Alright, so today I’m going to show you how to take apart the Ativ S Neo from Samsung.
This phone is currently on Sprint here in the U.S.
We’re going to start by taking off the back, taking out the battery, and there are 10 screws
around the outside of the phone.
There’s this one in the corner.
And I’m going to show you where the placement is of all the other screws right here.
You can go ahead and pause the video if you want to.
Just make sure to take out all the screws.
They are all the same size so you don’t need to worry about jumbling them up.
Make sure to take out the SIM card.
Just click it in and it will slide right out.
To remove the screen, take your non…your pry tool and slide it around the edges, and
you’ll hear a series of clicks as it snaps the outside casing away from the actual screen
itself.
You have to do this a few times just to make sure all of the little locks are unclicked.
Just kind of wiggle it out there.
You can see it coming away from the actual…from the back of the phone.
Then right there it came loose.
So there are no wires or anything holding on the back casing to the actual phone itself.
Back here you can see the water marker where it shows whether it’s been wet or not.
And here we have the phone.
So what I’m going to take apart right now…this part is the bracket that holds the charging
port in place.
On this black piece of plastic is also the microphone.
So if you’re replacing the microphone, this is the piece that you’ll need to replace.
As soon as it becomes available I’ll place a link for it in the video description below;
usually from Amazon is the place I buy all my parts from.
Anyway so I just unlatched the ribbon cable for the charging port from the motherboard.
Then there’s a wire cable right here as well that I am just lifting up to unlatch
from the motherboard itself.
Pull the wire cable out from the little groove that it’s in next to the battery and do
the same thing with this wire cable from this side.
So that’s how you unplug the charging port.
I’ll show you how to remove it in just a second.
There are 2 wire cables….sorry, ribbon cables up at the top.
And then there’s a ribbon cable right here as well that you unclick; kind of like Legos.
They just unsnap really easily and that frees up the motherboard for you.
The camera on the motherboard is also replaceable.
It’s the same type of wire ribbon cable that you can just unsnap and it becomes loose.
So if you need to replace that it’s pretty simple, you just snap a new one into place.
Here is the earpiece as well as the loud speaker.
They are both attached to the same piece so if you replace one you got to replace both.
Once again I’ll put the parts in the video description as soon as they become available
on Amazon or E-Supply.
And here is how to remove the charging port.
The whole thing is just kind of a circuit board/ribbon.
And it’s just glued down to the bottom of the phone.
It does come out relatively easily though.
What I’ve found works best is to take my non-marring pry tool and slide it underneath
the top of the charging port and then down into it right…following the ribbon cable
down so I don’t put any pressure on the ribbon cable.
Do that to both sides and it pops loose.
So here’s the charging port.
It’s really that simple to replace.
It’s super easy.
Take your new one and press it down into place using the same glue that you had before.
The black plastic will hold it down into place with those 2 screws so you don’t have to
worry about it too much.
Then I’m going to take the ribbon cables…sorry, the wire cables, and slide them into the groove
where they came from.
Then I’m taking the motherboard and positioning it; remembering to keep all of the ribbon
cables on the upper side of the motherboard just like that.
So there are 2 up at the top that you have to clip in and they snap in just like Legos.
There’s the one on the side that I’m doing right now.
Then there are the 2 wire cables, one on either side of the phone.
And you only have one shot at this so you gotta make sure to clip them in, you know,
putting the pressure in directly from the top of the phone, otherwise you might bend
the little lip and it won’t connect anymore.
Anyway, so now I’m placing down the microphone/charging port bracket and putting the screws in.
Overall I’m pretty impressed with this phone.
I really like how Samsung has made the charging port replaceable, mostly because the charging
port is usually what goes out on a smart phone first; the part that suffers the most abuse.
So making it replaceable is a pretty intelligent decision.
Anyway, I’m going to snap the back on.
You’ll hear a series of clicks as you take the screen and kind of push it back into place.
And it fits perfectly, so you won’t notice, you know, you wouldn’t be able to tell that
anyone ever took the phone apart.
Just going to keep on snapping those around.
Pop the battery in.
Put the back on.
And don’t forget to put all the screws in.
I’ll put up that little picture here in just a second.
And everything works.
There you go.
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I enjoy taking them apart.
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