if you had a case on your iPhone seven
and it's still somehow ended up breaking
anyways that's pretty sad dude that's
disgusting I'll link some of the most
trusted durable cases for the iPhone 7
along with some others down in the video
description below today we're going to
be performing a screen replacement for
the iPhone 7 repair is a valuable skill
set that can make you some serious money
if you want to learn more about that
click on the "i" annotation in the top right
corner of this video to see my playlist
on this topic let's get started all
tools needed for this repair will be
linked down in the video description
below that includes the screen
replacement located at the base of your
phone are two pentalobe screws remove
them using a pentalobe screwdriver
because they're distinguishable from the
rest of the screws I don't find it
necessary to label them now for this
next step most repair videos on YouTube
will recommend that you use a heat gun
to soften the adhesive below we're not
going to do that in this video just to
show that it's possible without it
insert a very thin blade between the
screen assembly and the housing of the
phone carefully work the blade around
the screen and use a secondary object to
keep the screen from adhering back
together with the body be careful not to
go too deep underneath the right side
there are some very delicate flex cables
connected in this region this process
actually gets harder once you make it to
the top of the screen
I took roughly five minutes fiddling
until I finally figured out how to
remove it run the blade along the top
edge to separate it from the adhesive
gently lift the screen out of the
assembly like you would when opening a
book okay so now here is where I give a
big f*ck you to Apple once again they made an
a**hole move to prevent a third party like
myself from repairing their device and
you can see those incredibly fragile
ripping cables I was talking about
earlier this metal plate protects the
connections to the mainboard
that is held down by four y-shaped
screws called a tri point or Y triple
zero I'll link all the tools that I use
in the video description remove this
shield
disconnect the cables for the LCD
digitizer
camera and speakers and these components
need to be transferred over to your new
unbroken replacement screen carefully
remove the metal back-plating off the LCD
after removing the Tri screws alongside
of the displayed or transferring
components we need to remove the huge
metal plate from the back of the screen
there are three tri tip screws on either
side you're going to transfer the camera
and speaker back-plating in the
original touch ID hole button all the
screws are different sizes and you do
not want to mix them up one more screws
at the top holding down that big metal
backplate and two more screws above that
holding down the earpiece bracket
once that earpiece bracket is set off to
the side the earpiece speaker can pop
out and you can see the little spring
contact points that rest on the little
golden circles this is how it receives
its signal the front camera ribbon cable
is just lightly glued into the frame so
be extremely careful pry that out making
sure not to kink or tear it here is the
ribbon itself it has the front camera
and all of the other front sensors
attached to it onto the home button I'm
going to explain a few more things about
this little guy at the end of the video
so stick around for that there are a
total of four screws holding it in place
remember keep them organized the home
button bracket can then be removed and
then the metal backplate itself can lift
off it has a little bit of adhesive
holding it down to the ribbon cables and
even if your old screen is broken to
bits it is still a good idea to go slow
while removing this so you don't break
anything new and I'll just reiterate the
ribbon cables are extremely fragile they
can tear like paper now that the big
back metal plate is off the home button
or touch pad can be removed by
unclipping the little Lego light
connection and then dropping it out of
the hole in front of the screen now I
grabbed the new replacement screen and I
start installing the original components
on the screen that isn't broken line the
metal backplate up with the little screw
holes on the sides and then tuck your
original home button from your old phone
up through the hole and plug it in get
the bracket screwed back onto the back
of the home button making sure to put it
over the little circular tabs on the
metal backplate and then those four
screws in the back going the holes they
came from originally then the middle
backplate has six screws to tighten it
down all of them those same little
tri-tips then we have the front camera
ribbon fold that back into place like an
origami master the earpiece with the
springs will sit on top of little golden
circles and it will be held down with
two screws then the top bracket will go
on top of the earpiece with its own two
screws now to reconnect the screen the
funky-looking ribbon cable at the top
klipsch in like a little Lego and then
the bottom two ribbons plug in next to
the battery connection remember these
ribbons are like paper so do not kink or
rip them get the battery plugged in and
then I'll test the screen out before I
screw all the metal plates back in if
your screen is dark or has lines running
through it or it doesn't respond to
touch it either has a bad connection
with the mainboard or it is just a bad
replacement screen the end of this video
where the parts are transferred to a
screen replacement was not recorded by
me simply because I don't have the tools
to do this repair Apple caught me off
guard with changing the screws all
credit for this portion of the video
goes to Zack Nelson from the channel
jerry-rigged everything I definitely
recommend checking out his channel
anyways guys bendji d here from get
fixed and i'm out bass