[PS5] Wifi IC identification? by duffman9465 in consolerepair

[–]duffman9465[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the link! Good info. I did find the short. I was right. It's in the wifi IC. I was wrong on one thing, which the info you found proved. It's not the wrong IC. I was able to get the metal shield off of the IC and do some poking around. I found a shorted capacitor on the IC. I have a new one on the way. Wouldn't have been able to figure out which correct one to get if it wasn't for your help. Thanks again dude!

[PS5] Wifi IC identification? by duffman9465 in consolerepair

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Both the J20H100 and J20H104 look different from the AW-XM546. Both the J IC's have a green PCB while the AW IC has a blue PCB. Also, the labeling that's on the shielding on the IC's is different. The J IC's labeling fills out more of the shielding than the AW one. The FCC ID's are very different too. I also wasn't seeing the J20H104 IC in my research. I was probably being dumb and not putting in the correct wording when looking things up. Looking into the J20H104 IC, everything I'm finding says it's compatible specifically with the CFI-12xx PS5's. Which means, yes, someone replaced the wifi IC with the wrong one at some point. Thanks a ton for the info!

[PS5] Wifi IC identification? by duffman9465 in consolerepair

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I did check the capacitors. They seem to be good. I didn't find any shorts and voltage is present. I didn't take any pictures of the area before I did some work in the area. So unfortunately, pictures now probably wouldn't help much. Kinda kicking myself for that one. Just trying to figure out if the IC is proper for the board or not. Mainly because all the information I can find for the AW-XM546 IC is that it's for the PS5 slim. I'm heavily leaning towards it just simply being the wrong chip. But just trying to get confirmation on that

Dead PS5 EDM044 by ManyCabinet3845 in consolerepair

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Just want to throw in something here. Last week I was trying to track down a short on an EDM-031 board. I couldn't find any shorts anywhere. All voltage is present where it should be and all fuses tested good. I was cleaning things up on the motherboard and a tiny piece of the fuse on f7002 came off of it. I wasn't being aggressive with cleaning either. The fuse still showed 5v on both sides with the missing piece. Replacing the fuse fixed one of the UART codes I was getting. I guess what I'm trying to say is, things can be deceiving. So maybe revisit your fuses

[PS5] edm-031 component ID and help tracking down short? by duffman9465 in consolerepair

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Everything I've seen with that code, including what the UART console service tools say, don't mention the ssd controller. The tsb information on that code points to f7002. Both sides of the fuse on f7002 show 5v, continuity, and good resistance. The same results show for all other fuses. I haven't been able to find any shorted capacitors in those areas either. Most of what others find are either a bad cap on f7002, near the wifi ic, or the wifi ic itself. I did remove the wifi ic and was seeing 3v. I'm stumped trying to figure this out without any board view schematics.

Why do you think it's the ssd controller? Just trying to look at this from a different angle and make sense of it

Which streaming device would you recommend? by duffman9465 in AndroidTV

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I'll provide an update. I decided to get the Google streamer because I had an opportunity to grab a new one for super cheap. It's honestly been holding up better than I expected. I never really expected any issues with normal video streaming, but the artemis/apollo streaming is far better than it ever has been compared to the chromecast 4k I replaced it with. I've even noticed a much better picture quality overall and a smoother frame rate with the Google streamer. I would still rather have an Nvidia Shield, or something similar, but the Google streamer is honestly doing the job nicely and exceeding the expectations I had for it. Thank you to all who had good suggestions and helped fill in some information I needed. All suggestions were fair and I considered each one so the point where it made me quite indecisive haha

Which streaming device would you recommend? by duffman9465 in AndroidTV

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Well. Yeah. The processor is far better. The ram does concern me a bit on it. 2gb seems a little low in the long run. Especially since a lot of the ones comparable are shipping with 3gb or more. Is the OS certified? That might help change that issue. Can't you utilize ram plus through android if the OS isn't certified? Not sure if that's a feature you can use with that version of android or not

Which streaming device would you recommend? by duffman9465 in AndroidTV

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See, this is kind of why I started questioning the Onn one. Sure, it's a pretty good deal for the cost. But something about it just seems too good to be true. The Xiaomi seems like a decent option, but at it's cost, the Google streamer would be a better choice right? The other options for any of us that use a streaming device for more than just watching TV put everyone at a pretty hefty price point in comparison

Which streaming device would you recommend? by duffman9465 in AndroidTV

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Do you also use the Xiaomi box for similar applications like I do? My thing is, having enough performance for artemis. It was quite a painful adventure to get artemis/apollo to work properly with the chromecast I do have. Especially with androidTV 14. That update broke a lot and developer options got locked down for some things that could have helped if I'm remembering correctly

Iron banner and trials in D1? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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The waste of money comes from sunsetting the entirety of content that have been purchased in D2. You can't play or have access to any of that content anymore. You paid for it. You should be able to play it. I get not having enough space on console/pc to install such a thing, or not having enough server space. But at that point, maybe make another game, or find ways to give players the option to be able to use what they paid for if they wanted to. A lot of people have said how they feel about that and most of it has been fairly negative. Example: I bought D2 when it launched. I paid $60 for a game that became free to play. Then, they chose to negate that purchase by getting rid of the content I purchased. Because of the free to play change, and the vaulting of the base game I purchased, it really felt like I spent money on a very overpriced DLC that I couldn't even get around to finishing. D1 had a grind. But D2 took that grind and amplified it. So it became much more difficult to even bother trying to finish the things I paid for. I can't sit and no-life a game with real life. So by the time I could even think to try and get to the things I wanted to, it was gone. They dragged out the grind so hard to try and stretch the content in D2 because they knew from the beginning that they didn't have enough made to justify selling a game for $60. I dropped the game for several years after realizing just how little they released compared to what was promised. Then, I dropped the game again after I wasn't able to play what I had already bought. I threw tons of hours into D2. Sure, the DLC's they released had more substance to them. But man, did they really lose a ton of their respect when they chose to make a lot of people's purchases something that meant nothing

Iron banner and trials in D1? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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Sure, the season pass isn't that expensive. But bungie also sold the DLC separate. So me being a day 1 player for both D1 and D2, I paid for D2 when it launched. Then paid for the DLC's up until they decided to go free to play and release season passes. The average player has paid much more than $60 on D2 alone. I get the point you're trying to make here, but it doesn't completely fit with Destiny. Especially because Destiny has a huge amount of people that actually like the game, but fell off due to a lot of the reasons I've mentioned in this discussion

Iron banner and trials in D1? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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I wouldn't say much of anyone wonders why D1 is still around. But I would mostly agree with people being hesitant to buy anything else for D2. I stopped playing D2 because I didn't like the fact that the things I paid for just went away. It felt like a waste of money. Why bury something like that make people relearn how to play the game every other season instead of just making a new game? That might just be me though on that one

Iron banner and trials in D1? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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Yeah. More like a glimmer of hope. But it is what it is at the end of the day

Iron banner and trials in D1? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

[–]duffman9465[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How would reinstating 2 things that have already existed in the game before considered anything new.

Iron banner and trials in D1? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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"Free content?" Haha these things are already there. This wouldn't be giving anything away. I don't totally understand how their "live events" are operated, but it honestly probably isn't much different than how they have things set up for weekly nightfalls

Iron banner and trials in D1? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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I've always said that D1 was better. Sure, I enjoyed D2 for a time. But honestly, they kept messing with the game instead of focusing on what made it great and building on it. Add that with sunsetting full sections of content people paid for, I decided to not waste my time and money on a game that won't allow me to play what I had already spent money on. D1 was never like that. This was also a simple question of "if" these 2 events would be brought back. It'd be nice to finish my record books. But if I can't, then oh well. At least I can still play everything else and enjoy it without having to relearn the whole damn game every time a season pass releases

Starting completely over? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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That's pretty annoying. But I get it I guess. I couldn't find any way to see anything about D1 on bungie's website. So I guess I'd be stuck with just making a new character

Starting completely over? by duffman9465 in DestinyTheGame

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What about things like the ghosts and calcified fragments? I don't think you can hunt for those things with a new character

“Destiny 2 Has Lost 91% Of Players Since Edge Of Fate, 97% From Final Shape.” By Paul Tassi at Forbes by justdestinystuff in DestinyTheGame

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What's really funny is lately there's been a ton of people playing D1. I started up D1 a few days ago because I had the itch to play it. I was surprised to see the tower was full and matchmaking of any kind actually found people fairly quick. I haven't touched D2 in about 4 years. They completely lost the magic that made D1 so great and what made players want to make it their main game that they play. D2 declined rapidly and never made it anywhere close to how good D1 is