[0:00] - We have bought a bunch of
broken tech from eBay to see,
[0:03] can I fix it first of all?
[0:05] And if so, was that actually a good deal?
[0:08] If I get myself a cheap
broken piece of tech,
[0:10] easily fix it for 20
bucks and call it a day,
[0:12] I'm a gosh darn genius.
[0:14] And if I spend hundreds of
dollars on pieces of tech
[0:16] that I can't fix, then I'm a dingus.
[0:19] - [Alex] Oh, god.
- So, for context,
[0:21] I would consider myself
to be fairly average
[0:24] when it comes to my repair skills.
[0:27] I know how to disassemble consoles.
[0:28] I know how to follow an iFixit guide,
[0:31] maybe not too much more than that.
[0:32] I'm certainly no Dosdude.
[0:34] First up, we have a PS5 Slim.
[0:37] So, Alex has purchased all of these items,
[0:40] so this is my first time seeing
them. I know nothing at all.
[0:42] So, tell me what's the deal with this guy?
[0:45] So, we purchased a presumably
broken PS5 on eBay.
[0:48] What the listing say?
[0:49] - [Alex] This was one of those weird ones
[0:51] where I kind of just took a shot at it.
[0:53] They didn't even show like in photos,
[0:55] like what's wrong with it or anything.
[0:56] - Ooh, okay.
[0:57] - [Alex] But there's a disc error
[0:59] that I can't fix or make go away.
[1:00] - [Austin] Oh, I can fix that.
[1:01] I take off the disc. What? Wait.
[1:03] - [Alex] That is what he said.
[1:04] And I was like, wait a minute.
[1:06] I do know a lot of people-
- [Austin] Yeah.
[1:08] - [Alex] Were very confused
[1:10] at how these disc drives
kind of attach to.
[1:12] - [Austin] That's true.
- [Alex] PS5.
[1:13] So, I'm kind of hoping
that maybe this is somebody
[1:16] who just didn't know what he had.
[1:18] - That'd be great.
[1:20] How much did we pay for
this disc less disc PS5?
[1:25] - [Alex] So before shipping
tax and everything,
[1:28] we paid it just under $200.
[1:31] - Oh, (bleep). Okay.
[1:33] So, basically, I don't
care about the disc at all.
[1:35] If I fix it, cool, if I don't whatever.
[1:37] If this is a functional
PS5 for less than $200,
[1:39] we've instantly won.
[1:40] - [Alex] I hope so.
[1:41] - Well, let's just see what happens.
[1:45] - [Alex] Okay, good sign.
- Yeah.
[1:47] - [Alex] Okay. Oh, hey, look at that.
[1:48] - Is this the disc drive error they had?
[1:51] - [Alex] That's just
setting up the disc drive.
[1:53] - So, if you're unfamiliar
with the newer PS5 Slims,
[1:56] they do need to be registered to your PS5.
[1:58] But that registration is literally,
[2:00] you put it on your PS5, you get it online,
[2:02] you push this button once,
[2:04] it like pairs it with
your console, the end.
[2:05] So, we'll give it a few
minutes to download the update,
[2:08] but that's exactly what
should happen, right?
[2:10] So for context, a brand new PS5 Slim
[2:13] as we're recording this video,
[2:14] who knows what it'll cost
by the time you watch it,
[2:16] is 650 bucks. On the used market
[2:18] what are Slims going
for with the disc drive?
[2:21] It's gonna be like what,
like 400 bucks or something?
[2:23] - [Alex] Yeah, I would say
depending on condition,
[2:26] I think you could probably get
a decent one for 400 bucks.
[2:29] - I mean this one is not
in like amazing shape.
[2:31] It's a little bit scuffed,
but it's not like,
[2:33] not enough to be upset about at all.
[2:35] We're up to date, register
the disc drive and.
[2:42] - [Alex] Wow. It was that easy.
[2:44] - All right, so we are
installing the game via disc.
[2:47] I did actually log into my PSN account
[2:49] and it does seem to be functioning,
[2:51] but as long as it actually
boots up and works.
[2:55] - [Alex] Aye, aye.
[2:56] - I mean this is all looking great.
[2:57] Look at that, French (beep) let's go.
[3:00] - [Adriana] I was literally just gonna say
[3:01] that's the Frenchest man, I've ever-
[3:02] - He is the Frenchest man of all time.
[3:04] On the score of dingus to genius,
[3:08] Alex, you get all the credit for this one.
[3:10] This is a full on genius territory.
[3:11] - [Alex] Yeah, I think this is proof
[3:12] that if you just do a little
bit of searching online-
[3:15] - And don't mind taking a risk
[3:16] 'cause obviously this could
have gone a very different way
[3:19] as some of the other items
we're about to look at
[3:21] probably will illustrate.
[3:23] When it comes to making
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[3:43] They have an MCP server which
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[3:49] I can just open Claude, ask it
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[4:18] Next up we have a Game Boy Play It Loud.
[4:22] Alex, is this the one we got
from the Video Game Company?
[4:24] - [Alex] It is.
[4:25] - So, we're cheating already. I like it.
[4:27] This is technically a
functioning Game Boy.
[4:29] However, the screen looks bad,
[4:31] the screen lens is also
like really scuffed.
[4:33] So, what I think we're
actually gonna do here
[4:35] is we're not going to fix it,
[4:36] we're gonna actually upgrade it.
[4:38] So, this is a screen and
screen lens replacement.
[4:42] This is purchased from the
Retro Game Repair Shop,
[4:45] which no affiliation, we paid full price 
for this, I think.
[4:48] Normally, I would recommend
for you to follow tutorials.
[4:51] However, I'm built different,
[4:52] so I'm just gonna figure it out.
[4:53] - [Alex] Oh god. All right, we'll see.
[4:55] - So, with the Game Boy, I
believe it's just six screws
[4:58] if I remember right, to pop it open.
[5:00] So now we've got ourselves the display,
[5:03] the button membranes, which
all are gonna go here.
[5:06] So, I think we're gonna
reuse all of those.
[5:08] And the speaker, which is all
gonna come out in one unit.
[5:11] So, this screen lens is the
thing that gets really scuffed.
[5:14] So, that's actually one of the upgrades
[5:15] that you could technically
just swap a new screen lens
[5:16] without actually replacing
the screen itself.
[5:19] I'll listen to it, just
listen to that glue
[5:21] giving up after 30 years.
[5:26] All right,
[5:27] and there we go, my friends
carefully without breaking it,
[5:30] the old screen lens,
[5:31] which, as you can probably
see, is pretty gross.
[5:34] So, we're gonna line
up our new screen lens.
[5:37] I tried to clear most of the old residue,
[5:38] so it should just line up
and just gently work it in.
[5:42] Beautiful crystal clear
screen lens installed.
[5:46] So, again, I'm not really
following the tutorial, I should,
[5:49] but my understanding is
probably that the screen
[5:52] is gonna mount up something like this.
[5:54] There we go. That looks correct.
[5:57] Oh yeah, it looks very correct.
[5:58] Would always, always recommend
when you're doing a repair
[6:01] to try to hit a checkpoint
[6:02] where you can actually
do a little test boot
[6:04] before you start putting glue
[6:06] and screw a bunch of stuff in and whatnot.
[6:08] Let's see if it wants to work.
Beautiful. And there we go.
[6:13] Behold my friends a very beautiful looking
[6:17] Play It Loud Game Boy
[6:18] with a fresh crispy screen
and a brand new speaker.
[6:21] Again, this is like easy mode, right?
[6:23] If you know how to work on
almost any kinda electronic,
[6:26] this is dead simple.
[6:26] I didn't have to cut the plastic.
[6:28] Everything just dropped right in place,
[6:29] so we have a brand new screen lens
[6:31] we've brand new, quite nice
looking back lit IPS display
[6:34] and a much louder speaker. So-
[6:37] - [Alex] And now it really plays it loud.
[6:38] - It plays it louder, right?
[6:43] - [Alex] Well, I'm glad that you enjoyed
[6:45] the two very easy pitches I lobbed to you,
[6:48] you know, to build up your confidence.
[6:50] Let's move on to something
a little more challenging,
[6:52] shall we?
[6:53] - You mean the whole premise of this video
[6:55] is it's gonna get harder and harder
[6:56] and I'm gonna be more and
more miserable every day
[6:58] that we work on this thing
until I finally give up?
[6:59] - [Alex] I mean, I hope you don't give up.
[7:02] - Is this, oh, no.
- [Alex] Switches.
[7:03] - Is that a Switch?
[7:04] Oh my god. A very, very (beep)
up looking Nintendo Switch.
[7:09] Someone even broke the
grill over the heat sink,
[7:12] holy man this thing has
been just destroyed.
[7:16] - [Alex] I will say
[7:17] it didn't come with Joy-Cons
or anything, it just came with-
[7:19] - [Austin] Sure. 
- [Alex] Just the the tablet thing.
[7:21] These are our Joy-Cons.
- Okay.
[7:22] - [Alex] They're fully functional. 
- So this thing is so broken
[7:25] that you cannot pair Joy-Cons with it.
[7:27] - [Alex] So, basically the listing said
[7:29] this is a functional Switch
[7:32] minus the fact that the left
Joy-Con port does not work.
[7:38] - Oh. Yeah, actually doing
the right one again did work.
[7:40] - [Alex] So, I thought this was
a interesting redemption arc
[7:45] because I don't know if you remember
[7:46] when we did the ultimate Switch.
[7:51] - Yeah, that was fine. There
was no problem with that one.
[7:53] - [Alex] You sure? When you
modified one of the Joy-Cons.
[7:55] - No. No, no, no. It was totally fine.
[7:57] Edit team won't flashback
to that or anything.
[8:01] - I've never done that.
[8:03] - We basically just ruined this Joy-Con. 
- We just break the Joy-Con.
[8:06] - How much did you pay
for this for parts,
[8:10] heavily used Switch?
[8:13] - [Alex] I paid $60.
[8:16] - [Austin] Okay, that's worth it.
[8:16] Yeah, that's pretty good.
[8:17] - [Alex] $60. And, for reference,
[8:19] if you were to buy like a Switch,
[8:21] just the tablet, no Joy-Con whatever,
[8:22] like a fully functional one,
[8:23] it might still be pretty
beat up, whatever,
[8:25] but I mean they're going for like 90,
[8:28] so like this is still cheaper.
[8:30] - How much was this
replacement at Joy-Con rail?
[8:33] - [Alex] We got it from iFixit,
[8:34] and they use, you know, quality parts.
[8:36] - [Austin] Yeah, yeah. 
- [Alex] That was like 15 bucks.
[8:38] - Okay, so, not cheap, 
but not certainly like crazy expensive.
[8:41] All right.
[8:43] And so we have the just
horrendously scuffed
[8:46] Switch back plate off,
[8:47] and that is our rear shell
carefully pulled away.
[8:50] Yep, there's our glob of thermal paste,
[8:52] and there we go, that is
the inside of the Switch.
[8:54] The left rail, for some gosh darn reason,
[8:56] goes underneath the board
and pops up over here.
[8:59] What that, why?
[9:01] Why would you not just,
[9:02] we're gonna do is we're
gonna take our new rail,
[9:04] we're going to line it up roughly
[9:07] with where it's supposed
to go right there.
[9:08] And it should theoretically just work.
[9:12] If not, I'll be real sad, but.
[9:13] To make sure that is actually correct
[9:15] is I'm just gonna fire it up now
[9:16] and see if a Joy-Con will attach.
[9:18] So, right side Joy-Con. Okay, connected.
[9:21] Now here's the real test,
[9:22] does the left side Joy-Con wanna work?
[9:27] Nothing. Okay, that's fine.
[9:30] I think my question would be,
is it actually fully seated?
[9:32] 'Cause I was not entirely
sure that it was,
[9:34] oh, no, it's not seated
[9:35] 'cause it's been pulled out
when I plugged in the battery.
[9:38] There we go. All right,
okay, so one, connect, two.
[9:44] Yeah boy.
[9:45] - [Alex] Aye!
- Let's go.
[9:48] So, that was $15 and that
was a pretty easy swap.
[9:52] All in, we're still, I
think is it safe to say
[9:55] probably like about a hundred bucks?
[9:57] - [Alex] Yeah.
[9:57] - For a fully functional red box Switch.
[9:59] And, realistically, if
you didn't mind spending
[10:01] maybe another $30, you could
also, while we were in there,
[10:05] we could have just swapped out
the shell and the screen lens
[10:07] and then this would be
essentially like new.
[10:09] Again, I think we're doing good,
but the concern, as always,
[10:14] is every time you buy something
[10:15] for parts, you're taking a gamble.
[10:18] The gambles are coming up our way for now,
[10:21] but if you sit at the roulette
table for long enough,
[10:23] you will lose your money.
[10:25] Next up, what in the, oh,
what the hell is this?
[10:31] Oh, gosh. Well it's, wait,
[10:33] it's not that old, it's got
USB-C on it. Wait, what?
[10:35] I look at this lid, I'm
like, oh is this like 2007?
[10:38] - [Alex] So, this particular laptop
[10:39] was released in the like 2015 era.
[10:44] - Oh, so this would've been,
[10:44] so the fact that said USB-C,
that was like a big deal.
[10:47] - [Alex] Yeah.
- This is like
[10:48] one of the first USB-C
devices you could get.
[10:49] So, we have a whole little thing here.
[10:51] So, Windows 11, has an
i7-6700HQ, so Skylake,
[10:54] 16 gigs of RAM, 120 gig SSD.
[10:57] Palm rest needs replacing,
[10:59] some keys don't work right
away but do after a few clicks.
[11:02] - [Alex] There is one big
glaring issue with this laptop
[11:06] that I think is emblematic
of a lot of laptops
[11:11] in this general age range.
[11:13] - I mean the screen
seems fine, so, battery?
[11:16] - [Alex] Ding, ding, ding, the
battery is completely dead.
[11:20] You'll be replacing that.
[11:21] - That doesn't seem so bad.
[11:23] I'm just gonna just yolo this one.
[11:25] I don't think I need a tutorial,
[11:26] I think I need to figure it out.
[11:28] - [Alex] Okay.
- How bad could it be?
[11:29] I cannot imagine that a 10
plus year old ROG laptop
[11:34] was that expensive.
[11:36] Especially something that
has a dead battery, right?
[11:38] - [Alex] Yes. So, we paid $175.
[11:42] - Whoa, that's, that's a, 175?
[11:45] - [Alex] Yeah.
[11:47] - Brother, maybe 75 bucks.
That's a little steep.
[11:51] Oh, you look at that
like butter baby. Yes.
[11:55] And oh my god, Alex,
you (beep) kidding me?
[11:58] Are you kidding me?
[12:00] This is what the battery looks like?
[12:02] - [Alex] That is what
the battery looks like.
[12:04] - So, hello dear viewers at home.
[12:06] Take a good look. Where do
you think the battery is?
[12:09] I'll give you a minute.
[12:12] It is up here. This is the whole battery.
[12:15] - [Alex] Yep.
[12:15] - You wonder why old gaming like,
[12:16] you know, it's like they put a battery in
[12:18] just so it would last between
unplugging it your desk
[12:20] and walking over and
plugging it on the couch.
[12:22] The good news is,
[12:23] I'm pretty sure I can just
replace this battery really quick
[12:25] 'cause it's right here and
look at that battery removed,
[12:30] nothing but success.
[12:31] So, drop this one in, make
sure it's fully seated.
[12:34] Put those two screws back in.
I think this is a success.
[12:37] We have a functioning battery,
[12:38] it's literally not even
plugged in right now.
[12:39] It's also mostly disassembled.
[12:40] So, I need to actually
finish putting it together.
[12:42] I don't think this particular laptop was,
[12:46] like, if we're doing the genius to dingus,
[12:47] this is a little bit
closer to the dingus side
[12:49] 'cause this is way too much money to spend
[12:51] on a 10 plus year old gaming laptop.
[12:54] Next up we have a package to Matt Ansini.
[12:58] - [Adriana] Matt Ansini's package?
[13:01] - [Alex] No.
[13:03] - A Switch Lite?
- [Alex] Yeah.
[13:04] - I'm afraid to know
what's wrong with this one.
[13:06] - [Alex] Mr. I love Switch Lites.
[13:08] - I do love the Switch
Lite. Very light wear.
[13:11] So, no game in here and then
no microSD. That's fine.
[13:15] And there's no screws anywhere,
[13:16] which means that I think
I can just pop it open
[13:18] 'cause no one bothered to use the screws.
[13:20] Yep, it just opens.
[13:21] - [Alex] The thing that's wrong with it
[13:23] is supposedly the screen,
which makes it hard to tell-
[13:28] - That's really interesting
[13:29] because the screen's
not physically broken.
[13:31] The problem with the Switch Lite is
[13:32] because it doesn't have
USB-C like video out,
[13:34] a dead screen and a dead
motherboard are the same symptom
[13:38] because nothing happens.
[13:40] So, I'm gonna just plug
into a power meter here
[13:42] to see if there are any signs of life.
[13:45] Oh, nine watts. Okay, it's on.
[13:46] Okay, so it is on. That's
actually a really good sign.
[13:48] Oh yes.
[13:50] - [Alex] Oh yep, yep, I heard a thing.
[13:51] - Yes.
- [Alex] Yeah.
[13:52] - Okay, cool. We're good. We're good.
[13:53] I thought this thing was dead.
[13:54] So, it actually is just a broken screen,
[13:56] which is crazy to me.
[13:57] For context, a fully functional
[13:59] and maybe like okay condition
Switch Lite, hundred bucks.
[14:02] You know, something like that.
[14:03] It's not, it isn't crazy expensive.
[14:04] - It'll be anywhere between like,
[14:05] I wanna say maybe like 90 to 120, 130.
[14:09] - Okay. Now, with a broken screen,
[14:12] this costs a lot less
than 90 bucks, right?
[14:15] It cost $60. 
- [Austin] Okay...
[14:20] Gotta ask how much was
the screen replacement?
[14:22] 'Cause I feel like probably not cheap.
[14:25] - Screens, in general,
[14:26] replacement screens are kind of expensive.
[14:27] This was $70.
[14:31] Now, again, you could-
[14:32] - Alex! You could get the OLED
[14:34] for not that much more than that.
[14:36] Well, we have successfully
disassembled our Switch
[14:39] and we found some new friends.
[14:41] - [Alex] Oh my God.
[14:43] - So, there's a whole family
[14:45] of little buggy bugs living here.
[14:47] - [Alex] Oh my god, I'm outta here.
[14:48] - So, now that we have fully
disassembled the Switch Lite,
[14:51] it is time to install
our brand new screen.
[14:55] I mean that looks fine.
[14:56] I don't understand how it's gonna stick
[14:58] 'cause there's no adhesive
that it came with.
[15:00] I think just for safety,
[15:01] we're probably gonna add
just a little dab or two
[15:03] of adhesive on the corners,
[15:05] just to make sure it's not gonna fall.
[15:07] All right, now comes the fun part
[15:09] of installing all of this.
[15:16] I think we're ready for a test boot.
[15:18] As you can tell, there's
about a number of screws
[15:21] that are not quite installed
yet, but that's fine.
[15:24] Most important thing is does it boot?
[15:27] Does the screen function?
What did I forget?
[15:30] Let's find out together, my friends.
[15:32] Hmm, that's not great.
[15:35] Let me plug it in and see if
it takes a charge perhaps.
[15:38] - [Adriana] And definitely see
[15:39] if you can still hear the beeps and boops
[15:40] 'cause maybe it's something
else with the screen, you know?
[15:44] - Oh, right. So, I could
have swapped the screen
[15:46] and realize that it was
not the screen at all,
[15:48] and in fact something much deeper.
[15:52] Oh.
- [Alex] Aye.
[15:54] - I heard the button.
- [Alex] Aye.
[15:58] - So, clearly it's booted.
[16:00] Speakers work fine, the
screen is completely dead.
[16:03] So, we just swapped a
perfectly working screen
[16:06] out of a Switch Lite, spent
$75 on a brand new screen.
[16:11] I spent two hours swapping it in
[16:13] just to find out that
that was not the problem,
[16:15] that the actual problem is,
[16:15] is that the Switch Lite,
the video connector,
[16:18] the bugs maybe, what
if the bug got in there
[16:21] and like messed up the
connector or something?
[16:25] I think this is a good example though
[16:27] of what kind of problems you can run into
[16:30] when you're trying to
do something like this.
[16:32] You can get lucky like we
have for the most part.
[16:34] But also you can very much get unlucky
[16:36] either with a product
that is more deeply flawed
[16:39] than you thought
[16:41] or just a simple fact that
you could make a problem.
[16:43] I'm pretty sure though
that this was not my bad
[16:45] just because it is literally
the exact same problem we had
[16:48] with the first screen.
[16:49] Just with a whole bunch
of money down the drain
[16:52] and a real sad Austin
full on the dingus scale.
[16:56] I've been dingused. I am a
dingus. What do we got next?
[17:00] An iPhone 12.
- [Alex] Correct.
[17:03] - This doesn't scare me.
- [Alex] Oh.
[17:05] I've opened iPhones before.
[17:07] We did a whole video on
Apple's self-service repair.
[17:09] But, okay, what's the
problem with this one?
[17:11] Is it, screen looks okay?
[17:12] - [Alex] One of the
most common issues ever,
[17:15] it's got a degraded battery.
[17:16] - Now, if you take this
to the Apple store,
[17:19] you're paying a hundred
bucks for this battery swap,
[17:22] something like that I think?
[17:22] - [Alex] Yeah, you're basically paying
[17:24] a hundred dollars out of pocket.
[17:25] - Okay, so first question,
[17:27] how much do we pay for
iFixit iPhone 12 battery.
[17:31] - [Alex] So, because we
bought it through iFixit,
[17:32] it's a whole like kit, it's $46.
[17:36] - Oh, is it really?
[17:37] - [Alex] Yeah, so, so they do
give you like little tools.
[17:39] They do give you all that stuff,
[17:40] so it's a battery, all that stuff.
[17:41] - Although they do sell it
in a this battery only kit.
[17:44] - [Alex] They do sell
it as a battery only.
[17:46] So if you wanted to buy it
from iFixit specifically,
[17:49] it's 40 bucks.
[17:50] - Okay, so we have ourselves,
the battery itself.
[17:53] They also very thankfully
give us a new adhesive.
[17:56] The only other thing
that I would recommend
[17:57] is having a heat gun.
[17:59] This adhesive is going to
[18:01] require a little bit more
heat than the Switch did.
[18:03] - [Alex] You know they
really wanted this thing
[18:05] to be waterproof.
[18:06] - Which is fine.
[18:07] The thing is though,
[18:07] while I would not really
trust the waterproofing,
[18:09] after you do something like this,
[18:11] the adhesive will actually
gets you most of the way there.
[18:13] So, at this point, I think,
[18:15] we can start just peeling
the whole thing up.
[18:18] There we go, look at that.
[18:19] Now that screen is fairly strong,
[18:21] but you don't wanna put
too much pressure on it.
[18:23] And now it is time to remove the battery.
[18:25] So, the way to do this unfortunately
[18:28] is just to twist and pull.
[18:30] The thing is that you wanna
make sure you get the whole tab
[18:31] and you see I'm just twisting and pulling.
[18:36] Now, unfortunately, there are four tabs.
[18:37] So again, a couple of the tabs get close,
[18:39] so, sometimes you grab 'em both.
[18:41] I got both tabs up, look at that.
[18:44] - [Alex] Wow, look at you.
[18:46] - Is something finally
going my way today? Yes.
[18:50] That's frigging dope, dude.
[18:51] I'm actually really happy about that.
[18:52] Well, at this point, all I gotta do,
[18:57] where's my replacement battery?
[18:59] - [Alex] Oh, things were going so well.
[19:00] - Wait.
[19:01] All right, my friends, let
us replace our battery.
[19:04] Now, I just need to make
sure that this cable bends.
[19:06] Yes, it will.
[19:07] And that looks pretty good.
[19:10] So, what I'm gonna do is,
because that looks great,
[19:11] I'm just going to push it in place.
[19:13] Battery's installed.
[19:16] Now, how do I put the
rest of the stuff in?
[19:19] Uh-oh.
[19:20] Remember the whole thing about
[19:22] these screws were really
tiny, you wanna be careful.
[19:23] - [Alex] Oh. Did you strip one?
[19:26] - [Austin] It got absorbed.
[19:27] - [Alex] It got absorbed?
[19:28] - Absorbed by the rest of the phone.
[19:29] Okay, so, at this point,
[19:31] if I am not the world's biggest dingus,
[19:35] it should just turn on.
[19:37] Oh my god, I'm a god damn genius.
[19:41] The only thing is, I
think, if I remember right,
[19:43] they don't give you the
percentage anymore, right?
[19:45] Yeah, yeah. So, it says unknown parts.
[19:47] So, it does not tell you
the maximum capacity.
[19:50] Honestly, if you had
an almost dead battery,
[19:53] not seeing the actual percentage
is kind of no big deal.
[19:55] All right, well I think
we're pretty successful.
[19:58] Let me go ahead and
zip the screen back on,
[20:00] and we'll see how well I actually did.
[20:02] Behold my friend,
[20:03] a fully functional
battery swapped iPhone 12.
[20:08] Don't look too close. It's totally fine.
[20:10] There's nothing to see here.
[20:12] No adhesive escape the
phone when I put it on.
[20:14] Don't worry about it.
[20:15] Anyway, what's the overall verdict here?
[20:17] - [Alex] All totaled
across the entire video-
[20:20] - [Austin] Yeah.
- [Alex] We saved $135.
[20:24] - Wait, wait, that's it?
[20:25] - [Alex] Well, okay, it
gets a little complicated.
[20:28] - I saved a little bit
of money on the iPhone.
[20:29] - [Alex] Yeah, you saved a
little money on the iPhone.
[20:30] - [Austin] The DMG actually
came out really nicely
[20:32] and I actually properly upgrade it.
[20:33] - [Alex] Yeah.
[20:34] And you saved a little bit
of money on the Switch.
[20:36] - On the Switch.
- [Alex] The OG Switch.
[20:37] - I think the real takeaway is
[20:39] investing in some parts to fix
your own stuff makes sense.
[20:43] Buying stuff that's broken on eBay
[20:45] with the hopes of being able to fix it,
[20:47] and sort of save yourself
some money is possible,
[20:50] but you gotta really do your research
[20:53] and hope that you're feeling
just a little bit lucky.
[20:55] Much like I'm feeling
lucky enough to ask you
[20:57] subscribe to the channel
[20:58] and ring-a-ling that ding-a-ling button,
[21:00] so you too can see resident
local ding-a-ling try to break,
[21:03] I mean fix some shiny new tech
or some not so shiny tech.
[21:07] I am a dingus.