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Just after going on a mobile phone repair course in uk been looking at MPRS repair courses in London Which is the best one if any one here has attended one , Many thanks

It depends on what your looking for regards to training? This company seem to offer board level repairs. But if your just looking at how to swap screens, change batteries, charging ports then there is a few cheaper training courses online.

Old question but since the topic was woken up, I’m just going to say it (even if it’s “controversial"™) to a certain group: I do not believe classes for most fields are required (or should be entertained at all), especially for repair. Now yes, you need it for some fields like law and medical related sure. For everyone else, it is usually NOT a requirement and a complete waste of 2-4 years of time and money. It’s time you could better spend in the field, carrying NO student debt and actually actively fixing relevant devices in the field. And the best part is the end result is yours, not the schools.Take for example how I came to own a Maxxum 7: I bought one with a bad shutter gear (something you can no longer buy as the part is NLA, even KEH gives these the “AI” label), then got upset I lost for 5 minutes. Rather than give up I tried again and got another one which needed a film door (which was fine on the unrepairable camera). After swapping the door, I can say I have a working 7, even if it took two. Was it probably more time efficient to import one from Japan? Probably, but the price made up for the extra work to get there and its mine and I know it better than an imported body from Japan – especially since I tested it harder than I would test a good Japan import. The ONLY “downside” (like it matters, frankly) is if someone asks how I got it as a reference, the price point I got my 7 at is a permanent stain against me since I didn’t get mine like everyone else, or pay the Japan import prices.The only time this “price gap” matters is if I’m using it in a situation price paid vs. common prices matter in a negative way. It means nothing otherwise, so I’d rather lie or walk. Oh well, I got a 7 at a deep discount in exchange. Rant warning: To be quite frank, I blame the public school system for all of these people demanding classes for everything, even when it’s not required and a complete waste of time. When I was in high school on the mandatory college tour, most people only went (and took on the debt) to APPEASE THEIR PARENTS because they were borderline harassed into going, and it’s “expected”*. The reason I target the school system, college reps and parents equally is they all are part of this issue so I spread the blame (but usually mostly pin it on parents and every high school). You can start out with a $0 debt balance by graduating with mediocre grades and real experience, and be way ahead of everyone else who learned on old information. Yes, I was considered a “failure” in high school, no I don’t feel bad, nor let it affect me. If you let their nonsense get to you, it will hurt real learning and only work for them, not you. The reason I do not support “repair school” as a concept is it pushes the same nonsense - if you don’t go, you aren’t prepared. Smuggle your parent’s broken phones for yourself if need be, tear them down and repair them if you want to learn phone repair – cheaper, and you get an extra phone in the end - that’s what makes the papers they issue equally as borderline worthless as most college degrees. Yes, higher education can be important, but it’s not worth $100k in student debt or wasted time working on old Samsungs nobody (but people who can snipe them cheap and know the issues get) uses in a repair class, and we throw these old phones out when ANYTHING breaks due to cost vs phone value. College and repair classes are a symptom of a deeper problem about how we look at the value of an education (which needs to be dealt a painful and slow death out of spite). I’m at the point we need to go back to the old way of doing things: self-taught, or trade schools; college ONLY if you need it, not because it’s expected. Most people are better served by the SOHK, not college.Yes, I WAS a victim of this garbage, and the horrible “public school system”. That’s part of the reason it gets to me as much as it does, I do not hold back. Oh, and you end up with ~100-200k in UNFORGIBEALE STUDENT DEBT. In general, I didn’t get good at repairing certain devices because of a class - I became familiar with them by failing a previous repair, or zapping myself with a flash capacitor because I slipped up and got negligent (and things like flash caps only bite once, you never forget again). A lot of the time it’s because I got a unbeatable deal on a sought after models which need work and having to figure out how. I can safely say I know more from getting zapped by flash caps biting me (and killing the camera because of a short and throw) after I failed. On the times I wanted to see it through I got superior experience by doing what I had to for the repair to be seen through. It doesn’t come with a certificate, but it comes with superior experience and a camera. You won’t get that through a school or in person course*.**Minor formality, for transparency. Technically I did, for the last 2 years of high school but my school paid for it but I didn’t finish. Hey, it’s less money that didn’t go to someone’s absurd bonus for berating kids with “zero tolerance” while letting the bully off, when the person who fought back and got in trouble IS THE REAL VICTIM. The problem is schools are rigid and you can’t learn what you need, or at your own pace; if you struggle, they leave you behind happily to focus on the others who learn like a robot. If I’m struggling to see a repair through (especially a desirable camera body or laptop/desktop I’m taking on for my use) I’ll set it aside and look for what I need to get it done, not cry and abandon the attempt. The other issue is that’s an F with a class, even if it wasn’t planned. If the HP laptop I’m working on (with a unresettable BIOS lock) needs a motherboard, I can set it aside and get parts (or source a donor with a bad screen and beaten-up chassis) or try dumping the BIOS and decrypting it. The same goes for “NLA” parts. Swapping a focusing screen, film door or other repair on sought after SLR you want to see through will teach you more and you get more experience, as well as the repaired camera being truly yours. The other issue is your shortcut “isn’t fair to the class” but in the real world, we value those step saving shortcuts. If someone says it’s “not fair” that I own one of the best film SLRs made from two and came out well ahead, I’m going to tell them to shove it! An example where school fails is you may find a shortcut when you may find a way to get it done quicker, like removing 4 screws near the film door locking pins and the flash control switch panel to get to the parts which need to come off (and you only remove half the parts). It may increase assembly precision needed due to increased error intolerance) – or if you need the screen from a bad door assembly but you have one with a bad hook, you can steal it from the bad part and make a new door. If you dry run the donor with care, it leaves you room to try things for the real repair.I’ve also seen it on laptops where you can get away with removing a few parts and you have proper access, but that will not work in these schools or classes - and removing the LCD assembly is a redundant step you can skip. The issue now is GOD FORBID someone finds a quick way in that’s bad because it’s all about “equality” in schools now, not merit. Finding a quicker way in is praised out of school, and rightfully so. If you can remove 2 components and not 4, that’s seen as a good thing.

No one here has seen the MPRS course in London Update (10/02/2022) Which is the best but no one has participated here.