PS VITA Slim with WEIRD DISPLAY ISSUE - Can I FIX it?

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Hi, in this video I look at a PlayStation Vita Slim with a strange display issue. The back story on this is that it was sent into a repair shop to have the smashed screen replaced, since then it will only work for 5-10 minutes and go blank.
Can it be fixed? Will the fault be traceable? Is the repair shop to blame? Let's find out.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.

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@beogeek 2 года назад

Good work Vince, you're doing great, one thing to remember is that you should never apply pressure to ball grid array BGA chips when soldering them or reflowing them, but I suspect you learned that while doing this repair.

@joejoebigjoe6136 Год назад

yah thats the point

@StezStixFix 2 года назад

Great video, Vince.👍 Maybe you could run 500 enamel wire jumpers from chip to pcb! 😂

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

🤣🤣 It did cross my mind Steve!

@HavingFunRepairs 2 года назад

PS Vita was a wonderful bit of technology and still holds up today in my opinion.

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

I agree Shawn👍👍👍

@alvzcizzler 2 года назад

With games like Killzone Mercenary hell yeah but idk if the online is still active in 2022

@marcianzero_yt 2 года назад

@@alvzcizzler The Vita Uncharted was also a very good title. I was quite disappointed when there was no successor…

@wanderingsoul621 2 года назад

In my opinion the Psvita was the perfect system but released in the wrong time(2012) if it would have been launched when Sony shut down online servers for ps2 & Psp(2016) it might have done better.

@HavingFunRepairs 2 года назад

@@wanderingsoul621 the mobile smart phone market I think contributed to its lack of success. I owned one and loved it, but the lack of support eventually drove me to sale it. Kind of wish I had not done that.

@danandrei96 2 года назад

ah Vince you definitely learned an important lesson about BGA work with this one. Lots others have said already but never push a BGA chip down when soldering/reflowing. Also you should invest in some of the underfill scraper/remover tools. They are quite cheap and get used a lot for phone repair, they're just a handle with a bunch of different shaped very thin metal blades. A lot of times with underfilled chips you use those to scrape the underfill you can see on the edge, then have to get the chip/board hot enough that you're confident the solder is melted, and slip the thin metal blade under the chip to cut the underfill and lift the chip up (the blades are quite bendy) EDIT: also yes the underfill is liquid when they apply it, so it just seeps under the chip and between the balls, then hardens in place

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Thanks for the tips and info 👍👍👍👍

@GadgetUK164 2 года назад

😆 "Oooo - what's that about!" - These can be really difficult to fix when they've suffered a drop! Often I think the pads break, rather than the balls! You can't win em all =/ Never the less interesting to watch! I think the tricky part is removing the underfil - that's something I would love to know more about. I wonder if there are chemical solutions to removing it? I would also say when reflowing these - dont use high air flow, it gets underneath and can move the balls. Also pushing down when molten as you say causes a problem too!

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

"Oooo - what's that about!" I think I have been heavily influenced by Frank Spencer 😂 It is a shame out of all the chips the one with the underfill failed. Hopefully some comments will come in on the best way to remove the underfill without scraping it. Cheers Chris 👍👍👍

@TheCod3r 2 года назад

Such a shame, but if you learned anything at all from the experience it's definitely not a waste of time. Maybe a revisit when you get some solder balls? Great video Vincey boy 😁

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Cheers Phil, the balls have finally arrived so maybe 👍👍👍👍

@TheCod3r 2 года назад

@@Mymatevince sweet, can't wait to see the attempt 😀 now get some sleep lol

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

@@TheCod3r 🤣🤣

@DannyWilliamH 2 года назад

I get a lot of enjoyment out of failure videos when the fault is at least found. I don't know about anyone else but it at least teaches you something. I repair myself and it would be ideal to have everything be a quick, easy fix but I feel like the heart or main idea behind the channel is learning through failure in order to have success in the future.

@mikesdailygaming 2 года назад

Vince, could you do a video where you go over all of the tools and equipment you use? Like your hot air station, soldering iron, camera, etc? I know you've said here and there through your videos what you use, but I think it would be helpful to have it all in once video. Thank you for everything

@renataavgeri1132 2 года назад

I would love that as well

@Jack-nb1zx 2 года назад

I’d call it a success. You proved the fault at least. Those solder balls are a finicky business anyway, though I would be interested to see you attempt more solder ball repairs in the future.

@julieboruta 2 года назад

See if you can buy a reball kit for the Sony Chip and then use the template that is in the kit to reball that chip and try a revisit video on this. I think you might just do well if you buy a correct reball kit for that Sony Chip Vince.

@chamoo232 2 года назад

Possibly but he also shorted it out and lifted pads so even with a good reball it may still be dead.

@zerocool278 2 года назад

Underfill with heat makes the underfill expand, You see this a lot especially with Iphone boards, Chips like the PMU are underfilled and as soon as heat is added it pulls the chip away from the board, Can also rip pads just by that.

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 2 года назад

the vita is a AMAZING device. got one from japan BRAND new... and it can run so much cool stuff if you "hack" it. the community is taking better care of it than sony does. we even got GTA san andreas on here. same with bully. max payne. gta 3/vice city its so awesome.. and it can run every single psp game natively too

@SlingshotGamer 2 года назад

Great fault finding video! I like how calm you are when " Oh look ripped pads"

@darrenstrathdee7425 2 года назад

You need to use 200-230 to remove under fill under sides. You cant use high temps as you will cause pop corn. If you cleans, tested pads, repaired pads. Reballed ic and fitted, it would work. After test working, solder mask around ic to finish.

@harryandy44 2 года назад

Your levels of patience reach god like proportions. I have no idea what I’m looking at or half of what your talking about but I still thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the good work.

@ralphj4012 2 года назад

You may want to invest in one of the 'cheapy' infrared rework stations. These include an underside pre-heater (which makes chip removal much easier / quicker). Though you have to be careful not to overheat things.

@danandrei96 2 года назад

those are handy to have but Vince should really invest in a better hot air station first, like the quick, atten or bst. Those blower-in-handle stations like he uses are terrible, the difference is night and day. A better hot air station would make quick work of a chip the size of this Sony one

@amnril 2 года назад

The Vita is still an excellent handheld. With CFW the device really opens up. GTA 3 / Vice City and San Andreas all run well.

@ovidiu7290 2 года назад

You need to take off the tip of the air gun for bigger chips

@jackbauer2698 2 года назад

Instead of trying to reflow try running 200÷ small traces from the board to the chip 😉

@weignerg 2 года назад

49:37 irresponsible, you should have transferred game saves to external memory prior to trying to mess with the chip!

@dodgydruid 2 года назад

Send the board to Mr Cod3r, he seems to have an unholy ability with reballing :D

@HoldFastFilms 2 года назад

I'd call that a success. I mean you did replace the board but like you said you did find what the fault was and in my opinion, there is no difference between replacing the board, or replacing few resistors or what have you. Same goes for screens, if electronics go bad, most people will just replace the whole thing.

@nasreddinemassib8091 2 года назад

seeing you scraping that, i thought i was watching the next SAW film.

@weignerg 2 года назад

20:20 just reflow the damn chip already!

@PghGameFix 2 года назад

I just did a Vita screen yesterday. Kind of a pain. LOL

@weignerg 2 года назад

48:37 ahhhhh! You and your putting pressure on the chip! Stop!

@OldMan_PJ 2 года назад

Finding the root cause is definitely a success.

@ingog.8424 2 года назад

The scraping of the underfill… I don't like this kind of horror.

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

😂👍

@dodgydruid 2 года назад

You should have a scoreboard like they had on planes to show kills etc Have a little legend for Switch's, Vita's etc and a thumbs up for a good fix or a black raincloud for a wack wack oops fix :P Maybe have one on the front wing of your motor with your call sign "Switch Killer" like a fighter plane ;) I had a wack wack oops myself, taking the backplate off my 80's Pulsar Solar two springs sproingded out before I could see where they came from so feeling a bit down about it as can't find a schematic for this particular movement :(

@adamcaldwell1967 2 года назад

Vince you are now crowded the ps vita killer lol.

@markwhitfield5412 2 года назад

i think pressing it down while heating was your problem, if u think the balls would have splat under the chip, i would just heat it up, but not lifting it, who knows, its a learning curve for us all.

@AMCTechRepairs 2 года назад

I learnt this the hard way with BGA chips. As soon as you push down the balls get squashed and merge with each other...

@captain_crazeh 2 года назад

Hey Vince, could you try and fix an Xbox 360 phat again? I loved that video… would be cool to see you cracking one open again :)

@bluetuscani5607 2 года назад

Omg...use flux for the re-flow

@AnonymousRepair 2 года назад

Nice video, Underfill is hell as I understand it they pump underfill around the chip and it flows under the chip, I never had any success with the applying solder to both sides, maybe on smaller IC👍👍👍

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Thanks for the info AR 👍👍👍

@mandysgaminghub8167 2 года назад

correction. not sd card vince..

@Mik_S 2 года назад

5 min into video and I see the left ribbon cable is in upside down. My bet is that is the problem. Edit: well I was wrong, cracked ball under CPU. I'm sure there was some ball squeezeage after the first re-flow attempt. Pressing down on a BGA chip when re-flowing will push out balls and if there is any under-fill left the trapped air will expand and will also force out balls. I have seen on some phone repair videos a blade shaped like a sickle to help get the under-fill removed from the edge of chips. Unfortunately it was completely under-filled (like iPhones) and the only way to re-flow would be to remove the chip first. Definitely one to practice re-balling on, I look forward to the revisit.

@segaprophet 2 года назад

£60 for a full working Vita is a good deal, they have been going up in value ever since they were discontinued

@BikerBloke600 2 года назад

God loves a trier Vince. Well Done. Mick 👍👏🍻

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Haha, nice one Mick 👍👍👍🍻

@tomabs8974 2 года назад

Really enjoying the great variety of things you attempt to fix I’ve started to have a go myself keep trying to fix .. well everything . Amazed by the amount of MacBooks that are broken

@IamPedroUK 2 года назад

Oh Vince 🙈 as soon as I saw you apply pressure I did the whole “😬”….. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, right? However it was definitely a valiant effort nonetheless and very interesting to see the ball array in all its slightly broken glory. Here’s to the next video mate!

@FennecTECH 2 года назад

Underfiill is often used in portable electronics to reduce the odds of cracking a solder ball especaly when the board flexes during normal use. apple solved touch disease with underfill While it makes it a pain in the ass to repair it also significantly improves the devices resilancy and is an overall good. and i would say a necessity in anything portable

@pds8475 2 года назад

I'm glad that you know that you caused the short by pressing down on the chip when you were reflowing it. But from now on as soon as you put any heat on a BGA chip. Understand that while the chip may still be held firmly to the board some of the balls may be molten and any pressure down on the chip will cause it to be a write off. Basically for any reason at all you never put pressure down on a BGA chip when soldering the chip. It will either do nothing or destroy the chip. There is as much chance of you getting a positive outcome from putting pressure on a BGA chip as there is of you looking down and finding all the money in the world at your feet or having the jackpot numbers for the lottery every week for the rest of your life.

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Thanks PDS 👍👍👍

@rogernichols8150 2 года назад

😆 🤣 😂 it's a win mate 👍 👌 😆 🤣 😂 so enjoy your videos 📹 😀 please keep them coming 🙏 😀 and here to help get your videos 📹 😉 out to everyone to enjoy 😉 😀 cheers 🍻 mate 👍 😀 😉

@kareno8634 2 года назад

*Blood vs Flux* CADAVERS are Very Valuable - So are those that Operate using them. *Great Work Doctor!* Before finished watching - curiosity's first thought of Left Button Pad. There is One Button looking 'Dull'^ as if smeared with a grease[?] - would cleaning help? ^ bottom left of the four. my silliest reason had Nothing to do with Getting screen to turn on. talk about dumb. You - are The Bravest - tho Freaks me out! lol Hadn't heard you say 'OH Good, more wrong'. : } *Cheers!*

@danhorton6182 2 года назад

Not telling you what to do with your Patreon money, but you should grab that small miniware MHP30 or if you want a little bigger there is a common Chinese plate that’s 200x200mm, it’s blue (Soiiw is one name). This would allow you to flow those solder joints without any air to move parts around. They can be had for right at $100 USD and that’s how you should really solder a chip that needs reballed.

@Weimaraners Год назад

Lol I bet he never pushes down on a BGA again. 🤦🏻‍♂️ it’s a tough procedure. I certainly can’t do it well.

@Wenlocktvdx 2 года назад

Nice work, my 1000/OLED Vita has a vertical green line. I can make it go away by rapping on the screen. No doubt a BGA issue.

@bigmacsnoobselectronicsrep8032 2 года назад

Absolutely fantastic video Vince mate have you thought of speaking with TheCod3r he will definitely have some advice mate

@Weimaraners Год назад

“Scrape away the underfill”?? Doesn’t the underfill run all the way under the chip between the ball grid array? The answer is yes, it’s supposed to.

@svanput 2 года назад

Vince... since you love using the hot air rework station why not invest in one that will make doing that much easier? you can get the atten st-862d for $200 or less. the coder uses it, louis rossmann reviewed it and loves it, and i love mine. its 1000 watts, and its as simple as point and melt, no more slow cooking the chip and board. lots of other neat features as well. just a thought!

@johnson249 2 года назад

Hi, my kids Ps vita 2001 got water , cannot turn on; do you think that I need to replace battery or ? I don’t have voltage tool to check …..light is yellow when connected with charger .

@GinandTronics 2 года назад

unlucky, I'm not a fan of this underfill. they use it on the old 3ds aswell. never new it when under the chip. you might be able to pick up a broken screen vita cheap as generally that's the main problem I've found. and pinch the motherboard from it.

@daz41262010 2 года назад

really good attempt to repair the PS vita Vince :) an idea why not set up a team of (if you can't fix it maybe I can) you have a lot of people on here giving advice and showing repairs :) most of which things are fixed by you or someone on your channel or other channels :) I think that would be fun and make it a sort of competition so keep scores on if you can't fix it who can and I'm sure after a few people you guys would get most things repaired :)

@UltimatelyEverything 2 года назад

I'll give you props for attempting to reflow the balls on that Sony chip normally you wouldn't touch a reflow so i'll give you credit for at least trying. You never know if you can do something unless you try to do it and if you fail you learn and you improve and eventually you learn how to do it the right way.

@mardina1a 2 года назад

Sometimes just one lost pad under bga chips occours gameover.who knows ?this is the unsver of how do we find donor boards.good job,thanks for the video. By the way airflow was too high and noozle was small for that chip so alignment not fitted well

@Amp5150 2 года назад

my vita recently did this thing where the screen just freezes up and i have to do the long power button restart, sometimes it can boot back to the main menu sometimes not, sometimes i can select something and it will open the preview page sometimes it not. I factory reset the system and reformatted the memory card. anyone have any ideas?

@markdjdeenix6846 2 года назад

B.G.A is good and bad for thin devices I think if Sony used something softer!like silicone this would allow for flex I don’t know what silicone dose to solder

@szabolcstusai1917 Год назад

What if the orange light does not appear when plugging the charging cable in the console? ...but when I long-press the power button it starts flashing at every 3 seconds ..what does it mean??

@eathenalexander2836 2 года назад

Vita board are cheap-ish ..so I think you should be able to get a replacement board for it no problem ( just remember it’s a 2000 model)

@hinny2005 2 года назад

Switch killer vince is trying to change his name to vita killer vince 😂

@effen_aey_man 2 года назад

How much do you charge for repairs? I have a PS Vita that I want looked at and it has a similar problem. Instead of having a broken screen though, it had coke spilled on it and I haven't been able to get it to work since

@Heru3005 2 года назад

You've got more balls (pun intended) then me to even attempt to reflow a BGA chip. Excellent video!

@shaunzurcher9432 2 года назад

Ha i have done at least 5 of these... Fav thing to fix, I found the pressure was the issue.. to me it felt like the screen was pushed down by the cover and caused a short... hence power down,lift the cover of the screen and you will see :)

@afp75 2 года назад

Hey Vince i recently had RU-vid suggest a repair person similar to yours but he works on mac's dosdude is his name on the tube his videos might help you out educationally.

@timothystevenhoward 2 года назад

its a handheld PS3/PS4 with touch. pretty amazing, really. shame it was such a dud.

@pedrosa00 2 года назад

I have the exact same console but the box of mine's is on European Spanish language, and it's one of the latest ones. Good job Vince!

@MichaelandCathy1999 2 года назад

Is that an OMEGA watch you’re flashing there Vince? Noicce

@bryandrobny7690 2 года назад

I need someone to fix my PS Vita mine is the launch vita with Oled i need someone to fix my screen it's broken and displays only black i can hear sound when i run my finger over the screen

@CTCTraining1 2 года назад

Enjoyable even without getting a fix, well done Vince. Not sure but when you were trying to restore the chip it looked like you had your airspeed up high ... worth going with a higher temp and more gentle flow. Good luck in future! 😀👍

@unitedfools3493 2 года назад

Spoilers!

@MathiasVen 2 года назад

You really need to get a reball set 😅 they are not that expensiv. I bought mine for atround 70€ with all size of balls and a nice holder

@DEmma1972 2 года назад

I think this will be a revisit

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Maybe Emma 🤞👍

@hangtantang7385 2 года назад

Hey! love your video!! Would love if you do one Game card slot replacement. Mine is broken and cant seem to find video of that repair.

@tall-jv4wo 4 месяца назад

Amazing how one component can stop the computer from working Alex your a genius..

@ArtMiles11 2 года назад

I also hate how he blames the repair shop but he doesn't think twice about them breaking the screen when the kid probably dropped it broke more than the screen. Because when you drop something vibrations go through the whole motherboard and probably damage something on it

@sherlockholmes3317 2 года назад

It's so obvious u haven't touched vita ...power switch is just lock button holding it doesn't turn it off u gotta press the touch power off button

@ericrichardson3332 2 года назад

Just reflow the chip and see if it works , I would not have removed the chip or underfill I would have reflowed the chip and seen if it worked before doing anything else

@Jax_Sonic2011 2 года назад

Does anyone know how to fix an issue when the psvita has issue reading the memory card and says it can’t read the memory card even though the memory card is in the psvita itself?

@mohandmohand2047 2 года назад

If the ps2 slim not display green light and not tearn off after tearn on... What coz this broblume bro

@ace-xj1fq 2 года назад

I had a psp 2000 model ages ago and it behaved the same way after a drop, by putting pressure in a certain area it would turn on but as soon as I let go, black screen.

@tiogoomba3019 2 года назад

Great video! Nice work Vince...Hello from México

@Ronnie01964 2 года назад

I like your videos but reballing is not your thing, leave that to the experts.

@RC-Heli-Overdose420 2 года назад

my vita would turn itself on and off randomly and the ps button would behave like the power button?? turns out all i had to do was take apart and clean inside the power button with isopropyl and now it works fine. good video mate

@ChristmannTassy 2 года назад

Hey bro you can play GTA V Nintendo switch right

@BrainSlugs83 2 года назад

I think they returned the working unit because of the big scratch on the front of the screen. A user could claim it was a "fault".

@SidneyCritic 2 года назад

These days people make the balls by filling the stencil with paste and heating.

@MirceaD28 2 года назад

Great work Vince, reduce the air speed because the air current tend to push it away or lift the chip

@neddy1287 2 года назад

That looks like a dead battery symptom. As for the smashed screen it could have dislodge something on the board after the fall

@Nebby_99 2 года назад

Thanks for going the extra 40,000 miles on this one! I would never have tried a manual reball like that, but seeing it has given me a better understanding of how/why reballing and reflowing works 🙏

@Mrshoujo 2 года назад

I'd still give it a go to reball and hot air solder with lots of flux the other chip. Just for practice anyway.

@LoftechUK 2 года назад

What. Bloody ball ache…. Well done for trying 👏🏼.

@deimantaskivilius8483 2 года назад

Vince with all do respect im kinda mad at you my max bid was 59 on that ps vita you literally stole it from me🤣

@UnitedSpotlight 2 года назад

as it just needed pressure could you not of done an washer trick or something to hold the chip down against the case rather than reflow it specially with the underfill on the chip as that makes it a really tough job

@solm67 2 года назад

Yes the vita has jumped in price over the last few years. The homebrew community is big. Excellent video as always Vince.

@Tim_3100 2 года назад

Yeah when the vita got fully cracked pretty much now so people want them.

@EvilTurkeySlices 2 года назад

I’m glad I bought mine when I did, I won’t hack it though.

@Tim_3100 2 года назад

@@EvilTurkeySlices mine is only soft modded so you dont change anything and stuff is easily removed

@EvilTurkeySlices 2 года назад

@@Tim_3100 I’m still not gonna hack it. Unless my games become unplayable without it one day.

@logothaironsides2942 8 месяцев назад

I like that you use trial and error because I think it is what most people do. Its more relatable than seeing perfect first try.

@rrwholloway 2 года назад

Vince! Cash Converters has far better prices for PS Vita's than CEX

@emindedf0 2 года назад

When the vita battery is dead it won't power until at least 45min charging

@TravisStamper 2 года назад

Looks like I beat Phil here, lol. Great work as always Vince. Love the PSVita. Cant win them all. Make Phil fix it, lol. Colab video! Thanks for the video!

@Mymatevince 2 года назад

Cheers Travis 👍👍👍