I wouldn't say they have made any progress on repairability when looking at the Galaxy S21, but they are not making repair harder.

Apple would never do this 😂

@@Adrian-xz9bn yeah

yep

There’s no progress. No charging block no headphone jack no sad card slot. They just slowly remove what makes them stronger and you are buying it docilely

I was almost sure something would be disabled, but no!

@@DemeDemetre yep I know right

Normally i dont take my phone to 3rd party repairs. I only take old phones but this is still great although i dont think ill be getting a S22

certainly not the only one

I'm sure the parts have to be official Samsung parts but at least you can get it fixed

We just need the headphone jack back.

Yeah that's the only reason why I got the more expensive S22+ rather than the S21+, 4 years of updates is A very important factor to me because I plan to keep the phone a long time

my s9 got 4 years of security updates and thats all that matters TBH ,the s9 got slow last year ,but after a factory reset it was like new again speed wise ,however it stopped security patches in march so i got the s22 ;)

@@echobird115 the S21 series also get 4 years of OS updates and 5 years of security patches...

@@girlsdrinkfeck Wait what I thought the S9 could only be updated to Android 10

That is honestly such class. The fact that we have the option to fix our Samsung S22 devices ourselves even if we need to pay a small fee is I think a great compromise. If only Apple took notes

@gioa its why i said if only

Appreciate you posting this. The telephoto 2 lens on my S22 Ultra isn't working and I thought I couldn't do anything about it due to part pairing. Am happy to hear that this isn't the case and after reading your comment I went ahead a purchased a replacement camera module from eBay to do the repair!

complete opposite of apple lmao, apple would just tell their customers that their product is irreparable and that they should buy another device this is one reason why i love samsung

Speaking of that, Hugh didn't test the A52 for repairability to check if they really did improvise.

I know the A30s is affected too

Fun fact with that finger print reader issue, if you replace the scanner and the screen together, the reader will still work. I have no idea why that is, but it is a way to do it.

I have a a51, and there is a simple way around that issue: don't break your phone or don't use a fingerprint sensor

@@MyHomeman234 then maybe the sensors weren't identical?

They've been doing it for the past few releases. I swear it's because it doesn't actually fit into the space for it and they just didn't resize it, but there's probably some weird engineering reason that is way less interesting.

@@garrettlison4992 I refuse to remove it in my teardown videos because I know I’ll break it and can’t find parts. Lol. I did replace one in an S20 ultra recently and it was a giant pain. It started as a screen repair, ended with replacing the camera too.

@@flippinfunkos I hear that man, I tore the little black coating on an S21 camera the other day and thought I broke it. Dodged a bullet with that one!

All you need is an exacto knife and a precise hand. Then fit it into the new housing if you’re doing a repair.

@@RolandKoller90 yea I like the feel of the blade. I’ve seen techs use picks, playing cards, business cards, etc. The flat blade gets the job done quickly. Just keep your hand steady and don’t go in too deep.

same for me i'm also not buying any new s22's cuz i already have a note 20 ultra

Thanks for the kind words!

@@HughJeffreys You're ALWAYS very welcome Hugh, no problem, anytime!! 😇✌🏻😎

the fuck you talking about? this guy reuses the adhesive on a battery and on the back and yet you act like he did it perfect. reusing any seal is always a bad idea, even if it is stil very sticky. i wont be waterproof or dustproof. its a stupid thing to do, better of ordering new adhesive ALWAYS.

What would be above the bare minimum, as in positives?

I don't think you can with apples but every apple I've ever had the battery went out after 4 years and I just updated to a new one since it was going out of date.

Yeah, that thing’s stuck down like krazy glue 🙄

As jerryrigeverything said, "there's enough adhesive here to stick an elephant to the ceiling"

Yep. Battery and the glass. Everything else is modular. I will give props to Apple to making their batteries in the iPhone a but easier as they have pull tabs. Still half the time they just tear.

The battery glue can lasts for centuries Maybe they are still haunted by the note 7

@@josuemontalvo221 other than that nothing else is good😂😂

That's apple for you.

That's apple 👍

I know right? I'm gonna try this next time and see if it helps

😹😹😹

Plastic is definitely better

Best comment,100%!

Literally everyone on twitter and youtube reviews bitched about the S21 being a "cheap" plastic back phone for the price. iPhone users complained about Samsung releasing a "plastic phone" in 2021 and calling it a cheap scam (I've seen the argument "at least my iPhone is not a plastic phone" being thrown around too often). Now that Samsung, to please its costumers, got back to full glass on the whole S22 lineup to make it as premium as possible even the smaller S22, people are complaining that glass breaks and the plastic was awesome. Come on. We will always have something to complain about don't we. At least yes glass is more premium and transfers temperature better than plastic (which is almost a thermal insulator) so by being glass the S22 will cool itself passively better. So yea, plastic sometimes is awesome for durability, but I think it's just better to be glass to stop people complaining about it and help it cool

TBH I'm glad unlocked bootloader disables apps like Samsung Pass/ Secure folder as those use Samsungs knox security thing and makes me trust Knox even more.

Where did you buy the replacement battery??

me too

All of the parts where swapped. The motherboard from the green (Label G) phone when into the silver (Label S) phone with the silver cameras.

Thank you kindly!

Yeah they are afraid of another note 7 lmao

They glued down the batteries bcz they are afraid of the note7 accident

@@pham3383 what happen to the note 7

@@kindsplash21 boom

Could it also be to increase heat transfer through the case? More solid connection -> better transfer rate -> less overheating

It looks like you can still use Knox on the S22, just not after unlocking thr bootloader. That seems fine to me. I dont actually know anyone who uses Knox tho

@Carter Thiel I use knox heavily I use samsung blockchain, pass, and pay

@@silentiousgamer-4610 Samsung pay is no longer on the phone's. They removed it in the s21 or so.

@@michaelcorcoran8768 where did you get that information?

@@michaelcorcoran8768 i still got spay on my s21 plus

Phone manufacturers don't cater to niche consumers who wouldn't make them a profit. That's how it is. For your storage needs, they do offer a 1TB variant.

you could get a Sony, my xperia 1ii been holding up really well for a last-gen phone. even has a headphone jack.

one thing i could advice it to get a NAS as a cloud for your stuff, i have it set up that way and now have all my data that i can't/don't want to keep on my phone on there... nice to have 4TB in Raid 1 and accessible from all around the world, sure download/upload might not be as fast as direct access on your phone but you have a save copy of everything and keep your phones storage free and tbh. a good NAS with 2x 4TB drives doesn't cost a fortune, or atleast it's often less then what you pay for a phone with maxed out storage compared to a base model, i currently have a S7 (since my S9 kinda died) and everything i had on my S9 (64gb variant) easily fits onto the 32 GB of the S7 but i'm getting a S22 now for obvious reasons i guess, well, that's my opinion on it, yes i'd like a SD-Card slot and maybe a headphone jack but since the trend isn't going back probably you've to work around it somehow, stay save, with regards Shinon 😊

So much for all my 512gb micro sd cards. If you take lots of pictures and videos and have a good selection of apps then 128gb ain't shit for storage imho.

That's the beauty of android: you can choose! If you want a phone with micro SD slot A52s 5G would be more than what you need