For anyone who is worried about the S24 Ultra speaker mesh filter, you can check my X/Twitter post with pictures of the mesh filter. Some people were worried about the mesh filter looking damaged when holding a flash light into the opening of the bottom speaker in the frame. It's not damaged and its just "domed" or in a dome shape fitted into the speaker opening in the frame of the phone. x.com/PBKreviews/status/1753223290913423458?s=20
Hi what about bottom mic ... I accidenly poked it with a sim ejector tool which is thinner than samsungs... should I worry about water resistance capability???
Thank you so much for the last comment regarding puncturing the hole next to the sim card. I came here just for that reason. Who would design a hole not meant to be punctured next to a hole needed to be punctured in order to get the sim card out. 🤦
Here are some tips from a Samsung certified tech. More even heat is best. Never sit in one spot as that will burn the paint or OLED panel. The frame can take a good amount of heat. If it doesn't come out easy, wait and apply more heat. Patience is an absolute requirement. No point in rushing. We use a heating pad set to 80°C or around 180°F. Never use metal to remove PCB components from the frame, that always poses a risk to damage. Always use a black disassembly stick to remove those components and disconnecting the cables. On some Samsung phones, they have arrows, lines, or squares for places to put the stick for removing the cables to not knock off surface components. The bottom speaker and top speaker have removal points indicated by an arrow. You can use blunt metal tweezers for added support. Removing the front camera can be difficult. Samsung recommends using a SIM tool remover when removing the glue. Just make sure to not bend towards the camera as that can separate the lens and sensor. I use sharp pointed tweezers for grip. Go slow. If you accidentally touch the cameras, no worries. Take a cotton swab with a tiny amount of 99% isopropyl alcohol and gently swirl around the affected area. Removing the display from the frame is near impossible not to break. Out of the 300+ S23 Ultra displays removed, not a single one came clean. Even for in-warranty repairs using their heating/disassembly machine. Under the screen, there are 3 adhesive parts. The outer, inner island, and bottom. The inner island will give the most trouble. As before even heat for long periods for good results. When removing the adhesive from the back glass, get it heated and grab and pull. Ball up the adhesive and dab the residue off. This also works on the frame.
As a tech lover who loves repairing my own tech, I am happy Samsung made the S24 ultra the most repairable phone I ever seen. The phone is mostly modular so you can replace the USB-C connector or the sim card reader easily. As someone who knows how hard it is to safely remove iPhone batteries, I am happy the battery on the S24U is very easily to replace. Great job Samsung. Great video PBK.
Same replacing a battery in a OnePlus 9 pro and then gonna try and fix my s24 ultra my dumb self left on the roof of the car it made it down the interstate a little ways before it ended in the slow lane and I can only assume it got ran over minimum of 1 but up to 5 maybe 10. Times frames straight but back glass and screen are cooked
Wow, I really appreciate the author sacrificing his phone to unlock the S24U. This is an incredible thing! I am really touched. Great, thanks again to the author!👍
It's amazing having seen the genesis of transistor electronics from the 50's all the way to now. In the 60's as a kid I used to take almost everything apart. (Broke a fair share of stuff). Thank overseas for making things as tiny as possible, and getting smaller and smaller. I always appreciate someone showing how to do these procedures correctly. I miss the days when you could unscrew the back vs. using a heat gun or hairdryer to pry things open.
exactly i was waiting for Jerry who just said the oneplus 12s vapour chambere is the biggest ever, MOVE OVER JERRY theres a new DON in town its the S24 ULTRA BABY
@harryvuemedia5106 you know who im talking about. The people who normally do teardowns are slow to make videos. And theres a lot of youtubers who dont normally do teardowns who could definitely afford it.
@@texasblaze1016 If youtube isn't their full time job, then of course they're going to take longer to make videos. I mean if their full-time job is youtube and they have a video editor, then pretty sure their videos would have been out the same day as samsung releasing their S24. Not as easy as you think it is as people do have life outside of youtube.
@harryvuemedia5106 are you trying to say YT is PBK's full time job? I doubt that when he only has 136K subscribers and not enough views or videos to pay for one demo. Hes beating jerryrigeverything, ifixit, techrax and multiple other channels who normally show the same content with tens of millions of subscribers at equal quality. So understand im not saying every day random citizens should be picking up an S24 ultra and tear it down but the usual channels who you haven't got any clue about should be jumping on videos like this without a several weeks delay
@@texasblaze1016 dude, what im saying is that everyone has lives outside of youtube. You act like all those people you mentioned just sit at their desk with all the free time in the world. You act like Jerry only does smartphone teardown and nothing else. Oh wait, he has a family too so who the heck is going to watch his kids? You? Your channel shows a lot of video games so I do wonder if you even have a life outside of it? Like a family? Full time job? Activities? Hobbies? Or anything else? Sheesh, who cares how fast or long it takes someone to release their videos, focus on yourself and stop complaining. People have lives outside of youtube too.
Most excellent video! I got my S24 Ultra a little over a month ago. I got it a few days before going on vacation. I ended up dropping the phone while on vacation and shattering the screen. This video helped me replace the whole screen/digitizer assembly. Very well done!
When you pulled out the multi layered circuit board i was amazed! I never watch teardowns of phones until i got my s24 ultra because its so light and powerful!
I did the same thing with my s23 ultra I just got myself for Christmas. I was freaking out I punched a hole in the microphone assembly. Alot different from an s9+.
Great to know that the battery isn't so difficult to remove and replace. For anyone that still wants to keep their S24 Ultra for up to 10 years, definitely be worth it to replace the battery after 5 years of usage. As long as Samsung keeps making the same battery size for the next S25, S26, S27 and S28, then we won't have to worry about finding the right battery. You would just have to pay $200 usd for someone to professionally replace that battery.
Man that's a beautiful piece of technology....can't wait till tomorrow! I remember we used to have to read these books that took up entire bookcases just to look something up. Encyclopedias lmao! Now we have full computer gaming system. In our POCKET. AMAZING
You're welcome. Yeah, it was in the speaker housing so I didn't want to break the speaker to show it since I plan on repairing this phone when the screen is available.
Periscope camera: Samsung has put the first lens element in front of the prism, which can increase the size of the front element, which in turn should (in theory) increase (smaller f-number) the maximum aperture of the lens. (Even though this camera has a smaller aperture than Google Pixel 8 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max). Huawei also uses this trick with the P60 Pro / Art periscope camera, but Huawei has a second prism for a larger camera sensor.
@@laptech3767 It is not noticeable that the video tries to repair the screen, knowing that it is much better and cheaper to buy the screen and the new chassis .
Truly amazing engineering to make all those little parts fit together so compactly! But replacing the battery looks harder than I think it should be, or I could just buy a new phone every 2 years. Oh, I see . . . brilliant of you Samsung!
Apparently the thermal headroom for the ultra is lower than last year and s24/s24+ exynos chips, 44c vs 46c. This means performance is being throttled unless samsung increases headroom to 46c. Idk why they did this but in hot countries it may limit chip a lot in performance area.
@@NunoFilipe99 yes its bigger and s24+ is also bigger but samsung artificially limits thermals to throttle at 44c, used to be 46c. So performance is being held back (sd should be even faster). Only for ultra, exynos variants of s24+ is 46c, dont know about sd version of s24+
Screen doesn't work after. If replacing a broken screen, you have no issues since your replacing it so you won't care to pry it off and damage it further.
Man, you just relieved so much stress. I wasn't paying attention, and I pushed the sim tool into the bottom microphone hole. I'm glad to hear that you can't do any damage from doing that. Phew! Thanks
Quick question: There are reports from Korea by people who used a flashlight to look through the speaker hole, claiming that the speaker mesh deep inside that hole looks to be damaged, uneven, or using low quality materials. When you completely took the phone apart, were you able to see any abnormalities with the bottom speaker unit pertaining to what once was a clearly visible metal mesh from the outside? Once again, thank you for the detailed assembly. Always a joy to come here whenever a new phone gets released.
I just took it apart and took a look at it. I uploaded pictures to X/Twitter and you can share the link with anyone who is worried about the issue. There is no problem with it. x.com/PBKreviews/status/1753223290913423458?s=20
Wonder when apple will invent the graphene, Samsung and other manufacturers are using it for few years now, so apple will be last - as always, but when? Probably when they will be out of arguments for raising prices. Great video!
@@hachiko2692 nope apple bonded aluminum directly with the titanium outer frame, theres only a little bit of plastic on the bottom where the charging port is. Oh boy does that bond hold well, just happened to have watched Hugh Jeffreys video on a broken iphone restoration. The frame was broken, the only places where it broke was the antenna lines on the plastic part of the frame, that really goes to show how good of a job they have done. Antenna lines are a weak spot even for single-piece aluminum milled frames.
@@hachiko2692 i personally prefer titanium, it feels more premium in the hand due to its matte finish, and i always prefferred matte over glossy finishes.
You deserve a subscribe. Amazing. The good thing is that you show it in real-time, not time-lapse, and of done things. the only thing that moved quickly was screws which is understandable
Ive only had the phone for around 2 months and the charging port continues to detect water you think i should attempt to replace it? I have all the tools and have taken phones apart before but is the port the issue
After you open the phone, how do you glue it back so the waterproofing remains the same as factory? I need to take my s24 ultra to service to warranty replace one of the cameras or maybe the whole setup of cameras because I have rattle even when I record a video and I can hear the rattle in the background and some buzzing when turning the phone to the upper right . Thank you
I just got mine this week and love this teardown video thanks! I was wondering if you have any pics from this teardown that are usable as a wallpaper? Much appreciated!
Please reply. Is ultra wide band really affect internet connection, s24 vs plus or ultra If it is then how just little explain that makes purchasing point thanks .
Hi, a question. Can we then say that this phone has 2 speakers that function as stereo? Or is the top speaker used for calls? I didn't understand that part.
The camera module on the S24U is in a slightly different location than it is on the S23U, thus making reuse of old phone covers difficult to impossible.
This is 1 TB or 512 Gb ??? Please show storage place inside and open both phone , show 1 tb looking inside and how 512 gb looking inside , please reply my comment. Which one i should buy
thank you for the video, I see that they changed the place for the microphone, if we mess up when we insert the sim card we won't damage the microphone? Sincerely
What if I accidentally put the SIM ejector tool into the microphone hole instead of the SIM tray hole because they are too close? Is there any damage to the microphone or waterproofing? Please explain.
hello@PBKreviews could you confirm after taking apart the phone that without the sim tray inserted, or fully inserted that the phone is still IP68 capable? Or would you conclude the sim tray is absolutely needs to be inserted properly to be IP68 qualifed
Please need some help my s24 ultra has no battery i forgot my phone in another country the only way to send back home was removing the battery, i live in California and is really hard to get a replacement any idea where i can find it please, thanks
Just discovered your channel - very nice work, PBK! I have an S9 that has bit the dust. Searching, it seems that likely the OLED screen is kaput. It died suddenly. I almost got it working by shining a bright light at the top of the phone, but it didn't last long enough for me to change the screen settings. Spent so much time to see if I could revive it. So, I've decided to order the S24 Ultra and will be arriving in a few hours. Thank you for putting together this video - was interesting to see what's inside.
Would you say the parts inside the phone are pretty durable and are well secured inside the phone? For example if you dropped the phone or the phone was shaken rigorously it wouldnt affect the internal parts/moving parts like camera lenses/optical image stabilisation sensors etc? You'd have a better idea since you open these phones up and look inside 😊 Just asking out of interest. S24Ultra owner here.
