FIX Roborock Error 1 - Laser Distance Sensor (LDS)

This was an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much! It saved me so much time and money with costumer service!

Thanks so much for the help. My rubber band had slipped off the spool.

It really helped

It worked and it was easy to do!

Thanks for your help. This was a lifesaver. It worked. No need to replace motor. Brilliant video.

Note that the removing white cover on top of lds screws voids the warrenty. In my country roborock has 1 year warrenty but lds has 2 years so check before you void your warrenty. You may be able to get full lds replacement for free.

super helpful , easy to understand, and straight to the point ! thank you so much ! no way i could have figured it out without this video !

How to fix a robotic vacuum cleaner Roborok 5 - which stops working after a few minutes.

Thank you so much for this take apart tutorial. I had a single grain of rice stuck in the spinning laser contraption and it took down the whole system. Took it apart and fixed the whole unit.

Thank you so much for this video ❤️!!!!It saved me
money and hassle to look for a new vacuum . I was about to give up and through to garbage my roborock vacuum .I thought I did everything since I changed all filters and dusted off, except that small part where motor is there have been nit cleaned . Now is working like new ☺️

Found a small rock that somehow was stuck under the lidar. Thanks!!!

Straight to the point , simply to follow instructions, excellent

Thanks! In our case all it took was to gently rotate the LiDAR tower!

Thank you! I changed the piecr ans following your tutorial I fixed it!

Thank you! I fixed my S6 roborock just by diaassembling the motor and sensor and turning it with 9V battere. Put it back and it works.

Thanks Nick! I got this error, found your video, and was quickly up and running again. I was sure this was going to be a huge problem to fix, but it was a quick fix thanks to you. I really appreciate your help!

Thank you for this video!

Superstar, took it apart, cleaned it, all working and good. Thank you ❤❤

Thank you! This was super helpful.

great video! Mina accidentally sucked over water, and after letting it dry it started complaining about the Lidar turret, even though it was spinning just fine. The 9v battery didn't do anything, but disassembling the laser unit itself worked. I had already cleaned everything and even though I didn't notice any hairs or dust, just taking the laser unit apart and then together again fixed it!
(I kept testing if the robot would start after each step. In fact first time it worked, it had the Lidar unit disassembled)

Thanks a lot that really helped 😊❤

Quite amazing.
TL;DR It worked.
Longer story:
I tried to depart it with my dad like shown above.
We didn't have a 9v battery so we just cleaned everything very well and put it back.
It didn't work.
We already started to look for repair labs and prepared for the cost.
I decided to read more comments and saw so many people wrote that just attaching the motor to the battery, actually fixed the problem.
And one awesome commenter said that you can substitute the battery with a DIY cord from USB.
We tried it again, the cord hack worked, AND IT FIXED THE PROBLEM!!!
I'm so so happy and satisfied.
Thank you dear sir for this tutorial.

it will be good to see video how to fix error1 for Q_Revo. it looks monolith and I do not understand how to get to the lidar. Same error 1:(

The disassembly for my S6 was slightly different, but close enough. The 9V trick worked and Rosie is back in business. THANK YOU for posting!

.If motor is ok you can clean wıth another vacum cleaner wıthout uninstalling. Try it

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In my case it was saying the same error message: "please make sure the laser distance sensor is not blocked", but it wasn't the problem of the laser sensor at all.

I noticed that when turning the device on, the brush does not spin at all and the vacuum cleaner doesn't move, although you can hear that its engine works fine.. Then it takes approx. a minute for the message about the laser to be played.

So I removed the brush and noticed that there was a lot of lint and hair underneath, which ultimately was preventing the brush rotation.

Cleaning it helped the robot start working again.

Thanks. How did you connect roborock 5 to google home? 😊

I also had a problem with error 1, but the whole problem was in the closed switch of the upper cover of the sensor. after I left the cover screws a little loose, the problem was solved.

The 9v battery trick worked!!!! Thank you so much

This is the second time I came to this video. The 9v test made sure the motor works. The alcohol clean of the cornacts restored the function again. And it doesn’t have dust visible… but it worked thank you once again ❤ S50, the show must go on 😂
I love ❤ this vacuum cleaner

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Thanks! Same for me, there was nothing inside except for minimal dust yet disassembling and blowing/turning the unit fixed it

I had a piece of grit under the turret causing Error 1. I could hear it during spin-up, but couldn't blow it out. Your tear down worked great for my Q7.

Thank you! It helps a lot to prevent me buying something

Had a roach stuck in there thanks for the sharing

I took mine apart, jump started the motor and it worked. But then every few uses it stops working again. What’s happening.

Worked like a charm thanks

Days before Christmas, and the "LIDAR" just locked up. My wallet said "no, you can't buy a new one". Watched the video, popped it open. Cleaned around the LIDAR and heard something crunchy being dislodged. Worked just fine after that!

Thank you for helping me to save my money.

Excellent video - great job

Thanks!!! Great video 👍

i replace the whole module and after several cleanings, i have again the error, what can be the reason?

Thank you, that worked for me!

How can I open q7max? I dont know how

Very helpful! Thanks 😊

Thx! This helped me. The belt of my LiDAR was off the rail

I have repaired my old well used roborock many times and have previously replaced the laser - have watched many videos on how to do these things - but I am sure your trick using the battery to check the motor saved me buying a new laser again! Thankyou!

I opened everything up as you showed here, blew out the dust and dander with an air blower, and wiped the lidar sensor with a wet Q-tip and then a dry one.

The Roborock works again! Thank you for this.

Thanks, it worked. I had to replace the part and now its working again.

Replaced the motor, works like a charm. Thanks. A note about unscrewing the motor from the housing - you better hope you have a nice screwdriver/bits because I broke two of mine in the process. The screw is extremely tiny and mine seemed seized up, but I can see you strugling a bit to get it out in the video here as well.