I BROKE MY PHONE -- KARMA IS REAL

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00:00So I kind of broke my own phone. Was it my fault? Probably. I was test driving one of our off-road

00:07wheelchairs and my Galaxy S24 Ultra fell out of my pocket and onto the sidewalk. This fall,

00:14in and of itself, is probably not what caused the damage though. The damage more likely occurred

00:19when I proceeded to run it over at 20 miles an hour with the fat bike tires grinding and smashing

00:25the glass screen into the pavement. And whatever little pebbles might have been under the phone

00:31are what caused the damage. You can see the multiple puncture wounds that generate from

00:35the center of the glass and not the edges. It was a bad decision on my part to not have a screen

00:41protector installed since a screen protector would have added an extra layer of protection against

00:45the tiny pebbles. Either way, today we're going to fix it. To fix my phone we have two options.

00:51An OEM replacement directly from Samsung that cost $327. Or I can get a third party knockoff screen

00:58for nearly a third of the price off of Amazon. For $129 bucks, that's not bad even if it's not

01:04actually made by Samsung. I chose the knockoff part since I'm cheap and we can see if it's any good

01:10together. Speaking of cheap and extremely helpful, this is the last month that you can ever get one

01:15of the 2025 collector's coins from my wheelchair factory. Every penny we make from the sale of the

01:20coins goes directly towards making wheelchairs cheaper for those who need them. Someone told

01:25me the other day that their first active manual wheelchair cost $12,000 through insurance, where my

01:32company can build nearly the exact same thing in 6 weeks starting at $1,000 – a fraction of the price.

01:39All thanks to you watching these videos and buying these coins. The silver coin is $15 and the gold is $100.

01:46Cambry and I will never take a paycheck from the factory, but for anyone who buys one of these coins

01:50before the end of the year, you'll get a hand signed thank you picture from both of us because we

01:55couldn't do it without you. Thank you for the support. We have a lot of cool projects in the works,

02:00which I do need a functional phone for, so back to work. I'm going to turn off the phone first this

02:06time around. I'll use copious amounts of heat to help soften the adhesive under the back glass panel.

02:11Taking the phone apart myself will 100% ruin the waterproofing of course, but I think the cracks

02:17on the screen already compromised the ingress protection anyway, and I'd rather have a functional

02:22screen than glass chunks in my finger. To get the screen off, there are two plugs that I need access

02:27to from the back, so both the front and rear of the phone need to be removed. This is definitely not

02:32as easy as an iPhone screen or Pixel phone screen replacement, but it is what it is. With the glass

02:38removed, I can grab my JerryRig tool kit. I use this thing all the time. Luckily my Samsung only

02:44requires one type of bit – the small Phillips head. There are four of these screws on the metal

02:48shield that attaches the 15 watt wireless charging pad. Samsung phones look pretty amazing on the

02:54inside. I'll unclip the battery and then unplug the small ribbon cable that goes to the screen,

02:59unclipping it just like a little Lego. If I remember right, it's one of these three ribbons,

03:04and I just unplugged all of them to be safe. The main screen plug is going to be under the black

03:09loudspeaker, which has an additional six silver screws of its own. The only ribbon that really

03:14needs to be unplugged is the black one on the lower right. Now there are two types of screen

03:20replacements that Samsung sells. One is just the display without the frame, and the other is called

03:26the display assembly. It's kind of tripping me out that Samsung calls their display an LCD when it's

03:32supposed to be an AMOLED, but the screen without the frame does cost $131 cheaper than the full

03:38frame assembly. Except neither of them are as cheap as my knockoff, so fingers crossed that my unit

03:44even works. The extra work of removing the screen isn't all too bad. The main thing is that you don't

03:49want any glass dust or adhesive to get inside that front facing camera since it has a physical autofocus

03:55that does require movement, and if dust gets inside that camera unit, it'll just never focus again.

04:01With the screen off and the adhesive all cleaned up, I can finally pull my knockoff out of the box,

04:07and I actually didn't realize it came with the whole frame attached. This will kind of make the

04:11whole repair easier. But now I'm even more suspicious since this knockoff is about one third the price of

04:17the official Samsung replacement part, and that doesn't seem possible. But there's only one way to

04:23see if it works or not, and I can start by transferring everything over. Frankensteining the internals of my

04:29daily driver into a brand new much younger body. This includes the 5G antenna located in the left

04:35side of the frame, and everything fits surprisingly well. Next comes the battery, which thankfully is

04:41very easy to remove. Huge fan of this. Removable batteries make self repair so much easier.

04:49It's around here that I noticed that my knockoff is already missing the cooling system. I can see the

04:55chamber has been replaced with a copper slab, which will get the job done of course, but the solid

05:00copper is definitely far less efficient than the phase change inside of a vapor chamber. But you

05:06know, if that's the only downside, I'll take it.

05:08Continuing on with the earpiece speaker, you can see the dust and grime that's been collecting in my

05:13pocket over the last two years. The goal of course is to get another year or two out of this phone with

05:18this full body transplant. I'll remove two more screws that hold in the camera units, and then I can

05:23bring the full brain and eyes of the smartphone over to its new body. Samsung doesn't use thermal paste,

05:29but I probably should have dabbed some into the new phone anyway because it wouldn't have hurt.

05:33The front camera is one of the hardest things to move over since Samsung has glued the 12 megapixel

05:38little guy into place. The selfie camera does require movement of the camera lens to focus,

05:43so if you find that your camera is blurry when you reinstall it, it might be because it's too

05:48snugly pressed up against the front glass. I had to remove the foam gasket inside the frame of the

05:53knockoff to get it to fit right. I'll plug in the upper screen connector as well as the wireless

05:58charging for the S-pin, and then I'll move over the second 5G millimeter wave antenna from the

06:03right side of the phone. I also realized at this point that I swapped the two long extension ribbon

06:07cables with each other, but I won't tell anyone if you won't. With everything back in their correct

06:12positions, it's time to install the upper earpiece and wireless charging pad. These do have to be

06:18installed before turning on the phone since the power button is connected to the motherboard through

06:23a series of contact pads on the underside of the board. So the board has to be screwed in tight

06:28before it can receive any signals from the power button. And holy smokes, it's actually working. I

06:34can instantly see that instead of the squared off corners of the original screen, I now have rounded

06:39corners. The screen does not appear to be as bright, but that might be my imagination, nor do I have any

06:45idea of the official resolution or refresh rate. But it's definitely working, and I'd definitely save myself

06:52about 200 bucks by not buying original replacement parts. Big thumbs up from my wallet for that one,

06:58and it even appears to be OLED. Hopefully it'll hold me over until I get the urge to upgrade for real.

07:03Fast forward a bit, I've been using this knockoff screen for about a week now, and I've noticed that

07:08my battery dies about an hour quicker each day than it used to. And the blacks on the black screen are

07:14not as black as they used to be. So if I had to do it all over again, I might just buy directly from

07:19Samsung instead. Hopefully though I'll never have to replace my screen again since from now on I'll

07:24be using a Prism screen protector from dbrand to protect the glass. And of course one of my own

07:30tear down grip cases to cover the rest. dbrand did extend their Black Friday sale just for us. For the

07:35next 7 days you can get a 40% discount when you buy the screen protector and grip case at the same time.

07:41Link is down in the description. Protection is always a whole lot cheaper than the alternative.

07:45Thanks a ton for watching. I'll see you around.

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