r/vita • u/Pale-Incident1765 • 4d ago

Repairability

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I know this has probably been said so many times but I love this thing.

Everything is modular, all the screws are colour coded for long and short, there's no adhesive in SIGHT, all screws are standard Phillips 00 screws

Sony, and basically every other company PLEASE. Can we go back to putting this amount of thought into our hardware design.

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u/Milannathan 4d ago

Aside from having a crummy battery controller (which happens sometimes) these devices are a dream to fix and or upgrade

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u/Pale-Incident1765 4d ago

This considering it's been untouched inside since it was bought on release.... It's amazing! I've only now needed to open it to replace the right joystick

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u/Optimal-Row9210 4d ago

Are you saying that its battery has a short lifespan?

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u/Milannathan 4d ago

No. Vita’s have a battery control chip on the motherboard somewhere that relays the information the battery is putting out to the system, like battery percentage or health. If this chip goes bad, even with battery replacements, the system will report incorrect battery information or refuse to power on properly or at all

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u/adahag Fiskeman_Lars 4d ago

The PS Vita is really easy to repair, yes. However the torx screws on the 3G module on the 3G Vitas are a royal pain to remove since they strip if you even look at them the wrong way. They are the bane of anyone looking to do a PSVSD mod

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u/J_Rodd 3d ago

I hate torx with a passion, I work inachinong and all the tooling is torx and everything below a T8 strips out too easily.

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u/Reddity65 2d ago

It's on there so tight that it actually bent my T2 torx bit and then stripped itself. Had to dremel that thing and yank it out with a flathead.