Galaxy S6 gets teardown treatment, proves fairly difficult to repair

As per usual with new devices, iFixit has torn apart a brand new Galaxy S6 to see how easy it’ll be to fix it in case you break it or your non-removable battery goes bad. While it’s all theoretically possible, the process looks bad for DIY phone repairs.

The (only) good news about the S6 here is that many of its components are modular. This is great for replacing individual things instead of replacing the entire device. That’s where the good news ends, though. Everything else about the device is tough to repair, especially since the front and back of the device is cased in glass.

Without the removable back, actually getting into the device is a feat within itself. Everything is pretty firmly sealed up, including the battery, but once everything is open, taking the battery out to swap it for a new one doesn’t look like it’ll be too difficult.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, but pretty much everything inside the device is identical to the Galaxy S6 Edge with just a few slight differences. The camera modules are the same and the placement of most of the components on the motherboard are strikingly similar. There aren’t many surprises inside, as we know all about the USB 2.0 ports and fingerprint scanners that Samsung built into the device.

Overall, Samsung’s latest flagship scored a paltry 4 out of 10 on the repairability scale thanks to how difficult it is to get inside the device. It doesn’t matter how easy things are to replace inside the phone if you nearly destroy the device getting inside of it. iFixit noted that replacing the glass on the phone would likely be impossible without breaking the display, further adding to the costs of repairs.

If you want to see the full teardown process, hit the link below.

source: iFixit

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