PS4 HDMI Port Reconstruction - Prior Repair attempt Nightmare 

When I saw how tiny the area really was at the end, you called it a mess but I call it a masterpiece. It all looks so big on the close up I forget that it's zoomed in that far. Amazing work, I hope the customer was happy and it functioned again.

Ask the customer to take a picture and send it to you before the quote if they can. If not or they refuse, charge extra. This is the 21'st century. If they can text their Boss to have a sick day, they can send you over a photo of the damage! Anyway, full respect to you for finishing this abomination of a home repair.

Not many techs would attempt that. Which ever way you do it, it always looks awful. :)

I've done a fair bit of "blue wire" work, and it's always time consuming. I wish there had been videos like this when I learned how, you are providing a great educational service to future repair techs.

There's no way this was worth your time! You definitely love what you do. Great work!

I am SUPER impressed by this, and someone already said but we were all thinking it already. Not many other techs would have even attempted to repair that hot mess of a dumpster fire.

Who else wanna see if it works or not?

i watch a bunch of you newer videos and love them and think you are a very talented person in this trade... but after watching this video you have blown my mind on how good you are at fixing these items...you are a modern day badass my friend!! keep up the great work!!

What an amazing repair!!! if you look under the microscope you make it look easy but at the end if you see how small this all is... just amazing what skills you have.

Nice touch with the music background. After seeing this, I'm thinking about asking for photos when I hear they attempted to repair. And I thought the board from Jamaica was bad. This is why I call you the surgeon. Great patience. Great repair.

Omg, why do people think they are microsoldering specialists. This boards chance of working is still good, but only because it's in the hands on a specialist. Good luck sir on this repair.

On the PS4 I see repair shops do this all the on hdmi port repair, even experienced people that do microsoldering. The reason is the very thick ground plane and thick multi layer board. Trick is you have to use a preheater under and then hot air the top side and hdmi port will come out without lifting traces.

You should get them to send in photos of both sides of the boards in these cases. You would at least have a chance of quoting a realistic price for your time.

I'm so impressed that you guys actually work on customer attempts. Where I work we vehemently deny anything thats been attempted by the customer because of this. Our company has a fixed or no charge policy and so many people bring laptops that look like they've been through a shredder for us to fix. If they don't tell us they've worked on it we'll spend hours trying, fail, and not charge them. Such a waste!

My god you are truly an inspiration sir! Hope you and Big Boss are doing great! Greetings from Sweden

True necromancy here!! Great job Alex, that board looked damaged far beyond repair.

They sent you over an absolute Hiroshima. Mad respect for the patience and repair skills.

Jeeeeeez!!! I would of binned that! 3, 4 or 5 jump wires yes but not the whole port 😂 Good job regardless

Did it work? Thats alot of patience and would be a big reward at the end...

I enjoyed watching the video but you should have explained or mentioned how you found where the pins on the hdmi port connect to. I’ve briefly explained in some posts how you could have approached this problem, but a lot of people would have found this interesting.

A Man of few words and many wires. I like it.

The pads looked like they got deleted out of the board entirely. Im a new subscriber and love what you do

I would’ve turned the customer away. It’s not impossible, but running that many jumpers for 100$ is just too much.

Nice that you gave it a try. Please let us know the customer satisfaction.

That is brilliant work sir. Did it work for the customer?

interstellar's docking vs N.fix's jumping wires its not possibles but its necessary.

Nice videos! I recently found your channel and it got me hooked. Did this actually work properly? I mean those are high speed HDMI data lines so I guess they originally had to be impedance matched?

I would have sent it back. Great effort!

God bless this hands bro you tha man

You are a very hard working professional sir

Prior repair attempt... it looks like the customer smashed it with a chisel and Thor's hammer!

Im from Phillipines i always watching you. Your so awesome when you solve the problem keep it up sir im watching your video tutorial and try it in actual i learn lots

I was about to say about the solder mask because there are a lot of wires there and with solder mask it will stay in place but you read my mind on the end of the video :)

Thats not a repair, thats a refurbishment. A true master of your craft. Id find an acrylic case for that badboy. I sure hope the customer tipped well...

"a few missing pads" lmfao that is an understatement at best.... deceptive, i would say

I have come to two ... no... three conclusions watching your videos. 1. Get a bunch of scrap boards and practice, practice, practice. 2. Once I set up a device, stop pulling plugs. The plugs seem to be the weak points 3. If I have a device that I really want fixed right, send it to you

That was a micro surgery on some multi octopus tentacles.

really great repair. I'm no expert but I would have done the signalling pairs first which were the closest to do to keep them side by side and as short as possible

Excellent video. Must of taken a lot of patience. This is a dumb question... but what wire are you using? And why doesn't it matter that the wires are touching? At 16:40 you mentioned right at the end the wire was insulted - so guessing that's why they can touch, but I didn't see any insulation?

How did you know where to connect what if some of them was covered with the port itself

Wow you did an amazing job on such a tiny spot

Very nice, i've recently buyed a notebook with the same problem on one ram socket. Since i had another broken one i tryed some repair, but as result i definitively broke also the other 😤

You really need some magnification tool huh! just a newbie here! probably I need to buy one

what the actual fuck this is some next level stuff

Thing that most people who are new to soldering don't understand. Is how big of a difference a good soldering iron makes. It actually can be a little bit of a trap really for the inexperienced because most of the motivation I think is from wanting to save money by doing the work yourself. Parts are a few cents soldering iron is like 6 bucks and the guy in the video stuck the part on in like 2 seconds how hard could it be? Unfortunately what isn't obvious is that that the radio shack special soldering iron is only really good for soldering wires together and more often than not will end up destroying the circuit board your working on. When it comes to soldering the right tools and supplies make a massive difference.

I'm new at soldering and all that stuff, i started like 3 months ago, but bruh, the customer made sure to really kill that board before stopping the "repair".

😎😎you really master of repair

If a ps4 board or anything really was that bad I'd pay abit extra send the whole unit so the repairer could at least check it like that its 75 /25 that it could be a lose but that for peace of mind for the repairer

What kind of wire do you use? Is it insulated? Brilliant work by the way.

Lol modern Alex would nope this so fast. Even though his tools are much better and more experience and everything too. This IS a nightmare title was right.

Spaghetti Monster! That's very intense work love all these videos it's like a treasure trove of knowledge presented in a very easy to understand how this works. Can't wait to start doing this kind of work.

better than factory? :) Awesome job Alex.

i know I comment this a lot but, still though Look at that shine 3:18 and as always (BETTER THAN FACTORY)👌

WOW, very good work!!! I have a Question. Is it not a problem that the wires are touching each other?

Hats off to you

What a nightmare, I would be ashamed to sent something in this condition to any repair shop

Good video

Hello i am an old subscriber i've watched all your videos and i have 1 qyestion. It really needs all the ground lines to be connected or is just for ethics. Thank you and keep going :D

How do you figure out where each pin leads?

Practice. Practice. Practice. I have a nintendo switch that needs a new usb port. I am going to do it myself but first I have a bunch of old boards I pracrice removing and reinstalling stuff on. Once I get good at that then I will attempt the repair. Like you always say. It looks easier than it is.

Those are impedance controlled differential lanes. They have some tolerance but when they design it length matching is about 1mm. I really wonder if it worked.

Absolute nightmare!

Паять умеете (ещё бы с таким то оборудованием), но так запутать дорожки в коротком обрыве это надо ещё постараться, даже у меня с моим дерьмовым инструментом получилось бы лучше, а вообще молодцы что взялись и сделали по факту главное результат)) 👍

Real question did it actually work? "When the client received it back"?

Bet you wish you had pen grinder and pad repair kits :) Amazing job bro!

Awesome work 👌🏻

I like your job so much very well Very professional

Props to you for even attempting this. ID have told them they need a new board. Sorry but microwaves are not the way to fix a board. Good for pizza rolls. Not PCB's.

I have a question what wire was that one you was using for the PS4 not the soldering iron or the solder wire the something wire?

A lot of respect 👍

What a mess of wires. Man, HDMI has 4 high speed differential lines and it was not that hard to connect them first in the same routing channels at PCB to save signal integrity. It still may work but bruh...

Jeeeezzzzz..... did the customer at least thanked you for the job and told you that it worked ?!? How long did you work on that ?

awesome fine work

You are no less than an experienced surgeon

so this is the insulated/jacketed solder you were talking about in a recent video

Nice video! What thickness copper wire did you use?

why would anyone pay 110 dollars for a ps4 board repair i think u can buy one second-hand for almost the same price maybe a little more but it working

Little Johnny finds his dad’s soldering iron and thinks he can fix it himself…. lol 😂

That wasn’t a prior repair attempt.....that was a crime against humanity.

Holy moly, that's alot of jumper!

Super super impressive 👍

We do this reparation in the shop and it cost same price between 100$ and 150$ but we get problems with the customers if it did not work they ask the 50% to 80% refunds 😅 or they will not attending to repair it with chances of not working .

How are these wires touching not shorting out ? Do they have a coating ?

Am big fan of you. I want to be your student 🥺🙏. Plz reply

Good grief did he use an angle grinder on it? I would do that repair if it were for myself or family but no-one else as it isn't worth any possible some backs.

Good repair, but I'm sad you couldn't test to see if it worked :(

Pins 8,10, 11 have any alternative points? I have one without the entire traces.

I salute you for standing by your quote.

i prefer to run the wires on the traces and repair the pads ... not a good looking repair. It's okay if it's working

What is the problem with using isolated wires?

Other than studying your videos and getting tips you should create a virtual apprenticeship program and local training program for people that live in your area.

I get the feeling that some people perform d.i.y repairs with grinding wheels that are on fire. Or that they use burning gasoline as flux or something.

Hi there and THANKS for the video!! You have inspired me to do the same because I got a free tv that the HDMI was kinda ripped out so there was about 5 good pads out of 19. So decided to order an HDMI connector and .34awg magnet wire. I got the same tip as you do but I wonder at what temperature do you have it on?? On the video your soldering of this very thin looks so easy to solder on, for me it takes time to be able to solder the wire to a pad or a place that I have scratched to solder on. Any advice on temperature and to make this thin wire solder on pads and scratched self made pad. THANKS!!!

At that price - he got a huge bargain! Tedious, time consuming repair for sure, nice steady hands sure help.

Hi, nice to meet you can you help me? I'm from Indonesia, my PS4 is damaged, there is no signal. I have replaced the hdmi ic, but the result is still the same. what should I do next. please help me 🙏🙏

You as always excelent 👍 and most of your customers who think they know how to do sh*t also do great job.🧐

Good work bro

I'm sick to the stomach while watching this🤢. Idk how someone can do so much damage

What type of wire did you use for this? Thank you

mostly , people let us see the outcome of such a repair , but in your case you just wish that it work please connect the PS4 toa TV and let's see the results