I would also take all those capacitors and instructors! FILTERS BABY!

@MrGordane

4 жыл бұрын

Before or after applying mains voltage to the USB port?

@mgfails9274

4 жыл бұрын

BUT...BUTT😣😣😣 YOU FORGET ABOUT THE FULLL🚨🚨BRIDGE🚨🚨🚨🚨 RECTIFIER

@mgfails9274

4 жыл бұрын

Not that there is a full bridge rectifier, but you can make one from the diodes inside the phone

@ishanfernando3064

4 жыл бұрын

Instructors or inductors?

@jafinch78

4 жыл бұрын

@@ishanfernando3064 That instruct magnetic fields, you know... permiteability to flow current. Like students who oppose for a period... instructors can to? :-|)

Imo, if the phone still works, it's not worth it taking it apart for parts A slow phone can be made faster by doing a factory reset or even installing optimized custom ROMs and still has a lot of uses Need a camera near a dangerous experiment? Want to monitor your home with an IP camera? Dictaphone? Alarm clock? Backup phone in case your main one breaks? Something to run some home-server experiments off of? DIY projects that need to display something on a screen? You essentially have a powerful computer to do anything you want that you can use as a server with lots of cool IO

@rebane2001

4 жыл бұрын

This one phone doesn't matter in the bigger picture. I'm just trying to give out ideas that will hopefully make people think twice before taking apart their phones for components they can get for a few cents online

@marek196c

4 жыл бұрын

Or just to watch porn when the other phone is charging.

@CTCTraining1

4 жыл бұрын

Well said. Reuse and repurposing can be achieved at a macro level ... rendering everything down to dust isn’t always the best option.

@SlartiMarvinbartfast

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It seems incredibly wasteful to pull apart a working phone for parts. If the owner had no use for it then it could be sold on Ebay, given away to a friend or family member, etc.

@luminumlx2604

4 жыл бұрын

@@lucianodebenedictis6014 when i was 7 years old, my computer broke, turns out it was the power supply. I replaced the power supply (yes i replaced it by myself) and i opened the old PSU and i kinda remember many stuffed capacitors. I managed to salvage the cooler and my dad soldered it with USB. And i used it as a soup cooler. lol

Zack from JerryRigEverything: Be careful,don't go deep with the business card because you could damage important things inside. GreatScott!:So I removed the back of the phone with a flathead screwdriver

@addy.is.live1

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Usq7213

4 жыл бұрын

Best meme ever made be laugh 😂

@thekingofcats197

3 жыл бұрын

Not important if its already broken

@obamalore

2 жыл бұрын

@@thekingofcats197 It was flawless he broke it white tearing it down

"overtime my smartphones always got slower" Me, watching this on a 5yo tablet: **laughs in lag**

@stephensu4371

4 жыл бұрын

and then i looking at my 7yo laptop and it is running the matlab 2019a at pretty fast speed at today’s prospect

@MMaheshThakur

4 жыл бұрын

Don't update if u don't want to slow down . Simple trick or just port to older os firmwares

@ankaz2019

4 жыл бұрын

"[...] leaving my galaxy S6 behind." Meanwhile I'm using an S4 to watch this very video just fine.

@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat

4 жыл бұрын

@@MMaheshThakur Damn planned obsolescence!

@nkjeetun3877

4 жыл бұрын

@@ankaz2019 meanwhile watching it on my Lenovo A6000 1GB variant

When you try JerryRigEverything, but only one way.

@prince_9599

4 жыл бұрын

ScottRigEverything XD

@tanmay8017

4 жыл бұрын

@@prince_9599 😂😂

@ElZamo92

4 жыл бұрын

Tanmay Nemade Well, everything that idiot “stress tests” ends up permanently damaged, and sometimes completely inoperable.

@tanmay8017

4 жыл бұрын

@@ElZamo92 Thats what stress tests are for. But mostly the phone survive an entire teardown. Except for Phones with heat pipes and in display fingerprint sensor.

@ElZamo92

4 жыл бұрын

Tanmay Nemade what about the phones, game consoles and tablets he burns and/or snaps in half? IMO he’s the new generation of tech destruction channels. No one gives a rats ass about the testing, they just want to see some dude stab $1000 phones.

You forgot about the high quality LED Flash on the Mainboard D: I always keep those.

@calo1059

4 жыл бұрын

He is way to lazy to deal with that

@blackturbine

4 жыл бұрын

True those led's are great but hard to desolder

@ahmedmani1051

4 жыл бұрын

So we ignoring the fact that his a furry?

@harshbarj

4 жыл бұрын

@@ahmedmani1051 Why would that matter? Why SHOULD that matter?

@blackturbine

4 жыл бұрын

@@ahmedmani1051 i think you took the wrong turn Basment virgins are one cross section further and turn left

5:22 That was most likely the vibrating module used to vibrate your phone upon notifications etc..

@zaku2552

4 жыл бұрын

I thought that too.

@zaku2552

4 жыл бұрын

@@lucianodebenedictis6014 do you mean like of some electric toothbrushes? But older phones had these too.Galaxy S6 is just a little too new for this.

@somemes9546

4 жыл бұрын

Totaly agrer

@MatlawtheGeek

4 жыл бұрын

Coin type vibrators are now more common, because regular tiny motors with a weight are too thick. The vibrating module you mention was used long time ago, when Nokia was the king of the mobile market.

@R3MIXMODZ

4 жыл бұрын

@@lucianodebenedictis6014 True, probably a more efficient kind since it just needs little to power while taking up hardly any room

I have 2 of these phones. After watching the video I am completely happy using them as cameras, browsers, and everything except being a phone. The s6 camera (main) is quite a decent camera! AND, someone on a limited budget could use this phone forever if the OS updates keep rolling in.

So, Basically smartphones are not worth salvaging

@AnthonyGoodley

4 жыл бұрын

I think they are better put to use in their second life as part of a security system. Maybe play games on them or for media consumption, like KZread.

@FathinLuqmanTantowi

4 жыл бұрын

ironically cheap chinese phones (notice there's no smart there) can worth more as the LCD are more common and hobbyist friendly

@Wetballs

4 жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyGoodley how did you get verified????

@marek196c

4 жыл бұрын

Not really, depend on project you want go for... Eg audio or charging ic can be used in adaptors (pcb that convert them to normal solder pinouts) or as tiny parts for projects that need to be compact, as well the buttons, with neat look of them, many phones use backing plate on back of the buttons so you can easily reuse those as well to securely mount them to the housing of your project. Cameras and lcds are worth it if you know pinouts (easily to find for majority of brands and models, especially iphones and samsungs). Still reccomend pcb adaptor for it.

@xistencestudios8904

4 жыл бұрын

Not at all , just sell it to a person who might need it or even dead phones can sell for parts . The money you will get back would be equal to many more parts and surveillance Systems are the most common uses for there and that's a good option how ever not the most reliable CCTV in my opinion but gets the job done

the phone is far more useful as a whole device. It can be used as a bluetooth remote or touchscreen interface for example

@onyxfabrications5183

4 жыл бұрын

Precisely!

@leonfrancis3418

3 жыл бұрын

Far more useful as a whole device to a user who only knows how to use it a whole device.

@executive

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonfrancis3418 you don't know how to use a smartphone?

@kyleaegis5613

3 жыл бұрын

But... what if the screen is dead? Why not scavenge the remaining parts? I agree, if a phone still functions there are plenty of uses for it as a whole.

@Kings.Production

3 жыл бұрын

@@executive you missed the "only"

The phone's speaker usually has 2 pads under the flat flex that make it useful. Most silicon on these boards require Kwisatz Haderach level skills to reuse. Some of the passives are still useful though. The capacitors onboard can be high capacity and low ESR. However, they are easy to damage and even ceramics are super dangerous to reuse if any force is applied to remove them. You need a GOOD hot air gun for this. A couple of other things,.. A lot of the components that kinda look like crystals are actually "Surface Acoustic Wave" aka "SAW" filters. These are used for filtering the desired radio frequencies. I am not into radio stuff yet but I save them for later if I can find a datasheet. While I haven't used them much I also have a bin with the tiny radio conncetors/wires, and I save the 2-part EMI shielding cans. At one point I removed most stuff and semi-sorted it. Now I just keep a storage tote with lots of boards that are partially stripped enough that they store flat. Occasionally I go through them looking for some special thing I need or an example of a circuit element I just learned about. It seems like the stuff I don't find useful right now is simply the current state of my understanding of electronics. As I learn more, I often find the things I thought were useless are much more useful than I first thought. I have one rule when it comes to salvaging parts, "never keep more than you can store, access, recall, and/or inventory." If you 'forgot you had (x/y/z) part,' you're due for reassessment of your storage and hording tendencies. Thanks for the upload. -Jake

@KennethNicholson1972

2 жыл бұрын

excellent advice. I have a box filled with old phone parts, that my brain knows should be saved, but does not yet have the knowledge to use, lol.

Replacing the battery and flashing LineageOS is the best way to go in my opinion. It keeps thr phone up to date and will fix the slow factory installed OS.

@MultiWirth

4 жыл бұрын

@@grunewurst7400 That´s why I bought an OnePlus and will buy it in future since it has excellent support and lifespan but most flagship phones are supported aswell so in case for an old galaxy s6 or s7 it is a good option

@MultiWirth

4 жыл бұрын

@@grunewurst7400 It´s a shame Huawei dropped their ability to unlock the bootloader of Huawei and Honor devices... Just go for OnePlus, run fastboot oem unlock and you don´t even need internet access.

@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322

4 жыл бұрын

@@MultiWirth I have a verizon samsung galaxy s4 and s7. Neither of them can have custom ROMs unfortunately. Keep an eye out for not just which model, but also which carrier can be flashed with custom firmware.

@tim3609

4 жыл бұрын

This

@MultiWirth

4 жыл бұрын

@@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322 You're right i've forgot that point. I'm glad we don't have this issue in germany, probably the whole EU since in worst case you'll find a software branding or simlock but will still have the standard hardware which is compatible with the standard custom builds.

I appreciate the link to the dsi to hdmi screen project. I think it can be very worthwhile to discover how to use flagship smartphone screens in arduino projects because we could honestly just start making our own custom smartphones. A battery, memory devices, basic cpu, antennas etc could all be easily fit into a decent form factor.

@Etienne85

Жыл бұрын

definitely, not getting why this isn't more popular as there exist control boards which can be used to repurpose old laptop screens into portable monitor

@corwin.macleod

6 ай бұрын

​@@Etienne85I would be happy to reuse any of the screens lying around, but it takes too much effort to reverse engineer the proprietary protocols used with them, there are no datasheets available, which is a crime in itself.

i kept telling my self that the good part is coming but that never happened :D

@rolandberendonck3900

3 жыл бұрын

My Nexus 6P went in the bootloop of Death. Since this phone has a very nice camera I hoped Scott would explain me in this video how I could use it. Which would be awsome! :)

1. People used the old phones as CCTV systems. 2. Give your old stuff to someone collecting them/repairing them. 3. Sell your old stuff to Recyclers.

I feel like a video on how to repurpose some of the items (camera and screen) would be an interesting and useful video or series. As you say it would be too difficult to figure out for a simple project, however if the project itself is to repurpose them then any knowledge you would gain on the topic would then be passed on to all your viewers who could then utilize the info themselves.

@abhinavgarg9632

Жыл бұрын

@me if you find such a video

@ardanzaasier

Жыл бұрын

Me too please, I would love to see how to do this process

@paolo69

Жыл бұрын

The problem Is that not all phones used the same pinout

Selling the old phone is probably the better idea than gathering parts from it for projects. I usually never use such salvaged parts :-)

@GRBtutorials

4 жыл бұрын

Or using it for other purposes, such as app development, hacking, or as a screen or camera for a project.

@maciejk48

4 жыл бұрын

In Eco machine my phone costed 0$, so it isn't worth to sell your phone when its old.

@100ksubscriberwithnovideos8

4 жыл бұрын

But if phone is broken then it cant be sold at a good price....

@ranger81de

4 жыл бұрын

@@100ksubscriberwithnovideos8 Scrap parts are also worth something

@ranger81de

4 жыл бұрын

@@maciejk48 Yeah maybe, but a Galaxy S6 is still $70 here in Germany. Just saying...

When I have a broken phone with a broken screen, I always strip out the backlight panel of the LCD Screen and use the led's as additional light for flashlights, bike light, etc. Anyways, great video GreatScott!

@matiasfabricioparra6209

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gerbi92 mid/high end Samsung smartphones have OLED screens, there are cheap models that comes with LCD screen

That coin-cell like component is a LRA (Linear Ressonant Actuator). They’re the kind of vibrators used for haptic control. Precision microdrive has great documentation and infographics on them

Great video. Loved that you did component by component with clear enough examples,that if someone took apart a different phone, they could reasonably understand what they are looking at. Also this is a great way to get the most out of broken phones.

If the phone still (mostly) works, the easiest way to reuse it is to connect the USB to a USB host like a Raspberry Pi or even certain high end microcontrollers. Then 3D print a holder to mount it on the enclosure of your project.

@PMSTTR

4 жыл бұрын

What could this be used for?

@NiHaoMike64

4 жыл бұрын

@@PMSTTR Any project that can use a touchscreen and compute power.

i would actually like to see you utilize a salvaged smartphone screen with a custom hdmi to dsi converter this would be the one really useful part of most all smartphones available out there id think?

I cant tell you how much happy i am that at least you made video on such rare topic

Your videos are excellent, I tip my hat to you not only doing videos in English but German too. I just wanted to say thank you for not only the effort but the level of detail in your videos!!!!!!

I was looking for this kinda video from a long time. Thanks a lot sir..

@greatscottlab

4 жыл бұрын

No problem :-)

@TechnologyWithSaikat

4 жыл бұрын

Sir, I'm having 2 old phones. From last 2 years I'm trying to find out what I can do with the camera, TFT LCD and fingerprint module. But didn't got any help from internet (got only: reusing the display backlight). But I don't want to throw those nice camera modules. I did lot of research to use camera module with Arduino & raspberry pi. But didn't got any help at all.

@PErik-sq9rv

4 жыл бұрын

@@TechnologyWithSaikat dude watch the video

@resneptacle

4 жыл бұрын

@@TechnologyWithSaikat If you don't get the pinout or a converter board, which is unlikely, the screen will not be usable, same with the camera

@VictorSoares9

4 жыл бұрын

Technology With- Saikat dude If you have a working phone just download some camera IP software to use with your project or something.

Lol, the S6 is perfectly capable. You should have just tried to put LineageOS on it. The S7 is not that much faster. You could have used the S6 as a small Server, just a network connected display, of maybe a simple media center/streamer permanently connected to the TV(Via the MHL connector).

@sandeeps4726

4 жыл бұрын

S7 is better (Typing it on a S7)

Thanks for making me feel better. Recently I tried something quite similar with an old small tablet, and felt a little ashamed, as I still have these components laying around...

Wonderful! The info, voice and concise instructions!

Give it to a person who don't have a phone. It is better than having nothing.

@euvo_sound

4 жыл бұрын

Yes i can gree with it.Needs wifi tho

@mateoluna6788

4 жыл бұрын

@@euvo_sound he said person that dosent have a phone. he didn't say a homeless person

@enderlemon890

3 жыл бұрын

Mine is broken

@justinaspetkauskas3794

3 жыл бұрын

If someone can’t afford a phone, I don’t think they can afford wireless service.

@Flopster101

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinaspetkauskas3794 Wi-Fi is not expensive but phones are, reminder that the same doesn't apply to every country.

I'd love to hear more about interfacing unknown pieces of hardware, something on a level of old nokia screen.

thanks for doing this! i always wondered which parts were more user-friendly to be repurposed

I once took apart a Nokia C6 (the one with a sliding keyboard in the landscape orientation). It's camera flash module was separate from the motherboard and can be used with a 4V DC battery, It was pretty powerful for the size, and had very high (>95%) CRI.

If it works, probably worth it to keep just for apps and stuff. Now that 'old' phones include quite a number of phones which can snap pics in RAW image format, it's great to keep a couple around for quick project documentation pics. (Especially with Adobe Lightroom installed, the images go to the cloud, and are available on your PC near-instantly!) Or you could just keep it around as a music player without running down your current phone... Or, with the right app, use it as a dedicated screen for a USB oscope/LA. Or a dedicated screen for a cheap USB microscope, so you don't need to get one with a screen... Heck, you could even use it to add a touch interface to a 3D printer, if you're using a RasPi with Octoprint.

I do mobile repairing so these types of teardowns are a pretty usual thing for me

I was exactly looking for this kind of channel on youtube, where they taking parts of electronics and make new creations of that.

I learned so much more than I expected

Interesting, thanks. I'm a bit surprised the cameras and microphone use such a strange interface since notebook/laptop ones usually are just USB so easily reusable.

You can reuse old phone as linux server - remove the battery and make it work directly with 4.0 v . Linux server or IOT /Mqtt server, also IP camera (tested by me)

@ImSoNotSleepy

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I'm thinking

Thanks for an informative and well done video. A pity so little is actually worth salvaging.

I'm watching this with my Galaxy S7, which is still darrrn remarkable; especially the camera and display!

7:00 the HDMI cable has the depression 😂😂

That PMIC and Audio amp was worth to salvage, sorry but today miniaturization equals to BGA

Huh… Neat! This is the first time I've seen a video about salvaging components from a smart phone.

So long after years.... Finally an interesting video.

4:34 That "weird piece" is actually the motor that vibrates from notifications

@mateojbuteler8974

3 жыл бұрын

i was gonna comment that

If the phone is working (at least the USB connector, CPU and WiFi) that why not use it intact as a wireless controller?

@monad_tcp

4 жыл бұрын

because its a sansumg

@ericscaillet2232

4 жыл бұрын

@@monad_tcp Samsung blues everybody knows one ...by Neil Diamond.

@Flopster101

3 жыл бұрын

@@monad_tcp And?

Whilst you were upgrading from 6 to 7.... I was upgrading from 3 to 5. Still watching this on my "new" S5 right now.

Thanks to make this videos. I just for this type video which we seen inside the smartphone. Love from India sir.

The best way to recycle a phone is keep it in running condition as long as possible.

@the_good_lad

4 жыл бұрын

@Homebrew Engineering That's a great option.

@gigelmaximus2017

4 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@formertoddler196

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I'm pretty happy with my old LG v20 & don't feel like shelling out money for a new phone, so I just replace the parts that stop working as needed. So far I've replaced the speaker & vibrating motor. Only $10 total!

@ericscaillet2232

4 жыл бұрын

@@trashmammal3635 my s4 is still firing. ..

@Flopster101

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericscaillet2232 The S4 is a great phone, damn I wish I had one of the old S-series phones to install ROMs into it.

Battery, Flash, Buttons, IR module maybe, 2 Speakers, Ports (headphone and charger), notification led, and maybe heart rate sensor?

@RumblePirate

4 жыл бұрын

I'm with you mate ... 👍

3:51 and a few seconds after are the best thing I saw In quite a while. I have or more exactly had this problem where I couldn't find a new battery for my grandma's phone, so after seeing that it's just that simple I soldered in my headphone's battery since they don't work as of rn. And so far it works perfectly. Wish I watched this sooner but oh well.

I'm watching this video on my S6 in 2021 and this one is still really fast and nice to use, battery isn't great but I may replace the battery soon

Well the phone (whole) can be useful as a security camera very easily.

You can try to install Ubuntu Touch on an old phone (if you're in to the Linux thing). And btw OnePlus phones are very good phones, quick updates and they don't get slow quickly.

That reference to the FPGA video application project bring back memories from my student years. Related to the project, unfortunately there isn't much to take from a smartphone.

Hurray! Thank you soon much Mr. Scott.

I think the best idea is either selling it for 200$ or just download a custom rom on it and wait 4 more years

@kaeden7570

4 жыл бұрын

it would not sell for 200 maybe 100 though

@AliYassinToma

4 жыл бұрын

@@kaeden7570 depends on where u live ... here in kuwait ez 200$ used which is around 60kwd

Sell the phone, buy loads of new parts from amazon ;-) Also, be careful with the battery, they are dangerous.

Salvaging components from old flatscreen monitors way more exciting. Just the visual filters and sometimes gigantic polarized filters can be fun to play with. I.e. remove one polarizer filter, only people with polarization glasses can see the image.

Great video. Thanks for posting.

GreatScott: “the purpose of a smartphone is to watch memes”

@VenitYT

4 жыл бұрын

His right

I dont salvage from my old phone, but i use it as cctv surveilance, it is ip cctv.. and also keep it in good condition so it can be put in my museum collection🤣

How or with what circuit/board/component do you charge the battery? Can I use a standard LiIon charge circuit/module?

Scott you are an inspiration!

The "weird component that looks like a coin cell" is the vibration motor. When the phone is put on 'silent'. It's similar to the vibration motors in game controllers, but designed more like a speaker to be flatter to fit inside newer phones. ...For anyone curious.

Is it possible to use the fingerprint scanner with arduino?

@pajeedreede6173

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, in most cases, the fingerprint scanner flex cable is just soldered on to the screen flex (e.g. On the Huawei P10 if I remember correctly). Such a fingerprint scanner flex has 4-7 contacts (4 when it uses I2C, 7 for SPI). Then you just need to find out the pinout (leave the flex on the display and attach that display to the mainboard, e.g. Probing for GND you take your multimeter in resistance mode, put one probe on one contact, and the other on a metal shield on the mainboard) Regarding software, you almost always see one bigger ic on the flex, which is most certainly the fingerprint sensor controller. From there a few google searches and you're good to go

*You are really great Scott* 😊👍😊

Very Interesting things! Thanks for the video!

I think there's a usable thing from the phone, the eMMC.. you can make yourself a DIY SSD from it with help of "SD to SATA Adapter"... you can take a direct connection from the emmc to the sd sata module and read/write it as a SSD. also the sensors can be reused too with an Arduino. From my experience, i have used old android phones to make IoT projetcs (With custom ROM and custom hardware). or keep the camera module with the board, and install an app called "IP Webcam" and you have a DIY CCTV!

@benduffy4223

4 жыл бұрын

Its an S6. It doesn't have eMMC, ia has UFS

Pretty much what i expected. Take the battery out and throw everything else as far as you can :_D

@abhijitborah

4 жыл бұрын

I have a good collection of batteries.

I literally just done the same thing yesterday. Same conclusion, except I also extract the lenses from the camera module.

Thank you good sir. You saved me countless hours trying to salvage the 7 old cell phones I have. You are a great teacher though! I am proud of you for learning english so well. I know it isn't an easy language my friend! May Christ's peace be with you GS!

there is one more important thing that worth salvaging a phone: the VIBRATOR MOTOR..

@guser436

4 жыл бұрын

the coin cell thing IS the vibrator motor...

"Old phone" Me with an S4: *Cries*

@ShadowFandub

4 жыл бұрын

LG K4

@Flopster101

3 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowFandub That phone is legit terrible, I'm sorry for you. The bootloader can't even be unlocked.

@ShadowFandub

3 жыл бұрын

@@Flopster101 i know :'c

i usually turn off my lg v10 for the night but when i don't my phone becomes slow the next day. a simple restart helps but if it doesn't i pull out the battery for a minute or so and all is good. Bought it used on ebay 3 years ago still love it!. (phone has a removable battery mind you, don't go tearing up your phone to remove the battery)

My mom had an extra old s6 at her house that she let me take. It is now permanently used as vr device. definitely not worthless junk. Years of life left for this almost forgotten gem

4:32 that’s an coin style circular vibrator 😂

@bobrides5207

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same but then I saw he hooked it to 2v and apparently "it did not react" but when he hooked it up to a square wave it vibrated so it's probly a microphone

Before I watch this, I'll say I tried phone salvaging and besides pretty good batteries, it's a pain to get those tiny stuff out

@goyonman9655

4 жыл бұрын

A real pain

@greatscottlab

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@YukonK9

4 жыл бұрын

@@greatscottlab I feel your pain

Very helpful thank you much! I have an old tablet I tore apart and found pretty much the same thing. I am however saving the battery and screen just in case I find a use. Do you know if the screen from a tablet will be useful in a project like a smart mirror?

so many components not worth it.... but video worth it!!

That screen you broke was worth like $100, even with broken glass

@joonaslaakkonen8096

4 жыл бұрын

Thet are like 15 but ok

@oofig

4 жыл бұрын

@@joonaslaakkonen8096 its an amoled

Thats sad, imagine the project possibilities if you could save the screen and the cameras, or even better a Snapdragon or Kirin processor...

@AliYassinToma

4 жыл бұрын

In his case its probabley an exynos cpu

@pajeedreede6173

4 жыл бұрын

For the screen and cameras, well, there is almost always at least an pinout diagram of the connectors somewhere on the internet, those connectors are Molex Series 51338 ones. With a little effort you could get one working^^ Then to the CPU, you can actually buy some from Digikey and co. (non-proprietary ones at least... Qualcomm's cpus should be easy to find). There are always at least "brief" datasheets of them obtainable by anyone. The only thing is reballing those ic's, that can be time consuming if you haven't done it before, but you can actually find quite good tutorials on how to do that on the internet^^

@JanCiger

4 жыл бұрын

You certainly can save them (reballing a BGA is not that difficult) but without datasheets the components are completely useless. And even if you could get the datasheet somewhere (e.g. on some obscure Chinese forum), then you are facing a rather daunting job of designing a PCB for such processor. That's a high speed part, requiring SDRAM, high speed interfaces to everything, complicated power requirements (many rails and precise power sequencing required) - and it is tiny to boot! So building a one-off board with something like that would cost you more than just ordering a ready-made module in a much more friendly form factor and with documentation available ... Iphones are slightly better in this regard because their screens and cameras are at least quite well reverse engineered/documented.

@pajeedreede6173

4 жыл бұрын

@@JanCiger You got a good point there, that kinda stuff definitely needs quite a bit of experience cause timing and such, especially for CPUs. For that it's definitely a better option to get a CPU module instead of trying to come up with your own design, I agree^^

You can find filters in the screen, they can be useful in projects using LED or other light sources

You can't use the Proximity sensor, present near the speaker. They have i2c interface and you can use them. Usually APDS9930 OR APDS9960 is used in Samsung galaxy s series.

Try making a smartphone pcb motherboard !

@OtherDalfite

4 жыл бұрын

That will never, ever work. Can't even begin to explain the reasons why

@josefaschwanden1502

4 жыл бұрын

That would need years of hard work

@ericscaillet2232

4 жыл бұрын

@@josefaschwanden1502 or silicon valley as a sponsor.

how frickin long did it take to him to understand it was a vibration motor?

You need a smartphone to watch this amazing channel too.👌🏻❤

Definitely the screens are what strikes me the most that cannot be reused, they are so beautiful and so useful, that it is a pity that so many are wasted every day

@Flopster101

3 жыл бұрын

LCD screens can be reused, but AMOLED cannot, because they are propietary and you can very easily break them while disassembling.

As a cellphone technician, my teeth grinds when you remove the lcd :( Your doing it wrong. And your bending the board while removing the metal cover :(

@JD2jr.

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, Asking on the main video, but since it's your area of expertise: Is there a way to salvage the data from a phone's HD once the motherboard is damaged?

@JD2jr.

4 жыл бұрын

Edit: was indeed a double post.

@notcoolsuicide1599

4 жыл бұрын

If you have the right tools and the a ability to remove the ic without damaging the ic. Then its still usable. You can even recover files from damage phone. Storage component in phone is called emmc/nand. The tricky part of it is the underfill.

@JD2jr.

4 жыл бұрын

@@notcoolsuicide1599 Sweet, thanks. For context, my aunt got into an accident and wants family photos that were on the phone. (explaining because the same question could have much more nefarious intent behind it).

Oh come on that was a nice phone you could sell it and buy something useful for the money And yeah, people still buy used phones even in 2019 even in europe, i'm quite sure it's not hard to sell Galaxy S6 phone even in Germany for the reasonable price.

VERY Interesting / Useful / Helpful !!!!

Thank you for your work. Saved me a bunch of effort looking into a similar project.

There is these community in reddit called r/foundthemobileuser and r/foundthelightmodeuser, made as a joke, you could end up on one of these, I don't mind but I'd recommend switching to dark mode. (Also it saves battery life on oled displays Great video, greatscott

sell it an buy other types of parts is better than salvage 5 really cheap parts from a device that costs 150~€

this was educational to teach us it's not worth taking apart a phone

Awesome video kinda confirmed what I thought.

i would love to see you making that screen to work with hdmi, dont you? give a like if you want

@excitedbox5705

4 жыл бұрын

Really not that hard. You just need to figure out the pinouts. A quick google search will find that in most cases.

@VenitYT

4 жыл бұрын

Exited box i agree but also if you dont want to do that just buy a usbc to hdmi adapter

Ayy, somebody shouted out my memes😏

@sagelioneldsouza8230

4 жыл бұрын

Maah mannn!

Good video, this answered some questions I had. Regarding the battery, if you haven't already done one I would be very interested in seeing how to repurpose mobile batteries for projects.

Hello Sir! There are lots of youtubers out there but this is my favourite channel because the effort you put in each video to make people understand each detail is just speechless. Love and best wishes from India, continue spreading your talents and knowledge to everyone Sir. One request: Would you please put your kind efforts to make a DIY BLDC motor driver that is a Sinosodial-PWM circuit(for 36v 250w motor) , please!