{"id":41900,"date":"2019-01-20T14:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/20\/well-color-me-impressed\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T20:01:17","slug":"well-color-me-impressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/20\/well-color-me-impressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Well color me impressed\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The camera on my phone broke. The autofocus wouldn’t engage – it’s a known issue. I bought a repair kit from AliExpress for 15chf. The phone is out of warranty, so I figured I could take a punt at self-repair and if all else failed, I’d buy a new phone. Otherwise, I could do a factory reset, ship the phone to the UK, pay parts and labour, and wait for god knows how long before I’d get it back.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube that make the process look oh-so-simple. They lie. It took 25 minutes just to remove the two \u20ac\u00a5\u00a9\u00a7#\u00a1!!? torx screws that close the case. From there it didn’t get better. Cracking the case open went OK until I forgot to take the SIM card holder out and bent it. Then trying to get the motherboard off was a right mess. Bits actually went sproing! and I bent the motherboard when I didn’t remove a screw not mentioned in the video. I bent the motherboard. At this point, I figured my phone was well and truly borked but I reassembled it (and straightened it) as best I could. I didn’t expect it to boot. It did. WiFi, antenna, BT, all work (so far). Camera works. I… am kinda in shock actually. I just keep thinking the thing’ll HCF<\/a> at some point, but for now, kudos to Oneplus.<\/p>\n

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The camera on my phone broke. The autofocus wouldn’t engage – it’s a known issue. I bought a repair kit from AliExpress for 15chf. The phone is out of warranty, so I figured I could take a punt at self-repair and if all else failed, I’d buy a new phone. Otherwise, I could do a…<\/p>\n

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