WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the phone that i've been using for the last year-ish it's a samsung galaxy s20 and about three months ago i i gave it a bit of an owie which has slowly been spreading like that toothache that you've been ignoring and today i'm gonna try and fix it myself which may not go very well because i i do have a bit of a tendency to break things now from the little bit of admittedly not very thorough research that i've done there seems to be two ways to go about repairing your own samsung galaxy s20 display now the first way to go about it is by far the cheapest and it involves just replacing the front glass element now this obviously won't work if your oled display itself is actually damaged which mine isn't although after having looked at the actual process of separating the glass front and the oled from each other there is no way in hell that i'm gonna be able to do that without incurring at least three casualties so i had to swiftly move on to the second way now the second way to go about it is buying the entire display so that is the oled with the bit of glass attached and then taking your phone apart switching them out and then putting it back together that would be great but there are also a couple of problems with that one the first one is that it's really difficult to find just the display for the base s20 which is the one that i have which is ridiculous it's like a year old phone and it's already impossible to find spare parts for it but but anyway the only replacement parts that i could find for the base s20 is the entire display assembly which is like the oled with the glass and like the back of the phone uh which isn't that bad but the problem with it is that it then becomes just so expensive in fact it costs pretty much the same as the quoted price for this repair on samsung's website whether or not you'll end up paying more for it i don't know but they're still pretty much in the same ballpark so this entire process is stupid right it seems like if you have broken the display on your phone you should definitely take it to samsung and have them repair it but this is my phone and i have the right to accidentally break it while trying to repair it so i'm gonna do it even if it's terrible value for money now if there are any actual phone technicians watching um i'd probably cover my eyes because you're gonna be real triggered by the end of this video now here is the kit with the display and the back of the phone which i bought off of esource parts anyway let's see what it comes with okay just wrapped in bubble wrap um this why does this feel like a scam product have i been scammed here wait let's see no no it's in here i have to admit this does have a distinct used feeling to it well let me just quickly check someone um apparently this is a refurbished display something which i distinctly missed in the item description but that makes it even more ridiculous that it cost as much as it does in relation to just paying samsung to repair it for you but anyway let's switch this s20 off clean it up and then get started with the process now step number one seems to be use a heat gun to evenly heat the phone so that it loosens the glue and you can take the back off so uh yeah let's do that now i'm using low heat here yeah i don't want to heat the phone too much especially because it's got a battery in it yeah now i definitely need to heat it more yeah no we need more heat let's try now i feel like i'm at the point where it's gonna burn my hand to touch the phone yeah i think i need it even even warmer it's so hot though feels like it's getting dangerously hot let's just give it a little bit more it's so hot now how is it still not coming up okay there we go it is not coming up around the sides though let me see yeah there we go this tool works better because you can really get it under there there we go you can really hear that glue come loose okay that is the the back off i don't know if you can hear the dread in my voice oh there we go there's all the glue and there is the back of an s20 that is quite a beautiful inside of the device now apparently after you've replaced the original screen so when you like break this seal virginity uh it loses quite a lot of its waterproofness so even if you reassemble it properly it's still not going to be as waterproof as like an un uh an unrepaired phone which kind of sucks because it means that you can't fully repair the device the next step is to remove the phillips head screws around the actual charging coil so that we can remove that off the back of the battery okay there is the last one so now we should be able to just lift the actual charging coil off that is a very very fragile feeling oh yeah in the guide it makes it look like it's it's more solid yo how do you get that off without tearing it it make they make it seem so easy in the guide yo so they just like stick it in and pull it up oh that feels like it's gonna break so bad though oh is that is it loose yes we're good okay okay there we go oh okay yay so we've loosened our wireless charging coil okay so this step is to dis connect the battery there we go now the next step is to remove the speakers so that we can get access to all of these cables i don't know how clearly you can see it here but these screws do have like a blue paint on them so i'm assuming you're avoiding your warranty by doing this it's just just a guess so now that we've loosened the screws we just need to kind of stick a thing in there a bit and then this is not lifting off or am i missing a screw no no i'm not there we go there we go oh it's out well this whole process is so delicate but it all needs more force than feels reasonable to use in the situation but there we go we have removed the speaker assembly there we go that's what that bad boy looks like now the next step is to remove all of these ribbon cables that run over the battery so is such a delicate process there we go so we've got the display cable out the way now next up it recommends that we actually reheat the phone because the battery is very heavily glued into place okay it doesn't give me a time frame so i'm just gonna do a little heating now apparently the battery removing process is is very terrifying so i'm gonna use this non-metal tool oh okay no i need to heat it more apparently yo it does not want to budge they really glue the crap out of this battery 20 minutes later this is such a terrible process because the battery is like a bit malleable yo i am i am destroying this battery it's not the fun's so hot it's not budging at all oh it's free oh this is come on oh oh look at all that glue wow there is enough glue in there to hold together the fabric of time i don't know if that battery is still okay look at that i mean it's it's not punctured like this there's not a like a like a break in it um but yeah let's let's carry on with this hellish process now yeah i was i was right on the verge of throwing in the towel there but with that let's carry on i think the next step is removing the motherboard there we go there is our cover and the next we have to remove the remaining connectors so there's one here it's gonna bend out of the way like that oh there we go we have our main board for the phone this is the brain of the phone with the cameras on it i'm guessing the the snapdragon is under here that's a bit of a bit of heatsink that we have uh we've got some more heatsink under here that's it that this tiny little bit is the motherboard of the phone it's so cute it's so unbelievably dense as well there's so much going on on here there we go it's out now this little daughter board is for the usbc connector on the base of the phone and then the last bit that we're gonna have to remove is the vibration motor over here and then we're basically just going to move all of the components into the other chassis now unfortunately the little vibration motor down here is also glued down so we may have to heat it up again but let me just give it a bit of a wiggle yeah no we're gonna have to heat that bad boy up again turn it like that and then you should just pop it out like that this is the teeny little vibration motor for the phone and then the final thing that we need to remove is a sensor just next to the earpiece here there we go we've got the sensor out as well and now i think we're done okay so at this point we just need to kind of discard of this broken screen one which i'm going to hold on to because i may i may have samsung repair it for me anyway i'll see what happens but now we need to move all of those parts into this screen assembly at this point the reassembly is just the tear down but backwards basically you just replace the vibration motor and then reset the usbc and mainboard making sure not to pinch any of those pesky little connectors in place after which you screw both of them down next you reinsert the sim tray and remember those pesky little connectors now you plug them back in then you replace the top cover for the main board next the huge i.e the battery goes back into place after which you can replace all of the ribbon cables screw down the speaker and then finally before testing you can replace the wireless charging coil okay it's all back in place um it is successfully reassembled obviously aside from the back and now we get to see if i killed it or not uh let me know down in the comment section below what you think i think there's maybe a 40 chance that it's still fine uh especially battery-wise i'm kind of terrified it's just gonna blow up in my hands to be honest hey it still works that is amazing okay now we do need to run some tests to see that all of the displays functionality is actually doing okay star zero star hash after running all of the display diagnostic tests everything checked out so it was finally time to reattach the back completing my own galaxy s20 repair now i don't have a new adhesive film to use i'm gonna have to reuse it it seems to be fine according to the video but either way the actual waterproof rating of the phone is now compromised now that you've kind of repaired the display unfortunately like i mentioned earlier oh it's dirty we'll clean it again you need to very nicely align everything and then we need to heat the device up again so that it reseals so i think what i'm going to do now that i've heated it quite a lot and i've kind of pushed it into place i am going to weigh it down so that it cools and and sets in place nicely they don't include this part of the process in the assembly guide but it just makes sense to me now i want to use something heavy so i think a 3080ti should do the trick there we go and now i'm just going to leave it for a bit and then and then we should be good it is now the day after the repair and i am proud to announce that the phone didn't explode in my pocket castrating me which considering how i mangled that battery yesterday i was a bit concerned about um although complete outrage about six hours after finishing the repair and powering the phone back up a little just blob of dead pixels showed up which means i spent over 300 canadian rubles buying a refurbished display which i stupidly didn't realize was refurbished but buying a refurbished display to have it just have a bunch of dead pixels in it um which i guess the moral of this story is unless you're really really good at phone repair and you have a base samsung galaxy s20 you're probably better off just taking it to samsung and having them repaired for you uh yeah so anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed this video please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one i guess and until the next video bye youthis is the phone that i've been using for the last year-ish it's a samsung galaxy s20 and about three months ago i i gave it a bit of an owie which has slowly been spreading like that toothache that you've been ignoring and today i'm gonna try and fix it myself which may not go very well because i i do have a bit of a tendency to break things now from the little bit of admittedly not very thorough research that i've done there seems to be two ways to go about repairing your own samsung galaxy s20 display now the first way to go about it is by far the cheapest and it involves just replacing the front glass element now this obviously won't work if your oled display itself is actually damaged which mine isn't although after having looked at the actual process of separating the glass front and the oled from each other there is no way in hell that i'm gonna be able to do that without incurring at least three casualties so i had to swiftly move on to the second way now the second way to go about it is buying the entire display so that is the oled with the bit of glass attached and then taking your phone apart switching them out and then putting it back together that would be great but there are also a couple of problems with that one the first one is that it's really difficult to find just the display for the base s20 which is the one that i have which is ridiculous it's like a year old phone and it's already impossible to find spare parts for it but but anyway the only replacement parts that i could find for the base s20 is the entire display assembly which is like the oled with the glass and like the back of the phone uh which isn't that bad but the problem with it is that it then becomes just so expensive in fact it costs pretty much the same as the quoted price for this repair on samsung's website whether or not you'll end up paying more for it i don't know but they're still pretty much in the same ballpark so this entire process is stupid right it seems like if you have broken the display on your phone you should definitely take it to samsung and have them repair it but this is my phone and i have the right to accidentally break it while trying to repair it so i'm gonna do it even if it's terrible value for money now if there are any actual phone technicians watching um i'd probably cover my eyes because you're gonna be real triggered by the end of this video now here is the kit with the display and the back of the phone which i bought off of esource parts anyway let's see what it comes with okay just wrapped in bubble wrap um this why does this feel like a scam product have i been scammed here wait let's see no no it's in here i have to admit this does have a distinct used feeling to it well let me just quickly check someone um apparently this is a refurbished display something which i distinctly missed in the item description but that makes it even more ridiculous that it cost as much as it does in relation to just paying samsung to repair it for you but anyway let's switch this s20 off clean it up and then get started with the process now step number one seems to be use a heat gun to evenly heat the phone so that it loosens the glue and you can take the back off so uh yeah let's do that now i'm using low heat here yeah i don't want to heat the phone too much especially because it's got a battery in it yeah now i definitely need to heat it more yeah no we need more heat let's try now i feel like i'm at the point where it's gonna burn my hand to touch the phone yeah i think i need it even even warmer it's so hot though feels like it's getting dangerously hot let's just give it a little bit more it's so hot now how is it still not coming up okay there we go it is not coming up around the sides though let me see yeah there we go this tool works better because you can really get it under there there we go you can really hear that glue come loose okay that is the the back off i don't know if you can hear the dread in my voice oh there we go there's all the glue and there is the back of an s20 that is quite a beautiful inside of the device now apparently after you've replaced the original screen so when you like break this seal virginity uh it loses quite a lot of its waterproofness so even if you reassemble it properly it's still not going to be as waterproof as like an un uh an unrepaired phone which kind of sucks because it means that you can't fully repair the device the next step is to remove the phillips head screws around the actual charging coil so that we can remove that off the back of the battery okay there is the last one so now we should be able to just lift the actual charging coil off that is a very very fragile feeling oh yeah in the guide it makes it look like it's it's more solid yo how do you get that off without tearing it it make they make it seem so easy in the guide yo so they just like stick it in and pull it up oh that feels like it's gonna break so bad though oh is that is it loose yes we're good okay okay there we go oh okay yay so we've loosened our wireless charging coil okay so this step is to dis connect the battery there we go now the next step is to remove the speakers so that we can get access to all of these cables i don't know how clearly you can see it here but these screws do have like a blue paint on them so i'm assuming you're avoiding your warranty by doing this it's just just a guess so now that we've loosened the screws we just need to kind of stick a thing in there a bit and then this is not lifting off or am i missing a screw no no i'm not there we go there we go oh it's out well this whole process is so delicate but it all needs more force than feels reasonable to use in the situation but there we go we have removed the speaker assembly there we go that's what that bad boy looks like now the next step is to remove all of these ribbon cables that run over the battery so is such a delicate process there we go so we've got the display cable out the way now next up it recommends that we actually reheat the phone because the battery is very heavily glued into place okay it doesn't give me a time frame so i'm just gonna do a little heating now apparently the battery removing process is is very terrifying so i'm gonna use this non-metal tool oh okay no i need to heat it more apparently yo it does not want to budge they really glue the crap out of this battery 20 minutes later this is such a terrible process because the battery is like a bit malleable yo i am i am destroying this battery it's not the fun's so hot it's not budging at all oh it's free oh this is come on oh oh look at all that glue wow there is enough glue in there to hold together the fabric of time i don't know if that battery is still okay look at that i mean it's it's not punctured like this there's not a like a like a break in it um but yeah let's let's carry on with this hellish process now yeah i was i was right on the verge of throwing in the towel there but with that let's carry on i think the next step is removing the motherboard there we go there is our cover and the next we have to remove the remaining connectors so there's one here it's gonna bend out of the way like that oh there we go we have our main board for the phone this is the brain of the phone with the cameras on it i'm guessing the the snapdragon is under here that's a bit of a bit of heatsink that we have uh we've got some more heatsink under here that's it that this tiny little bit is the motherboard of the phone it's so cute it's so unbelievably dense as well there's so much going on on here there we go it's out now this little daughter board is for the usbc connector on the base of the phone and then the last bit that we're gonna have to remove is the vibration motor over here and then we're basically just going to move all of the components into the other chassis now unfortunately the little vibration motor down here is also glued down so we may have to heat it up again but let me just give it a bit of a wiggle yeah no we're gonna have to heat that bad boy up again turn it like that and then you should just pop it out like that this is the teeny little vibration motor for the phone and then the final thing that we need to remove is a sensor just next to the earpiece here there we go we've got the sensor out as well and now i think we're done okay so at this point we just need to kind of discard of this broken screen one which i'm going to hold on to because i may i may have samsung repair it for me anyway i'll see what happens but now we need to move all of those parts into this screen assembly at this point the reassembly is just the tear down but backwards basically you just replace the vibration motor and then reset the usbc and mainboard making sure not to pinch any of those pesky little connectors in place after which you screw both of them down next you reinsert the sim tray and remember those pesky little connectors now you plug them back in then you replace the top cover for the main board next the huge i.e the battery goes back into place after which you can replace all of the ribbon cables screw down the speaker and then finally before testing you can replace the wireless charging coil okay it's all back in place um it is successfully reassembled obviously aside from the back and now we get to see if i killed it or not uh let me know down in the comment section below what you think i think there's maybe a 40 chance that it's still fine uh especially battery-wise i'm kind of terrified it's just gonna blow up in my hands to be honest hey it still works that is amazing okay now we do need to run some tests to see that all of the displays functionality is actually doing okay star zero star hash after running all of the display diagnostic tests everything checked out so it was finally time to reattach the back completing my own galaxy s20 repair now i don't have a new adhesive film to use i'm gonna have to reuse it it seems to be fine according to the video but either way the actual waterproof rating of the phone is now compromised now that you've kind of repaired the display unfortunately like i mentioned earlier oh it's dirty we'll clean it again you need to very nicely align everything and then we need to heat the device up again so that it reseals so i think what i'm going to do now that i've heated it quite a lot and i've kind of pushed it into place i am going to weigh it down so that it cools and and sets in place nicely they don't include this part of the process in the assembly guide but it just makes sense to me now i want to use something heavy so i think a 3080ti should do the trick there we go and now i'm just going to leave it for a bit and then and then we should be good it is now the day after the repair and i am proud to announce that the phone didn't explode in my pocket castrating me which considering how i mangled that battery yesterday i was a bit concerned about um although complete outrage about six hours after finishing the repair and powering the phone back up a little just blob of dead pixels showed up which means i spent over 300 canadian rubles buying a refurbished display which i stupidly didn't realize was refurbished but buying a refurbished display to have it just have a bunch of dead pixels in it um which i guess the moral of this story is unless you're really really good at phone repair and you have a base samsung galaxy s20 you're probably better off just taking it to samsung and having them repaired for you uh yeah so anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed this video please do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one i guess and until the next video bye you