Hacking Feedback I fucked up my brother's switch

[chingchangchong5877]

If you really want to try it yourself and are not familiar with SMD soldering.

Remove the board from the housing.

Heat the remaining component with a soldering iron and add solder to remove it.

Use a desoldering wick to clean the pads(flat tip + flux).

Use solder paste on the pads and place the components.
(The solder paste helps to place the components and hold them in place.)

Use tweezers to hold the components in place and use a soldering iron (fine tip) to melt the paste and solder the SMD components to the board.

I finally found an expert and decided to leave it to the experts

 

[Lum16784376]

Have you done soldering before, I modded my v1 switch now all my cousins want me to mod their v2 switch, i said I'll do it in the moment (because how hard could it be) but ngl I'm not qualified, and the pressure is on me now

 

[vLTD]

Have you done soldering before, I modded my v1 switch now all my cousins want me to mod their v2 switch, i said I'll do it in the moment (because how hard could it be) but ngl I'm not qualified, and the pressure is on me now

It's fairly easy to mod a v2 but that's speaking with my own experience.

With absolutely no experience it can be pretty easy to mess things up, and if you're ignorant, careless or don't understand how things can cause issues, then a simple installation can turn real sour, real quick... As evidently shown by this thread.

Leave it to a professional or learn yourself with a switch that won't matter if it breaks.

 

[Ikaruga007]

I just want to install modchip

Sorry, I couldn't help it, your avatar fit perfectly to that answer

 

[xs4all]

It blows my mind that for someone that hasn't got any soldering experience, but by watching a How To YouTube video, now they are qualified to attempt this. What is wrong with kids these days?

 

[zxr750j]

I love them for trying actually: how do you know if it's too hard until you try it?
And you get excellent posts with brilliant titles, hopefully the next guy reads this and makes his own assessment if he's gonna try something like this. I hope he does and this post helps him in doing so.

 

[Warbeast81]

Turning a switch on without heatsink for a short time to test won't kill it i often do it to test repairs.

More then likely the switch already had a bad bga joint. the heatsink was the only thing holding it togther. Try pushing down on the apu or ram to see if it boots if so reflow

just noticed you have missing components....

 

[B05SxBrennan]

Okay thanks

I will never understand why people come to help forums to scold people for making mistakes, lol.

 

[ElmBroken]

Okay thanks

Were you able to fix it?

 

[chingchangchong5877]

Were you able to fix it?

Yes

 

[healthyboy]

What was the issue? I just found this thread and now I’m intrigued lol

 

[chingchangchong5877]

What was the issue? I just found this thread and now I’m intrigued lol

switch had a broken capacitor

 

[Frankbel]

I finally found an expert and decided to leave it to the experts

BAD END

 

[chingchangchong5877]

BAD END

actually, I fixed it myself with the help of my college roommate

 

[SylverReZ]

actually, I fixed it myself with the help of my college roommate

Thought you said that you left it for the experts to deal with.

 

[chingchangchong5877]

Thought you said that you left it for the experts to deal with.

Before I handed it over to the experts, my computer engineering roommate said he could help me, so I did it myself. It was more doable than I thought

 

[MeteK]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/i-fucked-up-my-switch-lite.663478/

You better stop trying