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[Nexus 5X General] abdess47:
Hello I had upgrade in my Nexus 5x with 4 GB ram,

Since I do this modification, I see more battery drain.

Do you have configuration kernel or any advise ?

Thanks
[Nexus 5X General] WhiteTitane:
In English: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/oud...for-LG-H791-32GB-Motherboard/32846103543.html

The listing says "Motherboard can be chang 4G RAM", so is it a 4G board or is it upgradable to 4G?
[Nexus 5X General] altintorr:
I have asked the seller ans bought it, it means 4gb RAM.
[Nexus 5X General] dinindourden:
Mine came yesterday. Assembled it and put on charger, but the phone does not indicate charging. The notification light is not working, and there is no charging indication most of the time. Today it shut down although the battery was around 50%

Do I need to calibrate the battery somehow after mainboard change? How?

It came with 7.1, which I updated to 8.1 via official OTA. Have not unlocked it yet. Fully stock.
[Nexus 5X General] nima0003:
Yeah try a battery calibration app on play store
[Nexus 5X General] dinindourden:
Did a fresh sideload of the latest 8.1 release, but the issue still persists. Maybe the charge control chip is malfunctioning. Any idea?
[Nexus 5X General] nima0003:
Maybe, try to disconnect and reconnect it
[Nexus 5X General] Audriuskins:
I've just ordered new Oudini motherboard with 4GB of RAM. I wonder how long will be the shipping to Lithuania :confused: . I'll keep you updated :highfive:

EDIT: 2018/05/06 finally arrived at my door, replaced the old motherboard with the new one, seems to work perfectly. Unfortunately battery ribbon cable snapped in half and I need to order a new battery now. Greeeat. (New battery should come in 1-2 weeks).
[Nexus 5X General] attr_reader:
Oudini 4GB motherboard bootloop

I also recently bought one, I'm still waiting for it to arrive. Do you know if these boards also bootloop eventually?
[Nexus 5X General] dinindourden:
Finally I sent it back, because it was not working on another housing too.

The seller was really supportive, and already shipped the replacement. Waiting for it and hoping it will be ok this time.
[Nexus 5X General] [GS]:
I've bought new battery in rounded.com and i have the same issue, i think is battery cocnenctor problem (in my case).

battery connector have 6-8 pin, some of this pin are for battery level metter!
[Nexus 5X General] Audriuskins:
I'm waiting for mine to come too. Seller says that those boards won't bootloop, I don't know for sure, but from the Aliexpress feedback it seems that no one got a bootloop so far :eek:
[Nexus 5X General] dinindourden:
The issue was with the motherboard. My battery is stock. I also tried it with another 5x with same results.

Seller exchanged it without much hassle, I am waiting for the replacement now.
[Nexus 5X General] Audriuskins:
Installed a new battery with the new 4gb mobo. Everything works flawlessly
[Nexus 5X General] astroidea:
I had my Nexus 5X upgraded by the shop in Shenzhen, Wechat: HUijhuang.

I got the phone back with the battery indicator stuck at 50% and the proximity sensor not working. HUijhuang insisted that I send it back for service. He charged me shipping both ways and didn't service my phone for two weeks after he received it. I had to push him several times to do so. He fixed the proximity sensor but was unable to fix the battery indicator issue.

I googled the battery indicator issue and was able to fix it by cleaning the battery contacts with a toothbrush and rubbing alcohol.
[Nexus 5X General] dinindourden:
I received 2 mainboards from oudini.

One died after 2 days, the other one died after a month.

Both looks like blod. At the beginning the system starts, but freezes and reboots after some stress (e.g. browsing, photography)

Then it won't even boot.

Told him about the issue, and he sent a replacement.

Maybe I was unlucky, but maybe the upgrade does not fix the blood issue.
[Nexus 5X General] one282:
I have bought as well 2 MB from Ouidini store/Aliexpress - once 2 devices in family died in about month difference and just after warranty period 2 years expired, I ordered 2 MB in March 2018. Till now they sent already additional 4 MB, once all of them died in shorter or longer period. From the first order they refund some money, for the second one (I asked for it as well, once phone died this Sunday) the still try to push me to agree on sending additional MB.

I am sick and tired already about sending broken MB to China and exchanging in phones - I do not recommend to buy these MB at https://oudini.aliexpress.com/store...0010108.0.0.732d7a5erTax98&shop_ab=itm2home-2

Do not waste your time and money for this and deal with death of your device.
[Nexus 5X General] Dininthedrider:
I am very curious if this is a hardware fault, or something with the June and July security patch from google. Both of my devices died at the same time. Your devices died after july update too?

My simpthoms:

- With June patch all of a sudden, the devices frooze and rebooted. After restart same thing happened continously until the point, that they won't pass the google boot logo (same as BLOD)

- Phone shows red "Device is corrupted" message even though bootloader was never opened.

- Updated to July patch via bootloader mode with full official firmware. Had to unlock the bootloader after every restart because the mainboard is rma. System started, but after an short time same freezing happened.

- Now the devices won't even turn on. After a day of charging the red led blinks, so i keep on the charger for additional day. IF the devices turn on, they display full capacity, then freeze again, restart, and stops on google logo.

- When I turn them off, I can not turn back and have to repeat from the previous point. (charge for 2 days)

As soon as the replacement arrives, I will change the rom to lineageos and see what happens.
[Nexus 5X General] one282:
On both devices I was actually on LOS, so do not think this software related issue. Device cannot be switched on, not even to Google logo. No red light blinking.
[Nexus 5X General] Caner092:
Since LG didn't officialy sell N5X in my country, I have found a place who fixes G4's bootloop issue. I've asked them how they fix the problem, they told me that they change the soc (cpu+ram) with a brand new one. So my question is; since they have the same cpu (SD808) If they replace N5X's soc with G4's brand new (3GB RAM), will it recognize and work or they have some differences?
[Nexus 5X General] altintorr:
It should work like this. I have bought a tweaked nexus 5x motherboard on Ali express and vendor just reballed the SoC (CPU sd808 without bootloop problem + 4gB ram) and it's working for me since 6 months.
[Nexus 5X General] attr_reader:
Ouidini AliExpress Store

Did you buy the motherboard from the Ouidini Store? I received mine a few days ago (which has been fine so far) but there are reports above of the Ouidini boards also boot looping. This is a pain because I asked the seller if they were "bootloop resistant". I guess I should have expected that answer.

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Is the replacement board still working [MENTION=7148714]dinindourden[/MENTION]?

How many Ouduni motherboards died in total one282? Have they given you any refunds or only replacement boards? Did you have to send the old boards back?

I think it would be a really good idea to leave a 1-star follow-up review on AliExpress to let other potential buyers know. I recently bought one because of the great reviews; if I had known these issues I wouldn't have.
[Nexus 5X General] Audriuskins:
Mine Oudini board is still working, received it in June
[Nexus 5X General] one282:
Till this time I received 5 mother boards. First one (after first stop working) I sent back together with 2 additional broken ones from two phones I have. Than received new ones. From first order I got money back - phone works but show faulty percentage of battery, phone does not charge fully. And last usually few hours on battery. For the second phone I received additional three mother boards. The lastly received one is still working (received 2 weeks ago). I use it now irregularly, I bought a new phone with warranty. I do not want to be again badly surprised with dead phone.

I wanted to add a bad feedback, but you have to add this no longer than 15 days after confirm goods receiving. And this time left already, when issues came.

Therefore I added my experiences here at least.

Hope you will have a better luck. Some guys here reported a working MB after 6 months.
[Nexus 5X General] attr_reader:
Okay, thanks for the feedback. How many boards did you buy from the Oudini AliExpress store and how many failed?
[Nexus 5X General] Cathair2906:
nah, they don't have online shop :(
[Nexus 5X General] Cathair2906:
no idea :confused:
[Nexus 5X General] TheIronLefty:
Yeah but it would have problems with the os and the cpu right?
[Nexus 5X General] tauio111:
I don't see why it should as long as it has the right voltages of ddr3lp and the right package and connection.
[Nexus 5X General] paul222008:
Yeah just like a windows os wether it is a 2gb or 4gb ram the os would run.
[Nexus 5X General] tauio111:
SD808 is a 64-bit cpu, so no problem adressing >=4GB of ram
[Nexus 5X General] TheIronLefty:
Still i looked around in google for a 4GB LPDDR3 ram on that chipset and it really hard to find on ebay, so i would really appreciate model number for it.
[Nexus 5X General] slobo2712:
Can you make some video review so we can see how it works? :)
[Nexus 5X General] TheIronLefty:
We could use Nexus 6's SK Hynix H9CKNNNDBTMTAR which is 3GB Ram module but i am still searching for the 4GB one.
[Nexus 5X General] crazyates:
That's wicked cool! How long did it the process take (shipping, repair, shipping back, etc)?

To those talking about upgrading the storage: mind sending a link to a thread for more storage?

I'm imagining a super 5x that has 4GB RAM, 64GB storage, an upgraded battery, and a cooling mod (to limit the throttling). That phone would be fantastic.
[Nexus 5X General] odunke01:
That definitely sounds ideal.

Ram and battery are the 2 problems i have on the 5x otherwise i love the phone. It feels much nicer in the hand then my sony z3 (glass backed)
[Nexus 5X General] Siljorfag:
If that phone had 4GB of ram (even 3GB), and bigger battery, that would be perfect phone for me. I'm thinking about 6P just becouse of this two "bottlenecks".
[Nexus 5X General] seldorr:
hoax

how can you upgrade when the ram is in built-in in the cpu?
[Nexus 5X General] nik_marin:
chrome://flags/
[Nexus 5X General] pitt93:
how i can send mine?
[Nexus 5X General] zurik:
I think that nobody can modify SoC. So, possibly is swapped memory.
[Nexus 5X General] benyben123:
OP - can you please share more about this? U left us all drooling but with very little information, haha.

Maybe a website? A phone number (even if it's in China)? I am currently in China - would LOVE to do this! I love my 5x, but hate the RAM problem.

If not this guy, since this is now verified to be doable - anyone here knows of anywhere else this can be done? Maybe even DYI? Need a video guide or something. I don't mind risking the death of this device if it gets me the chance of having 4GB RAM.

Thanks!
[Nexus 5X General] ToniCipriani:
Was this in Shenzhen? I wonder if they can do the Priv.
[Nexus 5X General] crazyates:
It seems to me that the RAM isn't technically part of the SoC, nor is it quite entirely a separate chip, either. From iFixit, it looks like the SoC is soldered onto the board, and then the RAM is soldered on top of the SoC. So it would be theoretically possible to remove just the top RAM layer and replace it with a larger module?
[Nexus 5X General] EstiR86:
This sounds interesting, would they also be able to do speaker upgrades? Or change the top microphone to a compatible speaker/microphone set? Maybe a cooling system to stop the throttling! ?
[Nexus 5X General] one282:
I bought 2 MB. Received 5 of them, 4 MB out of 5 received failed (3 completely, 1 partially working but failed on proper charging = not usable for every day use). Last MB received two weeks ago works now as a home media player.
[Nexus 5X General] attr_reader:
Ouch, that's a really bad. So the Oudini boards have not fixed the bootloop issue and are basically useless?
[Nexus 5X General] dinindourden:
So far so good. It has been two weeks since I received it, and works flawlessly. It can even be unlocked properly.

I will report if something goes wrong.
[Nexus 5X General] attr_reader:
Great. I hope mine lasts too. My bootloader also unlocked fine. Were there some reports of bootloaders not unlocking? Please keep us updated.
[Nexus 5X General] one282:
Hope you will be lucky guys. Last MB works OK as well. But when thinking about a lot of issues I had with all MBs, additional costs for sending MB back to China, I will definitely say good bye to any further broken device and buy a new one without hesitations.

It is not worth spending time and money for uncertain product.
[Nexus 5X General] Felix92x:
I have damaged around 10 Motherboards of Nexus 5x LG G4 and LG G3 when trying to perform the rework of the SoC and unfortunately I have damaged them, now I am thinking about ordering new CPUs and RAM and repairing all the ones I have damaged, I think it would be cheaper order to order new SoC to buy Motherboards from Oudini
[Nexus 5X General] altintorr:
Yes I bought the 4GB RAM / 32GB ROM version from oudini. Working great.
[Nexus 5X General] paradoxiumwind:
I currently run a 4GB decivice with 32gb from here: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/oud...for-LG-H791-32GB-Motherboard/32846103543.html

I bought 2 and sold one on ebay after buying a broken phone and replacing the board.

Are there any other hardware upgrades for our phone we can get?
[Nexus 5X General] Dr Genki's:
When you bought it?
[Nexus 5X General] altintorr:
February 2018
[Nexus 5X General] Tortel:
Just mounted my upgraded motherboard and very pleased to see everything works perfectly... until i realised I got a locked bootloader. Everytime I unlock it, it relocks at reboot... so still able to install custom recovery and roms but no more root unfortunately...

For those interested, here is the link to the store : Dealer&Conscience Store
[Nexus 5X General] altintorr:
See here to have root : https://amp.reddit.com/r/nexus5x/comments/5hj0r0/bootloop_after_lg_replaced_mainboard_bootloader/
[Nexus 5X General] Tortel:
Thank you for the link though I already knew it. It can be a workaround but only to have root on an official build unfortunately. As I'm using the Pixel² ROM the forced encryption is already disabled but still I can't manage to have root access. I've tried both SuperSu and Magisk but I get stuck on the home screen asking me my PIN. Each time I enter it I get a black screen and the home screen reappears. I don't know if it's ROM related or ROOT related. I should try with another ROM to confirm.
[Nexus 5X General] toolshed01:
Yesterday I received the motherboard 4gb + 32gb bought on aliexpress from Dealer&Conscience Store and I'm happy to say that everything work fine! I tested all sensors, cpus, amount of ram.

The android version pre-installed was 6.0 with unlocked bootloader.

I had no problems to install twrp and flash another rom.

The system run considerably more smoothly!! :)

I hope it continues to work.. :laugh:
[Nexus 5X General] Tortel:
Finally got root access and a custom kernel ! Had to format the data, re-upload all I needed (ROM, kernel and super user) then install Magisk and the kernel immediately after the ROM (so before any reboot) otherwise I was still stuck at the home screen.
[Nexus 5X General] Alastor89:
I've read the whole thread, but I didn't get if there is anyone that got also the SoC replaced in addition to [MENTION=4825246]Cathair2906[/MENTION] by shipping the mobo to repair center.

I'm asking because I've a mobo with the bootloop problem and I was thinking to ship it to the guy to perform the SoC and RAM upgrade
[Nexus 5X General] Alastor89:
Happarently no one of the aliexpress seller is doing the CPU swap in addition to the RAM upgrade. The shenzen guy only repair broken mobo or also sells modded mobo ?
[Nexus 5X General] attr_reader:
Instead of getting a CPU swap I would recommend buying a 4gb replacement motherboard from Oudini on AliExpress. It cost about $100 shipped and has been working perfectly for 2 months already.
[Nexus 5X General] Tortel:
+1
[Nexus 5X General] rotmistr:
In my case it is working flawlessly since May
[Nexus 5X General] cyrusharding:
Did you use the H790 - USversion of the 791?
[Nexus 5X General] rotmistr:
791
[Nexus 5X General] cris_webb:
If I have a Nexus 5x Model H790 can I change my motherboard for one target as H791?

I don't know exactly what's the differences between both models

Any help would be appreciated.
[Nexus 5X General] Dr Genki's:
The only difference between one and the other is the frequency of the antennas
[Nexus 5X General] cris_webb:
Thanks!!

I'll check it then
[Nexus 5X General] abdess47:
Hi evevryone,

Firstable, I'm apolozige about my poor english but I will try to explain my self.

I wanna to give my experience after upgrade the nexus 5X to 4gb ram.

I use the new configuration since 6 month.

The rom stock is set up on my phone. No modification but is rooted.

I never had somes problem with the phone, the system is very smooth and confortable to use since the new ram is set.

But the phone use more ram, the average is about 2,1 gb for 3 hours use.

The battery drain is more fast, but i buy a OEM battery.

With a normal use, the battery can be durate 1 day, but not more.

I think this last nexus generation is the best phone we can see on market.

No bull****, just android poweruse with a good price.

Bye !
[Nexus 5X General] whiteboi-hakz:
So here's my experience

Upgraded to 4gm ram

Replaced the battery with a new OEM 1 before even booting the new setup

Once done I booted it everything went smooth like butter

Phone run great as a daily for the last 1 year 4 months and is still currently running as a daily battery needs replaced again tho due to being run on red for so long without a full charge lol but is still running! Just not as my! Daily I upgraded to the 512gb note 9 8gb ram and wow...just wow...my advice is drop this pipe dream get a beast note 9 you wont regret it as for my 4gb Nekky my partner uses it as her daily because before that she had a $40 Huawei lmao
[Nexus 5X General] paradoxiumwind:
£700? anything in the same price as a 5x lmao
[Nexus 5X General] scynthero:
My Nexus 5X with mobo from Aliexpress bricked it's GPU.
[Nexus 5X General] Watantaka:
I want to do it !!

Hi, I'm late, ja. is it just to remove the chip and put another one? where is that chip obtained, do I have the skills to change processors
[Nexus 5X General] altintorr:
Just for info

My 4gb motherboard has just died last week after 18 months of service.

I replaced the original motherboard instead.

So I can easily compare the phone with 2gb or 4gb ram : the 2gb ram is just unusable. You can't keep in memory more than 2 basic app (you can't Firefox and Facebook... You can't pause a game just for answer a WhatsApp message for example).

I was very happy to buy this tweaked motherboard but am a little sad to return to old config
[Nexus 5X General] CLPose:
Does it bootloop just like the LG one? So sorry for you!
[Nexus 5X General] anonxlg:
i think it's also android's memory management is just bad as well.

I've been monitoring the ram usage and this is what i've found (note that I dont have ton of crapware installed; ie fb, chrome, most google apps):

- cold rebooted phone might boot to a ~900mb of ram used

- when the phone is 'stable' OS ram idles at 1-1.1gb used

- I play 2 'big' 3d games, pokemon go and another one. Each of these games might run 400-600mb.

sounds all good, nexus 5x has 1.8gb of usable ram, OS uses 1.1gb, games use 500ish mb, I should be coasting with 150-200mb of free ram to spare, therefore, i should be able to at least keep ONE of these game in memory, except it doesn't.

When i app switch, i can confirm that while the game is running, i actually can be running even with 200-300mb free, however the moment AFTER i app switch and do anything (like opening the app drawer) the game is killed. Not to mention when i switch off the game, my entire home screen refreshes.

It's honestly frustrating because all i can see is there's available ram, but android's memory management kicks in and does its optimizations and what not and kills every process.

I've i've tried flashing the memory tweaks from magisk and tried disable zram to see if anything helps, but it doesn't.
[Nexus 5X General] Nickdroid86:
How do I order one of these in the US?
[Nexus 5X General] stefana888:
Is there any trouble after the 4GB upgrade?
[Nexus 5X General] defroster:
Ordered one of these boards.

Can I just backup the current board via twrp and restore to the new board?
[Nexus 5X General] VN_Optimus:
How to contact the upgrade person ? [MENTION=4825246]Cathair2906[/MENTION]
[Nexus 5X General] thesebastian:
I would pay 200€ for a 32GB Nexus 5X Logic Board (without the bootloop issue) and 4GB of RAM!

My N5X is death over a desk since 2-3 weeks. I'm now enjoying the 3GB of RAM of the 6P (1.1GB free in general...like the old Nexus 5) and a new battery I've replaced yesterday.

They should start selling 32GB fixed logic boards with more RAM...that's worth the price...considering his big brother the Pixel is over 750€ in Europe

I mean...all the 5X that are dying every day......grants a good market

Sent from my Nexus 6P

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The 6P Free RAM is better. But the battery is more or less the same. Maybe 10-15% better..but with both phones (6P with a new battery) I have more or less the same screen on time etc.

S810 drains more battery due to the extra 2 cores and higher frequency. Now standby battery is awesome.

Sent from my Nexus 6P
[Nexus 5X General] xRyanXero:
Skeptical

Until OP can give more proof, I wouldn't get excited. I mean this would be great. I just don't believe someone that has such dodgy answers.
[Nexus 5X General] Psittacus:
[MENTION=4825246]Cathair2906[/MENTION] - How can I contact that upgrade guy? My 5X is in bootloop for months. If I can even only fix it I would be really happy, I really miss it.
[Nexus 5X General] AnteLo:
I heard about upgrading ram on n6
[Nexus 5X General] zo1021:
You are in this news article https://9to5google.com/2017/04/14/nexus-5x-user-upgraded-4gb-ram/ looks interesting. Wanna try that too but my 5x is still working fine.
[Nexus 5X General] Siljorfag:
That's not what I expected. Byt overal it is worth upgrade. Bigger phone, performance, better screen resolution, and metal enclosure, 5X plastic body is crap :/
[Nexus 5X General] thesebastian:
- RAM and performance are the primary advantages. (But mainly if you have several apps in memory and if you are intensive user).

- Screen size algo If you like big phones. (In my case is a contra. Even if I'm learning to one-hand it in many situations).

- Stereo audio is a secondary advantage.

The rest are more subjective and more or less the same. The 5X main issue is the free RAM.

Regarding battery...I'll tell you later...my first cycle with the new battery was good..like 10-15% more than 5X.

Sent from my Nexus 6P
[Nexus 5X General] wing_addict_usa:
I believe op. There's videos of people upgrading iphone storage. Ram is stuck to the soc and more difficult. China has these giant tech malls with kiosks that do it.

Here's a video https://youtu.be/2bGb5AOwp44

People in China use very different communication than we do, they don't speak English, no Gmail no Facebook etc. I wish he'd find someone to list him on eBay though.
[Nexus 5X General] Siljorfag:
[MENTION=4864772]thesebastian[/MENTION] Okay thanks. It will take few months, maybe half a year to buy 6p. I'm waiting for a discount. :>
[Nexus 5X General] Guapo613:
I believe the dude in the video can probably do any phone. Why does Trump dislike the Chinese??, he must have a Nokia?
[Nexus 5X General] wing_addict_usa:
I think he likes China now, they shared a glorious chocolate cake in Florida, so good he forgot what country he bombed moments earlier https://youtu.be/DOPASLTBIsM