Happy National Telephone Day!
Instead of continually chasing upgrades, what if we kept our smartphones for 5 years? How about 10?

That’s the mission we’re on with Back Market:
Fix it.
Pass it on.
Say no to planned obsolescence.

Because the most sustainable phone is the one you already own. Read more about our 10-year phone mission here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/109306/fix-it-then-pass-it-on-ifixit-joins-forces-with-back-market

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#RightToRepair #PhoneRepair #SustainableTech #iFixit

To celebrate #EarthDay, we're giving away five Pro Tech Go toolkits to kickstart your repair journey! To enter the #giveaway:

1. Like this post.
2. Follow us.
3. Tag a friend in the comments who also follows us (each comment with a unique tag = an extra entry).
4. Bonus entry to anyone who creates a repair post with #iFixit between now and the end of the giveaway.

The giveaway will close at 11:59 PM PDT on 4/30, and we'll announce the winners the following day. Good luck, and Happy Earth Day!

Someone should ingest all the #ForgottenWeapons, #iFixit and #ExplainingComputers videos into this tool to see how well it works...

I’m currently at five years with my iPhone 11 Pro. I’ll probably upgrade (and deApple) by the end of the year.

“Back Market and iFixit are partnering to encourage consumers to keep their phones in service for at least five years—and to pressure manufacturers to extend smartphone support to 10 years.”

https://www.wired.com/story/back-market-ifixit-partnership-repair/

Replaced the battery of my GALAXY Watch 4. Kudos to Adriana Zwink for that awesome repair guide https://de.ifixit.com/Anleitung/Samsung+Galaxy+Watch4+Akku+tauschen/146399

Repair instead of replace
#repair #ifixit #GalaxyWatch

New day - new Raspberry Pi brought back to life

This one probably fell down because it had no shorts, all voltages from DA9090 were present, but it didn’t start most of the time - it did once but then I spent quite some time trying to figure out where is our issue.

Reflowing CPU and RAM chips must have helped

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Hätten sich die Speicherbänke und die CMOS-Batteriehalterung auf der anderen Seite des Mainboard befunden, wäre das ein 10 von 10 auf der #iFixit-Reparaturskala gewesen.

US-Zölle könnten Technikpreise um bis zu 16,4% erhöhen. iFixit empfiehlt Reparaturen als kostengünstige Alternative zum Neukauf. Längere Nutzung bestehender Geräte spart Geld und schont die Umwelt, so #iFixit https://winfuture.de/news,150222.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

If the #tariffs stick, microsoldering and board repair is about to become a *highly* valuable skill. Consumer #electronics are going to get a helluva lot more expensive and simultaneously supply will go down, that coupled with an overall recession means people will hold onto their devices longer and choose to get them repaired instead of replaced.

#Tariffs will make almost every new piece of technology more expensive. That means repairing the devices you own will make even more sense than buying new.
However, replacement parts will also become more expensive.
#iFixit #repair

Yep, the Switch 2 Joy-Cons will probably still drift because Nintendo isn't using Hall effect sensors. So, if you were thinking about upgrading, it might make more sense to swap out the joysticks in your current Joy-Cons. It's easier than you might think—and a lot more affordable.

Check out our fix kit (and accompanying guide!): https://www.ifixit.com/products/nintendo-switch-joy-con-switch-lite-gulikit-hall-effect-joystick
#iFixit #repair #NintendoSwitch

I just did a "poor man's" repair to my laptop's keyboard.

Some keys were no longer responding normally to key presses. "R" was the worst.

I pulled the "R" keycap off the keyboard. I cleaned the switch underneath and put it back, but it was still not working well. If I tapped the switch directly without the keycap, it worked fine. I figured tolerances must have gone off somewhere, so I slapped 4 layers of masking tape under the keycap. It works much better now. I also did the "E". I have other keys to do, but I'm taking a break from the repair to consider my options, and see whether what I've done holds up.

I do welcome advice regarding the use of alternative material rather than masking tape for this fix.

I used this article:

https://www.ifixit.com/Troubleshooting/Dell_Laptop/Keyboard+Not+Working/482862

And this video:

https://youtu.be/ORL-uA9coGE

from @iFixit to have an idea of what it would entail.

My laptop is a Dell XPS 15 9530.

This #WITDay, we're celebrating Martine Postma. She's the activist and former journalist who started the Repair Café movement.

“I wanted to do more than just write about it,” Postma says. “More and more people don’t feel good about our throw-away society and are ready for change. [They] don’t throw away because they want to, but because they don’t know what else to do.”

Read more: https://www.ifixit.com/News/33384/the-woman-behind-the-repair-cafe-movement

New tool! Meet the iFixit ESD-Safe Hammer.

We hear you: sometimes you need a little more oomph to finish your fix. So, we engineered the world’s first hammer designed for electronics repair. It's built with a non-conductive handle, ESD-safe head, and just enough heft to "persuade" stubborn components.

Perfect for:
Glued-in batteries
Stripped screws
Soldered memory
Stress relief

Now unavailable at iFixit.com.