Restoring a Note9 Someone Smashed With A Hammer

Hey guys, welcome back to another great video from Jeffries. In this video, I am going to restore this Samsung Galaxy Note 9 that has been the victim of a brutal

hammer

attack. Its previous owner has really taken issue with this poor phone. The impact has been even greater. caused further damage to the other side of the phone beyond the major impact, the frame is badly scratched and the SIM tray is missing. On closer inspection, it looks like the back has ripped off the wireless charging module and is exposing the battery, of course we'll win. I don't know the full extent of the damage until I get inside.

I bought this phone for 68 which was the cheapest Galaxy Note 9 at the time it was sold as a 128 gigabyte model and it didn't work. When you unpack it here, you'll see that it's also included. It was an iPad mini that I'll fix in a later video with the Note 9. We can test the phone and see exactly what happens when I plug it in. I was surprised to see that the screen still lights up even though it is totally unusable. The phone also turns off immediately after unplugging it, indicating that there appears to be some sort of problem with the battery.

To my surprise, wireless charging still works while I service this phone. I'll convert it to the purple color option that this Note 9 might come in. To start, I'll need to heat the back of the phone on a hot plate for a couple of minutes at 120 degrees to soften the adhesive holding that panel in place later. If you don't have access to a heat plate you can use a hair dryer or heat gun to achieve the same result. Once I have created a gap with the pry I can use the plastic picks to work around the edges and separate the back panel.

Now I wouldn't recommend using a metal pry tool to create gaps if you plan on reusing the frame, but in my case since the frame is damaged and I'm replacing it, it didn't matter as long as I was wearing eye protection, my fingers were exposed, this took me to put some glass on them, luckily my ifixit tool kit contained the tweezers I needed to repair my finger without the glass. This time I was able to continue working on the phone wearing gloves like other Samsung phones with the fingerprint reader located on the back. There is a cable that goes to the motherboard that needs to be disconnected before you can lift the back panel, to my surprise this is actually a 512 gigabyte model, as indicated by the label located on the battery, with the back panel removed we can see the damage caused by the impact, which is quite significant, but it gets a look at the phone itself is where we can see the real damage, the wireless charging module has been badly affected, but I want to take a look at the battery which is underneath and just as I expected it has a big dent in it, in fact it looks like it somehow caught fire or at least smoked a lot upon impact and that indicates why this phone is not holding a charge but now it's time to dig a little deeper.

I'm going to start by removing this wireless charging module from the phone. Once we have that removed, I can disconnect the battery and proceed to the side and bottom of the phone, where I can remove the remaining plastic pieces and the speaker from the phone. With that out of the way, we can get a proper image. Take a look at the inside of this Galaxy Note 9. Aside from the battery hit, the rest of the phone looks good and I think we can save it and be able to get this phone working again. I'm going to start by removing. the motherboard next as we will need to recover this and transfer it to our new screen and frame assembly.

There are a couple of flex cables and three screws that we will need to remove that hold the motherboard in place, as well as one for the Headphone Jack after removing the motherboard, we can take a look at it and you can see that it is quite long and It looks a lot like the one found on the Galaxy S10, although the Note 9 has a modular USB port that improves repairability. On the USB connector, we will have to loosen the two Phillips head screws and remove it from the phone. While I'm here, the headphone jack should come out too.

The cable is stuck in place, but using some isopropyl alcohol it came off. Without much fighting at the top of the phone, I'll have to disconnect this sensor cable that houses the proximity sensor. There is some aluminum tape and adhesive holding it in place. Now it's time to break in our new replacement screen and frame this comes as a complete set with the vibration motor and earpiece already installed. I also chose to change the color to purple while I'm replacing the necessary parts. I'll start the reassembly process by installing the sensor cable we just removed. After re-adhering it, it's time to install the headphone jack and USB charging port.

With that, it's time to put our motherboard in place, just three screws holding it in place, after that I can connect the four flex cables and install the two cameras again. in position before we can test the phone, I will have to install the new battery for this. I have chosen a supposedly new and genuine battery. The box it comes in is an actual Samsung parts box that even has the correct style of barcode printed on it. However, I cannot confirm that the battery inside is still the genuine battery. After connecting the battery, we can turn on our Galaxy Note 9.

Fortunately, it boots up correctly, however, it boots to a passcode screen that asks for a PIN to be entered so the phone can be paired. Power it up, I'll deal with that later, but for now I'll continue reassembling the phone to install this battery. I will be using the adhesive that is already applied to the battery and not the frame itself, so I will remove it. that adhesive and stick the battery as it should probably be next. I will have to secure the speaker assembly back into place. Fortunately, this phone uses all Phillips head screws and from what I can tell, each of these screws is exactly the same length, which means even if you mix up the screws, you shouldn't damage anything on the phone.

I will also transfer this little serial number sticker from the old battery to the new one once it's in, it's time to order this wireless charging module while it works, I don't feel safe putting it back in the phone so I bought a replacement one that I can stick on now, it just folds up and sticks in place so it can be placed on the phone and fixed. With the several Phillips head screws with the wireless charging module installed and adhered, we can remove its protective film and continue cleaning any residual glue on the middle frame plastic parts, then we can install the new fingerprint reader, now it is the Time to focus our attention.

To the rear panel we will need to prepare it for installation. It doesn't come with a replacement camera lens, so I had to buy one in purple to install on this new back panel while I'm at it. I will do it too. install the adhesive for the fingerprint reader when removing the protective film from the back panel I noticed that it was barely glued and it just came off, fortunately I had adhesive that was of a higher quality, which I will install now there are several pieces of adhesive that need to be applied, this one first was already installed, but many of these replacement back panels do not include the second round of adhesive.

This second round of adhesive adheres to many of the plastic parts of the middle frame, such as the wireless charging module and the speaker. After removing all this protective plastic film, I can finally connect the two halves. It's crucial to make sure everything is aligned before pressing it firmly into place. This includes the top and bottom sides as well as the fingerprint reader with our reassembled phone, that's it. It's time to reinstall our operating system. I will boot into recovery mode and reset the device to factory settings. This will delete all previous data from the phone.

Once completed, we can continue configuring the device. The phone is now configured. We can navigate. I go into settings and see that it's running Android 8.1 with the September 2018 security patch update, so it's been a long time since anyone used this phone. The last thing I have to do is remove the protective film from the screen and the back of the phone and we're done, so this is a once abused Galaxy Note 9, not only is it back to working order but it's now in use. violet color. All features of the phone are working, including the new fingerprint reader.

This phone is equipped with 512 gigabytes of storage. eight gigs of RAM and a 4000 milliamp battery. The last owner either never updated the phone or it had a very short life given that it is running a late 2018 security patch update. I haven't bought a purple pen yet, however, that's an easy fix and everything this phone now you need and on that note this has been a great video from Jeffries if you like what you saw hit the subscribe button and consider checking out the phone restore playlist for more videos like this and if you're looking for. For any used device, be sure to check out my website link, found in the description.

That's it for this video and I'll see you guys next time.