Lenovo L13 not charging - A fault which can be fixed in different ways 

We apreciate everything and every word from your videos. Pro, dodgy or Sorin way doesn't matter, learning from u keeps us here

Thanks for the nice video Sorin. I was born and grew up in the GDR. We didn't have much back then and things that were broken were repaired. Unfortunately, the mentality of a throwaway society has developed in recent decades. But I also stay true to my old values ​​and try, wherever possible, to repair things first and then continue to use them instead of throwing everything away and wasting resources. Greetings from Erfurt in Thuringia.

I have the same problem in work, managers calling me dodgy fixing things not as the manufacturer has it. 😂

Dear Sorin, People are mainly new to electronics. As a veteran electronic engineer i understand you very well. On all the years the experience i have, i can say there is no dodgy repair or solution. Electronics doesn't allow dodgy repairs. A circuit can ONLY work if you supply what it requires otherwise either it will not work, it can defect the other parts and/or the product will be unstable. So i am watching almost every repair you make and i cant say i havent seen a dodgy repair at all. You supply the reuirements from other locations and the design of the notebooks have also redundant location for supplying some voltage or current from other locations. On the manufacturers side they will change the desing on the fly if they dont find certain parts in bulk. This is why you can see variations of the same board on different production batches. So dont even think that you do dodgy. There is NO dodgy solutions there is ONLY solutions. Apart from that all watchers should understand and appreciate that you share the real electronic tricks that can be used. Kindest Regards

Hi from France, you're not dodgy because you know exactly what you are doing.

Sorin, I appreciate you fixing it like the manufacturer intended the PCB to work like.

You are fixing the way should make the device working again. Dodgy or not it's fixed. You know much better than a lot of technicians and know what you're doing. Period. Thanks for explaining in detail and we keep learning.

Dear Sorin, words can’t describe how much I appreciate all your videos and lessons. Keep up the great work the way you believe is best - that’s what experience is for and thanks for sharing your decades of experience with all of us. Best regards from Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦

On Sorin’s channel you not only learn about electronics but also that life is hard and full of compromises. Great video 👍

I cannot thank you enough for all what you have taught us. I have been following you since 3 years and you truly demystified PCBs for me. Thanks

Proper calibrated bridge! :)

And we do appreciate your teaching. Some of us can't repay you with anything other than a like. But we definitely do.

I appreciate the time the manufacturer invested to make it proper dodgy.

Of course we appreciate your time to show us 2 ways, we know your time is valuable and you are using it to teach us and comforting us. i send you a big hug.

Your not Dodgy your a good computer fixer Sorin very good i apreciate you and teaching us

As a customer, I would be happy to have my old faithful laptop back and working. Sometimes you know it is time to look into a replacement and this would give me time to use it and look for a new one. Also, you get a little bit of extra life from it too & it is repaired from a budget I can afford now. I have time to transfer my pics, videos and files as well. And if you keep it going until it dies, that's okay too. It's all win win in the end. Great work young man.

The only reason we all here is because it's sorin way that we can learn so much.

No matter how many times you say it. " ill replace it on another video " it makes me laugh out loud. Thank you for your great videos and funny sence of humour.

Oh, and totally wanted to mention I appreciate you actually showing potential alternative ways to repair things, even if they're not 100% conformant to specs. Certainly stuff you don't get taught in school or your average apprenticeship. And overall, I think one shouldn't forget stuff like this can often decide whether some device can be continued to be used or would be ready to be scrapped. As long as the customer knows what they'll be getting (like here, better don't try to charge anything else with that port), I think it's totally fine, especially if otherwise they might face costs similar to just getting a new device.

You are a magician my friend I’m doing this job for years and I learning every day something new from you thanks sorin you are the best

Astronaut: "Huston, we have a problem, we are leaking oxygen into space, what should we do ?" CC: "All you need is a proper calibrated wire ..."

Sorin I like it when you do the dodgy way I learn alot and understand the concept better

I appreciate you showing us the long way, simply because I'm curious about what it was in the original design that failed. You know, educational purposes.

Guru Ji… you don’t bothers about “ Dodgy repair” only Legends can find and fix it the fault at anyway and shortest way. Your are Legend. ( leaners and small people will replace the board instated of finding the fault. Thank you so much for your videos . all are very helpful.

Yeah am one of those But I wanna thank you For the great lessons. and you tought me from scratch now i am the 3rd person in my town, people can trust with their aptops and am doing well everyday got a year now since i started doing repairs in my own shop. You're a great teacher ever Sir Sorin I salute You

Excellent fix.👍❣ The TPS controller is designed for failure .. overheating .. even if there is a new controller you need to program ... and it is not certain that it will last and burn again. An excellent workaround for a difficult problem

You are not a Random guy Sorin. You are the Big Boss here 😊

Sorin, I watch every one of your videos, truly appreciate them, appreciate you, appreciate both the dodgy and the "proper" fixes. Thanks a bunch!!!

Sorin just keep making these excellent repair videos. Appreciate all the effort you do in making these videos.

You are not a Pro, your not dodgy. But you are definitely a Master! 🥂

Sorin keep doing it your way, that's why we are here. Thank you for providing us content and teaching us.

A proper professional repair makes me soooooo happy ! Missed the hot glue.... 😁

Hi Sorin, thank you very much to teach US the way to repair the laptop, no matter if dodgy or your way as u said everyone must find his way and adapt to his contest, country, possibility to do a proper repair and his and customer need... thank for sharing you experience with US with passione, bye Francesco Timpano from Florence Italy

Thanks to your so called "dodgy" repairs, me with my limited skills managed to fix some simple faults. Funny that whenever you say dodgy I remember that in apollo 13 they had to improvise carbon dioxide filtering with different parts to save the crew. By all means you could call this dodgy but did it work? Hell yeah. All the best Sorin!

Sorin your time is gift for us.

I'd say that was an impressive work around and that you were able to find the fault. I think as long as you're honest with the customer, all good.

Sorin, thank you for your heart felt thoughts. What we learn from you is amazing, and you are correct people, in general, want things done one the cheap. Great video, Paul, USA

Yes Sorin, we are learning as ever

your Dodgy, Funny, Sorin ways is the reason i am here, i love you man, keep up the good Work/Videos

We always appreciate for every single word on this channel ❤️ Thank you sir 🙏

Sorin, you do dodgy well. And I say that with the utmost respect. Keep the video’s coming. They’re the best!

I'm really enjoying watching your very useful ways of repairing laptops, thank you sorin 🙏

Another comment in the past described it perfectly. "What you call dodgy, I call resourceful"

Love those Calibrated Bridges Sorin!

Hello Sorin, as always excellent work, I never stop learning from you, your reasoning in breakdowns and the search for solutions. Thank you.

Grazie per l'aiuto che dai a tutti noi. Ti mando i saluti dall'Italia e inoltro i saluti a tutti i colleghi che ti seguono. Grazie ci sono tanti ragazzi come me che vogliono imparare e oltre al mio collega che mi sta seguendo tu stai dando una grande mano. Prima ti seguivo e non capivo niente ora capisco tante cose. Non si molla. Grazie ancora ❤ saluti dalla Calabria

Dear Sorin! We apreciate everything what you do and say! Thank you for proffessionalism, i learned a lot from your videos!

Hi Sorin I would like to tell you I appreciate every dodgy job you do professionally 👍💪😁

Sorin your solution's is engineering that all brother

I love your dodgy repairs 🌷

i love the "fix" part, replace part anyone can do. Even more i LOVE how to think, find and solve the problem.

This sarcasm. lol. Love it! Made my day. Thanks Mr Sorin, what a sense of humour.

Thanks for reminding me to not buy a Lenovo, that is insane, well done.

Thanks for sharing "dodgy" and pro way, i learn a lot.

proper calibrated bridge :)) Dear Sorin thak you so much..

"..the M. we are going to replace on another video .." hahaha nice one Sorin 👌🙂😁

I learned more electronic with the dogi Sorin compared with my 5 years of university...

Hey, Actually I like the way you approach the faults

Great Sorin.fixing laptops with Dolgy way is I call it a pro. you r pro.

Here, in Brazil, we love a dodgy work

Best Video Ever Seen From You !!!

I understand your point Sorin.

Don’t worry. We all appreciate

you are one of a kind my friend

awesome work Sorin. I love the Ahhh Haaa moments. makes me laugh every time. The haters who do the "dodgy" comments, not funny enough. I had 1 lenovo and absolutely hated the design. Watching your lenovo videos just reinforces that belief. But that said, that was a great diagnoses to figure it out.

" Proper calibrated Bridge " LOL

thank you Sorin you are the best 🙂

Everybody, {including all technicians), should know by now that Sorin's way is always the best way.

Make sure you update bios. Theres a known problem that if you plug in two type c power connectors if will fry mobo.. most happen with docking port and usb c power c port plugged in..

15:28 I have asked myself this question so many times....

As the world turns even more crazy.. please teach us the dodgy fixes.. we might not have the extra chips to replace in the future.. however. I do admirer your wish to do it right all the way back to factory specs..

Thanks sorin Very nice video ❤

Thank you for showing us the dodgy way and the pro way!!!! If I was the owner of that laptop I didn't mind if you repaired it in the dodgy way!!! At the end what I need is a working laptop!!!

Hello 🤝Good Job level pro 👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👋👋👋👋👋Never change, you are the best and you motivate thousands of people just like me on this channel🤗

You have to be a repair wizard to do the Sorin "dodgy" repair.

What I would do is put it into a box 📦 with lots of sweets and send it to Sorin 👍🤣

I understand very well and you are not dodgy LoL. I know there are countries that have been fixing same as you well before YT because of the reasons you mentioned, no parts, cost, poverty, reliance and the culture of wanting thier items to keep going. In the end recycling rather ending up in landfill. It is just the culture in the West as it can be too easy to get a brand new one even if you do not need it.

Always "Replace in another video." LOL

hi sir Real its words from you like learning guys dodge what ever we call but like to learn how to get working condition understanding the logic from you sir any way its good words from you professional skills required 🎩

Sorin you're right, fixing it "the proper way" don't make me learn more about electronics. All of your supposed "dodgy" videos from the past made me learn and fear less electronics. Thanks a lot for being dodgy and sometimes being A LOT DODGIER lol

I would have tried to put a different footprint mosfet to see if the controller is working ok, then either put the weird original mosfet back (from donor or new) either leave the test mosfets there depending on how good they fit on those pads and traces

27:36 Mosfets replacement in the other channel "laptop repairs" !LOL!!!!

Just offer all options with deferent repair prices, let customer choose, I think that make customer more comfortable. I think you are master of masters, cover them all. I think 3 main repair categories will cover all as (full dodge_less$ ||| partial dodge_mid$ ||| renew_high$).

A customer would be happy with that 99 times out of 100.

Good job mate 👏

Only now those two usb ports are probably shorted to eachother. Those were probably some sort of diodes allowing the usb ports to send current without flooding eachother. It will work as long as you don't plug devices into BOTH ports.

Bought a Think pad 25 years ago, 3 months hd crashed and I could not buy an off the shelf HD it had to be an IBM at 8 thats right 8 times the third party price. Never bought another anything from IBM & never will. Good job why? it works.

Let’s think a bit out of the Bubble, if you are the customer and you have data on that pc at least concern, would you prefer to be told, “we can’t fix this because the chip we can’t buy it” or “we can’t fix this with your chip as we can’t offer warranty “ and then you may go to data recovery? How much is that recovery of then photos that you can never retake? In these videos you don’t learn how to fix a laptop you learn experience as experience only come with practice and this guy is sharing his years and years of experience so you know that “there is another way” what if you say I can’t fix this laptop and then the customer go to the shop next to your shop and take the laptop fixed for £40? What he will think about your shop? Do you think he will care if you put a mosfet or a bridge? 😂 he will know one thing, I’ve been to that shop and they said can’t do it so I’ll go to the other shop last time they fixed it for me when everyone said can’t be fixed… life experience here! You want to fix proper way? Look at Apple anything fails they will say “you need a new board, £800” and they will replace it in 20 mins or less so you pay more and they work less 😂…

Not dodgy, just different 😂

I appreciate you trying to fix it the manufacturer way because it shows us more details how the circuit works. When you do it "Sorin's way" the less experienced os us like myself are anxious and uncanny because we don't know what it can cause in the long run. In this case when you investigated further it showed the fault to be those mosfets and from your videos I've learned that shorting those can cause the situation where someone plugged 19V to the first usb-c and some 5v device to the other usb-c, isn't it dangerous? Couldn't it burn this 5v device?

Sorin, we use a term "JUGAR" in our language in Pakistan meaning to get a thing to work anyway, especially without any cost 😊. I was wondering to find appropriate word in English and today I found , it's "DODGY".......🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂

We love you anyway around....😂

Maybe some diodes would be a better solution ... if something is connected to the on usb-c and you attach the charger on the other one, you risk 19v go straight to whatever is connected to the first port. I mean, something like you have with battery / charger connected to the power rail through a dual diode. In case, schottky diode is probably required, since a lot of current go throughout them .... the less the voltage drop, the better, also for thermal requirements.

27:31 Haahahahahahaahaaa, this is the Best Part lol Sorin

Nice fix!

I think people need to realise this is a £500 laptop. If doing the right way takes hours you will end up charging the customer more than it would cost to buy a replacement on ebay so sometimes the quick repair is the only one that makes sense economically.

No right way ,no wrong way. Fixed is Fixed !

I appreciate the so-called unreliable repairs much more because if the computer is there to be repaired it means that something has failed.

amazing bro

thank you you show the dodgy way and the pro way Patrick South Africa