Trying to FIX a Faulty PlayStation VR Headset (PSVR) 

A beautiful fix mate, kudo’s for fiddling around with those Tiny wires without damaging more of them.

I watched the video closely. When you gradually eliminated damage and finally found a broken cable, I knew you might be able to fix the problem. I was glad I was right. you are an inspiration and a source of information for me. Even though I am a stranger and have to watch a video with subtitles, it is a lot of fun for me.

"don't know what's wrong with it" = water damage.

I’m in love with that little notebook you have, it’s so cute and so functional

It amazes me sometimes how you are able to get some things going Vince. You are a legend.

Fantastic video Vince! A pleasure to watch

By just looking at the views from each version, you will get a sense that people love to see you try your best, and not just the result. Keep up the good work.

For £20 I can't even get a PS4 power cable

I'm glad that I have found this. Got a PSVR V2 with a cut cable and needed to find which cable connected to which. The diagram will help a lot.

JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS if it was not for enjoying and watching your videos lately , I would not have not bothered fixing a tablet today that would normally go in the bin and had considerable value so keep doing what you do and thanks again awesome channel

Said it before mate your knowledge and fault finding skills are getting better each and every vid ... brilliant stuff Vince 👍👍👍

Excellent video! Straight to the point and no silly music. Thanks for your time.

Your persistence is inspiring

Nice video Vince. I have a Vr headset, so this was really helpful. Keep up the good work mate!

Hell of an effort Vince. Enjoyed this a lot! Well done.

I had a faulty one given to me, screen was black but when you moved a certain part of the cable that runs from the headset it would come on and give green lines. Stripped the cable back and found the shielding had been some how damaged, replaced the shielding and hey presto it worked perfectly and I'd scored a complete ps4 vr system for free... Like you I just enjoy fixing things and have no formal training.. Keep up the good work 🙏🏻

Pretty sure this is the first headset fixing video I’ve seen. Nice work Vince 👍

Fantastic, Vince. Solid troubleshooting and fix. Thanks for another great video!

Thanks so much for this video, I got the time today to look at our faulty VR and it had cables broken in exactly the same place, albeit on the power cable. Repaired them, all working and my 2 boys are over the moon. Without seeing this video I'd have likely paid out £100 for a repair service! Credit to you and happy new year!

Thank you for the pinout and for showing it close up to the camera :) I have had one sat open for like 5 weeks that I believe to be an issue with the power wire since I get no lights and I've been taking my time watching your two videos for this pinout. I just need to get a slot of time to test the pins against your pinout to test that hypothesis.

Great work. Your skill is really improving as you do these videos! It seems only a couple months ago you were taking things apart with only a very basic guess at what to do - and not fixing much. Now you are fixing things pretty consistently! What have been the biggest turning points for you along the way?

you've came a long way from where you've started, good job on the fix!

Great video and fantastic job Vince, really good job troubleshooting and fixing!

I can't believe it......i truly didn't not believe it. If you didn't record it, i would have not believed you. Awesome work!

Brilliant watch that Vince 👍🏻 gotta give credit where it's due but you've come along way with your fixes. Should be very proud of yourself with every repair you've fixed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I watched whole video. I enjoyed and LEARNED SOMETHING MORE! NICE

This video was absolutely amazing! I learned so much. Great Video!

Look forward to your videos I'm always checking to see if you uploaded or not when it's been awhile I know there is going to be a nice long video glad to see you not give up on faults you keep searching for anwsers

You are a wizard!!! I like just watching your process, its impressive.

Congrats for that cheap pickup, that's really a lucky one deal :D. Also congrats for fixing it, you deserve it to be workable for you. After that much time testing it and even putting your unit for sacrifice and potential brick, that reaction for fixed stuff is priceless (and I know that feeling too :D).

Didn’t expect you’d read my post about PSVR, it’s great to see you progress in troubleshooting. The issue with your dishwasher in particular were interesting. Edit: A tip, a useful tool known as ”tonal generator” (rough translation from Swedish) can help you find broken leads. At one end you generate the tone (an EM field is generated) and the 2nd part of the tool you sweep/hover over the cable and follow along the chord until the tone stops - and voila, you’ve found where the continuity stops.

Thanks to your video I was able to pinpoint where the problem was and simply tie wrapped the cable at the weak point to hold it straight in place, problem solved, thank you for your help!

Congratulations on fixing it! Even though I like fixing stuff just like you, I'm preety sure my patience would have run out quickly on a project like this, and I would have ended up just throwing it out of a window out of frustration. You have A LOT of patience. :D

I really enjoy your vids mate.. i also bought a lot of faulty philips robovacuüm cleaners and two out of 3 work again and really enjoyed fixing them all because of your vids insipiring me

hey vince! love your videos. I have recently learned that you can buy these copper clad acupuncture needles which work great in trying to make contact with these super tiny pads! You can also use them to stab through insulation very well when you are looking for faults along a wire. Try it out!

Fair play Vince, some work you did there. Impressed. What a price too!!

I'm all Vince mate, got me popcorn and soda a comfy chair and ready for the main event, lead on McDuff.

Nice fix. Mine model 1 lost continuity in the cable right at the bottom of the inline control box. I tried to solder in a jumper wire but I couldn't manage to get those tiny wires to take solder. So I bought a new one. I'm now on my 4th headset. I hope the next generation comes with an easily replaceable cable.

Well Done Vince. Wouldn't mind buying a faulty one of these myself and have a go at fixing it thanks to you. Keep up the good work. Mick 👍🍻

...wow!, a lot of patience and you generate all the attention, great video for many purposes!!!

Good job, thanks again Vince!!

Bravo!!! Very impressive and educational. Thanks for the great video.

I was sure you were going to mix up bits from the two of them.. I felt better once you got your "good" tape on there lol. Great Fix!!! :D

Great fix there mate, loved watching this I was shouting yes right with you😁

Amazing work really enjoyed watching. But im curious does it still work or have you sold it also any chance of you trying another one of these again?

great job finding problem looked to be a real challenge I do enjoy your videos thanks for info

Great fault finding skills there, You take a risk with a good unit to use known good parts thats for sure. I am not a gambling person so I would not have gone that route to be honest. Another great example of how to fix stuff.

Great fix Vince. I love your videos. I would be very wary of buying that headset though, with that very fragile cable fix. .

Sometimes you make things look too easy. I think you also have a lot better luck than I do. Well done!

Well done Vince! Really enjoeyed this one too!! Can you try to fix planet earth next :) Greetings from Austria !

Thanks for taking the time and effort making this video

great job i wouldnt dare go into that adventure with those tiny wires, hopefully there will be replacement cables for purchase

Wow what a result! I really enjoyed watching this one mate :-)

Great video Vince! Very handy!,Cheers

Really good job mate. Top notch 👌👌

I think it is the hdmi connection, i would have stripped the small button unit first, and tried doing continuity checks between the pins and the circuit, that would narrow that problem, i believe the sound is pulled directly from the cable, and that it doesnt return the signal. as their is still only two wires going out.. (posted about 8 minutes into the video)

Vince you didn't get excited enough! Great fix!!

Great fix mate really enjoyed that one.

Good job. I have a 2nd (spare) vr goggles for ps vr. Did you try to use it as a stand alone personal video monitor. I think the white connectoris for only power supply and the black one is the usual hdmi connection. If I can supply by using proper voltage(s) it can work stand alone. Could you share the pin out which can seen on your videos. Thank you.

Hey Vince great video. What tablet/laptop are you using

I love your RU-vid videos! Good job!

Dammit great fix Vince, was gonna get some Nachos, but kudos matey nice job

Hi Vince, do you have a full pinout available that maps the appropriate pins of the internal connector to the two that go into the processor box? I note that you made a list in the video but it doesn't see complete?

And yet another amazing video :) Really enjoyed it. I wish there would be some sort of a tool that would show where the wire break is without stripping the wires, like some x-ray of some sort :) :)

Excellent video. Don’t suppose you would know the colour of the number 8 ground wire on the power cable.

Im assuming my PSVR has a lose cable near the white control box near the headset because when the cable moves slightly on one end (and slightly on the other) the screen shows white pixels artifacting the whole screen and every now and then total blackouts for split seconds, do you think I should take the cable out of the end and reconnect it or might it be inside the actual box?

Hey bud great video 👍 I have a second gen PSVR headset.. I have damaged the headphone jack going into the headset. Do you have a video on how to repair this ?

Well done you! Two known faults with these units are the cables and the micro usb socket on the controller but usually the cables, If there was a good quality replacement cable for these units of which I am not aware that there is?....job done! But to fault find and try and repair...not worth the hassle as before long they break somewhere else! A replacement cable is the only good and reliable option,

Great work and thanks for finding our the pin out work here. I managed to send it power and have detected as a hdmi device without the actually box. From there i suspect that the other wire must be some kind of usb that send commands and stuff in order to turn it on and some other shit. I might dig into this eventually on my free time when i get my hand on a extra box to see what it sending and hope for nothing too encrypted. Anyway. What i did to fix it for now is to add db25 connectors on both ends and it work perfectly; it's a dirty fix and the wire is a bit bulky though.

Great job Vince. I had a feeling it was going to be those cables at that little junction section. Too bad, Sony makes such quality productions yet they overlooked adding a bit of extra support in that cable area. Either way, nicely done on the fault finding! I'd love to see you buy the joblot of these for a series.

I love this channel!

Damn I just sent a model 2 back to Ebay for having a faulty screen I was too lazy to take apart but damn to start with a cable is the best way thanks for this video if i have issues with the 2 new ones I got from Walmart

Hi man. Just one question: why didn't use one of the ground wire to replace your broken one? If you have two separate ground wires you can disconnect one of them and use just one and connect all ground pins to it. Then just use another free wire to resolve your connection between ends. Does it make sense?

Hey! Pretty impressive skills you have here! Mind blowing! I found your video trying to find solutions for my VR. I use earplugs and had sound before. For no reason it went off ( no accident or so ). Earplugs works fine on other devices. And for some reason, micro is still up for duty when plugged to the VR headset. Any idea? Can we find spare cables? I have no skills in electronic! Thanks for the help in advance!

Hi, do you have a clear image of your pin out workings for the cable? I only have a broken headset so no working one that I can use as a sort of reference. Thanks :-)

Great job!!! This was a good video 👌😁

Nice fix Vince, but personally I would have been thinking more of just replacing the whole cable with a half decent quality HDMI lead, I say half decent lead so that you know its not a cheap one from a pound shop that tends to cut a few corners and have wires missing. I know it would have been a bit tedious soldering 19 pins, but I am sure you are more than capable and it would look far better and be a lasting repair.

Btw when you take the headset off and put it back on it will read a message “a new user has put on the headset would you like to switch users.” Could be how they knew the sensor worked

excellent!!!! great work!

Dear Vince, great job. I have similar problem with my kids vr, no screen on vr. Before I lost the screen totally, I was having noise on the screen when I touch the cable. That's why I believe we have similar problem. I followed your steps, I checked out continuity of both power cable and hmdi cable. All cables have continuity except one difference to your diagram. For hdmi cable, if i connect to any hdmi pin, correspondent to pins 1-8 on board side, I have a continuity on all pins 1-8 on board side plus ground (assuming you mention ground when continuity with copper foil on the board side). This wasn't your case, right? I mean in the video you mentioned for hdmi pin 19 you got continuity only with pin 1 on board side, no other pins or ground.

Iam just like u to find broken things and trying to fix them it give me joy en iam really getting happy when thing work its not for the money or something but just to fix something and help it to work again :D i will follow u

Buy HDMI male and female breakout boards, it is very handy to have both :)

Excellent job

So right, kid somehow spilt something onto the lenses and there is a smudge on the inside of the left OLED or lens. If I were to open this up, what can I wipe the OLED down with? Rubbing alcohol?

Brave brave man you are pulling apart your working VR headset. Certainly not something I would ever do if I owned one, especially with the cost of the VR headset here in Australia. You can't buy the headset on its own over here and the bundle is over 400AUD, so one wrong move with your working one and BAM you are out 400 :P

So the cords that plug in to the pro unit the one on the right side. I have to put a zip tie on it and mostly it works but sometimes it don't. Think I should try another processor unit b4 doing anything with the cord to the headset

great fault-finding as far as im concerned great video was thinking that another hdmi cable(a cheap one )would supply you with plenty of shielding for the repair

Wonder how much they are to buy looks sturdy bit of kit

I always check my cable's when I have technical issues since the cable is normally what breaks first.

Great job dude

Good show, congratulations! Others have mentioned, and I agree: I find it does pay to beef up the strain relief of thin cables near the connectors early on, especially ones which see lots of action -- say veteran, proprietary USB cords, this kind of thing, etc. In the states at least, you can get stretchy silicone tape in the plumbing section of the hardware store; it's cohesive and cures in place so as not to unroll and flag later on. That or maybe a coil spring held on with some silicone around the original molded strain relief bit. A spring might provide a little added help with that RF noise on the conductors if they've already developed a thin spot inside the bundle, but more realistically it's sometimes easier to wind cables through a spring than to get a good fit with heat shrink tube big enough to clear the connectors. Cheers!

The mad lad has done it again.

This man needs more subs

Wow man! You did it im going to try to fix my boy's VR set

i've read that some people have e-mailed sony about cable issues and sony just sends them ones free of charge. I'm sure if you send them the video and ask if they will sell you one they will appreciate your hard work and hook you up with a freebee

where should pin 3 and pin 13 goto from the HDMI cable or are these wires not connected? Thanks

Great video! Get yourself a tin of Plastidip mate! Much handier than heat shrink for indoor stuff! Keep up the inspiring work!

Vince Pin 3 and 13 of the hdmi goes to which ?? on the vr port? I didn't understand your diagram lol. ..

Do you happen to know if you can buy replacement power cable to them?

What solder did you use? I found the break in mine. I'm using rosin core solder and it's not attaching to the wires.