cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5176306

Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Do you regularly repair these types of devices? If not, and you don’t have a spec sheet available and know where all the easily-overlooked ribbon cables are located and have an array of very niche and specialized tools, there’s a very significant chance that you’ll end up breaking it even more than it already is. Now you’re out a watch, and a replacement screen, and likely also the cost for the unique tools you’d have to have purchased to try opening it up in the first place.

    Even some of the best repair techs avoid working on smartwatches, for this very reason. Maybe you’re just built different and can do what most can’t, but you’d be a lonely outlier if so. So much so that it’d honestly be a statistical anomaly if you managed to repair one of these devices without issue.

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      1 year ago

      Just watch a tutorial of someone who does know what he’s doing

      That way you can at least try.

      Also they shouldn’t have released a watch that is that unrepairable in the first place

    • lustrum@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      What? There are already teardown guides online, I just need replacement parts.

      No i’ve not repaired one before because it’s not broken, I feel like you’ve got blinkers on mate and missing some key points. Repair techs don’t work on them because of the time, they’re not profitable.

      but i’m not trying to be profitable, i’m just trading free time.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      This is all very good but when considering the mandated repairability for all consumer goods rising in strenght in some parts of the world, products like this either avoid such markets (difficult to achieve) or will go extinct.

      Companies need to end the mentality of “if I can, I will”.