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Right to Repair/Ownership

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde "oem" parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Any good resources for spare parts in Southeast Asia? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
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Hi there, I'm from Singapore and I'm trying to fix the battery on a Samsung Galaxy Active3 smartwatch. However, I can't seem to find any sellers for replacements - Samsung doesn't seem to sell any non-appliance parts, iFixit doesn't ship outside the US, and I can't find any for sale online.

Besides this watch, I tried to replace the back glass on an old burner iPhone, and couldn't find a good enough replacement that would ship at a reasonable time, so I had to resort to AliExpress. The glass is fine, but the print on the back looks off, and the adhesive that came with it feels like it could come off at any moment. I was wondering if there are any distributors in Singapore/SEA that sell higher-quality spare parts? Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm in your neighboring country and I've found mostly 50/50 quality parts from Shopee. Admittedly, my only experience was an old Galaxy LCD replacement and an iP6 battery.

But yeah, it'd be nice if iFixit ships out to our countries.