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any good handphone repair shop in KL/Puchong?

chanhin — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:36:48 +0800

hi guys,

my huawei mate 20 phone power button not sensitive. Sent to HUawei service center, which they said need to change whole board.

Thus any good repair recommended shop in KV to recommend. I think power button not sensitive should not be challenging to fix right?

WTS Huawei P40 Pro 8+256GB

chanhin — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 23:55:18 +0800

Item(s): Used Huawei P40 Pro

Package includes: Phone, charger, earphone and box

Price: RMXXXX (can nego)

Warranty: Expired

Dealing method: COD

Location: Around KV

Contact method/details: PM me

Shop with Zeiss prescription glasses

chanhin — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:01:58 +0800

Hi guys,

Please share good shops with Zeiss prescription glasses where the price is good. So far I believe shops in popular malls need to cover their high rental, thus price will not be ok.

Do share man..

Btw, for people that need to wear prescription glasses, any idea where can have options that can do prescription dark (sun glasses) that having polarized? or best fancy a bit like shinning etc which like normal non-power Sun glasses.

So far it seems short sighted people cannot have nice sun glasses... unless wear contact lens.

Software to do Screen recording?

chanhin — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:04:24 +0800

Hi guys,

Anyone know which software to do screen recording? Example can record gaming? Or even possible with microphone?

And wonder got free software to do this?

Mini PC vs Full Size Desktop

chanhin — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:43:34 +0800

Hi guys,

I had been a traditional desktop supporter as always believe it has many benefits such as best cooling to make it run as really low temperate, resulting into most stables sytem. With nice beautiful motherboard that give us super confidents on super solid reliability like Z series (lots of fancy heatsink). I also brain washed by its website explaining every components is ultra reliable... Really siok reading them. At the same time, upgradability is no limits for graphics, memory, storage and you name it.

However, recently I found that even 2 to 3 years old desktops with Gigabyte Z series beautiful type + branded PSU were showing imperfection. Yeah.. With the price paid, and such size, consumer usually do not expect imperfection. Problems such as random failure to boot, huge size USB SSD having detection issue and need to replug few times.. If can boot up, everything is perfect even under stressed. These are small minor issues.. Yes.. But it break my believe that good desktop should be of rock solid perfection.

And recently I purchased used mini PC known as Intel NUC 10th Gen, i3 processor only. It is 16GB RAM + 1TB WD NVME. And I can tell you it is very smooth, even smoother than both my i7 laptops. Its WiFi performance beat all my 3 laptops, crazily good. Display output supporting HDMI 2.0 and my favourite USB-C... And 11th gen NUC even has dual USB-C and dual HDMI2.. damn.. touching on the casing also hardly warm. Sound great right?

Now this is what I am thinking for my next desktop next year;
(1) Desktop.. Even without graphic card will cost me over RM5k.. around RM6k. The problem with desktop is that we always over spend, thinking of future usage and upgradeability that most people never need. Example: surely at least i7, minimal 8 cores, only need 32GB, but will buy 64GB etc.. we can see really low temperature as always buy oversize heatsink... or water cooler... yeah.. But experiences tell it might not as lasting as we hope. It depends on luck... It mean there is 50-50 chances that all the good money spend did not return what we paying for... This is something not found in major website about reality.

(2) Mini PC - i5 + 32GB + 1TB SSD (maybe latest PCI4 one) will cost only around RM3k. It is almost half the price as compare to the desktop option. But the down side is only 4 cores (actually enough), relatively good graphic (save lots of $$$), limited storage as only one piece of NVME can be inserted. But recently I found its down side, while stressing, it can easily surpassed 80C in temperature (while we touch the casing always not warm, which is misleading). I never see such high temperature for normal desktop as always with huge heatsink.. And again wonder reliability in long run due to temperature. While Intel replied as long as less than 100C, it is nothing to worry.

So guys, what do you think? I think the major issue is that there is no statistic or known information about product reliability. Do hope you can share your experiences. For now, I prefer the NUC as small size, cuteness, portable (can carry anywhere), cost me less $$$, so maybe I can buy new PC every 3 years? Cheaper allow us to change system earlier?

Really appreciate you guys to share your experiences.. especially on the tiny cute one. Focus on reliability in long run if possible...

Random boot failure

chanhin — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:02:05 +0800

Hi guys,

My 6th gen i7 system desktop having an issue.. Sometime it will fail at boot. When it fail, it always fail.. need to cut off power.. another 5 minutes try. While some time late night.. no issue at all with 20+ reboot success...

When it fail, it failed at the BIOS boot up where the screen did not show the "press 'del' or F12 to enter BIOS". If I can see this words, then okay one.

As long as it can boot in, it is perfect stable and can run for days including CPU intensive thing...

Another thing is that sometime I plug in some high capacity pendrive on it, it has difficulty to detect.. but if I plug into the monitor USB hub, which from same desktop, always ok.

So what do you think? MBoard or PSU? Problem is not serious.. but just disturbing sometime.

Btw, no graphic card etc.. Thus super silent

Worth to repaint whole car?

chanhin — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 01:44:07 +0800

Hi guys,

Do you think it is worth to give Camry 2013 for a new paint job? From distance, the car has no issue. But if near, can see hairly scrathese many places.. Front, back, left, right all same.. Saw few slim deeper scratches also..

What do you think? Current looks is not disturbing. But since now MCO hardly use car, why not give it new looks?

Btw, any shop/price recommendation around Puchong / Sunway area?

WTS Huawei Mate 20

chanhin — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:51:25 +0800

Item(s): Original Huawei Mate 20 (not the pro version with known screen issue).

Package includes: Full box. No worry on GMS as it is supported by default. I also had a number of spare unused screen protectors and casing to give. This is the last mate series officially support GMS.

Price: RM1080

Warranty: NILL. I can give one week if required

Dealing method: COD

Location: Sunway Pyramid

Contact method/details: PM me.
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Item(s) conditions: 9/10. Just had the battery replaced this month. So battery is as good as new.

Picture: As attached. Front photos looks bad due to bad screen protector attachment by myself... Suggest screen protector should be done by the shop / professional.

Reason for sale: Already upgraded as no 5G (only LTE + Wifi)

WTS Huawei M5 (2k sreen) not lite

chanhin — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:37:50 +0800

Item(s): Original Huawei M5 8.4" with high end 2k screen (not the cheap lite version with low res screen). Excellent for reading with sharp texts and detailed photos.

Package includes: Full box. No worry on GMS as it is supported by default. I also had a number of spare unused screen protectors and casing to give

Price: RM1080

Warranty: NILL. I can give one week if required

Dealing method: COD

Location: Sunway Pyramid

Contact method/details: PM me.
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Item(s) conditions: 9/10, used as backup device that hardly use. Earlier this year having battery replaced. So battery life is as good as new. It is an excellent tablet that is light weight, comfortable to hold with one hand, having LTE/Wifi, can make call, come with high end 2k screen that great for photos (if you have high resolution photos)

Picture: As attached. Front photos looks bad due to bad screen protector attachment by myself... got gap at the side. Thus suggest screen protector should be done by the shop / professional.

Reason for sale: Too many phones & tablets,

What software to duplicate SDD

chanhin — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:05:18 +0800

HI guys,

FYI, I wish to upgrade my laptop 512GB SSD into 1TB SSD. Already bought the MVME 1Tb and USB casing. I guess I need some software to duplicate

Can I know what software to move those 512GB SSD into new 1TB so I no need to reinstall OS and all the applications?

Or should I pass it to the shop? Is lowyat open? I mean maybe opening laptop to access SSD might be challenging?

Do hope you can share your experiences.

Which microwave oven is good?

chanhin — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:10:49 +0800

Hi guys,

Any suggestion on microwave oven, my current first choice is https://www.panasonic.com/my/consumer/kitch...-gt69jsmpq.html -> not cheap, it has inverter.. or just buy the much cheaper Samsung will do?

wonder if there are really obvious differences between cheaper and more expensive.. I only know size matter la.. so no need to chop and cook few times.

Xiaomi Service Center

chanhin — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 23:29:14 +0800

Hi guys, any idea where is Xiao mi service center for handphone? I need to replace my battery.

from Mi page -> https://www.mi.com/my/service/ -> it show it is located at lowyat

once click on the Mi page for its address, it show no lowyat -> https://www.mi.com/my/service/repair/

while google show it at amcorp mall

Some page even show at mid valley.

Thus anyone know where is the real xiaomi service center for handphone?

And any idea if hey are open?

How to install google search bar on Huawei?

chanhin — Fri, 07 May 2021 00:45:16 +0800

Hi guys,

With used to normal android phones, I always like to search stuffs using the google search bar box on first screen.

Any idea on how to install this google search bar on Huawei phone? Assume GMS is done.

Questions : Canon EF to R mount Adapter

chanhin — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 03:51:24 +0800

Hi guys,

How are you? I have some EF lenses and looking forward to EOS R mount in the future. Thus now doing some homework.

Here some questions about EF to R mount adapter that I fail to find the info from google and need actual users experiences.. Hope you can take your time to answer.

(1) Will the EF to R mount causing lost in infinity focus with shorter lenses? From the adapter photo, I saw it has no optical elements inside and technically add distance between lenses and camera sensor. If not sure. Let me know which lenses you tested and still can focus to infinity or at least 30 meters away (like in play ground etc).

(2) There are 3 types of Canon original adapter. The one I not sure if about the ring control. What can it control? Did you use it? Or not useful? Price differences?

(3) I saw online price for the Canon original adapter is expensive. The plain adapter costing about RM600. If it has no special function, affordable compatible one should be ok as well right?

(4) Appreciate all other actual experiences information~

[WTS] Huawei Mate 10

chanhin — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:19:40 +0800

Item(s): Huawei Mate 10 Black color

Package includes: Full Package + Free casing

Price: RM520

Warranty: NULL

Dealing method: COD

Location: Pyramid / Major shopping mall

Contact method/details: PM
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Item(s) conditions: Like 95%, no dents, no scratch. the imperfection from photos was due to bad protective film attachment. During COD, you are advised to take it off to see its screen perfection. No worry about Google playstore as reset also there. You can test yourselves. Google class etc all okay. No known issue, camera quality still fantastic~

Picture: As attached

Reason for sale: It is my backup phone... now backup phone also upgraded

Grab it fast while it is still there~

Sold

chanhin — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:06:22 +0800

Item(s):

Package includes:

Price:

Warranty: None

Dealing method: CoD

Location:

Contact method/details: PM me
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Item(s) conditions:

Picture:

Reason for sale:

[WTB] Huawei Matepad Pro 5G

chanhin — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:58:54 +0800

Looking for Huawei Matepad Pro 5G without case and keyboard.

Do offer me

Reverse Camera + Player that can display video

chanhin — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:50:29 +0800

Hi guys,

I plan to install reverse camera + changing the 2-DIN player with video display for an older car. Any suggestion on which shop? I heard "Brother" no more?

I just want basic features.. and if possible Bluetooth so can listen music from phone + answer calls in car.

How to install PlayStore on EMUI 10

chanhin — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 23:07:53 +0800

Hi guys,

FYI, I had just bought a Huawei M6 and facing challenges to install Googlx Plxy storx. I tried the varies methods found in Googlx, but nothing works. Just run them, and they quite.

If any of you have working solution, do share ya~

Huawei Matepad 10.1 vs M6

chanhin — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:21:24 +0800

it will be used for various purposes;
(1) Watching movies (thus need fast processor to ensure no lagging)
(2) Reading lots of boring documents

What do you think?
Is the M6 worth the extra cash for its 2k screen?
Kirin 810 (latest midrange) vs Kirin 980 (older top range), which one faster?