Wait, did all these people in the comments not watch the video? Or did I misunderstand the video? I understood him to say you can enter from the rear of the phone without ever having to take off the display when replacing the battery. But holy moly, that battery adhesive. 💀
Yeah, it looks like the only time you will have to go through the front is to replace a defective screen, so does it really matter that removing the screen ruins the defective screen?
The display got broken during the disassembly, the battery removal was the worst of any smartphone in the past 5+ years, there are no manuals on how to open the device, and youre not questioning the 7 years of software support from a company with a long history of killing their products and services early on. AND IT GOT A 5/10?? But nice that you offer parts from them
Yeah, I appreciate ifixit showing the risk of trying a battery replacement after a couple of years. Yet another year to appreciate the pixels, but not buying it 😢
@@stennan it wouldn't have been so bad of they had just followed the guide that Google posts online. Undo the two pull tabs, heat the read of the phone on a pad for ten minutes, secure the phone, pull directly up. That's it, that's the necessary steps.
I read the Pixel 9 Pro XL repair manual, and it says that the phone needs to be heated to 70c for 10 minutes. You can then use pull tabs to pull straight up, and the battery should come out. Also the manual states you shouldnt go in more than 3.2mm. Google has these manuals available on their repair site.
Not to mention the manual also suggests that the phone sits in essentially what is an industrial vise grip for phones AFTER the heating phase to soften the adhesive, AND using finger cots to increase your grip on the pull tabs to pull perpendicular to the battery. At least from the repair guide, it suggests that the tabs on each side are not to saw through the adhesive as suggested in the video, but rather to pull the battery away from softened adhesive.
@@jevonsims90070°C for even an hour is fine for both the display and the battery. Most phones are heated to 70-100°C before a backglass/display replacement.
Every year it's becoming increasingly harder to replace the battery. They keep on adding more screws, covers, adhesives etc. in the way. One has to wonder why that is.
Thanks a lot for the teardown, the battery replacement is my no 1 concern of any new smartphone, especially nowadays when you get 7 years of software updates.
when you damage the screen at the beginning of the video you insert the pick into the device about 1 cm, when it is 2 mm at most, you should be more careful, you take away seriousness from the brand, taking advantage of the fact that you manufacture you should build a pick that could only be inserted those 2 mm with a stop bezel or something so that errors like this are not repeated c:
I'm not at all saying that you guys aren't skilled at disassembling devices, but I would like the device disassembly revisited using the repair guides on google's site! It doesn't need to be a video, just more so a review or the repair guide published and whether or not it helps. Additionally I think the review of the repair guide should not include device specific tools, like the device specific, industrial sandwiching device, or the over the top screen separator pictured in the manuals. I don't think most people would buy a vise grip for their phone to remove the battery either.
@@scottibassI’d sacrifice a water resistant phone for one with hot swappable batteries in a heartbeat. And yes they can make water resistant phones with swappable batteries-Samsung did that years ago with the s5. They just don’t want to. Much more profitable to have you buy another device instead of repairing…
@@stennan well, they are changing more stuff like custom processor, and based on the fact that they made phone accessible from the back as well, I think there are reasonable grounds for hope of improvement.
@@7heMech if they were listening to consumers they'd return the headphone jack and make the back camera flush with the rest of the body by expanding the battery and making it easily replaceable
Regardless of whether he could've done it better, isn't the main problem that changing parts requires exquisite levels of skill to avoid breaking the phone?
The adhesive slicer for the battery might not be a slicer. On my pixel 6a I just used it to lift the battery up and it worked. Take the both ends of the plastic strip as high as you can and try to lift up the battery a bit Then take both ends of the plastic strip to the lower end of the battery and try lifting up the battery
How come a few years ago anyone could replace a smartphone battery, and now it's almost impossible? Surely, there's no technical reason why it became so difficult.
I have used solvent to remove battery glue as well on other devices. But I think it was denatured alcohol and I stuffed paper towel strips in the gaps to hold the liquid in place and put like a layer of saran wrap over device to stop the alcohol from evaporating. I also waited longer sometimes adding a little more alcohol. I had good luck doing it that way.
You talked about screen entry design as a problem that was solved by apple switching opening procedure to the back but let me tell you that this problem was solved on pixel 6 using a protective plastic frame
Ouch, I can't remember the screen on the 8 Pro breaking like this on any of the teardown videos for that phone. Are the screens on the newer phones more fragile somehow?
Temp sensor? Would be great to figure out if you have heatloss in a wall in your home? At least it would point you in the direction of an issue so you can buy a thermal camera
What really sucks is any phone thats well built with repairability in mind the major market carrier (Verizon) makes it so it doesn't perform well on their network.
Is it possible to prevent damage to the back sticker by carefully heating the battery pack? Maybe Google could use a different adhesive for the battery pack in future productions of the Pixel 9.
You didn't mention anything about the vapor chamber or if it is better than ones on previous pixels. Also, the overall durability is more about the shape of the phone being more square and the screen being flatter. Causing drops to not hit glass, instead hitting metal.
All the companies are now chasing these years of software support and try to outnumber each other, but what's the point if the batteries are gonna become unusable within 3 years of use.
Hmm for me it's more of a weak 4. Sure it's more durable which is good for sustainability, but that screen removal/ultra glued in battery is as far from repairability as you get. The industry seem to slowly but surely moving in the right direction, but the key word there is slowly; they are dragging their feet as much as they possibly can get away with while pretending to become more repairable and sustainable. We need a Framework type device for phones. A company that goes out and shows that this shit is not rocket science, it both can and should be done!
Battery is easier than made out. Heat rear of phone to 70c for 10 mins, undo the pull tabs, put phone in vice or similar to secure and pull tabs straight up towards you. Battery lifts out. Source: Google Repair Manual They are not saw tabs.
if the adhesive is too strong but u got openings on both side, i'd take a braided fishing lines and run them under the battery to cut the adhesive. similar to how you'd do a car windshield removal. i think you dont have to mess with the screen if you just wanted to change the battery or everything else, as it seems like they're easily accesible from just the back 🤔
high end thingy these days is more toward feel rather than function, it will boost your self confident for sure but bust your wallet at the same time, i have 70 bucks low end phone that i had for 5 years and what it can do is fairly amazing, you stick your nail between backcover seam and pluck old battery out then plug new batery in.
I honestly have no idea why manufacturers wouldn't provide repair instructions. If they claim to be pro repair, whats the point of letting people figure it out themselves.
I've had good luck with the side pull tabs on Honor and Oneplus phones. The battery is on thin plastic film that you pull on from the side. Why are they coming up with this overcomplicated and non-reusable solutions to a solved problem ?
What about the microphone hole being right beside the SIM card tray removal location? Seems like some people🙋🏾♂️ mistakenly poked the SIM card removal tool in the wrong hole and maybe we have compromised the water resistance integrity?..
Following. Have seen this question on several forums, but no one has been able to confirm if the mic hole is curved to prevent damage or if a seal would be damaged.
I've seen lower repairability scores phone with easier battery removal process, the copper heat sink basically got ripped if you want to remove the battery
@@deRykcihC only if you don't follow the guides that Google posts online. They were supposed to put the phone on a heating plate at 70⁰ for 10 minutes, secure the phone in a vice grip, and pull directly up on the battery. They did none of those things and made it needlessly destructive.
@@General_M the problem with that is that most people don't have a heating plate at home to do that with. If you try a heat gun or a hair dryer you're going to cook the phone, so it now means you need a specialist tool to repair the phone. I like Pixels as much as anyone, but it's important we push for designs that everyone can repair.
you always find something good to say, but this phone is absolutely unacceptable to me. maybe most Pixel phones in my country are gray or unofficial (from the US and richer European countries. i think first owners quickly realize that 128 GB of storage is not enough and sell their phones, so there are many barely used phones with 128 GB of memory that are brought to us and that cost half the price of official ones from the store). and so replacing the battery in an official service center just costs too much compared to the price of the phone after a few years of use. it's often cheaper to replace it with another phone. and I'm sure no unauthorized technician will change the battery in this phone because he risks damaging the screen or something else. and i would love to replace battery myself, it's may be fun to do. but not with this phone. with this phone it is terrible disaster.
I never understood why batteries needs adhesive at all? Especially in devices like this with such tiny tolerances. Surely a bracket or two should be able to keep it in place just as well as glue?
Please help! I messed up and wasn't paying attention. Within the first minute of getting my phone I accidentally put my sim tray remover into the top mic hole by accident. Do you know if I've permanently damaged the mic/water resistance or is it angled off at 90 degrees like the bottle mic near the sim tray??
I’m just waiting on the hazel to come back in stock then I’m buying. All of my stuff is insured. You spend high dollars, you protect it. No third party is touching my damn phone anyhow. I also keep a backup phone (an iPhone 14 currently). Don’t be scared to buy peeps, just be sure to get that insurance. You’ll spend less in the long run.
How the sh1t does this get a higher repairability score than samsung? Samsung has an INFINITELY more repairable design. They have publicly available repair manuals and publicly and easily accessible debug and calibration tools. And yet this somehow gets a higher score. Its infuriating and disingenuous.
So the EU law on batteries still doesn't work? You have to heat the phone to 70 Celsius to get the stupid glue off? What idiot at Google came up with that?
I will never understand why the battery in every phone is almost welded to the frame with glue. Wouldnt like two small strips of glue do the job anyway? Shit man, we need to mowe away from lithium batteries...
Luckily from 2027 all mobile phones & tablets sold in europe will have to have easily changable battery so no my excessive glue layer on the Battery. So the tare bown of the Pixel 12 will be mich easier.
Unless Android 14 is different on the 9 than the original Fold, no, but it does have Adaptive Charging which tries to keep the battery a bit under full until a little before you're getting up for the day (similar to the iOS one)
Pixels had this issue for so many years that they had soldered charging port, finally we got a modular one! nice job.
Yea I really liked the modular daughterboard, but seems like it is hard to remove the battery which is sad.
Now they need to fix the battery replacement issue.
@@jierenzheng7670 Once it's replaced you can use less glue for further battery exchanges
This actually looks more difficult than it was for me to get the battery out of my Pixel 6. Kind of like they took a step backwards.
A big step backwards and they started using different sized screws
you guys are the experts and if this is what happened to you, ain't no WAY I am going to try fixing this phone, lol
@@mrd5024 Good thing is that opening is only for the screen, if it's broken you don't care when you replace it.
Don't buy a Pixel, this looks like a nightmare. Even a professional repair shop might break things just trying to change the battery.
That battery replacement seems like an absolute nightmare
Apply isopropyl alcohol AND heat on the front, it'll be a lot easier then.
Wait, did all these people in the comments not watch the video? Or did I misunderstand the video? I understood him to say you can enter from the rear of the phone without ever having to take off the display when replacing the battery. But holy moly, that battery adhesive. 💀
Yeah, it looks like the only time you will have to go through the front is to replace a defective screen, so does it really matter that removing the screen ruins the defective screen?
The display got broken during the disassembly, the battery removal was the worst of any smartphone in the past 5+ years, there are no manuals on how to open the device, and youre not questioning the 7 years of software support from a company with a long history of killing their products and services early on. AND IT GOT A 5/10?? But nice that you offer parts from them
and fingerprint sensor is paired to the screen
Yeah, I appreciate ifixit showing the risk of trying a battery replacement after a couple of years. Yet another year to appreciate the pixels, but not buying it 😢
fun fact: the phone won't last 7 years
@@ronlevin2339 You can most likely pair it again from the browser like you could with previous phones.
@@stennan it wouldn't have been so bad of they had just followed the guide that Google posts online. Undo the two pull tabs, heat the read of the phone on a pad for ten minutes, secure the phone, pull directly up.
That's it, that's the necessary steps.
I read the Pixel 9 Pro XL repair manual, and it says that the phone needs to be heated to 70c for 10 minutes. You can then use pull tabs to pull straight up, and the battery should come out. Also the manual states you shouldnt go in more than 3.2mm. Google has these manuals available on their repair site.
Dude, forget the manual who's trying to heat a phone for 10mins? The heat alone would ruin the battery and the display.
Not to mention the manual also suggests that the phone sits in essentially what is an industrial vise grip for phones AFTER the heating phase to soften the adhesive, AND using finger cots to increase your grip on the pull tabs to pull perpendicular to the battery.
At least from the repair guide, it suggests that the tabs on each side are not to saw through the adhesive as suggested in the video, but rather to pull the battery away from softened adhesive.
@@jevonsims90070°C for even an hour is fine for both the display and the battery. Most phones are heated to 70-100°C before a backglass/display replacement.
@@jevonsims900yeah, you'll ruin the battery that you're about to replace, how unfortunate
@@pvim 70°C for an hour is absolutely awful for the battery! Hell, even 50° C sustained is enough to degrade the internal chemistry of the battery
Every year it's becoming increasingly harder to replace the battery. They keep on adding more screws, covers, adhesives etc. in the way. One has to wonder why that is.
to make it heavier, because 200g+ phones feel more "premium"
So that you buy a new phone instead of replacing the battery.
@@akash3927 Bingo.
Planned obsole$cence.
Thanks a lot for the teardown, the battery replacement is my no 1 concern of any new smartphone, especially nowadays when you get 7 years of software updates.
LOL
when you damage the screen at the beginning of the video you insert the pick into the device about 1 cm, when it is 2 mm at most, you should be more careful, you take away seriousness from the brand, taking advantage of the fact that you manufacture you should build a pick that could only be inserted those 2 mm with a stop bezel or something so that errors like this are not repeated c:
I'm not at all saying that you guys aren't skilled at disassembling devices, but I would like the device disassembly revisited using the repair guides on google's site!
It doesn't need to be a video, just more so a review or the repair guide published and whether or not it helps.
Additionally I think the review of the repair guide should not include device specific tools, like the device specific, industrial sandwiching device, or the over the top screen separator pictured in the manuals. I don't think most people would buy a vise grip for their phone to remove the battery either.
Remember when you could just replace a battery by popping off the back of a phone with no tools? Those were the good times
Yep, but those phones would not survive a 10 second dunk.
@@scottibassI’d sacrifice a water resistant phone for one with hot swappable batteries in a heartbeat. And yes they can make water resistant phones with swappable batteries-Samsung did that years ago with the s5. They just don’t want to. Much more profitable to have you buy another device instead of repairing…
@@caydenpo1001 Would you sacrifice the technology advancement to have a removable battery?
@@caydenpo1001if watchmakers can make watches that are water resistant and the back can be easily removed so can cell phone manufacturers
@@scottibass I believe Samsung S5 have removable back and IP67 and they can just put some coating on the board as well.
That's the most Steve Jobs-approving Pixel internals I've ever seen.
Sustainability through durability is like security through obscurity.
It can kinda work, but it's not the right way to do it.
Very informative Ifixit team
Honestly, kind of disappointing, but hopefully next year they'll have listened to feedback.
Same hope as last year, yes?
@@stennan well, they are changing more stuff like custom processor, and based on the fact that they made phone accessible from the back as well, I think there are reasonable grounds for hope of improvement.
they will listen to the investors' feedback: nothing will change.
@@7heMech if they were listening to consumers they'd return the headphone jack and make the back camera flush with the rest of the body by expanding the battery and making it easily replaceable
@@Shotblur yeah, and an SD card slot, but can't you let a poor man dream 😅
Been a Great phone so far and great to see the updated internals!
What a chaotic tear down
I'm happy to see both the Pixel 9 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro both do not require the screen to come off to gain access to the internals.
a 5/10 for this ridiculous battery replacement is quite a thing... especially considering that you guys are experts.
That shirt is awesome! 😂
The display problem is from your side not from Google. You should not put the guitar pick that deep.
Regardless of whether he could've done it better, isn't the main problem that changing parts requires exquisite levels of skill to avoid breaking the phone?
@@robertwright8844 then they must make the display fatter. And people will cry about fat and heavy phone
Facts
@@robertwright8844 Except what you said is false.
The adhesive slicer for the battery might not be a slicer. On my pixel 6a I just used it to lift the battery up and it worked.
Take the both ends of the plastic strip as high as you can and try to lift up the battery a bit
Then take both ends of the plastic strip to the lower end of the battery and try lifting up the battery
He looks for experts for teardown 😍
How come a few years ago anyone could replace a smartphone battery, and now it's almost impossible? Surely, there's no technical reason why it became so difficult.
I have used solvent to remove battery glue as well on other devices. But I think it was denatured alcohol and I stuffed paper towel strips in the gaps to hold the liquid in place and put like a layer of saran wrap over device to stop the alcohol from evaporating. I also waited longer sometimes adding a little more alcohol. I had good luck doing it that way.
Battery removal needs probably heating to the certain temp?
I would've loved to see the fingerprint sensor! Nice teardown other than that.
Improvements... but such a horrifying battery removal experience.
You talked about screen entry design as a problem that was solved by apple switching opening procedure to the back
but let me tell you that this problem was solved on pixel 6 using a protective plastic frame
Can we please have written article & wallpapers too
Ouch, I can't remember the screen on the 8 Pro breaking like this on any of the teardown videos for that phone. Are the screens on the newer phones more fragile somehow?
Temp sensor? Would be great to figure out if you have heatloss in a wall in your home? At least it would point you in the direction of an issue so you can buy a thermal camera
What really sucks is any phone thats well built with repairability in mind the major market carrier (Verizon) makes it so it doesn't perform well on their network.
Is it possible to prevent damage to the back sticker by carefully heating the battery pack? Maybe Google could use a different adhesive for the battery pack in future productions of the Pixel 9.
You didn't mention anything about the vapor chamber or if it is better than ones on previous pixels. Also, the overall durability is more about the shape of the phone being more square and the screen being flatter. Causing drops to not hit glass, instead hitting metal.
All the companies are now chasing these years of software support and try to outnumber each other, but what's the point if the batteries are gonna become unusable within 3 years of use.
Nice job .
But to remove that battery romains the hardest job
Hmm for me it's more of a weak 4. Sure it's more durable which is good for sustainability, but that screen removal/ultra glued in battery is as far from repairability as you get. The industry seem to slowly but surely moving in the right direction, but the key word there is slowly; they are dragging their feet as much as they possibly can get away with while pretending to become more repairable and sustainable.
We need a Framework type device for phones. A company that goes out and shows that this shit is not rocket science, it both can and should be done!
Battery is easier than made out. Heat rear of phone to 70c for 10 mins, undo the pull tabs, put phone in vice or similar to secure and pull tabs straight up towards you. Battery lifts out. Source: Google Repair Manual
They are not saw tabs.
Why do they put that much adhesive on batteries ?
This illusion of "sustainability" coming from these companies are really working on people.
So if you have to cut through the adhesive, how do you make sure the new panel is waterproofed? Do replacements come with new adhesive?
Impressive massive heatsink!
OK, Mr. FixIt let us see you put that phone back together and have it work. My guess is that you have frogged up so much in your disassembly of it.
if the adhesive is too strong but u got openings on both side, i'd take a braided fishing lines and run them under the battery to cut the adhesive. similar to how you'd do a car windshield removal. i think you dont have to mess with the screen if you just wanted to change the battery or everything else, as it seems like they're easily accesible from just the back 🤔
Great info..audio is low though..
Chargeport is replaceable now?
Now we just need them to make the Pixel Watches repairable and I'll buy one 😂
Whose watching on pixel
iPhone
Probably about as many as watching on an HTC lol
Surface Go
Not me
Streaming from my P8P to Chromecast with Google TV!
Disappointing to see Google hasn't innovated much on the aspect of repairability. I expect better from a phone of this price.
high end thingy these days is more toward feel rather than function, it will boost your self confident for sure but bust your wallet at the same time, i have 70 bucks low end phone that i had for 5 years and what it can do is fairly amazing, you stick your nail between backcover seam and pluck old battery out then plug new batery in.
Seems repairable enough for me, but only if the parts will be cheap enough, I'm not paying more than 15€ for example for the usb c port
I honestly have no idea why manufacturers wouldn't provide repair instructions. If they claim to be pro repair, whats the point of letting people figure it out themselves.
Really disappointing. It's not a problem of skill, budget or time.
Fairphone came later, with less of all three and still delivered !
Why is the score provisional?
Does it have a vapor chamber?
peace be upon you sir
for all separating the screen only iphone is safty for technician
I've had good luck with the side pull tabs on Honor and Oneplus phones. The battery is on thin plastic film that you pull on from the side.
Why are they coming up with this overcomplicated and non-reusable solutions to a solved problem ?
What about the microphone hole being right beside the SIM card tray removal location? Seems like some people🙋🏾♂️ mistakenly poked the SIM card removal tool in the wrong hole and maybe we have compromised the water resistance integrity?..
Samsung fix that issue, but I wonder if google implemented it too.
Following. Have seen this question on several forums, but no one has been able to confirm if the mic hole is curved to prevent damage or if a seal would be damaged.
Can neither confirm nor deny if I also picked into that microphone hole while installing my sim card 😓
The opening to the microphone is perpendicular to the hole in the frame, you can insert the sim tool as deep as you want, it won't cause any damage :)
Jerryrig already debunked that, mic is safe
I've seen lower repairability scores phone with easier battery removal process, the copper heat sink basically got ripped if you want to remove the battery
@@deRykcihC only if you don't follow the guides that Google posts online. They were supposed to put the phone on a heating plate at 70⁰ for 10 minutes, secure the phone in a vice grip, and pull directly up on the battery.
They did none of those things and made it needlessly destructive.
@@General_M the problem with that is that most people don't have a heating plate at home to do that with. If you try a heat gun or a hair dryer you're going to cook the phone, so it now means you need a specialist tool to repair the phone.
I like Pixels as much as anyone, but it's important we push for designs that everyone can repair.
That's what happens when you use the incorrect tools and don't follow the written instructions on how to do it. This is just lame clickbait
I cannot believe the battery could be used for many years due to this design...
you always find something good to say, but this phone is absolutely unacceptable to me. maybe most Pixel phones in my country are gray or unofficial (from the US and richer European countries. i think first owners quickly realize that 128 GB of storage is not enough and sell their phones, so there are many barely used phones with 128 GB of memory that are brought to us and that cost half the price of official ones from the store). and so replacing the battery in an official service center just costs too much compared to the price of the phone after a few years of use. it's often cheaper to replace it with another phone. and I'm sure no unauthorized technician will change the battery in this phone because he risks damaging the screen or something else. and i would love to replace battery myself, it's may be fun to do. but not with this phone. with this phone it is terrible disaster.
5 out of 10 for a broken screen and a broken battery. Clearly, they are not paid by Google. They are ”independent”.
really unfortunate that the screen and battery are literally all the components in this phone
@@azyrael96I mean, those are the most likely to need replacement so…
@@tormaid42 some might say (like google) that just like the guy in the video said, you replace the battery from the back, not the front.
Compared to most phones it probably *is* a 5/10 though. At least the items being broken are the ones you're likely replacing anyway.
'durability' matters little when it's still got two sides of full _glass,_ and there is a hard to replace component that _will_ wear out
thinkpads, at least older ones are very praised for their durability and they're all plastic
Wow this just killed any enthusiasm I had for this phone.
LOL. You seriously want to replace a battery? LOL
Doesn't give me confidence to buy the new model,I'll stick to my 8 pro and keep it in top shape
What type of storage does it have ? UFS 3.1 or 4.0 ? some people said the 256 Gb storage model - it's posible to have 4.0
I never understood why batteries needs adhesive at all? Especially in devices like this with such tiny tolerances. Surely a bracket or two should be able to keep it in place just as well as glue?
Likely because glue costs less than screws
I think you guys have a typo in the title...
It's the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL not the 9 XL. After all, there is no 9 XL, only 9 PRO XL 😂👍
if THAT is 5 I wonder how bad it would be a smartphone maintenance to get a lower grade
Please help! I messed up and wasn't paying attention. Within the first minute of getting my phone I accidentally put my sim tray remover into the top mic hole by accident. Do you know if I've permanently damaged the mic/water resistance or is it angled off at 90 degrees like the bottle mic near the sim tray??
5:19 i don't think that is tensor g4. It's a micron dram and Samsung UFS.
Its right under that dram. The dram is the smaller square and they outlined the bigger square underneath it.
@@bulletpunch9317 that's a first time I've seen
where can i get that shirt? :D
every screens i removed i always use a few drop of sticker remover solution. i never heating them.
came after watching JRE video to confirm the battery situation
is the pixel 9 bloated with software and how much of it can be uninstalled, also can AI be disabled? considering of bying one thanx in addvance
We need a new, modern unbreakable phone.
2024 is Apple phones being more repairable by an Android phone by the Android company, what a time to be alive
But still serialized the parts so you still cannot repair by yourself
Serialized parts by apple and you still believe apple is more repairable? You must be very well regarded.
@@besg5725they’re planning on removing serialized parts
*easier to teardown. Apple's serialized parts means they are still far less repairable/consumer friendly
the battery doesnt suck its close to iphone 15 pro life
I’m just waiting on the hazel to come back in stock then I’m buying. All of my stuff is insured. You spend high dollars, you protect it. No third party is touching my damn phone anyhow. I also keep a backup phone (an iPhone 14 currently). Don’t be scared to buy peeps, just be sure to get that insurance. You’ll spend less in the long run.
How the sh1t does this get a higher repairability score than samsung? Samsung has an INFINITELY more repairable design. They have publicly available repair manuals and publicly and easily accessible debug and calibration tools. And yet this somehow gets a higher score. Its infuriating and disingenuous.
u need to inject a bit isopropyl alcohol before zig zag the battery to take out the battery unit
Battery is incredible
durability for sustainability is not present here
Teardown engineers, please 😂
I would 10 to 1 rather just have something like the S4 with a pop off back with replaceable batteries and no water resistance.
did they jb weld the battery in place? lol
I bought the most phone from google,I wanted it to work every time
i can confidently say I hate this brand the most
5/10 seems generous.
That's great
So the EU law on batteries still doesn't work?
You have to heat the phone to 70 Celsius to get the stupid glue off? What idiot at Google came up with that?
I will never understand why the battery in every phone is almost welded to the frame with glue.
Wouldnt like two small strips of glue do the job anyway?
Shit man, we need to mowe away from lithium batteries...
Hello updates, goodbye repairs 🤣
Luckily from 2027 all mobile phones & tablets sold in europe will have to have easily changable battery so no my excessive glue layer on the Battery. So the tare bown of the Pixel 12 will be mich easier.
holy shirt, 2027 is just 30 months away
can one set the charge max to 90% on pixel 9 ?
Unless Android 14 is different on the 9 than the original Fold, no, but it does have Adaptive Charging which tries to keep the battery a bit under full until a little before you're getting up for the day (similar to the iOS one)
The android 15 update may give us the option, but that is currently not an option out of the box.
@@raymondhacks thanx
@@bosstowndynamics5488 thanx
An iFixIt staff member shouldn't really be using an iPhone of all things.
finally a vapor chamber on a US-brand phone lmao
u did the wrong step if you intend to change the battery. Pixel 9, u just need to open up back cover.