Gadgetory

all right today we are going to take apart the Galaxy gear from samsara this is a watch that connects to the Android phone first thing we're going to do is we're going to turn it off make sure that there's no power going to this screen before we take it apart and we're going to have a pentalobe screwdriver and there's four screws along the bottom that I'm going to unscrew while I'm taking those out I also did a teardown on the Moto active which is Motorola's watch that can connect to smartphones it also has a GPS and stuff in it so if you want to see the teardown of that go ahead and click the little box in the corner and that will take you in a new window to that teardown pretty fun both watches are pretty interesting on the insides now that I've gotten all four of these screws out of the watch I'm going to go ahead and take my pry tool and kind of go along the edge of the metal screen and the plastic body and separate the two there is a little rubber seal between the frame and the watch band itself so you kind of got to pry it loose just a little bit helps keep it you know water resistant sweat resistant once you get a kind of way you'll see the ribbon cable that connects the charger to the LCD and other components on the screen I'm going to take off the sticker right here give us better access so you can see right here this is the little vibrator for the notifications and that this part right here is where the doc charges the actual watch itself so I just lifted up the little ribbon cable connector to unclip it from the dock itself and there's two Phillips head screws on either side I found it interesting that the dock connector charges through the the port on the bottom and it goes to the motherboard first and then the motherboard has two leads on it that go down to charge the battery it seems like a kind of a complex way to charge the watch itself but you know that's the way Samsung wants to do it so right here I'm lifting out the the dock connector ports and now the motherboard and LCD are free from the actual phone itself it's also interesting that these screws on the front or a purely for decoration you can see that they go absolutely nowhere and then right here I am loosening there's a little bracket that holds the battery into place so I just unclip that and then the battery is actually stuck down inside the phone as well there's a double-sided sticky tape on the bottom that holds it in so you lift up on the little pool tab be very careful though because there's still two leads right here this is what I was talking about before that connect to the motherboard to get the power to the battery itself now that's up and off you can see inside the frame this is the little rubber seal that helps keep the water and moisture out and go ahead and place the battery back in starting with the feeds the little connectors there's a little circular thing on top that helps line up the connectors and how's it sit right there in the groove where it's supposed to be press both of those things back down into place and then I'm going to put the motherboard back in as well get it all lined up and you see right here on the top and the bottom there's two sound channels where the microphones are is you can have a conversation completely from the watch there's a speaker and a microphone once it's a bluetooth to your phone you can have an entire conversation just from your watch anyway get the two Phillips head screws back into the top clip down that little ribbon cable connector it's kind of like a Lego deal here a snap into place you can do that before or after you screw it in I think before might be a little bit easier to make sure it's all lined up get the middle bracket pinned down just like it was before and then you can gently close the screen making sure not to kink that ribbon cable between the body of the watch and the LCD in any weird ways and then just press it down into place and it should fit flush completely all the way around the outside you can see that there's no gaps or anything and then I'm going to take all four of these screws and get them place back in and screw them back in tight with that same pentalobe screwdriver that I was using before I'll link all the tools and stuff that I use for this project down in the video description below it's kind of nice to have a little small screwdriver set lying around and then any replacement parts as well I will list in the video description below Amazon is usually where I get all my stuff etrade supply is also another good spot for parts and that is it the Galaxy gear is up and running overall pretty solid build I like the the heaviness the feel of the watch it's pretty nice if you have any questions make sure to leave them in the comments below you can also contact me Google+ Twitter at Zach's jerry-rigged and Facebook and don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel so I'll see you around thanks for watching