we tear down a lot of phones around here
and if you've been paying attention you
might have noticed a trend a lot of low
repairability scores so that might have
you thinking what does it take to get a
high score well today we're gonna answer
that question while tearing down the LG
g5
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit the last LG
phone we tore down was the g4 and when
we took it apart we loved it for being
one of the last flagship phones that had
a removable battery well thankfully the
removable battery remains with just a
press of a handy button the battery
slides right out this is a three point
eight five volt ten point eight watt our
2800 milliamp hour battery that just
barely edges out the iPhone 6s plus is
27 50 milliamp hour battery detaching
the battery from the module requires a
pretty serious tug making it something
you wouldn't do by accident picking
apart the module reveals some glue
screws and a ton of goodies to peruse in
addition to making USB port replacements
easier than ever the tiny battery module
also contains a speaker some antennas
and lots of spring contacts the unibody
design of the g5 gave us some concern as
they can frequently use massive amounts
of adhesive to hold components together
but inspecting the bottom of the display
reveals two Philips screws in some
primal clips securing the display to the
unibody frame this display is a 5.3 inch
quad HD IPS multi-touch display with a
resolution of 2560 by 1440 and a pixel
density of 554 pixels per inch with the
display out of the way we get a better
look at the removable batteries
mechanical shock absorber this springy
mechanical do that helps the g5 s
battery slide perfectly into place next
out were the cameras first the eight
megapixel front-facing camera and then
the two rear facing cameras the big one
is the primary 16 megapixel rear camera
with extra girth to support optical
image stabilization and the smaller one
is the a megapixel rear camera with a
wide-angle lens all the cameras were
straightforward to remove and since they
were individual parts extremely modular
finally we take out the motherboard and
get a better look at all those chips we
identify four gigabytes of Samsung
lpddr4 ram with the quad-core Qualcomm
Snapdragon 820
system-on-chip layered beneath if you
want to see the full list of chips we
found head over to our teardown at
ifixit.com we've come to the end of our
teardown and now we turn our thoughts
towards repairability
how did the LG g5 score it got an 8 out
of 10 so what made the LG g5 score so
well the user removable slide-out
battery is a huge boon to the phone's
lifespan no glue and few screws make for
a relatively simple opening procedure
standard Phillips double zero screws
means the right tool is probably already
in your toolbox many components are
modular making for easier cheaper part
replacement unfortunately the battery
module covers are glued on making
repairs a bit sticky but the module
itself greatly simplifies the process of
replacing a faulty USB port and on the
downside the fuse display assembly will
need to be replaced if the LCD or glass
breaks increasing cost and that's our
teardown for the complete teardown
including tons of beautiful high-quality
images in some awesome x-rays from our
friends at creative electron head on
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