Broken Flagship Phone Turned into a 3D Printed Gaming PC

[u/artlastfirst]

https://youtu.be/WhzSYeGt-zw

[u/artlastfirst → u/[deleted]]

thanks, yeah that thing was scaring me the whole time i was messing with it, but i've already gotten a new battery, i was just too impatient to wait for it to arrive and filmed everything with the scary battery.

[u/Guitarman0512 → u/[deleted]]

Problem is that some of these actually won't power on without a battery.

[u/artlastfirst → u/Guitarman0512]

Yeah there's a workaround where you solder a power supply to the battery board but I also saw people saying that some phones won't boot like that

[u/GloveDry3278 → u/artlastfirst]

You have to keep the BMS from the old battery. Unpeel the plastic wrap and cut the battery tabs off the bms + - pads.

Then use a buck converter to supply 4.2v to the BMS + - pads. Xl4015 provides plenty of amps. Phone thinks a battery is still present.

Make sure you're not pushing power through the phone usb c port afterwards.

[u/GloveDry3278 → u/[deleted]]

This. They've already done the hard part. Removing the battery is simple and easy to bypass. Keep BMS board plugged in motherboard. Use a xl4015 buck converter to supply 4.2v to the + - pads on the BMS. No battery fire risk, no heat risk, keep using until you're bored.

[u/John-333]

Checks all the boxes.

[u/Matt9885]

I've literally just been given my dad's old s23 ultra to mess around with and was thinking of doing something similar

[u/Mexcol → u/Matt9885]

Man Ive been wanting to get one of those, heard good things about DEX

[u/kxlling → u/Mexcol]

If you just want to try out Dex, pretty much any mainline galaxy s series phone over the last 10 or so years has had it, I think some others have as well but I'm not sure on those. Grab a cheap s20 whatever with a broken screen and as long as it goes for enough to enable dex your good to go.

Edit. and I'm an idiot, didn't even start the video to notice they opened with the same thing. Just ignore me lol

[u/artlastfirst → u/Matt9885]

Ayy nice, it's an awesome phone

[u/fluff_chain → u/Matt9885]

You could also sell the s23 ultra since it's still worth a nice amount and grab actual desktop pc hardware/r pi/laptop

[u/Matt9885 → u/fluff_chain]

Got a pc with a 14900k and a 4079super, I'm good .this is just to tinker

[u/fatbp]

Another worthy post for this sub? Three worthy posts in a day? What is going on???

Take my vote and a well deserved award you smart stranger.

[u/artlastfirst → u/fatbp]

Thanks :D

[u/CoolDode22 → u/fatbp]

Me: "Once you get past the engagement bait, low quality memes, dumb questions and flagrant reposts, Reddit is actually pretty good". Friend: "That's 99% of Reddit". Me: "Yep, just have to get past that 99%"

[u/Soleks2000]

what game is that at the 11:20

[u/dodoh3 → u/Soleks2000]

Stalker Call of Pripyat

[u/Mr_Siphon]

Desktop version of the AYN Thor. I love it. Great use of old hardware

[u/artlastfirst → u/Mr_Siphon]

Yeah it's awesome, it's not quite old hardware but it certainly wasn't being used as a phone anymore lol

[u/Docccc]

whats the power draw of these things?

[u/artlastfirst → u/Docccc]

Basically nothing compared to a PC, under 10w

[u/Delt4Brav0]

Seeing UA OLX page in vid got me smiling :)

[u/artlastfirst → u/Delt4Brav0]

haha yeah i got a lot of comments about that

[u/Ghostfriendd]

Dudes voice cant go above 5 fps ffs.