Gadgetory

before I start showing how I made my clear Galaxy Note 8 it's important to know that I highly recommend not attempting this project yourself so many things can go wrong during this project I'll try to mention most of them but still it's an expensive phone so don't try this unless you have nothing to lose all right now that we have that out of the way let's get started the Galaxy Note 8 is a beast of a device and just like how most high-end gaming PC's are see-through I think Samsung should offer a clear version to show off their top of the line components it would be cool if Apple did it too mediocre hardware it's still interesting to look at I just like clear gadgets the note 8 has Gorilla Glass 5 on the back that has glue to the frame of the phone I'm pretty sure they use some new kind of adhesive this year because I had an extraordinarily hard time removing this back panel the phone is turned off at this point and I'm warming up the phone until it's too hot to touch comfortably with my hands then I'll slip a thin metal pry tool along the side edge of the glass panel since that's the only entry point I could find then gently cut away the adhesive under the glass with that metal edge remember we are working with glass so any pressure in the wrong spot and the whole panel shatters it's a delicate process I'll try and link the replacement back glass panels in the description as soon as they're available in case yours gets broken or is already broken and you just need to swap it out as the phone cools the adhesive hardens back up again I'll be reheating the phone with my heat gun about every 30 seconds or so tucking a sturdy piece of paper or business card under the glass also helps it keep from reott hearing to the phone again I've told you this is a very painstaking process Samsung doesn't mess around at their waterproofing finally my back panel lifts up and away from the phone exposing some of the plastic shrouds protecting the internal components I'll do a full teardown of this phone talking about the components and the OIS and the cameras in a future video one thing I did mess up though was the fingerprint scanner ribbon cable I managed to slice through that with one of my pry tool x' I wasn't planning on using it anyway but still I'll try to avoid doing that in the future the bottom of the phone over the charging port has six regular Phillips head screws holding down the plastic I'll just set those off to the side to keep them organized and I'll have a tool kit linked in the video description that fits these screws the top plastics and wireless charging have ten more screws the same Phillips head screws we saw at the bottom it's good practice to lay these out in a way that they go back in the same hole they came from the wireless charging panel unclips from the metal frame of the phone at this point and we can see the golden contact pads on the back that transferred the power from the copper coiled inductor to the battery I'm going to leave my wireless charging intact this time around and I'll explain more how I do that in a second the bottom plastics of the phone snap off exposing the charging port and headphone jack things are starting to look how we want at this point the loudspeakers built into the bottom plastics has got that water damage indicator on it I do want a speaker in my finish phone so I'll cut off the unmanned Ettore part of the plastics leaving the speaker and golden contact pads intact with a few of the screw holes so it can reattach perfect the battery has some separation foam on the back that I'm gonna remove and now we look at the wireless charging itself the wireless charging has one little niblet up at the top that is a battery temperature sensor this is excruciating ly important without this Niblett your phone will not charge so this needs to be left intact personally I'm just gonna cut around the golden contact pads leaving everything intact but the plastic I want all the features to remain functional in this build I left one screw hole next to contact pads to hold everything in place but if you look closely you can see the leads under the black stuff that go from the battery temperature sensor Niblett to the motherboard so if you are anti wireless charging you can just cut around those leads leaving them intact like I did with my clear Galaxy s8 but if you mess up that Niblett your phone will never charge again my phone is turning on at this point and still functional so so far so good plus it can still charge which means I didn't damage that battery temperature sensor now for the back panel itself the super strong adhesive that Samsung placed around the outside edge needs to come off the glass is curved along both sides and it's glass so I'm being super careful with it once all the sticky adhesive is gone I can start moving the color using the metal pry tool scrapes off the color but it leaves a slightly cloudy laminate layer underneath above the glass this would still look cool since it's kind of like that frosted effect that the older gameboy colors had but I want my phone to end up completely clear the laminate layer is extremely adhered to the phone and does not want to come off on its own I'll use some heat remove the camera lens it has a metal frame so as long as they don't put any pressure on the glass part of the lens it'll come off in one piece this premium stripper will hopefully help soften the bond between the laminate layer and the glass I'll spray the foam over the back panel let it sit for about 15 minutes it really helps if you have chemically resistant gloves at this point you can tell that the stripper started eating through my finger tips on my gloves so I just rinsed it off and kept going once I got a large enough piece of the laminate lifted up it just peeled away from the glass back entirely but now if the glass breaks in the future it'll fall away in large chunks instead of being held together by that laminate you win some and you lose some I'm going to dbrand my phone at this point by removing the logos from the underside of the glass they just scrape off I'll get my clear double-sided tape around every edge of the phone this is probably a good time to mention that anytime you open up a water-resistant phone it will 100% not be water resistant anymore when you put it back together so this project definitely has its own pros and cons the tape all around the edge should keep dust out but I wouldn't trust it around water my back glass panel is clean at this point a bit of glass cleaner got rid of all the fingerprints and then the camera lens with this sliced fingerprint scanner ribbon gets put back into place and the whole back panel can get set back on the phone now I might be a bit biased but I think this looks awesome and this is without Samsung even trying they could take two seconds and design the internals to be viewed from the outside and it would probably look even cooler like the black insulation over the copper wireless charging coils it can be scraped away like I showed in the video I did with what's inside if Samsung used clear insulation around those copper coils it would take the aesthetics to a whole new level I did put my SIM card into the phone and got 4G signals texts and phone calls all worked and even Wi-Fi and bluetooth were still functioning so everything's working as it should you can see both camera units the iris scanner and front cameras the s-pen holster the loudspeaker circular vibrator motor and wireless charging pad itself with of course the charging port down south next to the headphone jack so what do you think should Samsung give us a clear phone option maybe if there are enough comments asking for it below this video Samsung will consider it share this video with someone you could see rocking a clear phone like this one thanks for watching and I'll see you around