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    BGA Rework A Brave New World

    Or do what a new shop around my zone is doing: heat up the GPUs at 200c in a oven or something Linus tech tip style, ask 180€ for it and call it a day! then you get customers saying: "nah I rather buy a new one. I went in another repair shop spent 200 and it lasted a month and they refused to...
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    Cleaning small sections of boards from flux

    Will try the Acetone. Thank you. and yeah I could leave it there but meh... I like it clean
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    Cleaning small sections of boards from flux

    Hello guys, usually after a successful repair I drop my board into the ultrasonic and clean away all the shit.But what about small repairs or quick ones? What is the best way to clean the board from the flux? I usually use alcohol/Butanone with ear cotton picks and... a glorified toothbrush...
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    Taking pics out of an Amscope without camera tube

    Hello, in the scope I use I lack the "tube" to insert the camera because when I bought it I never had intentions to make videos, now I would like to take some pictures for commercials and stuff (opening another shop in September) is there any efficient way to do So?
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    weird static noise on Sony xperia z3 screen

    Here is a video on the behaviour https://youtu.be/cvkRb8PWwOg
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    weird static noise on Sony xperia z3 screen

    Yeah too bad It's expensive as fuck and I would be pissed if I had to replace it for nothing...
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    weird static noise on Sony xperia z3 screen

    Hello guys, i got this Sony phone that randomly and frequently shows these things. usualy even moving up pictures on the screen and pixelating the start screen. Customer asked me to replace the LCD but i am very doubtful that this is the case. This looks like a fucked GPU (do android phones have...
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    People love sodomizing shit

    man that happened to me as well. idiot replaced the power jack on a laptop and it burned trough the board. Dremel did nothing. had to drill away the positive pole and solder a jumper wire to the fuse. Thanks Ifixit. more stuff for me
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    adp3208

    no this thing is ABSOLUTELY not worth fixin but it is for a friend so. will try to change it and see what happens
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    adp3208

    Hi, i'm fixing a toshiba, it doesn't post and diagnostic pci board gives 0 and no clock, i found on the board near the CPU a chip adp3208, http://master-chip.ru/store/files/18cc0211-786d-eed5-f0b9-893a8197302f/ADP3208.pdf , that gets EXTREMELY warm, now is there any way to be sure it is just the...
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    People love sodomizing shit

    i mean, there's a special place in hell for this
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    Fucked trace under big BGA chip

    sorry guys, threw this into the fuckyoubin time ago and i forgot about the post. tried the wire but no avail, i already had the new GPU so i simply bought a broken board (with the same issue) for a couple euros at an auction and installed the GPU there. It's working
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    So, smartTVs

    so guys. Anyone fixing these? i got a couple from a guy i fix things for. Asked me if i wanted to give a look and i'm always open to new challenges and buisness opportunities, one had a bad power supply board, not too difficult, the other has something i am unable to figure it out. >is it worth...
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    820-3536 wont detect battery

    that's almost like a bad joke. Fuck em
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    Pricing

    honestly i'm getting fed up with non apple products for the same reason. boss wants to fix everything that comes in but to me it's a waste of time and often money. Idiots that bake laptop motherboards, paint remover on water damaged boards, air blasted GPUs when it was a fucking power rail...
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    IMac GPU

    i know, but i bought these face to face from a guy near here that hold a good stock of old (new) shit. these were lead free, the package seemed legit and it's working fine. date was 1035 or something, honestly i don't remember.
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    IMac GPU

    OT: found the original chip, lead free bga chips are shithell to work with. but it's working, tag as solved
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    Fucked trace under big BGA chip

    Hello, have a laptop with a graphics chip problem, when I removed it I found out that one of the trace was fucked (i'm 100% sure it wasn't me. The laptop have been dropped by the customer and stopped working since) the trace is near the corner, exactly the second raw on both sides. Is this...
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    IMac GPU

    This looks like fun. Thanks duke I will check that graphics card tomorrow
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