Introduction
Use this guide for the following cases:
- You dropped the phone in water and need to dry it thoroughly
- You need to exchange the display for a working one
- You want to salvage parts
Tools
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Slide down the battery cover
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Remove the battery by pulling on the two cables (green rectangle)
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Use a torx screwdriver to remove four screws (red circles).
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Pry open the phone from the side using a guitar pick or a spudger.
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Be careful not to rip the two pieces apart because there are two connectors to be unplugged from the logic board (orange squares)
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Use a pair of tweezers to accomplish this step and carefully remove the speaker as well as the headphone cable
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Remove the two remaining torx screws that connect the logic board to the casing (red circles)
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Use your tweezers to remove the remaining speaker cable on top
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Then proceed to the ribbon cable for the display by rotating the phone by 90 degrees.
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To remove the ribbon cable you must loosen the brown clip by gently pushing it up from both sides.
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When the clip is loosened you may pull out the ribbon cable carefully.
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