The Meta Quest 3 Has A Problem...

Metatube

Buy the new REDMAGIC 10 Pro here: https://bit.ly/3ZWZgAW  Repairing the Oculus Quest 3 was honestly one of the most frustrating experiences I've had. We bought this thing off eBay and had to take apart nearly the entire headset just to access any component. Nothing was easy to reach, and every step felt like an unnecessary obstacle. It was an absolute nightmare.  Fix My Oculus Parts: https://www.fixmyoculus.com/?ref=uhaflfbx Fix My Oculus Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UC1UItFYbKkcAvN-UpyFBLTQ   Wiha 26592 Nut Driver Set: https://amzn.to/4iDCvsA  Repair Tools ( Regularly Updated - With Soldering Tools ) :  https://www.phonerepairguru.com/tools  Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCOrp7GPgZA8EGrbOcIAsyQ/join  Dubbing Software Used : https://try.elevenlabs.io/zumjc7ild6l7  Thank you for watching! Buy My BLUE Mat: https://a.co/d/h3iPG3i Website ( Contact/Tools/Merch/Short Video Products/ Articles): https://www.phonerepairguru.com/ Ask a Question (Join the Subreddit): https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoneRepairTalk/ PROMO INQUIRIES: prg@prettygoodagents.com  Social: Check us out on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/therealphonerepairguru/?hl=en Or on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@phonerepairguru?lang=en Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/phonerepairguru Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealprg?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phonerepairguruu/  (The Following  contains affiliate links)  My Repair Tools : https://www.phonerepairguru.com/tools  Filming Gear: Lumix GH5 https://geni.us/PANASONICLUMIXGH5 Rode HS2 Headset Microphone https://amzn.to/3UdzOos Rode Wireless Go Mic https://geni.us/RHODEWIRELESSGO Rode VideoMicro https://geni.us/RHODEMIC Studio Box Lights https://geni.us/STUDIOLIGHTS Studio LED Lights https://amzn.to/4bRaTvO Spinning Thing https://geni.us/ROTATINGDISPLAYSTAND  Support The Channel By Shopping On Amazon/Aliexpress Through These Links: https://amzn.to/3W8xu1n https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DnEBxV1   Phone Repair Guru assumes no liability for any damage caused to your phone as a result of any of the information contained in this video.  Do not attempt unless you are open to the possibility of further damaging your device.

Transcript

00:00Mr. Zuck, you've rebranded but did you make your products more repairable?

00:06This cost me $199 and it's a MetaQuest 3 I bought from eBay. I repaired the

00:10MetaQuest 2 not too long ago and it drove me absolutely insane so I'm

00:15hoping this one is a little bit better. I had my cameraman open this because well

00:19I wanted to make sure I got what I got because eBay. This is it. It's supposed to

00:24have a broken right display but we also have a broken... I think that's a microphone

00:31under there. The glass is broken here. Looks like it's been vandalized probably

00:35by a child and let's check out that display. What the hell happened to this

00:40MetaQuest 3? We'll remove this because it smells really bad and I don't want

00:47that anywhere near my face. Now we're gonna go ahead and press and hold the

00:50power button. Oh okay so it does seem to be working. It's just dead right now so

00:56despite the scratches being on the display, the display still works. We'll

01:00also check to see if it's charging and it is. We are gonna actually replace the

01:04battery as well because we did that last time with the MetaQuest 2 and that was

01:08a very difficult repair for a device that has to be serviced. So let's uh

01:13let's see how we can open this up. Right off the bat it looks like we can remove

01:17this rubber seal. Use our Jimmy tool. Unclip that. So right here is the

01:22proximity sensor but it's probably not attached to this. I've actually had two

01:27of these devices fail on me after I was VR boxing and Meta did replace them but

01:32the same failure happened twice so I need to refine my skills with the

01:36MetaQuest 3 in terms of repairs so that when I do inevitably... when I do

01:41inevitably have a customer I can repair their thing without experimenting on

01:46their device. Inevitable. And there we go. Hello! We may be able to take these off

01:52as well. So there's a bunch of screws we need to remove but just like the

01:56Oculus Quest 2 or MetaQuest 2 we have to unscrew the ones corresponding to the

02:02plate over here. Basically keeping it in place. The thing about these devices is

02:06if you don't have a screwdriver that's long and skinny you won't be able to

02:10repair this. Unscrew and unscrew again. This screwdriver is just barely fitting.

02:15Definitely gonna need a longer screwdriver which we have right here. So

02:19some people do actually polish this display and sometimes that works but in

02:23this case it's really messed up so we can't do that. We'll go ahead and

02:27unscrew the rest of the Phillips screws and now we can open it up. That is the

02:34MetaQuest 3. It looks pretty similar to the MetaQuest 2 but there are some key

02:40differences. The sensors obviously are now connected to the front panel here

02:45which kind of sucks because making a transparent mod would be a little bit

02:49more difficult. Aside from that the rest of it looks pretty similar. The fan

02:53placement, the antenna placement, all pretty similar. While we're unscrewing

02:57quick word from sponsor. This is the Red Magic 10 Pro and it's one of the

03:01coolest phones I've seen in a long time. Literally the cooling on this phone is

03:06insane. Inside the box you get a fast charger, a USB-C cable, and all the

03:11essentials. This is actually my first time seeing a Red Magic phone in person

03:15and I've got to say it's impressive. First off we have a capacitive triggers

03:19over here that make it feel like a controller when you're gaming. Add in the

03:23transparent design and it looks as good as it plays. There's even an exhaust for

03:28the fan to keep everything cool and an audio jack. Let's go! The display is

03:34absolutely stunning. It's super bright with ultra thin bezels and the 7050

03:40milliamp hour battery means you can play for hours without stopping. There's even

03:44an under display front camera. This is all powered by the Snapdragon 8 elite

03:48processor, LPDDR5T RAM, and UFS 4.X storage. It's the smoothest and most

03:55comfortable gaming experience I've ever had on a phone. If you're an epic gamer or

04:00you just want a phone that does it all, click the link in the description and

04:03grab your Red Magic 10 Pro now. Trust me you won't want to miss out. The screw went

04:08inside the... what the hell? Having a hard time keeping track of what goes where

04:12already? Not gonna lie. Now we can disconnect this antenna, antenna, and

04:17continue unscrewing but before we do that we can actually remove these cables

04:23which are adhered down here. Thanks Meta for doing that. And disconnect that one

04:28and disconnect that one. To keep things organized we're going to switch PRG

04:32mats. They're sold out right now but they will be back up soon. Now we must

04:35continue. We're going to unscrew this white frame thing at the front that

04:40holds the heatsink and maybe the fan. There's also... what the f*** is that?

04:45Meta is doing some red magic because there is a hole over here which is for

04:54whatever this is. But when you turn this around you genuinely cannot see it on

04:58this side but it's there on that side. It's probably an IR sensor or an LED or

05:03something. Honestly I don't really know. We'll find out once we dig deeper. These

05:06screws suck because they're not magnetic and I have to pull them out

05:10with my tweezers every time. Now we should be able to remove this and it

05:15does look to be an LED. We're gonna go ahead and disconnect everything. Now we

05:20can remove the fan. Pull it out. That is our little fan. This MetaQuest 3 is

05:25surprisingly clean which is nice because the outside wasn't at all. Check it out.

05:29We have Meta's logo here instead of the Oculus logo. That's a first. We'll go

05:34ahead and unscrew all the screws on the board. So far this hasn't actually been

05:39too bad but I credit that to my experience with this device with the

05:42MetaQuest 2. If I was opening this up for the first time I probably would not be

05:46happy at all. And remove. It looks like the battery is in the same place it was

05:53with the MetaQuest 2 and I understand why for weight distribution but they

05:58should at least have an access point where you can actually get to the

06:01battery without having to remove everything because batteries need to be

06:04replaced. That's something we know. Oh nice. Now we just removed the MetaQuest 3

06:11board. So most of the major components are obviously shielded under these

06:16shields but we can see what I believe to be the NAND. Overall though this board

06:21should be really easy to repair. All the components are easily accessible. The

06:26thing is though Meta doesn't provide any schematics or any repair guides so

06:30you're on your own when it comes to diagnosing it. We're getting very close

06:33to that right display but first we have to remove this metal plate. This is

06:38probably what shields the battery. Now we can go ahead and remove the metal plate

06:43and it looks like we're greeted by the battery. So they did somewhat relocate

06:48the battery by changing its position but it's still extremely difficult to reach.

06:52You have to remove everything to get to it and because we're replacing the

06:56display we might as well replace the battery. We'll go ahead and unscrew.

07:00Unscrew again. And it looks like they're taking a page out of the Apple Vision

07:04Pro's book because they have some hex nut screws. Thankfully we have the right

07:08screwdriver for it so we can go ahead and unscrew. I'll put a link to these

07:12screwdrivers in the description if you're doing this yourself it'll make

07:15your life a little bit easier. And now we should be able to just pull up on the

07:19battery like that and of course we have another plate. So if we take a look down

07:25here you can actually see the gears that move the displays around based on your

07:30pupillary distance. I hope I'm seeing that right. I hope we don't have to

07:33remove them because this looks complicated but let's see what happens.

07:36I'm gonna go ahead and unscrew like I have been this entire video. I thought we

07:40were finally unscrewing the display but we were actually unscrewing the mid-frame

07:44and now we can remove it. With that gone there are more screws to unscrew.

07:52Finally! We can finally remove the displays. Holy crap I thought it was

07:59gonna be easy after the first few steps but then this part came and damn. There's

08:04two more screws holding in the display and now the right display just came

08:09right off. Thank God we don't have to take this whole thing apart. So we were

08:12able to get our hands on the right display and everything else we needed

08:16except this guy. So what we did was we actually hit up another YouTube channel

08:21called Fix My Oculus and they sent over a replacement part. You guys should check

08:25them out they have great replacement guides and they also sell the parts.

08:29They're one of the only places I could find parts for this device. The link will

08:32be in the description for that. There's two more screws holding in the display

08:35which we can remove and it's now released from the tracks. We can reinstall

08:40that to our new display as well as connector which is stuck on the old

08:43display. There we go and we're going to stick the connector on first over here

08:48and we'll just reuse the same copper tape for the environment not because we

08:54don't have any more. Now we're gonna go ahead and slap this guy in goes right

08:58over here and boom. Just like that the display has been replaced but we still

09:04have a lot to do. We have to replace the battery and replace this faceplate cover

09:09so we're just gonna fast forward to the battery because I'm in pain now. I don't

09:15know if the battery comes with this bracket so let's find out and it doesn't

09:19so we have to put it inside the bracket. We'll heat up the adhesive to remove

09:23the old battery. There's so much tape on this frame. Remove the battery, place the

09:28new battery in the frame and we're going to secure it with some electrical tape.

09:32Now we'll screw it into place and we have the battery on. I really hope this

09:36still works because my brain is not working. Too many screws in this device.

09:40It's time to use the gift from Fix My Oculus. We could take this and we could

09:47take that. We have to unscrew everything here and transfer everything over.

09:50Hopefully it's all still working despite it being cracked. That includes the left

09:53cameras, the time-of-flight sensor that's also attached to the microphone. Now we

09:58can transfer over the right cameras and there we go. The faceplate is all

10:02together and this MetaQuest 3 is ready to be tested. Will it still work? I don't

10:07know but take a look at that. It looks pretty clean for a device that's been

10:10ripped apart. We have the MetaQuest all ready to be tested and set up and now is

10:15a good time to mention that I'm actually giving this away to one of you guys. All

10:19you have to do is call me your Instagram handle and this could be yours. Anyway

10:24let's go ahead and test this guy out. We had it charged up so let's see if

10:29everything is working. And so far so good. Let's uh let's give this a good test.

10:37Thank you guys so much for watching. Everything seems like it's working. Don't

10:41forget to leave a like, subscribe and I will see you guys in the metaverse again.

Category

Transcript

Recommended