2:01 "Do not disassemble your device. The water- and dust-resistant features of the device can be damaged." Traditional wrist watches that are waterproof have a rubber or silicone O-ring under the back (and/or crystal face) and the crown. When they are put in place, they are rubbed in some silicone lube to reduce friction against the rings while being assembled. When such a watch is opened up, the rings invariably get damaged in some way because the lube would be long gone. So the usual practice while being serviced is to replace the rings using the same method as at assembly. You can see this being done in countless videos on YT. Suggest Wristwatch Revival channel or The Nekkid Watchmater channel to understand what I mean. With this watch, the back doesn't screw on (although it is screwed down) so there would be no real friction against the waterproof seal. It doesn't even look like the traditional O-ring. However, it might still be a good idea to put some silicone lube along it, in case any part of it is worn. If there is a replacement part for it, it would probably be a good idea to get a new one. I would also examine the buttons. They would have to be waterproofed as well. After all, salt water did get in.
@@two_tier_gary_rumain I'm assuming that they thought that you stole the info from a video, then wrote it down as a comment without linking the video itself. Either that, or they were grumpy that you didn't link to Wristwatch Revival and Nekkid Watchmater's channel?
Seeing how a lot of Samsungs products are engineered it boggles my mind that Apple can have a very similar product yet over-engineer it to the point of being nearly unrepairable.
I don't think apple is over-engineering its product, they do that for a reason. I have a exact same watch and never took it into shower, however, after 9 months of daily use, samsung's crappy adhesive fails and the watch's ecg sensor and hrm sensor stopped working. I won't purchase any samsung products anymore.
Apple wants more money, but Samsung wants more customers. So it makes more sense that Samsung sells replacement parts while Apple wants to sell more devices.
I've literally just repaired that same watch a couple days ago! Disassembly process is a breeze compared to other smartwatches, and internal layout is very sensible. Mine developed a weird touchscreen issue, so I bought a not working unit and swapped all of the components from my watch to a case with display of a dead one, so at least I got my daily watch working fine again. That non-working unit turned out to be water damaged and corrosion got up to button contacts, so I ran a jumper wire from a button to the board, cleaned it and assembled it in the case with bad display. It booted, but touchscreen is still dead on the bottom half. But hey, that's one and a half working units, that's fine by me :3
@@iddra1868 that's not really true, go look at ifixit's smartphone repairability scores and they are almost at the bottom, often featuring heavy adhesive. of few redeeming qualities, at least they don't (yet) pair components like apple does...
@@Jazzy-kz6wd I would rather remove adhesive than a fragile screen. The most important thing to me is that you can easily replace all the components without breaking any others. That makes it a 10/10 in my book.
Every time Hugh fixes something, there is a bit less ewaste around, he is saving the planet from the greed of manufacturers! Keep doing such great work!
Just a hint. If you do a watch like this again use some silicone grease on the seal. It’s helps it slide in place and will aid in waterproofing. But as always great videos.
Nice clear video. After wearing my Active 2 in a hot tub, it got stuck on the "Rebooting..." screen. Figured it had to be water damaged. Following this video, I was able to take it apart and dry and clean it (I just used isopropyl alcohol). Now it's back on and charging!
That is the same watch I repaired. It had a bootloop. I tear it down and found it having water damaged. I dunk the entire logic board into alcohol and allow it to dry after removing it from the alcohol. Reassembled and it worked despite the screen having some dead pixel that I can live with it
Great video Hugh... if only you had done this 3-4 months ago, I would have made sure to be more careful with the power button ribbon cable when attempting to repair my water damaged Samsung Gear S3 Classic! 🤣😂 Everything was going along fine, after opening it up, I could see where the water damage was, so cleaned it up as best I could, then reconnected everything, however it didn't turn on. Decided to buy a new battery (don't have a multimeter), to start with, so when it arrived, I attempted to take out the old one, which I couldn't work out how to do initially, so was a little rough with it, and to my horror, I discovered that the power button ribbon cable had come off! 😭 Fortunately I have a soldering iron... unfortunately, I have never attempted anything of this minute scale, so gave up and bought a second hand Samsung Galaxy Watch (2019) instead.🤣 I've kept everything though for a rainy day, but might get a new board and screen, if I can find any. Thanks Hugh. 😎
A word on salt: Salt is a highly soluble mineral and will crystallize as soon as it dries up. Salt is also a great conductor of electricity and such must be REMOVED from electronic product. This is done by either wicking it away or diluting it away. I saw you do neither. On the contrary, you managed to smear it over a greater surface making it much more likely to cause problems in the future. That combined with no seal replacements does not sound like a particularly proficient repair to me. I hope you find the time to read this piece of constructive criticism.
Hey Hugh, great video and repair, I was curious how you handle broken parts on arrival, like the back button. Since this one worked out is it just "no harm no foul" rather than working with the sellers?
This damage surprised me, my Fossil Sport is 3 years old and I've swam with it in the ocean many, many times and it's still working like new. Apart from being dog slow and the battery being super crap...
Many things can do it, maybe an odd strike to the side moved the seal a little, maybe he moved his arm in a weird motion underwater and the pressure was directed to the microphone part.
Well, it's luck of the draw on build quality, I had a Ticwatch C2 that died completely after 2 trips to the beach, and it's got the same water rating as my Fossil Sport. Suffice to say I'll never buy another Ticwatch. Waiting for the Fossil Gen 7 to drop. I guess a watch manufacture knows something about making watches properly waterproof, compared to a tech manufacture...
My old Gen 5 had a broken screen for a year before I replaced it with a gen 6 recently. Swam with it in the ocean as well. Hours at a time and it was never a problem. Waves hitting it, diving in a pool, the whole 9 yards. Even with the cracked screen, it kept working even after being abused underwater. Really surprised to see the Samsung watch have problems with it. Definitely don't want to form my entire opinion on their watches based on one, but considering the gen 5 and 6 are completely sealed, I'd make a guess they're probably more water resistant. Though, as a result, you lose repairability. Hard to say which I prefer. Edit: you lose repairability*
Samsung does not accept the warranty if water gets in to watch. But it happens when you swim in the pool very often, the water-resistant is 5 ATM and Samsung let users swim with it in commercials and manual instructions, so this is a problem where Samsung doesn't take responsibility and lies to users. I think is much better to buy a Huawei gt2 for swimming, it is also 5 ATM but I did around 100 km in the water and the watch still works, not like active 2 which stopped working after a few minutes in the pool.
Hi guys, welcome back to another Jacy commentary. This is the first Watch disassambly I saw. Never thought of watching one before, only Smartphones and other stuff. Nice to see this. Also I like the completley different sounding "and we´re done" compared to how Hugh talks the second before. So relaxing. ^^
It's amazing that samsung can engineer a beautiful watch while being very easy to repair And also impressed that they did the same with the Buds I like that it's easy to repair.
Thank you for your video. It really helped me to fix my wife's watch after we had claimed on the insurance. My good lady now has an upgrade while I trial her old 2 active. May yet need to get a new screen.
I Have a Gear S3 Frontier and it stopped displaying, I tried your methods and finally got the watch to display when I pressed both buttons while watch was resting against charger. The S3 has a full charge, but each time I selected something to reset from the reboot - like turn on bluetooth, or change date ( it defaulted to December of 2015 and 7 o'clock - not the standard 10:10 I am familiar with when coming out of an update or complete power down. I think the watch is toast. My Gear S2 continues to work faithfully. thanks for your hints even though I was not completely successful. Guess I can use it as a paper weight.
I have a question, my watch suddenly gave me a black screen but you can feel the vibration from the watch when you scroll on the screen, any suggestions to what can be wrong ?
Hey, can you please tell me from where you've bought the display? I have the same watch with the same issue that was damaged while used in the specified parameters by Samsung and warranty won't cover it apparently.
Dont know if this is related, but my samsung s7's screen immediatly died after tuching ocean water but it had no external damage. The screen then slowly turned purple but the phone underneath was still working when a mouse was plugged in. Have you seen anything like this happen before to AMOLED? I was also going to fix it, until i realized that it cost 70% of what i paid for it new to replace the screen. I just love technology 😅
Yea so, if you really liked the s7. You could get a new one for like 50 dollars. Samsung has always had the best screens on the market, and thus even the old ones are expensive to manufacture even today.
not a fan of oled due to the more fragile nature of the displays and the higher cost of replacement. but thats just me, someone who uses their phone as more of a tool than a entertainment device.
I have Gear Sport watch and it had similar salt water damage. Opened it up and cleaned it but bezel does not select things as you turn it. Is the vibration motor related to the bezel selection?
i recently had to open a gears s3 to change the battery. it was easy with the whole repair costing me about USD 30 and battery lasts at least 2 1/2 days. Samsung outright refused to repair such an "old" watch and 3rd party repairers wanted about usd80 for it.
Hey Hugh, any chance of letting us know where you purchased the replacement screen and housing from? The screen of my Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 has recently stopped working (but the watch is still operating as it's synced to my phone)...😱
It looks like an easy repair. As a watch, I can say the S3 Frontier is a better Samsung smartwatch, it has all the features of this one, plus 5 days battery life.
I read Samsungs website BEFORE I went swimming in a Swimming Pool a few weeks ago. I specifically checked and it said its resistant for pool swimming and should be fine, just dont dive it put it under forced water. I just dipped in and was just swimming around, and then it rebooted..and kept rebooting then switched off... I let it dry out, then opened it up and it looked fine inside, no corrosion but a little bit of water still so i wiped it all down with IPA (99.3%) and some cotton buds and let it dry for a day. When I tried it again it eventually turned on. It bugged for a bit, but then after like 2 days it stopped charging. It detects that it's on charge however the watch discharges and doesnt take in any new charge. I thought maybe it was the battery so got a replacement. I then replaced the battery. It powered on and works perfectly. All the touch, the sensors, and bluetooth/wifi work all fine. I tried factory resetting it, but still it wont charge. Unfortunately ive had it since 2020 so its out of warranty. Ridiculous that Samsung say yes you can go swimming in it, when light swimming in the pool (not salt water) straight away killed it. So I just had to fork out $500 for a new smart watch, thanks Samsung zzz.
What is the screw driver reference for the first part? It seems three wing, but I don't have the driver for that so I wonder which size should I get. Thanks!
I have the first Samsung watch active the one before this one and I’m wondering if that’s easy to change the battery on mine because it’s honestly not as good as what it use to be
Been wondering ever since I watch your videos, why is that an alcohol is safe to use in cleaning parts like motherboard despite being a liquid substance like the water, which causes damage?
alcohol evaporates quickly and is non conductive, you could even use distilled water i guess since water is only dangerous because of the minerals that make it conductive. you can totally clean your electronics with water if their not under voltage, its even a preferred method to put old motherboards in the dishwasher to clean capacitor liquid off
Hugo, do you have like an website or something that I can send to you because I have an old 2006 pro keyboard which the pro mouse and they are dirty and I don’t know how to clean them. Cheers
They're security screws they are designed specifically to keep individuals that don't know what they're doing away from the internal components of the device , the repairs are only to be done by a certified repair technician.
Smartwatches are one of the best things ever made as far as technology goes, I personally wear an Apple Watch series 7 daily and I have a heart condition, on top of needing it for work so I don't need to remove my phone from my pocket to check notifications I just glance at my wrist to see if it's a high priority message or not. On top of that my heart rate sometimes drops to a very very low level while I'm sleeping and it can and has woken me up so that I could receive medical attention. It's wonderful to have that functionality as well as the "creature comforts" such as notifications and activity tracking. I think I'll stick to my series 7 since it was $850 and unless the series 8 is truly ground breaking as far as design or health features are concerned I'm sure I can avoid the want to upgrade yearly. As I have had every model since the 4 lol
2:01 "Do not disassemble your device. The water- and dust-resistant features of the device can be damaged."
Traditional wrist watches that are waterproof have a rubber or silicone O-ring under the back (and/or crystal face) and the crown. When they are put in place, they are rubbed in some silicone lube to reduce friction against the rings while being assembled. When such a watch is opened up, the rings invariably get damaged in some way because the lube would be long gone.
So the usual practice while being serviced is to replace the rings using the same method as at assembly. You can see this being done in countless videos on YT. Suggest Wristwatch Revival channel or The Nekkid Watchmater channel to understand what I mean.
With this watch, the back doesn't screw on (although it is screwed down) so there would be no real friction against the waterproof seal. It doesn't even look like the traditional O-ring. However, it might still be a good idea to put some silicone lube along it, in case any part of it is worn. If there is a replacement part for it, it would probably be a good idea to get a new one.
I would also examine the buttons. They would have to be waterproofed as well. After all, salt water did get in.
Spoiler Alert: You watching a video, except a link.
@@abdulmuhaimin5274 ???
@@two_tier_gary_rumain you didn't add a video link.
@@abdulmuhaimin5274 For what?
@@two_tier_gary_rumain I'm assuming that they thought that you stole the info from a video, then wrote it down as a comment without linking the video itself.
Either that, or they were grumpy that you didn't link to Wristwatch Revival and Nekkid Watchmater's channel?
Compared to repairing an Apple watch it's like taking a walk, nice video as always.
For reals. I can't see anyone defending Apple for their design decisions except for the sheep deep in the cult.
Seeing how a lot of Samsungs products are engineered it boggles my mind that Apple can have a very similar product yet over-engineer it to the point of being nearly unrepairable.
I don't think apple is over-engineering its product, they do that for a reason. I have a exact same watch and never took it into shower, however, after 9 months of daily use, samsung's crappy adhesive fails and the watch's ecg sensor and hrm sensor stopped working. I won't purchase any samsung products anymore.
Apple wants more money, but Samsung wants more customers. So it makes more sense that Samsung sells replacement parts while Apple wants to sell more devices.
It is deliberately engineered to be unrepairable.
@@creamylulu3427 question. How many apple products do you have? Trying not to jump straight to calling someone an apple fanboy
That's not over engineering, that's under engineering, glue is a bad engineers best friend. The genius is in making something repairable !
I've literally just repaired that same watch a couple days ago! Disassembly process is a breeze compared to other smartwatches, and internal layout is very sensible. Mine developed a weird touchscreen issue, so I bought a not working unit and swapped all of the components from my watch to a case with display of a dead one, so at least I got my daily watch working fine again. That non-working unit turned out to be water damaged and corrosion got up to button contacts, so I ran a jumper wire from a button to the board, cleaned it and assembled it in the case with bad display. It booted, but touchscreen is still dead on the bottom half. But hey, that's one and a half working units, that's fine by me :3
my goodness! sometimes you gotta thank Samsung for just making things straightforward to get into 👏 Great video as always
i am impressed how repairable this was, good on you samsung (this once)
Pretty much all of their phones are repairable, and they open from the back, so you won't destroy the screen.
@@iddra1868 that's not really true, go look at ifixit's smartphone repairability scores and they are almost at the bottom, often featuring heavy adhesive. of few redeeming qualities, at least they don't (yet) pair components like apple does...
@@Jazzy-kz6wd I would rather remove adhesive than a fragile screen. The most important thing to me is that you can easily replace all the components without breaking any others. That makes it a 10/10 in my book.
@@Jazzy-kz6wd I would rather crack a 10€ back glass rather than crack a 300€ display for face id to not work anymore, iFixit ratings are shit
Hey Hugh, I really love you're work. Thank you for being a honest and trust worthy person.
He tried and this time he did not fail.
Every time Hugh fixes something, there is a bit less ewaste around, he is saving the planet from the greed of manufacturers! Keep doing such great work!
Except for the large packing box the replacement parts came in. lol (of course it's mostly biodegradable)
Thank you for showing this! I never knew these watches were so easy to repair! I might buy a couple to work on myself.
That looked to be simple and straightforward - just how repairs on smart devices should be. Great job!
Just a hint. If you do a watch like this again use some silicone grease on the seal. It’s helps it slide in place and will aid in waterproofing. But as always great videos.
Nice clear video. After wearing my Active 2 in a hot tub, it got stuck on the "Rebooting..." screen. Figured it had to be water damaged.
Following this video, I was able to take it apart and dry and clean it (I just used isopropyl alcohol). Now it's back on and charging!
Glad that there are 100 or 50 metre water resistant smart watches now from brands like Sunnto and Garmin which also provide excellent battery life.
That is the same watch I repaired. It had a bootloop.
I tear it down and found it having water damaged.
I dunk the entire logic board into alcohol and allow it to dry after removing it from the alcohol.
Reassembled and it worked despite the screen having some dead pixel that I can live with it
Always serious, sober, effective !
Well done, congratulations!
Great video Hugh... if only you had done this 3-4 months ago, I would have made sure to be more careful with the power button ribbon cable when attempting to repair my water damaged Samsung Gear S3 Classic! 🤣😂
Everything was going along fine, after opening it up, I could see where the water damage was, so cleaned it up as best I could, then reconnected everything, however it didn't turn on.
Decided to buy a new battery (don't have a multimeter), to start with, so when it arrived, I attempted to take out the old one, which I couldn't work out how to do initially, so was a little rough with it, and to my horror, I discovered that the power button ribbon cable had come off! 😭 Fortunately I have a soldering iron... unfortunately, I have never attempted anything of this minute scale, so gave up and bought a second hand Samsung Galaxy Watch (2019) instead.🤣
I've kept everything though for a rainy day, but might get a new board and screen, if I can find any. Thanks Hugh. 😎
I have a Gear S3 Frontier
A word on salt:
Salt is a highly soluble mineral and will crystallize as soon as it dries up. Salt is also a great conductor of electricity and such must be REMOVED from electronic product.
This is done by either wicking it away or diluting it away. I saw you do neither.
On the contrary, you managed to smear it over a greater surface making it much more likely to cause problems in the future.
That combined with no seal replacements does not sound like a particularly proficient repair to me.
I hope you find the time to read this piece of constructive criticism.
Criticism noted, but I'm still waiting for someone to explain what to clean up the salt water with. Water? Alcohol?
@@DougHigby Did you find the answer or do I need to continue reading the next 100 or so comments?
Question. What are you using to clean up the saltwater damage? Rubbing Alcohol?
Hey Hugh, great video and repair, I was curious how you handle broken parts on arrival, like the back button. Since this one worked out is it just "no harm no foul" rather than working with the sellers?
3:15 Not sure where you're looking for those refurbished screens, but those prices are crazy. I've found them a lot cheaper on eBay and from FMA.
Fma? What's that?
@@scyntaxx Fix My Apple. A local company. They sell on eBay as well but the prices on their own website are cheaper.
Can this be done witb galaxy watch 4? Im thinking about doing this before taking it to the repair
This damage surprised me, my Fossil Sport is 3 years old and I've swam with it in the ocean many, many times and it's still working like new. Apart from being dog slow and the battery being super crap...
The ex owner either dived down 10ft with it or the seal wasn't seated correctly in the factory.
Many things can do it, maybe an odd strike to the side moved the seal a little, maybe he moved his arm in a weird motion underwater and the pressure was directed to the microphone part.
Well, it's luck of the draw on build quality, I had a Ticwatch C2 that died completely after 2 trips to the beach, and it's got the same water rating as my Fossil Sport. Suffice to say I'll never buy another Ticwatch. Waiting for the Fossil Gen 7 to drop. I guess a watch manufacture knows something about making watches properly waterproof, compared to a tech manufacture...
My old Gen 5 had a broken screen for a year before I replaced it with a gen 6 recently.
Swam with it in the ocean as well. Hours at a time and it was never a problem. Waves hitting it, diving in a pool, the whole 9 yards. Even with the cracked screen, it kept working even after being abused underwater.
Really surprised to see the Samsung watch have problems with it. Definitely don't want to form my entire opinion on their watches based on one, but considering the gen 5 and 6 are completely sealed, I'd make a guess they're probably more water resistant.
Though, as a result, you lose repairability. Hard to say which I prefer.
Edit: you lose repairability*
@@tyf.4399 I guess my point is. What use is a smart watch when you're swimming in the ocean ?
And Hugh does it again!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Can’t believe James Mayer has less than 5k Subscribers and you have almost 1 million.
Samsung does not accept the warranty if water gets in to watch. But it happens when you swim in the pool very often, the water-resistant is 5 ATM and Samsung let users swim with it in commercials and manual instructions, so this is a problem where Samsung doesn't take responsibility and lies to users. I think is much better to buy a Huawei gt2 for swimming, it is also 5 ATM but I did around 100 km in the water and the watch still works, not like active 2 which stopped working after a few minutes in the pool.
Wont the watch be subject to damage more easily now due to moisture or water as the back water resistant seal was not reinstated .
That's a good point.
Hi guys, welcome back to another Jacy commentary. This is the first Watch disassambly I saw. Never thought of watching one before, only Smartphones and other stuff. Nice to see this.
Also I like the completley different sounding "and we´re done" compared to how Hugh talks the second before. So relaxing. ^^
It's amazing that samsung can engineer a beautiful watch while being very easy to repair
And also impressed that they did the same with the Buds
I like that it's easy to repair.
wow... that watch literally is repairability heaven!
Thank you for your video. It really helped me to fix my wife's watch after we had claimed on the insurance. My good lady now has an upgrade while I trial her old 2 active.
May yet need to get a new screen.
120 buckss, VS 140 for a watch 4
But you did it man you fixed it and saved 20 bucks 😁
dude, those picks are OBSTRUCTED
Your videos are so satisfying.
Hello Hugh you make very interesting and entertaining videos and they’re so interesting to watch
Thank you. This was very helpful.
Wow! Crazy easy repair on that one!
What are the tools recommended for this yo work? I just got back from a beach trip and my watch active 2 is done.
Nice to see that Samsung did not make this impossible to repair. :)
Btw, for future watch repairs, you can use the dialer to enter the test mode *#0*# to test colours and touch as well as if the bezel works
I Have a Gear S3 Frontier and it stopped displaying, I tried your methods and finally got the watch to display when I pressed both buttons while watch was resting against charger. The S3 has a full charge, but each time I selected something to reset from the reboot - like turn on bluetooth, or change date ( it defaulted to December of 2015 and 7 o'clock - not the standard 10:10 I am familiar with when coming out of an update or complete power down. I think the watch is toast. My Gear S2 continues to work faithfully. thanks for your hints even though I was not completely successful. Guess I can use it as a paper weight.
Can you link where you bought the replacement screen from? Mine came unglued somehow and now it doesn't respond to touch.
Incredible work as always Hugh!
You forgot to put waterproof glue around it before closing it, to make it waterproof again. And around buttons too.
Hey kid! This repair was a piece ok cake
I actually needed this video to replace the battery in mine. Been out of service for a few months.
where from you buy the watch panel?
share me link
Hi Hugh love your videos
I have a question, my watch suddenly gave me a black screen but you can feel the vibration from the watch when you scroll on the screen, any suggestions to what can be wrong ?
Hey, can you please tell me from where you've bought the display? I have the same watch with the same issue that was damaged while used in the specified parameters by Samsung and warranty won't cover it apparently.
How is this so much more repairable than any recent smartphone.
Dont know if this is related, but my samsung s7's screen immediatly died after tuching ocean water but it had no external damage. The screen then slowly turned purple but the phone underneath was still working when a mouse was plugged in. Have you seen anything like this happen before to AMOLED?
I was also going to fix it, until i realized that it cost 70% of what i paid for it new to replace the screen. I just love technology 😅
Yea so, if you really liked the s7. You could get a new one for like 50 dollars. Samsung has always had the best screens on the market, and thus even the old ones are expensive to manufacture even today.
not a fan of oled due to the more fragile nature of the displays and the higher cost of replacement. but thats just me, someone who uses their phone as more of a tool than a entertainment device.
I have Gear Sport watch and it had similar salt water damage. Opened it up and cleaned it but bezel does not select things as you turn it. Is the vibration motor related to the bezel selection?
i recently had to open a gears s3 to change the battery. it was easy with the whole repair costing me about USD 30 and battery lasts at least 2 1/2 days. Samsung outright refused to repair such an "old" watch and 3rd party repairers wanted about usd80 for it.
Hey Hugh, any chance of letting us know where you purchased the replacement screen and housing from? The screen of my Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 has recently stopped working (but the watch is still operating as it's synced to my phone)...😱
Hello Hugh what is your daily driver phone and SmartWatch?
It looks like an easy repair. As a watch, I can say the S3 Frontier is a better Samsung smartwatch, it has all the features of this one, plus 5 days battery life.
Preceding or proceeding?
What do you use to clean the salt water damage off?
I read Samsungs website BEFORE I went swimming in a Swimming Pool a few weeks ago. I specifically checked and it said its resistant for pool swimming and should be fine, just dont dive it put it under forced water. I just dipped in and was just swimming around, and then it rebooted..and kept rebooting then switched off...
I let it dry out, then opened it up and it looked fine inside, no corrosion but a little bit of water still so i wiped it all down with IPA (99.3%) and some cotton buds and let it dry for a day.
When I tried it again it eventually turned on. It bugged for a bit, but then after like 2 days it stopped charging. It detects that it's on charge however the watch discharges and doesnt take in any new charge.
I thought maybe it was the battery so got a replacement. I then replaced the battery. It powered on and works perfectly. All the touch, the sensors, and bluetooth/wifi work all fine.
I tried factory resetting it, but still it wont charge.
Unfortunately ive had it since 2020 so its out of warranty. Ridiculous that Samsung say yes you can go swimming in it, when light swimming in the pool (not salt water) straight away killed it.
So I just had to fork out $500 for a new smart watch, thanks Samsung zzz.
What is the screw driver reference for the first part? It seems three wing, but I don't have the driver for that so I wonder which size should I get. Thanks!
What product do i use to remove the salt water residues?
Several times he says to clean it, but with what?
5:27
"So the screws don't loosen over time I'm applying some thread locker"
My brain : *ChrisFix noises*
Lol. Chrisfix would apply "medium strength" threadlocker to every screw and bolt.
@@scyntaxx Literally,in every screw he finds he will apply thread locker 😂
What solution do you use to clean the board of the sea salt?
I have a Samsung active 2 watch that needs repaired. What's the price on it?🤔
Did we buy from the same place??? My touch screen won't work.
For the price of the replacement screen u can add a little more and get a new watch lolz 😂
What did you use to clean the salt water corrosion off the motherboard. I have a active 2 watch that also got salt water in it. Thanks
I wondered this as well; found that you can use rubbing alcohol with soft bristle brush to remove. thank!
You need to show how to repair the rotating bezel on the Galaxy watch 4
Are there easy repairable smartwatches without using special instruments?
Really informative one.
Can we perhaps get a tour of the lab some day?
I've always wanted to see someone fix a samsung galaxy watch. This should be very interesting to watch
Get it? "Watch"
From where i get the screen?
Can u send me a link i want to order plz send me
Does someone know that clock theme?? Damn it's nice
okay so where do you get these replacement parts???
Most likely on Ebay or Ifixit.
Dose it work with a Iphone?
What did you use for removing salt residue?
I wondered this as well; found that you can use rubbing alcohol with soft bristle brush to remove. thanks!
When your paying full price for genuine spares, broken cables shouldn’t be a thing
Maybe it's not from Samsung directly.. like how iFixit sells aftermarket S7 displays that look to be from the same manufacturer as the original
Wonder what the seller wanted for his broken watch, as I thought AUD120 for the display was expensive.
Great explanatory video.
Maybe it sold for a 100 quid.
Is norma screw?
I have the first Samsung watch active the one before this one and I’m wondering if that’s easy to change the battery on mine because it’s honestly not as good as what it use to be
Did a battery change on this exact model. It was quite tedious
Seems there was a small crack on the back which MAY have caused the water to get in
Hi m8 my Samsung watch has flashing white screen do you know whst it could be
Does the ecg function still work ?
Been wondering ever since I watch your videos, why is that an alcohol is safe to use in cleaning parts like motherboard despite being a liquid substance like the water, which causes damage?
Isopropyl alcohol is non corrosive, and evaporates quickly, and its cleaning properties makes it the best candidate for repairs and cleanings.
alcohol evaporates quickly and is non conductive, you could even use distilled water i guess since water is only dangerous because of the minerals that make it conductive.
you can totally clean your electronics with water if their not under voltage, its even a preferred method to put old motherboards in the dishwasher to clean capacitor liquid off
That was very easy. Take that into consideration, Apple!
My galaxy watch active 2 stoped response touch after updating... Can you tell me please what can i do?
Anyone knows where I can get that watch face?
I need to fix mine. How can I send it to you?..
Why would it be weird to you to see a display damaged without the glass being cracked? I’ve seen it many times in my repair shop.
Hugo, do you have like an website or something that I can send to you because I have an old 2006 pro keyboard which the pro mouse and they are dirty and I don’t know how to clean them. Cheers
That was surprisingly easy.
What's the name of the watch face pls
I can't remove the screws, any tips?
They're security screws they are designed specifically to keep individuals that don't know what they're doing away from the internal components of the device , the repairs are only to be done by a certified repair technician.
I have a galaxy watch active1 , it doesn't hqve the plastic back and the touchscreen sometimes it is "touching" itself
destornillador?
Can you please share the watch face?
Sweet, I have this exact watch
Smartwatches are one of the best things ever made as far as technology goes, I personally wear an Apple Watch series 7 daily and I have a heart condition, on top of needing it for work so I don't need to remove my phone from my pocket to check notifications I just glance at my wrist to see if it's a high priority message or not.
On top of that my heart rate sometimes drops to a very very low level while I'm sleeping and it can and has woken me up so that I could receive medical attention. It's wonderful to have that functionality as well as the "creature comforts" such as notifications and activity tracking.
I think I'll stick to my series 7 since it was $850 and unless the series 8 is truly ground breaking as far as design or health features are concerned I'm sure I can avoid the want to upgrade yearly. As I have had every model since the 4 lol