- If you have an iPhone, it can be kinda hard to
stand out in a sea of iPhones.
You can either jailbreak and change the icons on it
and that'll change what it looks like when you use it,
or maybe you can go out and find a really cool case for it.
But other than that, it's pretty much it.
So, what if you want something that's maybe
a little more unique?
Today I'm gonna show you how you can make the back
of your iPhone 6 and 6 Plus actually light up
like it does on a MacBook.
Now it should go without saying, but this tweak
is not for the faint of heart, and would probably
void your warranty.
Now if you've had your phone for more than a year,
your warranty's already expired, so no harm really there.
But again, this tweak is not for the faint of heart,
and proceeding, you will be proceeding at your own risk.
Now with all that out of the way,
here's what you need to get started.
First up, we're gonna need the light kit itself,
which comprises of an LED strip, some tape, some insulation,
and a tool kit.
You can get this kit by clicking the link below.
Once your kit arrives in the mail, we're going to
turn off our phone, and using the provided
pentalobe screwdriver, we're gonna remove the two screws
from the bottom of the phone.
After that, we're gonna use the suction cup
that came with the kit to stick to the screen.
We're going to use this as leverage, and we're going to
actually pull that, and use the pry tool
to get underneath the screen,
and then slowly separate it from the base.
Now when you pull this up, make sure that you
pull it straight up, and you also don't pull it back too far
to where you'll break the cables that are holding it
to the motherboard.
Now this part is optional, I'm going to show you how you can
remove the screen to just make this a little easier.
But if you wanna give it a try without removing the screen
you can, it just means you have to hold the screen up
and make sure that it doesn't fall
while doing all the other steps.
So to remove the screen, we're going to remove the
five screws that hold down this metal plate,
then we're going to unconnect all of these connectors,
and once that's done, we can separate the screen.
And I always have a white piece of paper
next to me when I do this,
and I put the screws that I take out
in the exact same order that I took them out,
as you can see here.
This just makes it a lot easier to put everything
back together when you're done,
as some of these screws are not all the same size.
Next we can remove this metal plate that holds in
the battery connector down here at the bottom
by undo-ing these two screws.
Once that's done, we're going to pry up the connector
in the same way we did for the screen,
and we're going to remove the battery.
Now this is the most difficult part of this,
because for some reason Apple glues the crap
out of this battery.
So, optionally you can take a blow dryer to the back
of the device, make sure it doesn't get too hot obviously
because you don't wanna damage the internals,
but this will sort of loosen the glue a little bit,
but this is optional, you don't have to do this,
it just might make it a little bit easier.
Then, we're going to flip the phone back over,
and you can use, say, a butterknife like I'm using here
or one of the pry tools, something that's strong enough
to get underneath this battery in order to separate it from
that horrible glue that I mentioned earlier.
Just be very careful not to puncture
the battery while doing this, which is why I recommend
something like a butter knife that's flatter,
as opposed to say one of the screwdrivers.
But it's up to you, just be careful when doing this.
If you do break your battery, just throw it out
and you can actually click the link below to find a cheap
replacement battery from Amazon.
Once you've separated the battery from the glue,
you can peel out the rest of the glue,
and this is what you are left with.
Now, we're gonna take our pick that came with the tool kit,
and we're going to just peel off the two pieces of tape
that are holding in the metal Apple logo.
Once that's done, we need to pry this out of here.
So we're going to use our flat screwdriver that came with
the kit, and slowly and carefully kind of pry this up
until we can just peel it away.
And then you're going to wanna save this
in case you ever wanna undo this, you can put this back in.
Then, we're gonna take the LED that came with the kit
and we're going to put that onto
where the Apple logo once sat,
and you can flip the phone over
and see that this will actually sit inside of that.
And you wanna make sure that it's kind of flush
before you continue.
Once you're happy with the placement,
you're gonna take the same two pieces of tape
that held in the metal Apple logo,
and we're gonna just put these on here,
doesn't really matter where you put them, just so long as
it kind of helps to hold in the LED light.
After that, we're gonna put our battery back on
but don't reconnect it yet,
we wanna set everything else up first before we do that.
So now on the screen, there's actually a small piece of tape
that is sitting on top of the connector
that we're gonna use to light the LED,
essentially what powers the screen.
So we are going to have to scrape this off,
you can do it with your fingernail,
it might take a little bit of time,
but you want to reveal the three metal connectors
that are underneath.
This is where we're going to attach our LED to,
and what'll happen is, this means that whenever the screen
lights up, the LED will light up.
If the screen dims, the LED will dim,
so on and so forth.
When you're done, it should look just like this.
Now we can reconnect the screen by pushing down these
little lego-like connectors back onto the motherboard.
Then, we're going to replace the metal plate and put back in
the five screws that were originally holding that down.
Then you're gonna take the tiny piece of foam
that came with the kit,
and you're gonna make it like a "T"
on top of the top of the light kit's top cable,
literally just perpendicular at the very top of it.
And then, we're going to push that carefully onto those
three metal connectors, so that it now
covers all three of those.
Then we're gonna take the other piece of sponge
and stick that on the side, so that it's kind of
like a piece of tape holding in the right side
of that cable, so half on the cable,
and then half on the back of the screen.
This is going to create a little bit insulation,
when we now add the final piece,
which is this large piece of electrical tape
that we're gonna stick on the back.
Now if for some reason this doesn't work
when you start turning it on, chances are
this is your problem.
Either go get another piece of electrical tape,
maybe your own, it doesn't matter if it didn't
come with the kit,
most people have it laying around,
and just make sure that this is entirely covered
because it needs to be completely insulated
in order for that LED to grab the current and light up.
Finally when that's done, we can reconnect the battery,
and then put on the metal plate and screw that back in
as well.
And you notice there is a little piece of extra cable
coming out of the bottom of the battery,
you're just going to wanna fit that
wherever it'll fit basically,
down here at the bottom
and tape that down with another piece of tape.
Then, we can set our screen back down very carefully
and slowly run your fingers along, pushing very slightly
in order to get it to pop back into place.
So just be careful that you obviously don't crack
the screen while doing this.
Then, all we need to do is
put in our two bottom screws again,
and then turn the phone back on.
And when we do, it should light up
just like it does on a MacBook.
There you go guys, I hope you guys enjoyed that
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