Samsung Galaxy Note 4 disassembly and gold-plating guides

Specializing in customizing and gold-plating phones and supercars,  Karalux introduce images, videos of the process to easily disassemble Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

Right after a smartphone Note version of Samsung was officially launched in Vietnam, a technical team of Karalux studied in finding the best way to disassemble it with the aim at helping Android fans know its inside details, especially gold-plating it.

How to disassemble Galaxy Note 4 to fix as well as gold-plate? In fact, I think it is extremely easy and simple to disassemble Galaxy Note; it’s even much easier to disassemble than iPhone 6.

The steps to disassemble Galaxy Note as followings:

Step 1:

– Get out a SIM card, a micro-SD, S-Pen, and plastic back panel of Note 4.

– Pull out screws around the phone’s frame

– Remove battery, screws, the S-pen

– The screws of Galaxy Note has the same size (unlike the iPhone 6, its screws have many types with different sizes)

Step 2: Remove the screen

It is one of the most difficult steps, because the screen of the Galaxy Note is quite thin with Super AMOLED technology and is stuck by a special glue kind, so it must be softly and gently disassembled.

To remove the screen, you should prepare some plastic items, such as plastic knives, plastic trays … to prize up screen. Especially you also need a drier to soften the glue layer.

Like the iPhone 6, the technicians will use their nails to lightly press on the screen slot, and then use the plastic trays and knives to gently prize up and pry into the corners, slots to shake the glue layer.

– Use drier to heat up and soften the glue layer of the screen.

– After the glue layer becomes soft, using your nail to press into the seam of the phone’s edge, and use plastic items to gently pry.

– After removing the screen, the next stage is to remove the cable out of the Main Screen by a pair of tweezers.

– Once the screen is removed, you will see a thin copper foil under the screen

  Step 3: Remove the Mainboard, component array

With the plating tank method ( Karalux engineers will dip all items need gold plate into the tank of gold), the next step is to disassemble the details need gold-plating, including frame and some small details.

– Technical make the final check of all positions and screws before disassemble all items out of the frame.

– Gently lift each corner out of aluminum frame

– Gently and evenly pry each side

– Note’s component array is disassembled out of aluminum frame

The ring around of the Galaxy Note 4 frames create iridescent like iPhone 5 and ip5s version. Unlike iPhone – the surface of its frame is anodized aluminum, meanwhile the frame surface of Note is coated a thin paint layer.

Step 4: Process the Surface before 24 gold-plating

To gold-plate Galaxy Note 4, the  Karalux Engineers must carry out nearly 10 different stages; the first is to remove paint layers on the surface of the aluminum frame.

In order that the 24K gold layer is adhesive and durable, engineers continue processing and activating the surface, then continuously creating various metal layers, finally coating a 24K gold layer.