As always, Sony phones are interesting to teardown. I haven’t seen a card reader placed between the two layer of logic boards. I think Sony is creative to save space in this small phone for a bigger battery. This small phone has the same battery capacity as the larger 1 III.
Great, good quality and detailed video teardowns, love it. Keep doings this stuff. Is nice to show us, components on motherboard like CPU, nand, pmic. Thank you.
Thanks! Only problem I had was keeping track of what screw went where. The top-right screw at 1:50 went into the lcd, damaging it at that point. I hope the LCD might recover after some time...
Yes, it's always important to keep a track of the screws, especially if they vary in size. Also with some phones including this one, even if its the correct screw, if you over tighten it just even a bit, it will damage the screen. Poor design if you ask me.
@@PBKreviewsWow, I'm back again 1 year later doing the same procedure. The combined power button and fingerprint sensor seems to break once a year for my wife. There button part of it fails so starting the phone with a flat battery is impossible.
Kind of confused by the score. Why so low? The s22 ultra has a higher score but is basically the same inside. These seem to be highly repairable compared to other phones out there. Every piece is modular and connects via a cable and isn't soldered or glued on. Aside from the sim / sd slot and screen being a bear to get to, everything else is easily replaced and repairable. I'd give it an 8 out of 10 IMO.
How hard of a repair was that? My fingerprint sensor went bad and I'm considering replacing it. I've done battery replacements for phones and laptop screen/speaker replacements so I've done repairs before but I'm worried I'll screw this one up.
@@Anastasios912 Hi, thanks to this video it wasn't hard for me and I'm not experienced in reparing cell phones. (Only tried it once before with limited success ;-)). If you follow the steps, organise the different screws, use alcohol to soften the battery adhesive it shoud be allright.
I think Sony phones are trying to achieve one thing: make components as big as possible. Just look at the Pro I's board, that thing's gigantic. And then we have the biggest Flex cable for the Type C port.
Are you guys planning to do one for the 5iv would be nice to see the motor. I have the phone and its the first Android phone I've ever used with decent haptics. Not as good as my iPhone 12 mini but not bad at all
@@PBKreviews Can you recommend a way to find out, which battery type is in a smartphone? I mean li-po, li-ion and eventually quality of the battery, for example in xperia 10 IV. I was using your videos, because web is mess. Some sites says, that xperia 5 III has li-po...
Great video... Great teardown... When it come to android phones, I'm more indulge into sony... @PBKReview, I have a question. Between Xperia1iii and Xperia5iii, which do you think has better thermal design... Thanks in advance...
@@PBKreviews Hi PBK... I have seen your xperia 5 mark “2“ teardown... Great video... I have notice that the graphite sheet is much smaller in xperia 5 mark "3" compare to xperia 5 mark 2... Which do you think has better thermal management? The xperia 5 mark ii with cool SD865 or the xperia 5 mark iii with steamy SD888 cpu?
Heatsink on mark III is so tiny compared to now a days phone, no wonder my xperia 5 iii overheats... This phone internally looks petty ngl, if they just used black flex cable and others thing in black color....
@@classic1625 using this phone for almost 2 years no problem what so ever beast of a compact phone...no cut-down featured live recent 5 V where there is no tele, in 5 iii there is dual focal length telephoto...Best compact phone ever made with all features same as the big one....
Hey bro.... This is too complicated for me... Where are you from? My phone has water damaged.. It worked for a few days, but now it's dead. Plugging in charger just do orange and red.... If I buy a screen replacement, can I send it to you for a repair? I will pay... My phone has images and personal stuff in it, and I need it back.. Alibaba is selling a screen replacement for $230... I already tear it down, and now, I don't know how to put back the vibrate motor... I don't want to make it worse.. I know it can be fix.. Please help buddy...
Hi. the problem with water damage is that your not supposed to attempt to use it or else it can short parts in the phone like the main board. You need to take it apart and dry out any water n clean corrosion before attempting to use. So did you try plugging the replacement screen to the phone to see if it works? you don't need to put the entire phone back together, just plug the new screen to the board and then connect the battery cable and see if you can get it to power on and work. if not, chances are your board is bad.
@PBKreviews Nice video bro! Can I ask you for favour. Can you tell me dimensions of xperia 5 ii and xperia 5 iii batteries. I would like to put 5iii battery inside 5ii,but I cant find dimensions of battery. Connector seems to be on nearly same place on both phones, also battery pinout is same. Thanks in advice!
I have the same thing. Sony gave me the finger because I'm in the US and mine is the international version. They wouldn't even look at it. And good luck finding someone local in Atlanta that's ever seen a Sony.... great vid btw.
Here is a link for one, but its not in canada, ships from china. www.ebay.com/itm/374152707544?hash=item571d3d3dd8:g:C50AAOSwy~FiuZeZ&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsDa1zXdqUnEB3hn4qUjpoZm4k5crJcZT7R%2BjvAURynnMA5QMPmb8fRkOsttxnTEAuo%2F9B3zkqKXZeFMxxCLstKHIRq%2BMyHB6Tb%2FIYpfZnvpVTZwj9o0Rc%2FiVTKWaCHlJV%2Bxi5CsuCOKnriBMGpJSOP7eGdi3RWJQlDsEIT21wEFwPqLrOogO6uM2b5m3ySo95ItxXOQbstS0Hz44gz8G6F4zccnD8ZFHoDVqtL0L5v%2Fk%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5qKvMHaYA
@@PBKreviews so is there any heat issue while playing and watching movies? Wanted to get this phone but thinking twice cause of the sd888 heat issues. My last Xperia was the Z5c with SD810 and it runs freakin hot everytime I play. Want my phone to last a few yrs aswell. Still rocking a Pixel 2 which is turning 5 yrs old already and still runs good except for the battery.
Really, the weakest LED flash I've ever see in a smartphone. Old Nokia N series had a more powerful and could successfully serve as a handheld flashlight. This what Sony has put in its smartphones is just a joke, really bad joke.
@@PBKreviews Unfortunately it is not. While a single flash for photos may still be enough, the function of constant illumination (for example, when shooting a video) is not. The flux of the emitted light is too weak and too scattered. Flashlight option in Sony's new flagship phones is something like going back to the days when the only source of light at dusk were candles, or kerosene lamps ;) There isn't a lot of video footage on YT (if there is one at all) showing how bad the LED flash is. In your video at least we can see why it's so bad...
@Veedo So maybe you should, if you are going to use the capabilities of the device, in terms of photos or filming. Illuminating the scene with another smartphone with a much more powerful led flasch, the quality of the recorded image by this and similar models of Sony smartphones is really gigantically better. It is difficult to understand the decision of Sony's designers, especially since they devoted so much time and work to create original and very extensive applications for taking photos and films - completely underestimating the issue of lighting the scene. Using the phone as a handheld flashlight is of course a less important addition, although in some situations very, very useful. If in this case we get an effect worse than the one that was available in over 10 years old devices, then the criticism is most justified - considering that we are talking about a completely new, current device, for a lot of money.
@Veedo If you don't care, you don't have to decide at all - you just take what you stumble over, walking ahead, because you don't care. I care because I'm using it.
