If Only Apple Could Make A Phone This Easy To Repair - Galaxy S24 Teardown and Repair Assessment 

Can we also get an s24+ tear down too pls

can you do oneplus 12 next?

At 3:49 there's no need to remove the flex cables to remove the battery. Simply warm up the screen side on low 80C setting on a heat plate for about 3 minutes, bend the flex cables over to the screen side and apply a bit of tape to hold it, pull or pry the battery, and it comes out nice and easy. And for heaven's sake, please don't inject any rubbing alcohol under the battery, while it evaporates, it can damage the sensitive AMOLED if it seeps under the screen. I do this every day at my repair shop, saves a lot of time and aggravation. ;)

No, you're not alone. I'm running a iPhone8 with iOS 11.3. Still does what I need it to do.

​@@jack8356it's the same phone but bigger

Who's Mehdi? I feel like I've gotta check him out too.

@@zanegandini5350 Electroboom

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Electroboom, an electrician which makes yt videos.

i find you everywhere lol

Haha

Well it depends since jerry rig everything removed it easily

@@spacedominator7163 Compare Zack's physique with Hugh's

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HAHA LOL

They can't do this because Apple doesn't have the Australian hostage adapter. It's not compatible with the American standard.

They will update the American Standard so you can use the Australia hostage adapter, but you have to get the new Australia hostage adapter ​@alexandregb566

I'm _totally_ not the one they held hostage instead

Wow you’re such a buzzkiller.

True, like an aluminium frame or harness that just sits in place holding the battery snuggly

That's pretty much what Sony use to do in their Xperia phones. The Xperia Z2 had a battery in plastic housing, that was held just by two philips screws and two clamps. The phone was still as slim as their newest phones

They could simply use two metal or plastic brackets held down by a couple of screws. Mind blown! ha-ha

@@TheMaychalPl Had that on a Fujitsu Lifebook U904, it's just 19mm thin, so similar to a MacBook Air, but the U904 and also the newer U938 are really modular: they have a soldered CPU (the U series were never made socketed), but RAM slot (some RAM is soldered on but they have a SODIMM slot for expansion), M.2 SSD (7mm 2.5" in the U904) and WiFi and mobile Broadband "WWAN" modules, all these parts are socketed. They also have a very fancy Ethernet port that you pull out and then it unfolds, IMHO it shows that Apple took the easy, lazy way to simply ditch the ethernet port since the Retina MacBook Pros instead of developing such a thing. And the battery isn't glued in with a ton of that but held by a plastic "carrier" with a few screws.

That might be dangerous tho if the battery expands. If it has no room to expand it will just burst instead which is very dangerous

Exactly this. Not only less stuff to work on, but you don't have to worry about losing BASIC functionality if you want to fix your screen.. iPhone screens are super friggin easy to replace... but what's the saying? Nothing worth it ever comes easy? I'm heavily considering abandoning the newer iPhone repairs in my shop... At least until I'm able to effectively do some chip swaps.

I get the repairability. I moved to iPhone after galaxy s8 active. The damn thing was constantly mistyping words, making up new words I had mistyped before and overall being slow and freezing constantly

@@blackfacegaming191the s8 or the iPhone?

@@KARMA-wz2nj the s8 active was constantly messing up/freezing/slowing

@@blackfacegaming191 ok that’s the same experience I’ve had with my Samsung also what everyone around me experiences there androids

Galaxy s5 for me

Galaxy Grand prime plus ( help me ).

Still rocking a Galaxy S9 from 2018 right now. If the S24 actually had micro SD support, I'd go with that instead.

I still use a Galaxy TabPro 10.1 almost on a daily basis. If I weren't on my second custom ROM, it'd be stuck on 4.4 Kitkat right now lol

I don't know about that. I can't say anything about Samsung or Apple, but when I replaced the battery on my over 10 year old Kindle, the adhesive in the device was still extremely strong. I don't believe they are accounting for softening of adhesives over time when they design these things.

​@@klopferatorkindle does not use battery as a heatsink. But yeah, the glue is like 300% stronger than it should be.

They don't. Thats now how it works.

Also Hugh has the build of a reddit mod. PDK and Jerry didn't have much trouble pulling out the battery.

Except, the note 7 was not because the phone could move, quite the opposite It was too tight in there that it was squished and popped

Yeah honestly that's why I gave it up because the case hides all that anyways so I really didn't care. Even my S22 Ultra is basically the same as those versions with the case in

I miss my 10e. I regret switching from it. The last of the true small screen phones outside of apple, it seems :(

In general Android 9 and 10 re the best versions of Android.. Freedom

I remember the Galaxy S7! Now that was also when you could tell a Samsung and an iPhone apart! Brilliant phones.

I put Lineage on my S9 and used it for a while but had to switch back due to issues with payment apps. It's plenty fast, much better compared to the stock rom. It just felt much nicer/premium to hold compared to my S20 and it has a MicroSD card slot... You're right the design was great, although I get why people hated the curved glass.

I actually prefer it being flat, because of screen protectors and easier repairs

+/-10%?

Oh, close enough

This seems to be a common thing, my phone, a low end oppo has a battery of supposedly 5000mAh but when it's fully charged AIDA64 says it's charge is 4880mAh

That’s because of safety.

@@djplonghead5403 I imagine charging it to it's fullest could cause battery inflation, right?

That's a SIM reader, not a molex connector. They make way more than just PC power connectors (which by the way are still widely used today, if you are into building PCs).

Now if only it had a headphone jack and SD card slot.

That shows you how much of a copycat they are

​@glynnetolar4423 gosh I wish that they could bring that back! No excuses.

​@@glynnetolar4423- I got the A54 with an SDcard slot, because I will not use any phone without and SDcard. My stuff stays on my phone, nothing in the cloud. ;)

@@altaafful And your daddy Apple ? They copied oled displays like 5 years after android lol. Rumor has it they also copied widgets, camera zoom ...........

"Premium" feel

Thanks for letting us know this. Good to hear how tech can help or hinder people facing challenges in their daily lives.

Yes the vision pro. A 3500 dollar AR headset. Groundbreaking. Stunning and brave..

​@@alexanderrahl482 I'm sure you'd make something better for vr/ar in you're garage.

Mine got stolen a52s was solid until that happened overall s24 is snappy

You should really upgrade to the Note 20 Ultra. Last Note to have the SD card and probably the same cost as what you'll spend getting another battery lol

I would love it if Samsung brought the SD card slot back! In my Galaxy S23 plus it could easily take one since the A54 has one and it's in the software.

I'm still using my S10 and debating on replacing it either with an A54 model or maybe the Note20 since they both have the micro SD slot... I wish companies would stop taking away good features.

I have a S23 but I'm still keeping my S20 FE as backup and because of the SD card slot

What phone do you use? Keeping the s10+ for a long time

Wait. Newer Android versions have no access to data and obb folders? Mine has 7.1.1 btw... if I don't count my old but still working phone with android 5.0.1.

Still got Android 8.1 on my BB Key2

Yeah im still pissed that goovgle decided that move.

im rocking with android 11 on my tcl 30v 5g x)

sounds an awful lot like an LG G Pad 7, I've got one of those (don't know if it's 5.1 tho or just 5.0 but not much of a difference). Removed the camera lens myself since the stupid thing is the thickest point so it got super scratched and couldn't read QR codes anymore (it's only real use). Works well when you disable ALL the google stuff that just ain't helping with anything after all. It's quite incredible what de-googling the device did to it, runs like new other than some random reboots (I think it might be reaching storage write limits on some blocks and plain corrupting some system areas).

@@Kalvinjj Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 lite. I had to factory reset it one time cause I couldn't use the playstore on it but only thing I used it for was RU-vid, light gaming, and that radio app. I may just pick it up again, uninstall RU-vid & disable it, and install some games on it at some point. Most google stuff is already disabled so minimal work on my end. Love the tablet even if it is outdated lol.

Don't wanna hate on you but of course you're "still" happy with an only 1 year old flagship phone. Next year's phone isn't gonna change that either

There's little to no reason to change phones every year. Maybe not even every 2 years. Maybe not even 3.... 4...............

@@VIK_1903 BUT I MUST CONSOOOOOOOOOOM I MUST DESTROY THE PLANET SO I CAN CONSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The S23 vs the S24 is a negligible upgrade. It's essentially the same phone, with just a few really minor tweaks. I would've gone for the S23 if Samsung had not made it completely unavailable in the time between the S24 being announced and released

i have an s22 with no complaints about it, but if my s9+ didnt drown id probably still be using that too. the whole 'my phone ive had less than a year is still fine' is such a dumb comment. of course it is, if it wasnt you bought the wrong phone to begin with. and getting a top of the line phone it better be good enough because there's no way up from the top. you may as well be saying 'my lambo from last year is still fast' well no shit sherlock.

Sounds like less people break Samsung's lol

@@edcdad1124cuz people only go to an Apple Store when they broke their device? I doubt people stay in the store for the whole repair. They just return once the repair is finished.

@@GurkenbauerTim I'm more being sarcastic.

​@@edcdad1124You triggered the sheep. No explanation will soothe them.

the old removable batteries had a hard shell built into them, unremovable ones are a lot softer but with how the phones laid out just a tiny bit of double sided tapes probably enough to keep it still

Good question 🤔

@shanepatrick641 At least if the batteries are the same size, we can transfer the bms over. It would be a great upgrade from 3700 to 4000 mah

​@@defaultuser0856a great upgrade? that's literally less than 10%. more is merrier but i wouldnt call that great

Yes custom ROMs ! I use a pixel 4 on the daily broke my six fixing a ball joint ., I'm running graphenee OS !

That shouldn't be a problem as unlike Crapple, OnePlus didn't pair any parts to a specific phone

id bet yes but i cant promise they didnt do some serializing