Introduction
Has your ear speaker stopped working? Follow this guide to install a new one.
Tools
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If your display glass is cracked, keep further breakage contained and prevent bodily harm during your repair by taping the glass.
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Lay overlapping strips of clear packing tape over the iPhone's display until the whole face is covered.
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Remove the metal handle from the suction cup. It's easier and safer to grip the suction cup's base instead of the metal handle.
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Use a small suction cup near the Home button to gently pull up the bottom portion of the iPhone's display assembly.
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Continue to hold the display assembly with one hand, and use your other hand and a spudger to disconnect the black ribbon cable labeled "1."
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Rotate the display assembly up until it is roughly vertical. This will allow easier access for disconnecting the remaining cables.
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Use a spudger to disconnect the black ribbon cable labeled "2."
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Use a spudger to flip up the black plastic tab holding the remaining ribbon cable in place. The black will rotate up 90 degrees, releasing the ribbon cable.
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Slide the ribbon cable out of its connector, and remove the display assembly from the iPhone.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry up the right side of the ear speaker cover assembly.
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Turn the spudger around and use the pointed side to detach the two clips securing the top of the assembly.
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Once the clips are detached, lift the cover assembly up from the device.
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Slide the pointed end of the spudger into the slot under the upper right corner of the ear speaker and gently pry upwards.
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Lift the ear speaker up and out of the device.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
When you do this, do it in a very well lighted environment that is not on carpet. Take off metal wristwatches and generally remove any other metal before starting the repair. If you drop these tiny screws and they land on thick carpet you have almost no chance of finding them again. The IF137-008-1 kit would benefit with the addition of two replacement screws in case the buyer loses the original screws.
cochranb -
I just replaced the display assembly and digitizer on my iPhone, it made one beep when I got it back together, there is no display at all, not recognized by iTunes, and its getting REALLY hot, more than before. Any ideas?
graham -
CAUTION. If your phone was assembled the same as my 16GB 3G, the cable labeled 4 in step 3 is glued to the back of your LCD not simply connected to the main board as shown in the instructions. There is no way you can open the phone 45 degrees as shown without ripping the cable as I did.
I now need to replace the dock connector as well.
postnospam -
Weird. I've taken all of my 3G apart. My 8 replacements, and my 2 3GS apart. all were 16GB, and what your describing has never happened to me.
Nicholas Ouimet -
After looking at this closer, I don't think it was glued to the back of the LCD, so much as it had just bonded there after a year and a half of use. I usually just keep the phone in my back pocket. Maybe this contributed to extra pressure in that area?
If some one has the same issue, it will take a very gentle hand to slightly crack it open and use a spudger to separate the end from the back of the LCD before opening it further.
The cut in the cable was so clean, I didn't even notice the problem until I went to put it back together and wondered why there was an apparently unused cable connected to the back of the LCD.
The good news is everything else is working and the replacement dock connector should arrive tomorrow.
After using a cheap Go Phone to get me by for the weekend, I'm in complete awe of my daughter's ability to text on those things!
postnospam -
I had a similar issue, only it wasn't cable number 3. It was a ribbon cable that is without label that connects to the screen opposite the ribbon cables 1-3. It's also connected to the iPhone, and not the display assembly.
Jerod Dunn -
What size are these screws. Please
Lisa Yates -