good mornin hi everybody good morning
I think we're live or we realize can you
guys see us can you hear us
anyways so earlier this week we tore
down both the samsung galaxy s 9 and the
s 9 plus but we wanted to do it live so
you could see it happen in real time so
today we're gonna tear down the samsung
galaxy s 9 plus so we actually tore down
the s 9 over on our YouTube channel last
week so you can head on over to our
YouTube channel and see that and
speaking of our YouTube channel a
something really exciting just happened
we just hit our 400,000 subscriber mark
and that's really exciting
um and when exciting and awesome things
happen we like to celebrate and what
better way to celebrate than with some
tools yeah so we are giving away
something that is never before been seen
on ifixit.com we've got our brand new
Manta bit yeah
so this set this literally arrived
yesterday
um I think like half of our office
hasn't even seen it yet and it's so
pretty so there's a hundred and thirteen
bits here and they're all like really
secure in this laser-cut foam interior
and these drivers yeah that driver for
BP yeah they're super nice they're heavy
they feel super solid in your hand they
have the the nice little swivel caps
yeah and oh I think my favorite part of
this is the top of the case is actually
a sorting tray so you can put all of
your screws and all of your components
in there when you're doing a repair and
if you've seen our Universal bit kits
got the wooden box and lots of them it's
all the the hundred bits and stuff in
there as well but what's great about
this kit is that if you flip it over
nothing falls magic so we're gonna be
giving away one of these today to one of
you that asks us some questions so we
want to hear from you guys both ask us
questions and let us know if you can't
hear us are having trouble with the
stream but don't worry if you are
because we're gonna post this on our
YouTube channel later on and but then
throughout the the stream if you guys
have questions
about the galaxy or just like weird
questions not sure my mom is watching hi
mom yeah if you ask asked a question
we're gonna pick our favorite question
at the end and then we will announce the
winner on our show
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announcement all right so let's get this
out of the way and so we before we get
started with all these tear downs we
always want well we know we're what
we're kind of getting into because we've
torn down something similar before and
we trade this down earlier in the week
but the samsung galaxy s night everybody
seems to be kind of copying Apple when
it comes to design and things with the
Samsung's kind of stayed true to itself
so there's ya know they kept the knotch
the headphone jack and but one thing
that is different about opening these
phones up compared to an iPhone is the
point of entry so if you've seen our
tear downs of Apple iPhones and you pop
off the screen first and then everything
else lies beneath your battery you know
you can disconnect your screen you can
access your battery everything from
there but with Samsung's we're actually
gonna go in from behind and this is okay
this is you know that's the design is
okay as far as repairability goes when
it comes to replacing the battery cuz as
soon as we open up the back you'll be
able to see the battery and the ports
and the motherboard but it's not so
great for repairing the one thing that
gets broken the most the screen on this
thing so that does make it a little bit
difficult when going into repairs
because you kind of ended up with a fold
disassembly so we're gonna start going
in from the back I'm gonna go ahead and
keep this up a little bit you know we're
gonna be battling some adhesives good
and we already have a few questions so
Jordan - how long have you guys been
tearing down things me personally just
about three years and I fix it as a
whole about 10 years yeah that's that's
about right we've been turned down
samsung phones a little and not as long
as we have iPhones and other things that
Samsung did they didn't skip the nine
it didn't go from eight to ten like the
iPhone went from eight to ten and so
that's that's fun yeah I don't know I
feel like I've always been kind of
tinkering and taking stuff apart my
whole life I was also the oldest in my
family so I feel like things broke it
was like here you you fix this but I've
been what they fix it just for a couple
years but we've been tearing down stuff
and I fix it for over a decade
yeah that's it's a long time and so like
Kelsey said a lot of manufacturers copy
Apple especially Android manufacturers
and even when it doesn't make sense so
last year we saw Huawei and Mays you use
apples proprietary pentalobe screw which
just makes no sense the pentalobe is
shallow it's prone to stripping
literally the only reason you use the
penile obe is to keep people out of the
device like most people would have a
Phillips or flathead you know driver
just in their kids but not a pendulum so
it just makes it yeah and the funny
thing is that the pendulum is only on
the outside of the case of the iPhone
and once you get in I'm pretty sure it's
all standard screws so there might be a
try wing in there but yeah so they only
exist to keep you out
another question mark oh why people
don't take serious the repairs for
phones so why do people buy new instead
of repair
I think people buy new for a lot of
different reasons yeah that's kind of a
personal thing I mean people usually
want the latest and greatest tech but
with something like the s9 really most
of the upgrades just came with the
camera there wasn't a huge spec bump on
the s9 as we're gonna get into a little
bit later but you know people always
want the latest and greatest
manufacturers don't really make it an
option they're an easy option to repair
and I think a lot of people are kind of
unintentionally forced into upgrading
you know when you're if you you know
crack your screen and it's not or you
know damaged something in your phone and
it's not in your best interest
financially to get a new one because
either the parts aren't available or you
know Apple or other manufacturers are
charging you an arm and leg to get it
fixed so but that's you know a reason
for right to repair so Reena asked what
is the tool that you use to heat the
phone and
so this is a heating pad usually we use
our iOpener but we don't have a
microwave in our video studio so we just
relied on the heating pad here and
there's a lot of adhesive on this phone
man back in the day I think it was the
s3 that it actually got an 8 out of 10
on our ability scale because it was all
bound together with screws loop missing
picks and this one is just it's pretty
much a glass and glue sandwich as you
can see here it's pretty difficult for
Kelsey to get the case open because of
all of the adhesive that is stuck in
there and the adhesive is really really
thick on the bottom of this foam so
around the bottom case of this phone
it's uh alright all the glue but she has
the pick in and she's using the force
use that force Kelsey right there so
yeah so when we're tackling the adhesive
around this I'm actually gonna kind of
come around to the bottom and up the
other side on the right hand side of the
back of the phone is the fingerprint
sensor cable so I don't want to like you
know be super aggressive just come over
the top and clip that things I'm trying
to be careful but yeah there we go so
this year they actually moves a
fingerprint sensor and so as you can see
right there it's off to the right
instead of down below like we saw in the
s8 let me grab the s8 actually but I
still feel like I would get fingerprints
and smudges like all over my campus so
we can use a little bit of a computer
but I don't know but I also use a pop
socket on my iPhone if we take a look so
if I had a printer on the back it might
be you know maybe more idea but maybe
not yeah so um I actually don't have a
fingerprint sensor on my phone I am
rocking an iPhone 6s but my home button
broke so I'm using an aftermarket home
button and it's not paired to my logic
board so I haven't had a fair print
sensor ever and so I feel like when that
glorious day comes when I actually have
that again it'll be pretty cool so
someone's asking why we're not heating
the back cover so if you just tuned in
we did sheet it and we're doing a live
teardown of the samsung s 9 plus and we
did heat it a little bit we might heat
it a bit more or we'll just break some
things cuz breaking things is fun but
but yeah it's not easy to get open and
that's actually why we don't do tear
downs live a lot of people often ask us
to do live tear downs but usually we
don't want you to watch us suffer see
this part right now cuz it's kind of
yeah Maury we're trying to figure out
the you know with all these new phones
nobody's ever opened them before so
we're trying to figure out the most
efficient way for the average you know
consumer or fixer to do it but yeah
sometimes that involves things in the
process but that's kind of what we
always say we get devices so we can do a
teardown
if we need to break our device so you
don't have to that's the goal so we
break things for you guys a little a
little bit more
sounds good so we are going to use our
heating pad once again because this glue
is a bear do you want some coffee I have
coffee
oh so Ariane is sympathizing with us he
said that it's not hot enough not hot
enough and he had that same problem so
thank you we appreciate your sympathy
and it cools really quickly to you so
second you take it off like all that
adhesive is just like hardening
hardening back up again but and she also
asks is it the same design as the s8 and
the s7 yeah it's very pretty similar
yeah the opening procedure is definitely
the same I'm aside from that the
fingerprint sensor cable but even once
we got inside I mean that I think the
overall consensus from the teardown was
just that it's kind of the same thing
the camber though which we will take
apart and show you guys and talk about
in a bit was kind of the meat and the
meat of the upgrade I got a sense for
this or like the really the big end
upgrade for the s9 but yeah the rest of
the things are pretty minor as far as
the internal construction of the phone
oh so David is this a waterproof phone
so is this a waterproof phone so the
Samsung s9 has an IP rating of 68 if
you're keeping score Apple has an IP
rating of 67 on the
ten all that means is that it's not
waterproof it's actually water-resistant
yeah there's there's a big difference
everyone seems to think they can go
deep-sea diving with their phones and
that's that's not okay
don't do that yeah I mean there are as
well get in I'll point out like some of
the gaskets and things around the ports
that are you know protecting it from you
know ingress protection if you didn't
know IP the IP rating means ingress
protection so it's any point of ingress
where the water could get into your
phone they've put you know measures in
place to kind of avoid that but as
you'll see well yet we've got gaskets
and things like that so not waterproof
just water resistant yes so yeah so when
we get in this is actually the s8 plus
but beginning we'll see there's gonna be
some gaskets and things lining that so
water doesn't get in time all right
should attack of this again I think so I
believe in you I believe Oh somebody
asked what tools we were using to get
inside I think and so this is our larger
section cup works really well sticking
to the background here now that like
these phones have glass and stuff on the
back can be kind of hard for some
suction cups to stick but we've got new
suction cups and all of our kits that
have really good handles on a metal just
easy suction cup man yeah like that's
another reason why we don't do live tear
downs it sometimes will probably like
yell at a phone or so easy to do things
when lots of people are watching you
under pressure oh yeah that's the that's
my favorite way to to do things test me
come here my hands are also just kind of
small huh yes okay I like hearing the
adhesive like spectral Jean crackle and
like things we get excited about ain't
nothing like a good crackle of adhesive
to get your Friday morning started
alright there's we end up making like
throwing stars out of these devices
we've got so many like pics in them and
just people have like horror stories
from like fixing be sure no we do owe
galaxy fans I even owned a galaxy phone
yet so I haven't actually tried to fix
these little guys help some people fix a
couple it's just like as soon as they
hear like oh you go to take apart the
whole thing just to replace the screen
it just people get discouraged it's like
nope do it
it's do it as you see once we get in
it's not you know disassembly and I left
our modular components and stuff so it's
not that bad so that's actually one of
the things that we look for when we
score a phone on repairability people
give us so much crap about how we how we
score phones but one of the main things
that we look for are the components that
are most likely to fail or easily
accessible and that is the screen
especially for me I think I've replaced
my screen of my iPhone like three times
as well as the battery batteries are
consumable and like look how difficult
this is to get into this phone and if
you were trying to replace the battery
yourself this would be a huge pain it is
a huge pain and so you guys get to
experience this pain with math real real
pain in real time so something to keep
in mind alright someone asked does the
phone's is will the phone still stay
water-resistant after the teardown so
when if you're familiar there fix kids
especially for battery and display fix
kits we include adhesive in there so you
can reapply the display adhesive again
and kind of maintain that water
resistance and if you have an older
phone
putting new adhesive on actually you
know boost up the water resistance a bit
again so to maintain water resistance
yes but it doesn't of course is we're
opening it we're kind of breaking that
seal and someone just recommended that
we get the playing cards out that's yeah
we're really like this I like the coop
the collaboration who do you guys hear
that she's she's tearing through that
adhesive yeah yeah so there's like a
thousand different ways to do a repair
we obviously design our tools and use
them and they're great but we love
hearing about how other people we love
hearing how you guys repair things or
your repair hacks someone the other day
so we use our magnetic mat to keep
everything organized or you can use the
back of some of our trays as a way to
sort your parts and tools but who was it
there was a story that someone shared
with us and they had all of these what
is it shot glasses and they put Magic
the Gathering cards in them which was
super cool as a way to organize all of
their screws I've seen people use egg
cartons I've seen people use playing
cards to open these things up so there's
lots of lots of different ways to do a
repair and okay santosh says he uses
x-ray films to open those stuffs I don't
know what that entry films x-ray films
but cool wait I mean the x-ray photos
that we get we work with creative
electron during our tear downs you guys
might have seen some of the x-ray and if
it does that we get they help especially
with like a new device you don't know
like butch women get usually the Apple
watch yes that thing was so so small
knowing what's inside before you get
started and where to apply heat and all
that good stuff is really helpful when
you're trying to pry open a device can I
assist you in any way
Tsun Tsun sweeper soon
and Leandro says hello from Brazil and
we say hello from California good
morning or actually I don't I don't know
what do I was in Brazil it's actually
probably not morning for most of the
people on this stream it's probably
lunchtime lunch time thanks for joining
us on your lunch break yeah so yeah if
you're just tuning in I'm KK this is
Kelsey we are doing each hair down or
we're trying to do a teardown most of
zs9
Plus this is live so barring we don't
say anything too stupid this is going on
our YouTube channel later today if you
miss it but we are giving away a new
driver kit the Manta driver kit which is
pretty cool it's not actually available
in our stores just yet so if you asked
us a question at the very end of the
stream we're gonna go back through all
the questions and pick our favorite one
and we'll be doing a giveaway later
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this way there's a cable connector here
I want to be and we're getting more
suggestions to use heat so if you're
just tuning in we actually we've used a
lot of heat but we might use more but
Kelsey looks like she hands are sweaty
has this handled so hot in here that her
hands are sweaty Wow someone is tuning
in from Morocco
that's pretty cool hello yeah alright
and so someone just asked if this is
more complicated to open than an iPhone
um he says definitely tougher thinking I
was wasn't doing it live I'd probably
get like a heat gun out and like maybe
yeah I'm it a little bit more but some
more difficult maybe a little bit I
would say there's a there's nothing more
adhesive in this phone in but like now
that we've got a glass on the back and
the front of the iPhone I heard it
alright but we also take a we take apart
iPhones like every day yeah good second
it's pretty second nature to us oh are
you guys ready the
moment we've been waiting for almost I'm
sorry I was teasing you on that and we
had a few questions about our the
battery and we have lots to talk about
with batteries so we're gonna go ahead
and save that question till later once
we actually pull out the battery but
we'll make sure to go over that soon and
hello from Columbia oh hello man I am so
excited to see how many people are tuned
in from all over the place alright and
this is the the moment of truth trying
to get this sucker open all right
complete with you understand okay
everything is looking good sweet
you ready yeah all right oh here nice
but we picked it up inside you look
pretty in there do you see and you can
see how we've got the ribbon cable here
for the fingerprint sensor and it's not
like right in the line of fire which is
good they you know kept the ribbon
cables out of the edge they were your
prime but you can see how like thick
this adhesive is like all the way around
the sides and kind of fine oh yeah it
looks like super gunky yeah all the way
bottom yeah so but there actually wasn't
a whole lot of damage to even to the
adhesive which is good because it means
like even though I was prying pretty
hard we're done so and once and then on
the inside here so we've got our
wireless charging cable and our battery
underneath our dual cameras which we'll
get into in a bit but um so yeah why are
you lose charging let's talk about that
for a second yeah it's not really
wireless know just like hums like yeah
really bothers me I mean and it's cool
as hell
phone like hovers on the charger but no
I have to be plugged in so you still
have to have you know the charger
plugged in and then the wireless
charging just sits right on top of that
so it's like fake wireless charging it's
not really real so I'm gonna start with
happy to see you just Phillips screws on
the inside not Torx not like not panel
abs and the bright area accessible right
yeah so but now like Apple was kind of
lagging on the wireless charging feature
for like a while I feel like that would
have been a very like Apple thing to do
to come out with like a nice wireless
charger for everybody else but I don't
know you'd like that whole I don't know
your life yeah what was it it was it two
years ago or last year that they had the
weird external battery pack what year is
that Michael the the weird it was like
super off yeah anyways neither here nor
there it was just really strange they
came out with that external battery pack
which was very uh napple like and and
that was pretty strange and now we have
people joining us from egypt netherlands
taiwan india nicaragua are you guys
lying to us or are you really from these
places syria cuz this is like pretty
cool I'd love to know what time it is in
all of those places so feel free to to
let me know in the comments all right so
I'm working on all these screws or the
mid frame but once I get all these out
and be able to lift it away and get a
good look at the battery and motherboard
so you tell I know it's a tiny so you
know I'm using our eet are essential
electronics toolkit which has the
smaller bits that you need for like tiny
electronics repaired tiny screws and
stuff with that Manta kit that we're
giving away has also has a medium and
like larger sized bits like free yeah
those drivers are it has two drivers so
it's really nice but for the the
essential electronics toolkit this thing
is actually pretty cool it's a it's a
$20 price point and it has pretty much
everything you would need for everyday
repairs
and it's in a really cool case and it's
small it's kind of I call out the
Gateway kit to repair a I call it the
backpack like to go kit oh yeah be the
Gateway to the differences in our lives
yeah so it has everything that you need
to get started with repair which is
pretty cool I like to give these away to
all of my friends as stocking stuffers
and things because it's a nice small
little thing usually when you buy
toolkits you're meadow know your
hardware store they don't usually have
the specialty bits for electronics and
actually this kit just got reviewed by
Popular Mechanics which was really neat
to see I love seeing our tools in the
wild so that was that was pretty neat we
spend a lot of time developing our tool
kits you can always see iFixit quality
because we'll always have black and blue
ones you know it's not a fake and yeah
are one of the guys that works on the
tool team was actually our lead teardown
engineer for like five or six years so
using all the information that he's
gathered from doing the tear downs and
he definitely brings that into the tools
that he creates which is pretty cool
great and I think they look like the
kind of saucy look like I don't know
they look I don't like sitting on your
workbench
Kelsey likes things saw see apparently
houses ale and there how's it going to
be pulling down super close one two
three four five more screws five more
screws another day there total there's
11 20 count
that's another luxury of filming a video
teardown is it good to fast-forward
throwback oh yeah usually we we
fast-forward through these parts Omar
says he wants an S nine plus so bad
sadface well you know Omar one day you
might just get one so keep keep hoping
keep asking Santa okay so it is 1055 am
in Nicaragua Thank You Henry
Oregon farmers can fix anything okay yes
they can I agree um so working at iFixit
we do a lot for right to repair if
you're unfamiliar with right to repair
we advocate for legislation that makes
it easier for consumers to repair their
stuff giving them access to spare parts
as well like diagnostic and
Meishan and repair manuals and farmers
are absolutely like leaving the charge
right now on that fight which is pretty
cool some farmers are in a hard time
repairing their tractors particularly
John Deere tractors and that's because
John Deere's made it difficult for them
to read their like error codes and
maintenance codes and any time they you
know have a repair that's done they
either need a hole their tractor all the
way to John Deere or wait for somebody
from John Deere to come out and read
those codes of them to tell them
something simple like you know hey you
need an oil change look at that and I
mean right to repair would require
manufacturers to then this is very
similar to your car it's not anything
new so the right repair act that require
manufacturers to give parts replacement
parts and tools and repairing from sorry
replacement parts I think that would
also sometimes include proprietary tools
to repair but to give them two
independent fixers and repair shops just
like yeah just like in the automotive
industry so could you imagine if you
couldn't go down the street and get your
your car repaired by a todoke Joe Schmo
I don't want to go to the dealership for
like every single little thing thank you
can write repairs all that choice if you
want to go to the dealership great if
you want to go to the manufacturer
that's great but you know there should
also be other options and so that's what
right to repair is all about just like
you bought your thing you own it own it
as long as you're not gonna like open it
to reproduce it and sell like a knockoff
version or to do something illegal with
it you should be able to get it fixed
however you want because I don't really
want a manufacturer did tell me like oh
no no you have to come to us and you
have to wait you have to send it in to
get it repaired or wait for it to get it
repaired yeah
not yeah so with battery gate happening
right now um pretty notable example of
why yeah why we need more pair options
there's some states only have one Apple
store like Kansas there's three million
people in one Apple store and imagine
being an iPhone owner trying to get your
phone repaired there and how long those
wait times are we read a funny article
yesterday that the Apple Store is
becoming more and more like the DMV
where smoother
worse from the DMV because the the lines
have just gotten so crazy with battery
gate and people trying to replace their
phones awesome so it looks like yeah we
are in the belly of the beast so we've
got our wireless charging off and our
first look at the battery and our teal
motherboard not logic board man every
time we make videos write videos and
tear downs I always say logic board and
like we have to go back and fix it so
motherboard yeah and so I'm gonna go
ahead and get started we've got a bunch
of screws and connectors but first
safety first always disconnect your
battery and so I'm gonna go ahead and
come in here the bottom part to yeah so
as you can see this battery unlike the
iPhone does not have battery adhesive
pull tabs pull tabs are a great step in
the right direction we like seeing them
but I don't know if you guys have done
battery swaps on your iPhone but the
pull tabs I've actually never
successfully pulled one out without it
breaking they almost always break but
you know it's good that through there it
should make the pulling out of the
battery a lot easier um but yeah glued
and batteries man there's just no size
they're great if you prime them before
so I always tell people like heat it up
a little bit beforehand because then
they're a little more pliable or I'm
using an adhesive remover to drop it in
there and to get rid of that stickiness
because yeah cool times are great when
they don't break but they almost always
free it's always breaking see like the
compartment is really tiny so on the
iPhone you'd be you know pulling strips
out of the bottom and if you remove the
taptic engine they're a little bit
easier to manipulate we don't have that
here so I'm gonna go through and you
will take out the motherboard and things
like that but I shouldn't have to go
through all that just to get enough room
to remove the battery and they should
make it a little bit easier yeah so
let's just talk about batteries for like
a hot SEC last year we had exploding
batteries yeah this year batteries are
slowing down old iPhones like we always
lose the thing but now like I'm saying
what the eff is gonna happen next year
are they just all gonna like come to
life and eat us like I don't know what's
gonna happen and I'm
little bit terrified but yeah it would
just be so much easier to not glue the
batteries down like imagine how much
cheaper the recall would have been for
the note 7 if they could just like pop
out their battery I feel like it's
something that manufacturers just really
didn't think about when designing these
phones like well they know that
batteries only have like a 2 year
lifespan and they have to be replaced so
even if like the technology was fine and
near to earth the Technic technology was
still today the battery would still die
and I feel like manufacturers need to be
responsible for that in a sense leek
response for the product design and the
end-of-life like it's not up to me as
the consumer I just feel they're kind of
putting it all on that so I just make it
it's up to me to figure out how to
repair and replace this thing but and
it's just bad because with every phone
that's sold that's another battery
that's gonna end up dumped in a waste is
a really huge problem so like the UN
estimated that this year we're gonna
surpass 50 million metric tons of
e-waste and it's like well yeah
especially when these batteries are you
know need to be replaced every single
year but that's just phones like not
like the refrigerators that have LCDs
and all these crazy like every battery
this yeah so we actually partner with a
straw cyclers and we hear from them all
the time that you know we think about
batteries and like replacing batteries
but to safely recycle a device you
actually need to get the battery out of
the device and so what often happens is
they can't air pods are really a good
example of that and so they go into the
shredder and they cause battery fires at
the recycling facility and so like
battery fires are a really common thing
and I was talking to an e-waste recycle
I cam unthe ago and he said they have
like a couple of weeks because you know
they don't have recyclers don't have the
disassembly information either to safely
disassemble your device which is a huge
problem for anyone that's not using Liam
I suppose because there's only like a
few of those in the world oh that was
like yeah we're doing enough we've got
to Liam's so yeah so we've got something
cameras from the array on the front of
the phone which is exactly the same as
the s8 and SME plus so you have your IR
camera your retina scanner and things
like that but all that tech on the front
of the phone is pretty much the same as
before I just gotta take those out
before I disconnected them but we don't
have to take them out but makes it
easier to take the logic board out
afterwards and I'm looking at what other
connectors so we've got one two three
four
there's something really gratifying
about popping off a connector and I
don't know why it's just odd Lisa yeah
same with the adhesive strips and
sternum all the way out yeah just so
what is that that you're so we're taking
off some of the antennas here nice just
trying to work my way around to get some
motherboard out so we actually don't
know what this black mushy stuff is
right it's on samsung batteries does
anyone know seriously if you know tell
us um so this this weird black mesh
sticker thing there's actually a little
bit of foam that's wrapped around the
battery yeah for expansion who's been
looking at ion batteries yeah and look
them up I am batteries are in use they
expand a little bit can science and so
there's foam around the battery to allow
for it to expand a little bit of space
in here to thin the battery and I've got
a couple screws here tackle sounds good
and so if you notice the battery it's
the same battery as the yeah same
capacity
yeah the note seven the infamous note 7
as well as the Samsung Galaxy s8 so it's
the the same specs and from what we can
tell it looks like the internal design
so the cavity that it's sitting in is
also the same so Samsung must be real
confident in their QA team because yeah
I don't know
yeah the fact that the battery was glued
down that made all these guys happen it
was like the design you know of the
battery but it would have been real
helpful if they did have some adhesive
strips or an easier way to get inside
because then people could have just
swapped out the battery instead of
having to replace however many millions
of phones and so someone asked what we
do with our tear down devices after
they're torn apart um so we actually
make guides out of them so we partner
with about how many schools Oh in the US
well no it's I think they're like global
but and I think yeah I think we partner
was about 50 schools across the u.s. and
we actually send them devices as a part
of a writing project and they make
guides for us which is great so they
learn technical writing and we get
guides and you get guides and we can
help repair more stuff um and so that's
pretty cool so most of our devices go to
them and then after they are done making
guides we sometimes raffle them off for
Christmas gifts after party or we give
them away to people at the office which
is pretty cool so that's another thing
if you didn't know about iFixit is that
we're it's a wiki based site so nobody
knows how to fix everything but
everybody knows how to fix something so
if you know how to fix something you can
also write a guide and we're actually
working on a video to show you how to do
that and it's gonna be coming out soon
but if you do not have to fix something
or if you have a gadget you just really
like to check out the guts of and you
happen to take pictures while you take
it apart you should definitely write
write a guide on the site and then I
will share it with the world shared
world all right so we did get our
motherboard off and we'll check out our
cameras at around there in a little bit
and then I'm gonna go ahead and work on
this secondary board that's got our real
daughter dragon yeah the charger on here
more screws so we have some some some
opinions on what this black mesh is so
someone says explosion barrier mesh
that's a possibility to keep it all in
if you ever someone else says wireless
charging antenna will touch the battery
without that mesh and that can make a
clicking noise Oh someone thinks we're
pretty
Thanks and someone is Kanye West so
you're gonna hate Kanye very cool we're
gonna start singing now get ready oh man
when Kelsey and I are together with too
much coffee we end up singing a lot yeah
that's really helpful these cues are so
small um if you lose but thankfully and
these ones are all the same length like
when you get into an iPhone they're all
different lengths and if you screw the
wrong one into the wrong holding you're
gonna damage the logic board itself
underneath so it's really important to
keep things organized I've got this
magnetic mat and you talked about people
using like cups and yeah you can use all
sorts of different things to keep
organized so
oh I can set the rain a time-varying
training so raining in California yes
that's amazing California has been in
quite the drought lately and we were
finally getting some rain so we're all
freaking out wouldn't knows how to drive
on the road nobody knows how to drive on
the road everyone breaks out their eggs
when the weather is like 70 degrees cuz
that's that's a little bit cold for us
but we really we really really need the
rain so we're happy to hear it it's a
fun show so what are you working on
there tell us you can get the daughter
word out but there are some cables that
are kind of pressed up against the side
probably with a little bit more adhesive
but so this headphone jack so Samsung
kept the headphone jack I don't know if
they kept it because they wanted to keep
it or there's also we suspect that USB C
headphones and headwear are really rare
and still really expensive so I'm not
actually sure if Samsung will move to no
headphone jack in the future I'd love to
know what you guys think but for now I'm
really excited about it I am NOT
upgrading my iPhone because I'm like
staying strong and wanting a headphone
jack like this really enforce me is it
horrible I mean I know you adjust and do
you just say like phones you want to
keep your headphones at your agents you
just have a dongle wherever you go um is
it dongle the funniest word to say I
just can't think without laughing a
little bit and if well I think most
people have probably lost lost the
dongle at this point I wonder how many
yeah all the lost dongles in the world
just in the magic way around the left
pair of socks they're probably all just
hiding somewhere in an alternate
universe
heaven dongle heaven and Aryan says it's
bad for DJs
which I didn't even think about yeah
it's very true
boots cats it's cats so Omar says I love
the headphone jack and why do you guys
like using the iPhone so we actually use
a lot of Apple products here mainly
because we have a full part store
available and tools to us to replace
things so everyone on I fix it uses a
2012 MacBook Pro we use this model
because it's the last year that they
didn't solder down the RAM and so you
can swap everything out I swapped in SSD
to make my laptop faster and it's a
really modular easy computer to repair
and same with the iPhone because we just
take apart iPhone so often we have all
the parts I think I've replaced my
iPhone battery two times now I've
replaced my home button I replaced my
screen twice because I am super clumsy
so this is probably a good job for me
but we have all the parts and tools
available to us so that's why I
personally use an iPhone just for I
don't know when I was younger and just
getting into tech the interface was
easier and that's just like I don't know
what everybody had that uh alright so we
have our headphone jack and it's out
it's tiny
yeah and there's the gasket that we were
mentioning for the the waterproof and
water resistance there and thank you for
water resistance not proofing and I know
somebody would come back to be like
Kelsey and KK said that my phone is
waterproof so I decided to swim with it
don't know don't do that alright so
there's our the headphone jack alive and
well and the dog board is gonna pop out
next year with our charging port and
what's your thing Oh
right in the way it's so hard to think
about like yes it's like a cooking show
but cooking with tech is good well this
is we have the solder board that's you
know fairly modular just got to take
some connectors to get a few things off
and then so you don't if your charging
port has problems you don't have to
replace the entire motherboard which is
you know are you been one of the most
expensive parts of the phone so having
the separate daughter board it's great
because your charging port gets a whole
lot of wear and tear so keep this up
just in case you talked about the
motherboard at all so if you guys want
to look at so we're not gonna ID these
now but we did a full chip ID over on
our teardown and so you can see the
motherboard here but if you're
interested in all of the chips head on
over to our teardown and you need to
still take off some of those cameras but
I don't like it when people read to me
unless you're reading me a bedtime story
so I'm not gonna read you all the chips
on this board all right now camera
camera camera and Omar says have you
considered trying Samsung yeah I mean
not opposed I'm just like so like
integrated now yeah I got that I got an
iPad for Christmas and now I'm like I'm
gonna go to but yeah I'm fully bought
into the ecosystem also I'm like the
clumsiest person you'll meet I've the
chip in in ten car accidents so I having
a glass on glass just all with glue is
just probably all bad for me um so I
don't think that this would necessarily
be the best phone for me but you know
you never know because I just don't like
change I don't like change especially
the time changed at the time change
mess-up anyone else definitely messed me
up a little bit I but I like that it's
light out when we leave work you know
now and go and you
things I think they can pop those
cameras out oh yeah okay well no he's
like just there's some delicate and so
tiny
Aryan says he has an iPhone 7 plus yeah
and he like he has ten adapters to use
my headphones deaths that's a lot of
adapters I was lose those real quickly I
wish yeah the dongle thing it for me I I
lose things all the time man I just
sound like a horrible person I break
things all the time it lose things all
the time I I wish I could put a tile on
like everything in life I have a tile on
my phone are on my phone I have a tile
my keys I was just thinking about
putting a tile on everything that would
be helpful maybe you could just put a
tile on all of your dongles Jamie says
always protect your phone was the case
yes I would recommend always putting a
case on a phone but accidents still
happen I'm getting some smiley faces I
like it when people smile at us yeah oh
and this fellow says he breaks ten in
six months that's that's no good ten
dongles I I'm not really sure kind of
something that's pretty sure enough
anything sensitive I don't want a man
just like ok there we go
there's some more that but looks like
kind of seems it was on the battery okay
camera time summertime is in this phone
a ton so we've got our dual aperture
cameras from on the back we've got the
iris and scanner camera the selfie cam
yeah so this is the first time we saw a
dual lens camera in a Galaxy S series
phone we saw it in the note 8 they had
the same setup but this is the first
time that we have this in a galaxy and
so the dual camera had one ribbon cable
and iPhones have two so that might make
repair cost higher yeah another point of
failure but also with this because we've
got that dual aperture and the lens that
opens and closes in there and that's
also just another mechanical point tiny
little mechanical point of failure so if
you're having issues with your SI plus
camera at some point and the lighting s
9-p we even put it on social media that
could be just another point of failure
on there but we got yeah so when the
immunisation yeah I was trying to find
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so when I read about the dual aperture
cameras it kind of sounded like there'd
be two openings for one lens no that's
not actually it it just means that
there's one aperture and it jumps around
from f-stop 1.5 to 2.4 real tiny and a
fun fact I mean so there's no denying
that Samsung did an amazing job with
these cameras the widest aperture we'd
see it on a smartphone was the LG v 30
and that was an f-stop of 1.6 and this
has two point four so that's crazy and
the aperture it'll jump around depending
on the light automatically automagically
and so you can take those beautiful
beautiful pictures that are circling
around the
your net those are cameras her battery
is still in here we can try to get that
out yeah so just one more thing like
Kelsey mentioned with the camera the
aperture is a moving part are we able to
do the yeah I just switch it back and
forth nice yes so it's moving part which
means it is another part of another
point of failure so that is something
that might need to get replaced so
something to keep in mind the teacher it
is really cool it's a really neat little
thing can we do it again yeah yes if
you're just tuning in it looks like we
have a few more people tuning in I'm KK
this is Kelsey we're taking apart the s9
plus and this is everyone's favorite
part so we see the image stabilization
yeah and that's what keeps your your
videos and things nice and stable as we
are recording and then and Santosh said
the Huawei P 20 is coming with three
rear cameras like a lot of camera why
would I don't know if that's really I
would do Pyro's pyro
or our video guy over there shaking his
head no that's not real life I like
seeing all the renderings for all these
like new phones like the new like iPhone
and everything comes out you guys this
is so embarrassing that my cell phone is
ringing so I'm gonna go I think you're
great is it a duck quacking okay and
having noted that your mother your mom
is calling she wants to be on the show
coming with three cameras but no I like
seeing all the different renderings like
three cameras or the you know
fingerprint sensors underneath the
screen that's probably not gonna yeah
there is lots of rumors about adding a
fingerprint sensor to the bottom of the
screen but now with facial recognition
as well as retina skinning I don't think
that's gonna happen but you never know
it was gonna take out the fingerprint
sensor he
rather just a push maybe he's afraid of
dish so another thing that so the one
thing that they probably are getting the
most flack for cuffing up will for is
the emojis oh yeah he a are more cheese
so yeah we were talking about all these
cameras the selfie cam on the front is
still just the name exam nothing to
follow the front-facing hardware on this
phone is the same as the s8 selfie game
isn't gonna necessarily get any better
but who needs selfies when you can use a
or emojis do you think one day we'll all
just like just go around the internet
but like just animated emojis like that
feels very like black mirrors oh don't
yeah I can't watch black mirror you know
sees a heart rate just gives me
nightmares
seriously that sure fills me with such
anxiety that like I literally had to
stop watching it that and Breaking Bad
this just it's too much it's too much
what would your emoji be oh there's so
much gunk it's like we need to make more
oddly satisfying I think we're the only
ones who think this is ugly satisfied
yeah I'm not actually sure about okay if
you think this is oddly satisfying let
me know is actually bringing a lot of
thumbs up right now so you know what
maybe everyone using like what was it
isn't be like cutting soap thing I tried
anything I think I thought I'd just seen
like do that like using a sharp knife to
like cut soaks it exactly that like
shaves off really nicely alright okay
come on home button your sensor
this is adhesive man just write more
things mm-hmm okay
okay here we go three little implements
fingerprint sensor / camera smudger well
it's also the other side yet that makes
sense not rose gold no there you go
there's a fingerprint sensor that's off
geez they're cool I just like what's
your favorite thing I want to ask people
like what their favorite thing is
because there's always this battle
between you know like iPhone users and
Samsung users but like what's your
favorite thing about Androids because I
mean just Galaxy phones let's are sticky
so favorite thing about or what I mean
like what are other people's things try
to convince us to okay so are we wanting
to get the battery up we can't okay so
we owe me and someone just put in a link
about black mirror and I don't like I
don't want to do it I don't it makes me
nervous so instead we are going to yeah
take up this battery so this is iFixit
adhesive remover it looks super
scientific yeah and this is just so it's
good to use this in this case because we
don't have those pull tabs and there
isn't a whole lot of room to just like
kind of get in there and pry you really
don't want to pry on the adhesive is if
it hasn't been primed yet has you seen
the Tarot so we're gonna do is we're
gonna come in from there's a little bit
of space at the bottom of the battery
compartment so we're gonna drop a little
bit of the adhesive remover in there I'm
gonna tilt the phone so it kind of runs
down because we've got adhesive just
along the whole outside of the battery
there so would you like to do the honors
man I don't have my hands aren't as
steady as Kelsey's so I'm just gonna
steady if anybody's been watching this
kept my hands I mean she definitely just
got that on the battery that's okay okay
yeah right
cool good did they get it on the other
side or should I think it I saw it like
run
I thought run on the top of the battery
which is not what you want you want to
get it into okay maybe we'll pull off
that black mesh you never you never know
her no but there's I wonder yeah if it's
for the clicking sound I wonder I guess
you can hear it while it's like working
with the wireless that's good okay so we
slashed it around a bit
and looks like there's a lot more glue
in there which is but at least like at
this point you know with iPhones you've
got you solve your taptic engine and all
the stuff at the bottom so it's in the
logic board on tops really close so
there's like no room to pry but at least
now that you've done that this is
anybody I think yeah I actually made
them they're not on my oh my magic magic
potion we got really really excited
about that
I music especially when you're like fine
and think about it like thing about when
you're fixing your phone you like please
let me know sorry please let me do this
right and then just all of a sudden
comes out it's just like a good
hallelujah moment yeah there's nothing
more than I was like you my great yay
good job tool development team this
thing worked like a charm I'm gonna
throw this over here sit all my
batteries off again yeah same capacity
and design and as the previous models
and previous it phones so we're not
getting any more charge out of this than
you did in your previous one and that's
nice nice um what else do we wanna I
want to show you um Jack yeah we talked
about the Jo port so we bottom a foot so
I don't know if this bothers anybody
else but um can we go be a safe yeah we
should grab a couple to compare oh wait
I have the si+ here um so I guess
Samsung has a hard time lining up their
ports and I know that there's like more
to this than just like deciding you know
where the line for it's like obviously
these ports are you know in a position
position because of the way that the
daughter board sits in there and things
like that but apparently people are
giving Samsung flack for not lining up
all these different ports so if you draw
some lines all the way across you can
kind of see how like the top of the
auxiliary port doesn't like line up to
some of the other ones and some people I
first said you know I don't stare at the
bottom of my phone so it doesn't really
bother me but like I think that's maybe
why perfectionists loved their iPhones
cuz this is not totally totally perfect
down there but that's just like another
little silly same something um someone
just asked about what this liquid is
it's great they want some it's the
iFixit adhesive remover I don't have the
price handy but you can go on our site I
fix
komm good are parts and tools store and
it will be there for you we can also
post a link to it whenever we get this
video on our youtube channel i'll see
you guys we'll have that ready for you
if you need to do a repair so we
actually developed this adhesive remover
to do for the men for the retina macbook
and those batteries are a terror take it
off and yeah they're like totally glued
in there so if you just use a little bit
of the adhesive remover all around the
battery cells because that's the
terrorists design right yeah it'll get
them right out of there and it's cool
because it comes with when you get this
comes it's like a little kid like
everything that you need and then
there's like a mad scientist job we
probably should have worn protective
glasses shame on us that's definitely
something you should do safety is always
the most important part of repair and
this stuff is pretty strong as you can
see it just like you know melted the
adhesive in the battery so you should
definitely wear your safety gear yeah I
don't speak Spanish for someone asking
me questions in Spanish but maybe one
day and the quintessence I all right so
we got our battery out in this guy all
right so I'm pretty sure that's kind of
the phone so talk quickly about
repairability so if you missed the
beginning of the teardown um we I fix it
assigns everything repairability score
and the samsung s9 inherited the same
score as its older brother the s8 which
was a four out of ten and the main
reason for that low score is the liberal
adhesives use so much adhesive like how
long did it take us to get into the
phone rigidly a long time yeah and once
we got in there were you know modular
components you've got motherboard
daughterboard cameras came off so once
you get in you've got screws and things
you know it's easy to repair once you
get inside but because of that adhesive
it's just unnecessarily hard to do basic
repairs and because of the design of the
phone replacing the one thing that
breaks all the time is the most
intensive process of them all where is
it with an iPhone you can just pop it up
and your screen comes off and you know
the most frightful thing could easily
come right off
so glass on glass that's double the
glass for double the crack ability the
back glass scene
more prone to breaking and and it's
definitely tedious to replace but it's
definitely not overly difficult for a
non-pro to do so that's something that
you could do if you're feeling brave or
if you even weren't feeling brave that
salons terribly hard and we yet will
sell those soon
um what else can we say about this Oh so
we mentioned earlier the Samsung
partnership with you break I fix yeah so
that's great I mean we always want to
see manufacturers offering you know
replacement parts and resources to
private repair shops so it's great
that's a start they're you know letting
out some of the information but you need
to share the share the wealth with
everybody you know there are only a
limited number of you Barrett breaks
like three hundred three hundred yeah I
mean that's kind of what Apple is
dealing with not enough stores to you
know fix some of the most common things
so yeah good start we like it but more
please yeah the rest of us if your
giving you break I fix the parts and
obviously the disassembly instructions
we want them to so tell Samsung to give
them to us in to you or maybe we'll just
keep asking Santa for them so yeah I
think we're pretty much close to the end
of our teardown we hope you guys enjoyed
it and we'll take a few more questions I
don't think we have any questions so if
you have any questions get them in now
someone asked if we have screen repair
kits for an iPhone 6s yes so if you go
to ifixit.com flash kits we have repair
kits for all sorts of things on your
iphone all versions of your battery
we're matching apples price on the $29
battery replacement and in a lot of
cases we actually our batteries are
cheaper as well as we are offering
battery replacements for older
generation iPhones or Apple's
replacement program is not yeah still
rocking a 4s or a5 we've got all that
you know screen battery and small parts
too so if you're having an issue with
your charging port that's not
necessarily a reason to go and upgrade
that's still something that you can fix
yourself so if yours I touched your
phone as I am to mine then yeah
definitely check out the kids will we do
the iPad Mini as a teardown I don't know
maybe haven't we done it
yeah Kairos shaking his head yes so we
have done the iPad Mini so you can go to
ifixit.com slash tear downs search for
the iPad Mini and you should be able to
see it there yeah and just like with the
guides if you want to do a teardown you
can contribute a teardown as well and
it'll end up on our page so I think
about that when you go to check them out
get inspired all of our guides have
really you know again the full chip ID
tech specs really awesome detailed high
quality images you can blow them up and
see like the tiniest thing on the board
so we take very much so definitely go
and check those out the teardown for the
s9 and the teardown
I'm sorry the teardown video for the s9
and the regular tear down for the s9
plus are also at I fixed comm slash
teardown as well but so get those
questions in we'll still try to answer
some and we're gonna pick our favorite
to get that Monta it kid I'm gonna see
it again anyone that missed this at the
beginning we are giving away our Man 2
driver kit it's brand spankin new no one
has seen it yet except you guys and
that's a thanks for a hey thanks for
tuning in and spending Friday with us as
well as us hitting 400,000 subscribers
on our youtube channel so if you want us
to give away more stuff keep following
us and we will give away more stuff so
one more time this is our Manta driver
kit 113 bits in this super awesome
laser-cut foam interior
beefy handle to handle the to handle the
bigger bits aluminum drivers and so you
get a close-up yeah this is one of the
most you know comprehensive you know bit
kits that we have we've got bigger bits
on there for larger projects along with
everything you need for an electronics
repair as well and it's all stuck in
this phone and when you flip it over you
know your bits won't fall out they're
all and nicely labeled so it's really
just an awesome set just to keep out on
your and your work space there yeah and
one thing we did want to mention the
display is covered an adhesive and we
just don't want to deal with that right
now so that's why we're not dealing with
it and we're not gonna do it or handle
that right now
but if you want to sit with us for a
whole nother hour
the snow maybe we'll do that yeah if you
enjoyed this livestream let us know we
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let us know in the comments and maybe if
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