Sony refuses to fix out of warranty PS4 without paying a $99 service fee.

[Ganoncrotch]

The_Yoda said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Yeah look the wired pads from Amazon would turn it back into a functional console at the very least for watching stuff on , just gotta watch out for people running passed in front of you.

And yeah heat on solder points weakens them, you could try opening it up yourself and seeing if you could physically put something into the case to press the bluetooth chip down into the PCB but it could be tough, to open a Ps4 you need to slide open the side panel on the left side and use I think it's a Torx 8 to remove the screws to take off the right side. but it's not an easy job because on a base PS4 you need to also remove the heatsink from the board which could lead to other issues if there is any extra damage been done by the original overheating issue which your mate caused.

 

Good luck sorting it though.

I can't remember which size it is but they are security torx.  Without removing the heatsink about all I think you can get to is the power supply, the hard drive and the disc drive.  I was lucky enough to get to take mine apart when I bought the GF a physical copy of GOW only to find out her 2 year old had fed the drive a little plastic star that prevented discs from being read.

That last line made me actually cringe reading it.

I would really not recommend the OP attempt to repair this on his own having seen the videos on youtube of it being done, it's something I wouldn't be confident with... and just this week I replaced the analogue stick in my Switch controller and the battery pack from an old DS3 that was knocking about and wouldn't charge.

That said.... no more Ghosting to the left in all my switch games for the sake of a €3.40 replacement stick and about 45 mins of squinting to see the tiny damn board connections in the joycon...

unrelated I know... but seriously think about how tiny the joycon is and those ribbons are crazily light, would really recommend caution if anyones planning to replace one of these sometime! Cool to see inside though, just needed a small philips and the Nintendo tri wing screwdriver to save 50e replacing it.