Pontus and some other members tidied up in our electronics corner yesterday. Just look how much usable space there is now! We never had so few boxes standing around in our L-room! <3

#hackerspace #electronics #soldering

 going to be soldering a ps5 hdmi tomorrow. It’ll be my first time soldering, I’m a little nervous. I have low melting point solder and I’ll be ventilating the hell out of everything, I feel like I just need to watch a few YouTube videos about it and I’ll be fine…

Any tips tho from anyone with experience?

#soldering #ps5 #techrepair

Iode Android devices

Latest version

One Plus 13 with iode OS

I have to carefully check alternatives in OS for Android devices and hardware, which are promised and delivered by third parties. Reading back the sentence I can see that I also am influenced negatively by Alphabet

• third parties are good competitors of Alphabet on Android
• Android has a few good competitors to google in the form of:
• Fair Phone { which has slow hardware but is much easier to upgrade and maintain for YEARS}
• Graphene OS which is solid, robust but only supports Pixel phones due to it's safety standards in hardware## Graphene OS has partnered with Motorola who will produce high quality Androids so we'll have solid FAST alternative hard and software for Android
• I need new G4 Android phones URGENTLY which means the following

No new Graphene powered Android by Motorola

Retro Tech [REDACTED] Android due to fantasticly low price x1

Retro Tech [REDACTED] mid range Android because of very good price x1

• low price android has just 2GB ram and is used as a healthy yes / no GSM
• good priced low mid range android has 4GB ram and is used as a full device
• I only read of the iOde OS OnePlus 13 combo after I purchased the two above Androids
• OnePlus 13 phone is not easy to find new with vanilla Android!
• I can easily find OnePlus 15
• Even second hand OnePlus 13 costs too much in relation to my low budget
• The OnePlus top level series don't use microSD cards and have no analog audio output [a crime against all audio engineers like me]
• I move music by copying it to microSD cards for the phones since that is the fastest using my SBC Pi5 computing systems
• So I'm SOL after september with my phones too

however

• momentum forced me to get the simple alternatives
• no androids means no internet. ISP0 forces the sim cards with internet in a phone
• ISP0 gives way more internet bandwidth per EUR though

isp0 actively blocks portable and home routers with sim card capability

isp1 allows your own sim capable routers but gives way less bandwidth per EUR and is thus less atractive

both isp's blocked g2 devices in november 2K25

This meant the following

• replace all G2 devices in network
• cheapest available device G4 GSM is a whopping USD 40 until the [REDACTED] Androids were sold for USD 25
• significant ammount of G2 devices need to be replaced
• first two Androids were replaced because the power buttons along with the corresponding IC's needed replacement
• I detest surface mount soldering work {I have large hands due to my massively tall posture}
• I love only multilayered through the board soldering
• the parts for the two old androids are not in stock in my country
• the phones are too old to fix [three years]
• th parts and labour will cost to much since one phone is not even receiving security updates (thank you samsung, you arseholes)

Only options were the ones I chose

Note:

One Plus 13 may even be out of production, that means you can't buy it new anymore the year of manufacturing is 2024

Sources

https://iode.tech

https://keepandroidopen.org/

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

https://mastodon.online/@iode/115627516384696071

#iOde #Graphene #OS #OpenSource #Linux #programming #alphabet #Motorola #KeepAndroidOpen #technology #networking #Love #soldering

Es ist Eggsibit Day! Unser favorit: Natürlich das Space Egg zum Selberlöten.
Was ist euch lieber? Eier löten oder bemalen?

#LötenVerbindet #Blinkyparts #soldering

https://shop.blinkyparts.com/de/Space-Eggs-Leuchtender-Loetbausatz-mit-3D-gedrucktem-Raketen-Eierbecher/blink23128

Neue Woche, neues Produkt.
Wir haben noch etwas cooles von Stannol aufgegriffen: der Flussmittel- und Reinigerstift.
Er ist super nützlich, um an schwer zugängliche Stellen zu kommen und nachträgliche Reparaturen vorzunehmen.

Welches Stannol Produkt gefällt Dir am Besten?

#LötenVerbindet #Blinkyparts #soldering

https://shop.blinkyparts.com/de/Stannol-Flussmittel-und-Reinigerstift-500-6B/blink23191

Literally no one: –

Me: how about having some unnecessary #BGA #soldering practice in the shape of upgrading #RAM on a #Radxa 4B Plus from 2GB to 4GB? 🤣

Well that did not go as planned.

I used Samsung K4F6E3S4HMMGCJ 2GB RAM chips from #RaspberryPi 4B. With those Radxa would power on, but won't boot and won't go into recovery mode. Only Maskrom works but I wasn't able even to flash a firmware.

Originally it has two HYNIX H9HCNNN8KUMLHR-NME chips - I wonder what makes those different... 🤔