I Got Ripped Off - Thought This Was A Good Idea - Samsung Parts Only Phone LOT

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[@norvarg712]

Looking at these old phone repairs just shows how far we've come along.

[@NSHG]

Hugh, Snapdragon based Note 4s (N910F being the most well known example) were notorious for no power issues due to eMMC slowly failing. You could swap in a 910C mobo w/ camera and have a happy Note 4.

[@wilyamiyooo]

It also affected my N910C (Exynos) but it did live for 5 happy years without any issues.

[@cu2nytt]

Putting that phone in the freezer in a zip lock bag for about 20 minutes brings it back to life for a short term

[@mementocity]

@@cu2nytt this is a bad joke right? Humidity will kill it even more

[@cu2nytt]

@@mementocity no its not a joke. the reason why it turns on is because small water ice droplets form on the bad connection on the emmc chip and it makes a temporary connection. i tried this on my note 4 and s7 edge that refused to turn on.

[@eduardoavila646]

My 10 year old s2 has the EMMC brickbug and all other sorts of curses, but it just refuses to die lmao

[@justinbuckley]

I appreciate videos like this as it helps inform the audience that these sorts of tech lots aren't always a success, I generally feel that if someone has a big handful of devices then they likely know damn well that the items are toast in some regard or another.

[@The_hot_blue_fire_guy]

I mean the listing said “for parts” so I think it should be expected that they a We’re not going to work.

[@CardboardGuy]

Recently bought phone lot with XS and 8 Plus to realize they were all FMI ON. Great!

[@sabersz]

This is why I won't do any iPhone that's supposedly not turning on, if FMI is on I'm utterly f*cked.

[@choonky]

I also got an iphone lot with 2x 6, 2x 7 and xs. One 6, one 7 and the xs were all fmi on sadly, but after talking to the seller he managed to remove it completely luckily

[@CardboardGuy]

@Arie death Videos the average seller doesn’t know how to do that lol.

[@sportsnews2940]

This is why I always buy direct from apple

[@yaboiavery5986]

@@CardboardGuy then they don't deserve to sell their phones.

[@Zichago]

I'm pretty sure I know what seller this is, as I recently took a chance and bought a 2nd Gen iPad Pro from them at reasonable price. I seem to have been incredibly fortunate, as the device was in very reasonable condition with no nasty surprises. I was worried that perhaps the battery would be problematic, but again, thankfully it holds charge quite well for its' age. My stomach dropped when I saw the listings, though. Complete minefield.

[@Burn377]

I've been buying iCloud locked devices and bypassing them from the same seller, so far they've been accurately displayed and described...

[@davidsolis3114]

@@Burn377 could I get a hint as to who you're using for the icloud lock bypassing?

[@Burn377]

@@davidsolis3114 Sorry didn't see the reply until someone liked my comment. I do my own bypasses but only on wifi only devices as the apple ID on these is paired to the serial number, Bluetooth and wifi Mac addresses. On cell devices the account is tied together with the IMEI which is stored on the baseband and can't be programmed with the method I use. There's a few cell iPads (gen 4 and lower) that I do a resistor mod on which works well but isn't really worth doing now unless I get them in a bulk lot for next to nothing.

[@thenebula6980]

It sucks to be ripped off like that. Fr tho, your videos are amazing and always very interesting. Keep up the good work

[@s6edge7]

Flea markets are a much better deal , I got an s10+ for 10 bucks , given that it is smashed , tho the screen works

[@sabersz]

5:18 if you think that burn-in is bad, my mums S7 is so much worse. Whites look genuinely light pink, as she had a mobile game (I think it was Candy Crush) open for years on end. Think 4 years plus of regular game usage. The game UI is inlaid, TWICE, on the display. I don't even know how that works.

[@compulsoryevacuationdevice]

She must have played it while the phone was rotated to the right and left? Interesting.

[@sabersz]

@@compulsoryevacuationdevice it's in the Portrait position but one is slightly lower down on the screen than the other

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

@@sabersz maybe an update to the "game" that changed the UI ever so slightly? idk i don't play that crap

[@honda_fanboy]

my S7 Edge has the homescreen burnt in, cant see it if its any color except white, but its not THAT BAD

[@SCtester]

It's frankly astounding how Samsung just gets a pass for having used displays for years - even until fairly recently - that become unusable after just a few years of use. This is not an issue with most screens. I get that OLED has advantages, but this is a massive downside that rarely gets talked about. I remember people used to excuse the issue as some fringe issue that most people will never run into, but years later that's proven to be false - it's very common.

[@ChrisSmith-mh6vk]

Hi Hugh...I saw you recently at B**** Sq Shopping Centre, but resisted the urge to tell you I'm a real fan...love your work. This video highlighted an issue you might address in a future video. Screens going black on Samsungs that are only 3 or 4 years old. When mine happened I Googled it to find it a real problem. Anyway, thanks for everything you do.

[@therealdaniboi]

I noticed the S4 is GT-I9505 model. The reason why the screen acts up when you press the back part of the board because the midframe of the new screen could be for a different model of the S4 and causes some components to touch a part of the midframe causing a short. Samsung used to revise the midframe, charging sub-boards and logic boards for different countries where it was sold in the past. For it to work flawlessly, you'd need a matching screen/midframe assembly and a charging port intended for a GT-I9505 S4. EDIT: I suddenly remebered, the purple screen/midframe assembly is intended for a GT-I9500 (Exynos non-LTE) variant. The logic board you have is a GT-I9505 (Snapdragon LTE enabled). Using an Exynos logic board on a GT-I9505 midframe and vice-versa causes the screen to turn off when the back part is pressed. And when you try to screw everything back together, the screen won't work at all.

[@NSHG]

Actually, his purple frame was for the 2.3GHz GT-i9506. I've had a 9506 board in a 9505 casing and charging port. It worked, but you had to be careful with the power button as it would reset if you pushed harder on it. Later traded it for a S3 Neo i9301. Not even to this day the chap who accepted the trade didn't even call me back on the issue.

[@therealdaniboi]

@@NSHG oh okay. I used to repair S4s back in the day. Just a hobby though. Buying screens with midframes for the S4 can be a pain if they send you the wrong part. Especially when dealing with Korean variants. So I do the tedious task of separating the screen from the midframe so I can transfer it to another midframe for it to work properly. I broke several screens before I got the hang of it. 😂

[@Kabazuke619]

For my experience filing extra material from bracket fixes issue. Taping doesn't prevent this issue because wrong shape of bracket bends motherboard. Compare original and new part and use dremel to cut materia off.

[@dgurevich1]

Good techs are hard to come by. I myself tried phone repair several times with no long term success. I also used some labs to fix my phones, again with poor quality parts and workmanship. At this point, I am doing everything to avoid having to repair in the first place. The only problematic part being the battery. I am happy to report that I did find a state of charge limiter on my galaxy s20 ultra, which I am happy to use.

[@Plainapple287]

I did this recently, I bought an iPhone parts lot and turns out they were all horribly water damaged, can’t return because they were sold as for parts, sadly they were sold as “untested” and I didn’t see the major red flags. Also I may have an explanation for the S7 edges not powering on, I had a lot of S7’s which most didn’t power on, and my main S7 developed the same issue. The PowerIC or the RAM goes bad, the device goes into a boot looping state before just not taking power properly, it can’t regulate the power properly

[@satsumagt5284]

3 year old S7 edge here, I hope it doesn't die soon

[@IbbiAhmed]

same happened with a samsung note 3, note 4 and tab 3 8.0 I own :) idk why samsung made these the way they did :(

[@nabs3178]

EBay is the place for people to sell trash phones that are meant for the bin lol

[@MewoCatto]

That’s why I won’t buy anything marked as untested. A lot of the time it means the seller knows the phones are junk and says they’re untested to make returns impossible when you eventually realise you’ve just bought a bag of trash for $200.

[@floppa9415]

Your Note 4 probably has an EMMC Issue. Its sadly a very common issue especially on the Snapdragon 805 variants. Basically due to bad solder joints the Note 4's EMMC memory chip can loose connection causing the phone to be dead. It can however be fixed by reballing the EMMC chip. I myself got a lot of 6 N910F Note 4's and 3 had this issue. I got 2 at least working by swapping boards and displays. *Edit : I meant N910F. The N915F of is the Note Edge. It also suffers from the same issue tough :/

[@wilyamiyooo]

Sadly even the Exynos chips had this issue. I had the N910C and it also died from a suspected eMMC failure.

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

What about the Samsung S4 Exynos variant? I have one and once dropped it on the street years ago, since then the phone randomly reboots while I'm using and it got worse to the point where it seems to bootloops but sometime manages to boot, but only for a few minutes before it shuts down on its own. I always thought that I might have made something loose inside.

[@turle8645]

I paid $160 for a parts lot and ended up getting an iPhone 5 on iOS 6 which immediately made it worth it. Got plenty of other working devices too.

[@yuchong1704]

The best repair videos are the ones you can save a lot of money. The voiceover details are really good. Keep it up!

[@mirkopacchioni4158]

Being able to turn an unfortunate investment into a profit is always a good thing. Nice video as always.

[@jeffoops9458]

@@PhoenixTubez 🤣🤣

[@OFFtheCHIZANE]

Depends what his time’s worth

[@phoneguyyt4636]

Tomato pureé

[@ZebraIsNotHorse]

I love the S6 so much that I got one for christmas. I was planning on the Blue Topaz color but I got Gold. I do like the Gold Color more than the Blue one so I was very happy. And mine was in Perfect condition unlike that S6 with a shattered Back and broken Micro USB. And my S6 defniently charges with a Charger as the Charging Port was never destroyed.

[@RoachEditz-911eee]

A fix for the s4 is to put a folded up piece of paper on behind the display flex cable then close the midframe. I used the same trick with my Nokia 6.1 plus on which I broke the battery connector on the corner trying to go in EDL mode and it's still working even after all these years.

[@starfox.64]

it's worth mentioning, but if you want to test the phones with good charge ports that won't turn on, open Device Manager on a Windows computer and plug the phone in. if it comes up as Qualcomm QDLoader 9005/9008, the storage chip has suffered severe wear or damage.

[@divyamthakur]

that's only for Qualcomm devices i suppose?

[@starfox.64]

@@divyamthakur it is, yeah. for Exynos devices, it will come up as Exynos XXXX. (an S9+ comes up as "Exynos 9810", for example)

[@amazingstuffbyyourphone3842]

@@starfox.64 If it comes up with [Device name], the screen is broken right?

[@starfox.64]

@@amazingstuffbyyourphone3842 I mean if the name still comes up, the screen's probably working. if touch isn't working, the digitizer is damaged. if the bootloader is unlocked, it could also be a driver issue.

[@amazingstuffbyyourphone3842]

@@starfox.64 if it shows up as QHSUSB_BULK then the phone is hard bricked but the Qualcomm QDLoader driver is not installed on your PC

[@Windows98R]

The S7 edge was awesome. It was one of my early attempts at touching android as a secondary phone alongside my iPhone 6.

[@tdata545]

i have seen the white notification, that's a real hard brick you got there. Edit: I got it on my S4 that I still have in my possession. I damaged the IMEI trying to root it like 5 years ago. And somehow completely erasing the internals, including the bootloader. SO... that was fun. Somehow I managed to get the bootloader reinstalled and the phone kind of working again.

[@satsumagt5284]

It's not a brick, more like a paperweight

[@SWISS-1337]

When you say "free 16 GB SD Card" the child in me thinks "nice! 16 GB they cost about £50... Oh, wait, that was 16 years ago.... Ouch"

[@NolanWayne-h9n]

I know. Now you get a 256gb for that

[@MrJay8080]

S3 was my first samsung, what a flash back

[@TheBoringOne10]

I Have Most Of Those Phones. Not Good To Hear You Got Ripped Off, But I LOVE These Videos Of Yours!

[@GerbilNoises]

bruh what's with the caps

[@TheBoringOne10]

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[@maybelbdidit]

Why are you capitalising every word lmao

[@TheBoringOne10]

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[@requiemforaleo]

Thanks for another great video Hugh Jeffreys or, as auto-generated captions call you, Huge Jeffries.

[@jamiewood4280]

Wow! You wouldn't even get mugged for any of those in the UK. Nice to see them saved from the bin tho.

[@jo9732]

You don’t know why you think that much? You paid that much because you knew that we would all love to see this video!

[@SzymonPmc]

note 4 fix dead: remove battery, s pen and back cover, put it in zip lock bag and then put it in freezer for 20 minutes. phone will boot now

[@razi_man]

I wish we have a refurbishing company here where I live, because we don't even have a big movement selling old phones or broken phones so we make a ton of unnecessary E-waste.

[@bestestimesreborn]

If anyone can get these working, it's you. Thanks for another great video.

[@TheSpotify95]

Sorry to hear that this wasn't exactly plain sailing, but I'm glad to hear that you managed to get something useful out of this parts lot. I'm also glad it went to you, rather than someone else who may not have been able to use the items (or would have just returned them upon receipt). Remember, eBay buyers can return an item for "not as described", for pretty much any reason, whereby the seller than has to pay return postage AND refund in full.

[@Doggo_Norse]

I remember when you only had 121K Subscribers, love your videos keep up the great work 👌 👍

[@QualityDoggo]

Minor mistake at 2:50. Current draw is mA and capacity is mAh.

[@truckerallikatuk]

That un-usable screen can have a second life as a known working test screen. Even though it's pink, it does work... sorta.

[@ajlifesolutions7072]

Unpacking? They were hardly packed well! 🤦‍♂️LOL 😂

[@GGoblin1]

Great to see Hugh working on Android phones

[@gigiungureanu8958]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos bro❤

[@JxH]

FYI. Current draw is measured in amps, period. For example, 152 mA. It's not correct to add an extraneous "-hour" in the context of current draw. That's why the current meter has just an "A" period. Amp-hours is a current over some period of time, for example the capacity of a battery such as 3850 mAh. Cheers.

[@ApO__]

Brilliant job, man! I have one question about those older Samsung phones with removable back panels. Is there an easy way to make them run without a battery? I have made some attempts at that using small buck converter, but after the phone boots up with some percentage of battery, that percentage slowly starts to go down, even though the power supply is more than enough. Any ideas?

[@doji_town_adventures]

i'm no expert or professional but i think the batteries have hardware in them that helps the phone know what the battery is at. with your current setup it doesn't have anything to tell it the state of the battery. you could try dismantling a battery (obviously carefully) to get the little board that handles the communications and then run power through, that might fix your problem but that's just an amateur's guess

[@The_hot_blue_fire_guy]

Why would you even do this? Besides just figuring out if it’s possible. Because I don’t think it’s very convenient if you have to stand next to a outlet when you want to use your phone.

[@milktoast56]

find a Samsung battery (preferably for the phone u want to do this on) the battery can be dead its ok, then carefully separate and cut off the bms board from the battery cell and plug your + and - to that

[@tammysharonlorettastafford3376]

Great job Hugh and your advice is allways helpful.

[@omegalongdong]

Ebay sellers: "Mint condition fully functional"

[@mountainconstructions]

Nice to see this Every Samsung phone I've owned or my partners has suffered all these issues... Charging Port (everyone) Screen Burn (everyone, but very bad on OLED) Such a shame, such a good product let down by crap hardware issues.

[@DrifterThrifters]

Still better then apple

[@azenyr]

My experience is the complete opposite. A LOT of my friends used Samsung phones all their life, some low end, some mid end but mostly high end S and Note lines. Zero problems. The only time I heard something happening with one of their phones was only one friend that broke the screen of his S20 and had to replace it, and was actually shocked for it not being that expensive to fix, with a genuine brand new display. Was like 150€. Other than that, absolutely zero problems. However my gf owned iPhones all her life and she buys a new one every 1-2 years because her last one breaks in some random way that apple wont fix or its not worth it. Her current iPhone 13 (not pro) already has a broken volume up key. It wont even physically click, feels stuck, she has to use the quicksettings to turn up the volume. I guess it really is how you handle phones, how many falls or physical stress you subject them to, and maybe also a dose of luck. My gf is always dropping her phone and that is a huge explanation why all her iPhones break to unfixable ways in a year. She uses glass screen protectors and bulky cases on purpose because of this, but the impacts of it constantly falling eventually start messing up with the internals. Some people even without noticing put a lot of strain on their phones hardware. The charging port is a great example, people often put a lot of strain on that port by using bad cables or pulling on them too hard or whatever.

[@mountainconstructions]

@Ellis The DJ You don't work outside in full sunshine much then

[@mountainconstructions]

@Ellis The DJ Further more... Why are you making excuses for a Flagship phone. It should work as described without issues or having to compensate for the hardware short comings... It's not like these products are cheap and nasty China clones. Apple can get it right... Why can't Samsung.... And none of us want to use Apple Agreed, most of these issues happen outside the 12 month or 24 month normal contract period. But lots of us, me included haven't had a phone contract for 15 years or more now We buy secondhand flagship handsets to run prepaid SIM cards....

[@krispyhd9484]

@@DrifterThrifters lol no

[@moya9450]

Nice video as Always. But these kind of phone are too expensive there. Here in Finland they have no value. Most of the time they are free or 5-10€. I mean for that S7 and S6. Those S4 and S3 would be sent to recycle center

[@ahyaan2552]

Buy them in your country and sell it to the rest of the world

[@moya9450]

@@ahyaan2552 I did once or twice. I had trip to another country. I bought one laptop and 2 phone. I sold them in destination country and about 40% of my trip costs returned. But here working has much more money. When you are working here then you have no time

[@satsumagt5284]

Datsun Saatana

[@moya9450]

@@satsumagt5284 what? Why Saatana:)

[@satsumagt5284]

@@moya9450 Just a little joke from My Summer Car. Also, 100 A (Sata A) is close enough anyways

[@JoJoGaminG36]

I used to buy alot phones with defects in the past... But finding phones with working displays and only waterdamage is very hard, most plp slam their phones how it seems on the ground all the time.

[@paulsullivan6392]

Sorry you got burned my friend. But good on you..your skills have allowed you to just about break even. Well done sir.

[@w3lcome2l1fe]

I love your vids!! Keep it up!

[@darthraider450]

If you want a new Samsung phone direct from them, use an old Samsung for trade in credit. Samsung are very generous with trade in credits for old phones

[@RestoreTechnique]

I like seeing you try and get some value out of your investment. Nice work.

[@aa-au]

Thanks for showing this video. I bought a very large iPhone/iPad/iPod and some non-Apple phones in 2016 from a large company with my at-the-time business partner. Whilst trying to book these in, we discovered that this lot were more faulty than expected ie: mainly iCloud locked. Being relatively new to iCloud locked devices I thought I could unlock them. My business partner offered his half to me and I accepted and paid him for his half. So 7 years later (2016-2023) I have invested ~$20k of stock and I am just under $10k return. This does not include my time to process the equipment, advertising fees, free postage, etc, so a $10k loss thus far. I may do a video on this one day...

[@dustinzilbauer7582]

Those Galaxy S6 and S7 Edge phones were absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Apple has nothing on Samsung in that department. Just wow. My Note9 looks great, but those phones were the pinnacle of design.

[@Miushows]

recently I got ripped of at a old stuff market on a iPhone 5, tried repairing the battery and then it completely broke when i installed the new one

[@adiposerex5150]

Thanks!

[@HughJeffreys]

Wow, Thanks so much!

[@IngeTics]

¡Gracias!

[@DemePoole]

The main problem with resellers of damaged devices on eBay is that some people think what they have is worth more than it really is or they are looking for someone to buy who doesn't know up from down. I don't think 150 was too much to pay, but since the seller was dishonest, then perhaps the price could have been lower.

[@strayiggytv]

This. And if your selling a for parts lot and somebody asks you a specific question you need to be truthfully about the condition or truthfull that you're too lazy to check. Nothing makes me more angry than people who lie about the condition of stuff they sell in the hopes the buyer won't follow up. If you can't be a$$3d to know the condition of your own inventory you shouldn't be selling it full stop.

[@drcyb3r]

I just did a bad purchase too. An M1 MacBook Air for 100€. I thought it was a good deal because of the cracked display I would be able to fix. Sadly it had a lock on it, so it is pretty much just junk. I might be able to sell the top case as working and the board as working but locked.

[@affalterbachamg2094]

You might be buying a stolen mac, try and search the owner!

[@ahyaan2552]

@@affalterbachamg2094 yeah he should

[@williamkelley7654]

Should have filed a return, Ebay will always force the sellers to accept returns no matter what.

[@andoletube]

Yeah, this lot is so bad, it's barely worth using for videos.

[@ugzz]

I have some experience with part lots also, given you have the ebay chat history, I would expect the outcome to be a "partial refund" on this one, or you would likely have to "fight" for a full return, but you're past that. Also 250k views in a month, the parts have more than paid for themselves once you factor in the content ;^) (+ editing time, voiceover etc:)

[@huleeyaxerssius7]

That seller, from the picture of the phones on eBay & some of the fancy graphics in the title of the listing, along with the quick preview of the other listings that the seller is selling, it is the seller i think it is. I got a phone from them too. But it was faulty, half the touch screen did not work, battery was rather bulged but still turned on. Returned it, and they are selling it again for the same price, with the battery issue mentioned but not the faulty touchscreen. But yes, was a dodgy lot hugh had bought, but still made something out of it, at least.

[@ejonesss]

if these are old enough phones to not have modern data protection and kill switches you may be able to recover the data and sometimes peoples photos and documents can be valuable and could be used to recover the purchase prices.

[@Quelseps]

that's what happened to my samsung note 5. When I charged it it just showed a white led light. Idk why but i think it's because of the broken screen. I can't buy a new screen though as it's very pricey. Nice video Hugh!

[@Absbabs88]

Since it's very clear the seller wasn't truthful, couldn't you have gotten your money back?

[@wonseok_song]

Samsung's edge displays are very expensive to repair. I tried to get a replacement screen for Galaxy S8 from AliExpress, and found even the faulty display costs about the same as the fine used ones.

[@neoqueto]

Most "untested" items/lots I've come across aren't untested at all, the seller knows they're bad.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

Bingo. Untested is basically synonymous with "tested & scrap", regardless of what electronic device we're talking about here

[@masterkamen371]

Always cracks me up when I see a vintage computer listed for sale as "untested", a full setup is pictured and all it requires is a standard power cord. Who are they kidding?

[@BaconFaceMcGee]

Amazing as usual!!!!

[@TheTenchiOni]

I had two OnePlus Nord N100 phones. One, a Metro by T-Mobile phone had a severely cracked screen. The other had a ripped back panel and shorted out battery. I used the back panel and battery from the broken screen phone on the one with the ripped back and bad battery. Now the one works and I sold it. The other one was reduced to spare parts.

[@neiliewheeliebin]

Those faulty boards may be easily diagnosed using a thermal imager, could be just a shorted capacitor or something easy. Thermal imagers are getting cheap nowdays the UNI-T ones are great.

[@neiliewheeliebin]

@J Hemphill They're getting pretty affordable now, the UTI 260B is $430AUD

[@thej0k3r34]

These videos always somehow entertain me

[@alexmaclean1]

Out of curiosity, if you were so inclined, could you have soldered on a USB C port to replace the micro on that S6?

[@Bean-cs6vm]

Hi Hugh, are you going to be doing an iPhone SE 3 tear down, just wondering because I haven’t seen anyone else do one yet.

[@mrmaddocs68752]

Sure!

[@enoll218]

hey hugh ive noticed you were using a metal pry tool on the battery NEVER DO THAT there is a high probability of the battery getting punctured by the pry tool and exploding. dont ask me how i know this

[@96tristan]

What do you usually search for on eBay to get lots like these?

[@mcrsit]

Darude - Sandstorm

[@dewaldsteyn1306]

​@@mcrsit bot

[@soupdrinker72]

Oh I think I know that seller, they sell really overpriced devices. They list Macbooks like "Core i5 SUPER FAST INTEL MACOSX 8GB RAM" and some fancy symbols. Disgusting

[@HughJeffreys]

Saw a tablet similar to the Tab S I just fixed up. It was a better version of it but he's asking $450 for it..... (Shown at 03:30)

[@soupdrinker72]

@@HughJeffreys You can buy a Tab S4 for that money wtf

[@imm311]

excellent video as always! God bless you and yours!

[@MrheroGaming-mi3nt]

was literally going for this lot. im glad you got it and i didnt lol. nah jk keep up the good work and keep inspiring people

[@aegwasherndryrer]

i get crazy when i see ur new video great job great job

[@jozsefizsak]

Fascinating! I enjoyed that and I'm glad you got some value out of the purchase in the end.

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

I love the s6 and s7 edges I had them in gold. My s6 edge plus was stolen when it was still in perfect condition :( and then I bought the s7 because that one looked almost the same

[@dylanlindsay1993]

hey hugh i bought a galaxy s5 before from a thrift shop for 15$ that the charging port was half mangled and some how it still charged fine! i used it for a bit till the port finnally crapped out then i chucked it in the bin

[@clubinhodetecnologiadomate4554]

You never gave the phone up you never let these phones down

[@QualityDoggo]

it is indeed crazy the Samsung oled screens cost so much. I can only assume it's the curved edges and smaller production scale because even many iPhone OLEDs are cheaper

[@canubeleiveit]

Makes me happy to have our modern tech.

[@PiggyDash]

I really do not like curved displays, but s7 edge is such a gorgeous phone.

[@DeathInTheSnow]

I didn't realise people bought such old phones. I see them in Cash Converters in the cabinet next to the 2013 MacBooks, wondering if they'll ever be sold. Who buys these? This isn't a rhetorical question - I'm genuinely curious. There's obviously a market.

[@mementocity]

I still use a galaxy ace 4 neo on custom rom at android 7.1 lineage 512mb ram is enought for bank apps, browsing, yt vids and psx emulation. Small and usable

[@re-fix9678]

Good work👍

[@mattgandelman3445]

Some of my family had S7s and I remember at the end there was massive amounts of pink burn in

[@furve]

Nice video, please do more of this type

[@dblakewood1907]

Great video as always, Do people actually use such old phones still?

[@lumsdot]

my mi max 3 cost 130, 2 years ago, still going strong. they sell for upto a 100 2nd hand on ebay, thats value for money

[@andrive]

I might be mixing things up, but I think the white light means something is shorted inside. Try cleaning it with alcohol

[@ZebraIsNotHorse]

The Galaxy S6 was worth the repair because it fully works and is cosmetically flawless

[@deanbolt9375]

Hi, What's the title of the background music you're playing, noticeably in the latter part of the video. Kind regards, keep up the good work.

[@maxtornogood]

I'd be interested to know where you can get one of those Amp Meters, looks neat!

[@keeli5575]

Why wouldn’t you just return? The seller lied about the condition so you’re guaranteed a full refund.

[@filenotfound__3871]

you cant really get a refound for something listed as for parts/not working, ask me how i know...

[@keeli5575]

@@filenotfound__3871 I have before. Especially if they say screen isn't cracked when it is.

[@filenotfound__3871]

@@keeli5575 I wasnt as lucky with the refound procces, ordered a faulty graphics card that the seller said was never repaired, when I looked at it, it was clear he attempted the heatgun fix but he choose a too high temperature because the PCB looked like my last attempt of frying an egg.

[@80sTechKid]

My friends great aunt has a Galaxy S8 and it has probably the worst pink screen burn in I’ve even seen, the whole display was pink and she just used it like that

[@Tom2404]

Burn in is a real problem with these OLED displays. The reason I'd prefer LCDs for phone and computer displays.

[@ali_el_baba3665]

LCDs look like they are from the 90s compared to OLEDs. I dont know anybody who would prefer an LCD over an OLED.

[@Tom2404]

@@ali_el_baba3665 I'd rather have the image quality of a late 90's active matrix LCD than this burn in.

[@Nikkerston]

hey Hugh. i might know a way to revive the motherboard in that Note 4 since i got a lot of Note 4's and all were dead but with one file written onto an SD card they have all come back to life. this is an EMMC failure caused by overheating mostly caused by how unoptimised android 6 is for these 2014 samsung devices

[@SuperMiah27]

S3 was my very first phone, fast forward today its still working but not the same anymore. I just use it for youtube

[@Rebelnightwolfe]

My poor s5 no longer boots up. :( It gets warm when on the charger but the LED doesn't light up and the phone won't power on after being on charge for a while. I power cycle all my older phones but it finally kicked the bucket I guess.

[@kieronalder5264]

Would you ever get into or attempt a motherboard level repair?

[@HughJeffreys]

Did an iPhone 5 recently. I am interested in the field but need more experience.

[@kieronalder5264]

@@HughJeffreys oh ok

[@TheTenchiOni]

Hugh, I'm at my wits end. My buddy has images of his children stored on his Samsung Galaxy S3. I've tried everything I could think of. I'm not good at microsoldering. The first issue was with the charging port. It's broken. So I bought a replacement battery from Amazon. It failed to boot up. So thinking the replacement battery was dead I bought an S3 Neo from eBay. The Neo's battery was at 47%. Turns out the replacement battery was at 98%. Now that I know the phone won't boot I need to recover the images. I'll try my iPad later, but it's looking bleak.

[@jobrell]

That kind of ripoff is a fairly common thing in the states of what I have seen. I have never heard of such ripoff in Sweden.