• Hexarei@programming.devOP
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    1 year ago

    was it tricky at all to do the swap?

    I’m probably not the best person to answer this for the general public, as I have a fair bit of experience with disassembly, repair, and mods to handhelds - I’ve got several old Nintendo handhelds, a GPD Win 2, and a GPD Win Max that I’ve had open at some point or another, along with some experience doing the same for friends.

    As such, I did it with proper tools from iFixit and not the ones that came in the kit.

    With that context though, it was probably one of the easiest/least finnicky handhelds I’ve ever disassembled. The most nerve-wracking part was moving the screen over, which is something I’ve never had great success with until my Deck. A hair dryer + lots of patience, worked out nicely.