You're going to need a small Phillips head screwdriver and then a Pentalobe screwdriver.
It's the same size that opens up all of the iPhones.
Then you need a pry tool and a suction cup.
Put the suction cup close to the home button.
Take your Pentalobe screwdriver and undo the bottom two screws right next to the charging
port.
Place your suction cup right next to the home button and lift up with your finger at the
same time, trying to put the pry tool between the frame and the screen.
I've found it a little bit easier to use a razor blade, as it was more firm so it could
slide down between the frame and the glass easier.
Lift it up gently, kind of pry them apart.
Don't stick your tool in too far, though, because there's a ribbon cable that you don't
want to rip.
Lift up gently between the screen and the frame.
And you can see right here, that little ribbon cable, that's where the fingerprint sensor
connects to the main board.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my little pry tool, reach it in there, and
it's kind of of like a little latch, so you twist your pry tool up a little bit, it will
unlatch on one side, and it will come apart.
Here in a second you'll see as I lift up the little ribbon cable and unsnap it the top
part of the latch comes off.
Which is fine, it goes back on pretty easily as well.
When I say easily I mean you're going to hate every second of it towards the end of the
video.
Right here on this bracket there's going to be four screws.
Take off each of the screws and then set them in the location where they came out.
And then put the bracket right next to it so you remember where they go in.
Because they are different sizes.
There's the bracket.
And then right here we have different ribbon cables, I'm going to unsnap them just like
little LEGOs.
This is for the earpiece and camera.
This one right here is for the LCD.
And then this one's the digitizer.
Not that you really need to know what those are.
But they unclip and unsnap just like that.
Now here's the screen.
We have the earpiece on this side with all the cameras and the sensors, and we have the
home button with the fingerprint sensor on the bottom.
I'm going to show you how to take apart that first.
Undo the little screw.
There's a little super tiny metal piece that should stick to the screw as you unscrew it.
Mine did.
Just remember where that goes and the location of it so you can put it back in just in case
it does pop off.
Then there's two screws holding on the home button.
There's a little metal bracket, so take that off.
And then the home button itself is just kind of stuck on, like with sticky tape type stuff,
onto the frame of the phone.
So you can take any kind of pry tool, I like my razor blade, I find that it is pretty stiff
and sharp enough to get under these little tiny seams.
Be super careful around these ribbon cables though because if you rip one, you have to
buy a new part.
I'm going to show you how to gently pry up around the home button.
Just a little bit on each side until the whole button comes away from the phone.
Very gently.
Any parts for this phone I'm going to list in the video description below, so if you
have any questions or anything like that let me know, if you have a specific part you need,
let me know and I can usually find it pretty cheap for you.
There's the home button and now we're going to take off the earpiece as well as the front-facing
camera and light sensor.
So here's the two screws on either side of the bracket there.
And the bracket's kind of interesting.
There's a little metal clip on the inside of the bracket that you have to bend just
ever so slightly out so the bracket will come off.
So I'm going to bend that out.
And then the whole bracket comes away from the phone.
And you can kind of see what I was talking about with the little tiny clip right there.
So it very easily clips back into place when you're done.
Anyway, once again be super careful with all these little ribbon cables.
Apple didn't mess around when they were putting them all into one component.
Right here you can see I'm lifting up the connector for the earpiece as well as the
light sensor, and then you can see the camera coming away as well in that same ribbon cable
group.
And then the whole thing is kind of stuck down with the little grounding sticker onto
the back of the screen.
So peel up on that very gently.
Once again you don't want to rip any of this stuff.
The less you break when opening your phone, the better.
That's what I always say.
There you go.
Now it depends on where you buy your screen from but you might also have to switch out
the metal plate, there's just those four screws around the outside.
Now once again that's completely dependent on where you get your screen from.
I'm not going to do it on this screen, just because it is super simple.
Four screws, pop it out, you're good to go.
And now I'm going to place the group of ribbon cables, camera, sensor and everything back
into place.
There's only one spot for everything, so you just have to position it, it does take a little
to get everything in the right spot.
But they only fit in one way, so it's pretty simple to figure out.
Got it stuck back down onto the screen again.
And then get the earpiece in there.
Remember the earpiece acts as like a little magnet.
So, let's say you're trying to pick up a screw with your screwdriver and your screwdriver's
not magnetized, you can easily magnetize it on the back of the speaker.
I'll show you how to do that once I get this bracket into place.
So my screwdriver won't pick up the screw, so I touch it to the back of the speaker and
then boom, the screwdriver is magnetized.
It will pick up any screw.
Almost too well, so I'm going to grab it with my tweezers instead and place it down into
the hole and screw it back into place.
Same thing with the other screw.
And you are done with the earpiece.
So the home button, remember this is where you need to remember what direction that little
tiny metal bit was going in.
So get the home button pressed down into place.
Get the bracket over the top of it.
And then hopefully your screw is still stuck in to the top of the ribbon cable so you can
just screw it down into place.
I found that it was a little bit easier to hold it with my pry tool as well as the little
screwdriver, like this.
Finally got that thing screwed in again.
And now we get the screen back on.
I"m going to start with the digitizer ribbon cable.
I'm going to clip that into place once again it's just like LEGOs, you have to position
it right over the top but once it's in place you can just click it down.
You'll hear a satisfying click with each connection.
You'll see me struggle a little bit with this last one.
It's hard to find out exactly where it wanted to clip in.
And there we go.
Grab your little bracket, and once again you should have your screws laid out in a way
that you can remember where they went.
I'm going to screw each one of those back into place.
Once again, any parts for this, you know, the screen, anything else you might need will
be listed in the video description below.
And if you need anything else besides that make sure to ask me in the comments or hit
me up on Twitter, either way.
Hit me up on Facebook and I can answer any questions you have.
Anyway, here's the fingerprint scanner cable that we're going to try and get back into
place.
You're going to hate this thing.
It never wants to do what you want it to do.
So I kind of positioned it with my finger and then I have my pry tool and I'm going
to press it in just like little LEGO snaps that we were playing with before.
Get it in place and then I have a little hinged bracket that I'm going to slip down on top
of there as well.
And once you get it into place you can press it down with your finger or with your pry
tool.
Once again it just takes forever to get this thing positioned just right.
You're going to love Apple.
Anyway, that's what it looks like when it's in place.
And then position the top of the screen in first and you can kind of snap up the edge
of the phone.
Make sure to press only on the edges so you don't crack the screen again.
And then clip the bottom into place as well.
And then at this point I like to turn the phone on to make sure it's working, so I don't
have to undo the bottom screws more than I need to.
Looks like it all turns on so I'm going to get those bottom screws screwed back into
place.
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