (Widevine DRM). As it turns out, it ruins it on a hardware level. I contacted OPPO support and they replaced the entire mainboard even though the phone was out of warranty. Support even sent me photos of the repair as it was happening.
Haha I loved that windows 98 reference skit, although it's very sad that FRP has to be a thing. I feel that even if a phone was to be stolen, FRP would do nothing anyway. I absolutely wouldn't mind if you were able to bypass FRP with the caveat that the phone must be fully reset (which is the way it was before Apple started their iCloud activation lock BS, of course it always comes back to them...)
This was a very pleasing video to watch. Made me feel good :D But in all seriousness, this looks like a relatively repairable phone right? I love stuff that can be fixed. Good job
The thermal paste applied probably wasn't enough, that amount is enough to fill the gap between desktop cpu and its heatsink, but phone heatsink and the cpu usually has quite a big gap. You can see just how much the thermal paste was in there needed to cover enough surface area.
As a true true OPPO fangirl, and after seeing this absolute outstanding revival of an OPPO findx3 there's only one question going through my mind... Can we marry? I just need a man who can fix OPPO's in my life! Just kidding! But big thumbs up for doing this! Wish you was my neighbour instead! 😂 Spot on, and I love to watch all these repairs. Wish I had the right equipment and knowledge to do this myself. Keep up the good work! 👍🏽
hey jeff, I really enjoy such videos with a successful attempt at the end. while Im not sure you posted this before but it would nice to see a failed attempt and see what goes wrong
Absolutely amazing skills you have sir 👍 I have this phone brand new works like a charm.. Only thing I do regret that it lacks wonderful cases if you want to protect your phone.. Like Samsung and Apple you will get all the top brands but for these it's useless.. I like otterbox but to my surprise nothing so that lets me down Phone is fast and great the only reason I bought this phone is it's ultra sonic fast charging it's really get you back on your feet in no time thanks I really enjoy watching your content
I am all for nice features like mari-sillicone X etc... but if a $1500 device has that kind of security, I am not buying it even if it is that cheap after repairs. Great repair work though!
It was no bypass. He was wrong. It was asking for his old phone's password in which he logged his gmail account for restoring backups present in google one. Standard procedure for all androids over 10. Do you really believe android after 13 years will have that?? I am surprised how he made that mistake.
Not surprised that the test display works with Oneplus phones. After all, they’re owned by the same OEM, BKK Electronics which owns Oppo, Vivo and Oneplus.
Ok i know this will sound strange, but i'm studying to become an electronics engineer and your videos helped me a lot. But we only dissasemble old phones like Galaxy s6, S7 models etc, so it's way easier.
Kudos man, I would have just binned that. My shaky hands would have ripped every ribbon in that thing and they don't make glasses strong enough for me to see all that tiny crap. Rick Moranis would need to shrink me with his zapper, maybe then.
Nice video, I do repairs too and I have a question, every time I get a back glass replacement, I can’t use the glue that comes with the new back panel, it doesn’t stick on the phone and eventually it falls apart… so I decide to apply my own liquid glue but I see you use the actually glue that comes pre installed in the back panel. My question is, do you something else to make sure it doesn’t falls apart ? I know you put two extra stripes of orange glue, but do you do something else?, thank you for sharing.
I think one of the reasons they dont put glue adhesive just beneath display these days is cos when the phone is heated up the glue intensifies the heat and this shows up on the display visible to the user especially on white screen. It will appear as a glow/bright spots in the same way glue has been laid. Because displays are especially so much thinner these days. This is the reason why the heatsinks are manufactured in the way manufacturers knows they would need to sink in all the heat away from the body.
What do you think of oppo's hugh? I find they are the best at taking apple design and improving it, mostly on the software side not hardware design though
11:00 I have never seen easier bypass than this 😂 Btw, this phone reminds me iPhone 4s on iOS 7.0.2 which I got completely disassembled and had to guess which screw gets where. I ended up disassembling another 4s to check the right places for screws, using it as a “navigator” (hope you got it 😂)
Actually he was wrong. The phone was asking for his previous phone's password in which he used the gmail account. This is a standard procedure for androids to ask for copying settings from previous android and is not mandatory. You can even see "checking for backup" just before it asks for password. Phone is actually checking backup on his google account and is asking for his password and not the password of previous owner of the phone. He cancels it and it goes ahead without restoring any setting. There is no such thing as "reset protection" on android. TBH i can't believe he of all people made this mistake.
