That... doesn't look easy. Or at least, I imagine this video would look intimidating to non-tech savvy users. I consider myself at least a little tech savvy and I'm like 80% sure I would forget to insert that transparent sheet thingy under the battery. I'm guessing it's insulation?
Anyway, what used to be the norm was pulling off the back cover and then remove the battery with your fingernail. No tools required. Now a vast majority of phones are glued together, all under the pretext of making the phone more thin.
What irks me is that companies still make removable batteries, but they are getting harder and harder to find. In fact, Samsung itself has XCover line of phones that have easily accessible batteries. How easy? This easy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7N60P51q4
(Actual battery removal at around 0:11)
Repaired phones for years for friends family and for payment sometimes. Still managed to mess up my own screen replacement a week back, a bit to much pressure on one side...
Worst thing besides the right to repair adversely and planned obsolescence is the bloody prices. Folded and got a new from a second hand company ( still new in box)
they should honestly not need all of that, batteries are consumable and should be removable goddamit!!
Two hardest parts for me, when trying to do digitizer/battery replacements have been:
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getting the ribbon cables sorted/plugged back into the right spot between the digitizer and the main board.
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the double sided tape used to keep the battery from sliding around can be a bear to remove and replace.
Honorable mention to just getting the digitizer pulled up enough with suction cups to get a pry tool in to finish the job.
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It's kind of ironic that changing the battery of cell phones were so easy back then and so hard now and finding a battery saw/grinder/any-electric-tool was so hard then and so easy now.
