{"id":2606,"date":"2017-04-11T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:52:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T07:52:42","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s8-plus-tear-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/04\/11\/samsung-galaxy-s8-plus-tear-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus Tear down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GalaxyS4.jpg\" width=\"53\" height=\"91\" align=\"left\" \/>Samsung starts shipping the Galaxy S8 Plus smartphone a few days ago. Now folks at bavarian smartphone repair service <a href=\"http:\/\/smrepair.de.server1395-han.de-nserver.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smart Repair<\/a> has disassembled such a device and documented it within a video.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dennis Maier from Smart Repair had a hard time to disassemble the Galaxy S8 Plus. The back cover can be clipped off easily, and there are a few screws, that may be removed with a screw driver. But then Maier reached the end. To dismantle the back cover Maier used a special CPB heater, to warm the device for 30 minutes to 80 degree Celsius. After this procedure, the adhesive hold the back cover was warm enough to remove.<\/p>\n<p>The folks a Smart Repair warns inexperienced users to disassemble the device without special tools \u2013 a destruction of several parts will be the result. Also the battery can't be removed easily, because its fixed with adhesive clue to the body.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JbJ8CiuOPbA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video<\/a> shows a time compressed version (4 minutes) of the tear down. Overall the ability to repair a Galaxy S8 Plus is low. iFixit has given a repair index of 3 (of possible 10) to the older Galaxy S7. The Galaxy S8 Plus might be also receive a repair index of 2 or 3 (from 10). (via German<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teltarif.de\/samsung-galaxy-s8-plus-teardown-reparatur\/news\/68172.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Teltarif.de<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung starts shipping the Galaxy S8 Plus smartphone a few days ago. Now folks at bavarian smartphone repair service Smart Repair has disassembled such a device and documented it within a video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[754,755],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","tag-samsung-galaxy-s8-plus","tag-tear-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}