Good luck Dan. I believe in you. That's a mistake, but okay. I guess it's just you and me now.
Let's have a look. So this is the little cover that we took off of the back of the screen,
right? This keeps the ribbon cable together. And I can see immediately that there's like
this purpley kind of blue, what looks like copper corrosion. When copper gets salt water on it,
it tends to oxidize in this way. That's, I believe, why the Liberty thing in New York.
Let's start removing some more of the covers and see what we can find. We're really concerned
about this area up here. We'll start down here. I took the interconnect cover off and we're seeing
more of that gunge over on this side as well. It looks okay in some areas, but I'm also seeing
some maybe on these screw holes here. It looks like underneath the screws. So water has definitely,
at least, penetrated through here. Maybe it's that vapor kind of deposition that Linus was talking
about. All right, let's see what we have under here. Oh yeah, that's not good. Look at that.
All of that kind of gunge. Pretty gross, honestly. Yeah. So water has definitely got in in this corner.
And so I guess this entire board is going to have to go ribbony thing there. I believe this is the
what, the SIM card tray? Oh, it's still got a SIM card in it. Yeah, it's not as bad. That might be
salvageable, but you can see it's leaked all the way under here. Look at this all over the back of
whatever the hell that is. Okay, let's get rid of this. Oh, I think these turn red when exposed to
water. This would be a water ingress strip. Either that or they turn white. I can't remember. Pretty
sure it's red. Popping up the battery connector here, I can definitely see why it started to bulge.
I mean, that is just black and gray and just covered in bad. So I'm thinking that this sideboard here
is definitely going to need to be replaced. This handles the secondary display and also,
I believe, the 5G connection as well. And of course, the selfie camera and SIM card. It's
important. No wonder the phone doesn't work. These two cables here for the interconnect,
they run over the spine and connect to the main board that's located in the other side of the phone.
See if we can get those up without damaging them because those are going to be extremely difficult
to change. We do not want to be opening up this phone more than we have to. Let's have a look and
see how those look. Oh yeah, those are pretty bad too. Let me see, we've got some black over here and
some other guns that's like concerning. It's concerning for sure. We'll continue with this
dissection and try and get this whole board out if we're lucky. This base section here seems to be
for the speaker, it looks like. That also has some corrosion on it too, but let's just pop this off.
Wow, this is a flimsy little board. There we go. How does this look? That looks great. So it seems
to have been just at the top here. So we may get lucky and not have to change much on this side.
Let's get these, that's a SIM removal tool. Look at that. It looks good actually. So we might be
safe for down here. And there's one of our antennas. At least I think it's an antenna. Nice. It just
pops out. We're held on a little bit of tape that I messed about with. Cool, we'll pull that.
And hopefully this board should just come loose. Did I forget to screw?
No, I forgot a cable. That's why it's not coming out. If something's not coming out,
just force it until it does. There we go. Let's have a look at this one. We're replacing it anyway,
who gives a s***. That one looks pretty good. It's nice and clean under there, so seems like
most of our damage is going to be in this area. And there, cool. Let's have a look at the back side.
We can see more of that corrosion kind of area under here. We've got some of that green goo.
And I think all along under here as well, gross. Let's have a look at the back side here. We've
got a couple of little grounding contacts, I believe. And then yeah, I can see more telltale
signs of that corrosion here. Oh, look at that adorable little camera module. It's just held on
with a single little ribbon cable. So this is a part that we'll probably need to change.
Shouldn't be too hard, which is kind of nice. I guess we got to get rid of this battery as well.
Look at this in here. This is all really bad. I don't know what this guy is. I think that's a
speaker of some kind. Yeah, that's probably one of the speakers. Not sure if we should change those.
We'll find out, I guess. How do we get this battery out without exploding it and killing all of us?
Does it just pull upwards? I know there are some techniques that use alcohol underneath it to
dissolve some of the glue. Always scary. I hate working with these, with these style of batteries.
Probably not the way to do it. I need some alcohol and then probably some for the phone as well.
This is my preferred applicator because I just want to like drip some down the side.
So we'll see if this does anything. This feels very strange. Just might just need to let that
seep for a bit. Sometimes the glue is alcohol-dissolvable and that seems to have actually done
quite a bit of the trick. I don't know. I didn't read anything. I'm just yoloing this.
Want to yolo? The f*** are you talking about? How does that even work?
Yolo, no, no, no. Yeah, there you go. Yolo, no, no. We're going to have a whole series of full
place pieces of dead godling. They're a bad influence, David. Oh yeah, I get it everywhere
but where I needed to do it. There we go. It's thirsty, David. I wouldn't blame the applicator.
I don't think that it's designed for this. No. Doing this as incorrectly as possible. I mean,
how are we going to get the new battery? And hot glue? That would probably work.
But duct tape? Duct tape. That's good enough for Linus. We're going to have to use the LG wing anyway so it doesn't really matter. I ain't repairing that one.
Let's get some of these picks in there. Now that we can get a pick in there, this should be a little
bit easier. I can feel that adhesive cutting. Hopefully I'm not cutting through the side of
the battery. Oh well, if it gets exploded then that'll be at least content. It feels like he's
raising a claymore up towards us. Point towards shooter. Oh my god, look at all of that. Adhesive.
Yummy. Oh yeah. Free snacks. Yeah, the alcohol took care of that. Look at that. It's turning to goo.
I remembered a thing. Look at me go. Okay, now we've got the danger cube out. We can keep having
a look in here. Yeah, this side of the phone is pretty empty. You can see most of it's just
aluminum and battery. That's pretty much all phones are these days. Hopefully they didn't
damage that cable. Whatever. The nice thing is we don't have to care. We have new parts.
You've had first side of phone. How about second side of phone? So yeah, these two cables kind of
go up and through the spine and the hinge and join into here which is neat. So let's let's
plop that down in here and hopefully this side will come off fast too. Moment of truthiness.
Oh, this is looking good. Let's move this out of the way. Have a look here. Good way to tell is on
the top side but I can't see like anything. This black of it is extremely even, right? So that
kind of tells me that maybe we didn't get water in this side which is pretty good. You can also see
the adhesive how like it's a pretty impressive seal if I'm not going to lie. I'll throw that over
there and yeah let's have a look through here. Our screws are all nice and shiny which is good.
I think we might be safe for the side that matters which is great. I'm going to just go ahead and
remove some of these though. Yeah, here we have the wireless charging coil and you can see that just
kind of sits on top of our main battery here or is it the secondary battery? I don't know which
is the bigger one. Our triple main cameras looks like this one even has image stabilization which
is pretty sick. Let's have a look under here. So this is the charging port here and all of that
looks pretty good actually. I'm not super concerned about this side. I think we might leave it for
now and see if there are other problems with it later. Oh yeah okay we got some tape here. I think
this is our brain. I don't know if I want to be doing neurosurgery today. Okay, I'm going to just
leave this for now. I think this is probably going to be okay. I'm not seeing any ingress like we did
with the other side. We'll take a pause here and try and open the parts phone. Unfortunately with
this one we don't have the pleasure of having the phone open itself up by being destroyed.
So we're going to need some tools for this. We've got the iFixit gel QB thing. We may not need that.
It's not quite as brutal as some other phones so we may go with the suction cup and a blade
but be kind of nice if we kept this screen intact because Linus's secondary screen has
some scratches on it and some fingerprints so we've got to throw that away obviously.
Yeah well let's let's try. Can't get rid of fingerprints. You rinse them off in the pool.
It's like when I buy like my LTT water bottle when it gets dirty I just throw it out and get another
one. What I'm looking for here is any kind of flex or separation but it doesn't look like it's going
to want to come apart there. We'll try from the bottom side here. Some of the iFixit guides I've
watched have had luck pulling it from this side because we have a little hole right here. We've
got a little guide right here for the speaker output so we may be able to put pressure on it
and get this to stick and pull it up just enough to get a pick in there if we're lucky.
Nope. We're going to go to have to do some heat. Microwave time.
Lunch is ready. Throw that on there and that should soften some of the adhesives.
Hopefully. I kind of want to just get it everywhere. It should probably sit for a minute.
These got nice and hot. Not a crack please. We need to go heat gun. No.
Nope. Does the gel thing retain heat for a good long time? Probably not enough.
Like I might have to go and give her another one. How long? 30 seconds. Okay.
Three camera shoot to watch Dan try to melt a foam. This doesn't go very well. It might come to that.
If we toss it in the pool and make the battery bulge. It's not a bad idea.
Yeah. It's very hot. I'm just going to put this here. Not that sit for probably a little while
longer. Once we get it in roads then we'll be okay. Yeah. But I can't even get it started,
which is real hot, which is really frustrating. This is a health hazard.
We have our first inroads. Finally. Good technique is to just use lots of picks. Go nice and slow.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That feels good. Okay. Now we're getting somewhere.
Nice thing is that we just need like the parts from this. So if I do end up destroying this
screen it's not going to be the end of the world. It would be sad. I'd really like to use this
instead of Linus's one because it is older. I think Linus's phone was a lot easier to open maybe
because it's older and had been used more and had been in a pool. This one seems like it's
almost brand new, which is kind of interesting. There we go. Sorry. I've got to concentrate.
The screen is distending and I don't want to f*** it up. I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
I'm not the writer. Yeah, come on. I didn't write it. He's not living. He's off the rails.
I'm off script. There we go. So we can. Ah, f***.
That sucks. Now there's glass everywhere. That'll buff out. It's not even that bad.
I mean all the pluses, you don't have to worry about breaking it anymore. Yeah, I mean you really just ended it. I had an insult to injury. Now I got f***ing puns.
If you're doing this at home, don't do it on camera.
Jesus. I'm going to wear safety goggles for this. F*** this. F*** it. F***. I'm angry. F***ing f***.
F***.
God, the f***ing, the glue is so strong. I need a good glass of whiskey. Where's that alcohol?
Thank you.
We have achieved comedy. I'm really upset. It also means that I've lost my leverage point,
so it's hard to kind of continue now. If I just break some more of this glass here, f***ing piss.
F*** out my f***. F*** you, Samsung.
Should keep all the busted stuff in a nice janky pile for Linus to react to.
Yeah. Here Linus, I fixed your phone.
Who's there, buddy? This is slowing progress quite a lot. Oh, I turned the phone on.
There's no way to turn it off now. Oh, no. Oh, this is so much worse.
I probably should have been more careful, but it always goes a bit weird when you're on camera,
you know? This is a f***ing mess. I am very upset. Yeah, there. See, the phone is on.
How do we turn it off? Because Android changed how it functions. You can't just like
hold the power button. Oh, you can like actually just kill it like this. I hope.
Well, I think it's the tap and then the on-screen thing, but...
I can't because the screens are broken. Minor detail, Dan.
Down on the volume button as well. Okay. We do down and power. It should hard shut down.
Nice. Thank you. A major component is just going really slow and taking your time and using lots
of heat. Like you don't, you don't have to rush. I don't have a couple of jackasses watching you.
Yeah. At least Linus has gotten, isn't breathing down my neck. Oh, the sound. Oh, I'm so sorry,
little guy. This section here needed more heat than I think I gave it because this is the end
that has the circuit board on it. So it's probably acting maybe as a little bit more of a, as a heat
sink than anywhere else in the phone. Let's see if I can cut that free. Oh, man. I am f***ing angry.
Come on, little guy. There we go. We got the screen off. We're done.
We got, we got this f***ing, we got the screen off. Yay. Let's hope the rest of it
doesn't go quite as badly. This one had some fingerprints and this one had some Dan.
Whatever. I don't care. Got this glass everywhere. This,
yeah, it's okay. We'll save that. We'll just glue it back together. It'll be fine.
I feel really, really stupid. Whatever. F*** happens. At least it happened on camera.
Exactly. You can kind of see what we're working with. This, this strip is so thick
and it is so sticky. I'm really, really glad that the battery had, had pushed up the other one.
Like, oh my God. Even just wrenching on this teeny tiny little piece of glass right here,
you can barely get it out. If your boss drops his fold in the pool, at least you'll know what not to do.
There we go. Now I can't cut my hands open even though I kind of want to now.
Let's get this off and see how we're doing. This all looks normal, which is great.
Are all the screws the same? That is the one saving grace is there's very few different types
of screws in this. And if you can make it past the screen in one piece, then it's pretty much
just all double O Phillips all the way through, which is why we have Phillips. Which one do you
think went in the pool? It's pretty obvious now. The one with the swimming cap. The one with the
swimming cap on, yeah. If you take your phone in for warranty and they say, we ain't touching this
because it's been in the drink, you can see this strip here has turned red. This little piece of
tape, what happens is the top layer dissolves, I believe, in water. Unfortunately, there is no
Dan indicator, which would probably be important to have as well. I think the broken screen is a
pretty good Dan indicator. Yeah, I think so. Broken screen lets you know if Dan's been around.
Okay, batteries out. We're safe. I have no idea if the phone's on right now because, you know,
that thing I did. It doesn't come with a SIM card tray? Oh, SIM card in the tray, I see.
No, no, just SIM card tray. There is no SIM card tray in this one? No, well, this is the SIM unit, but it didn't come with the...
Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, I understand. The little tray. Yeah, you're going to start slowing down after the screen thing,
doing a proper job. I think I flew too close to the sun.
But we have to get it done so quick. Why don't we move back in like 20 minutes?
Linus drops things, I break screens.
And hearts. Oh, yeah.
Back. That popped out very satisfyingly. Yeah, they got little like clippity things. It's kind of cool.
There's writing in here. What does it say? Help me, please.
I'm trapped in a phone factory. Don't let Dan touch me.
Be careful of the screen.
Our antenna connect here, I think, might be Wi-Fi. I don't know.
It's held down with this nice little piece of tape. I got screen goo on my tweezers and they won't open.
Don't tell me that this board is glued down as well. I will cry.
There may be an overvision. No, no, this is coming out. It's just kind of
clipped in there a little bit. It doesn't need to work for long.
It does not need to work for long. It doesn't have to be pretty.
There's USB 2, I think, so it might take longer than we thought to transfer.
This one was also held down with tape, but I managed to get it out without snapping the board in half.
Oh, look at that. It's amazing what not having corrosion can do.
Can we see how tarnished that is? My hands are shaking.
The one closest to you is the good one. The one closest to me is the good one.
We replaced the camera too. Is it, was it working?
I have no idea. We might as well replace this bottom board as well if we can get it out.
Does it just come out? You're the expert now. I don't know. I don't think so anymore.
I think that one's glued in. We won't, we won't worry about that just yet.
But I do have to get this battery out. So I'm going to remove some of this broken glass back to peeling this off.
I mean, look at this. It's like absolutely insane.
So you're just going to replace that daughter board in the battery?
Is there more that has to move over to? I think that's pretty much it.
Okay. I'm hopeful that'll do it. That's the hope.
We're free. Look at that alcohol I needed to use to...
get that to melt away. Thankfully the alcohol does soften it or deactivate it.
Cool. Okay. Oh God.
We have parts, I guess.
I mean, maybe we should give this a bit of a tidy up.
Let's give her a bit of a tidy. Let's get rid of some of this gunge over here.
Hopefully that ISO will get rid of some of this.
I'm not entirely too concerned at the moment. One thing that I do want to watch for is any of the grounding pads.
So if we flip this guy over, so there's this pad here,
which is going to probably press into one of these pads as well.
Maybe over there. I don't quite know. Let's have a look.
Goes that way up. Yeah. So we have these two pads here,
which go to these two. And then this guy here is for that one.
So this is one pad that we actually do need to be kind of nicely cleaned.
What the hell was that? The TV turned off.
I don't know how much of this is necessary.
These guys look bad, but like not too bad.
Stupid question. Should the battery go in first?
No, I don't think it matters. Okay. Get our SIM card tray in there too, I guess.
Make sure our release button stays. Well, let's just tidy up this battery.
And then just wipe off some of the alcohol.
Now, do we wait for Linus to push this connector back in?
Why? So he can see if it works. See if it works? Probably should.
I'm going to put the bottom on. Okay. And then we'll wait for Linus.
Get our bottom speaker back in.
At least I think that's what this is. At this point, I don't think I care anymore.
I've already destroyed the screen.
Destroyed my reputation. Did you get one?
I destroyed what would be the start of a reputation. No, your reputation is, Besser is the Besser.
Besser is the screen.
Distressor. At least I didn't damage anything else getting this out.
That we know of. That we know of.
F***. Okay. There we go. We have battery that's not connected.
This guy at the top here, which I think...
Geez, I don't know. Is that a... Oh, that's the earpiece.
So this will be the earpiece. You can see there's a little gasket in there for the...
No, that's also a speaker. I don't f*** care anymore. Linus!
Linus!