Got my hands on the One Plus X. One of the budget phones from the company One Plus. We
are going to take it apart, tear it down, and show you what’s inside of it. It is
a fairly difficult phone to take apart, so be warned about that. There is a screen protector
on the device and it comes with a case, which is pretty nice. Now they must have known that
I was going to take it apart because it comes with this warning: Please do not disassemble
the back cover. So let’s see how hard it is. I’m going to remove the duel Sim card
tray. Then the back cover is a piece of glass so you have to be really careful when prying
it away from the device. It is very helpful if you use a heat gun to warm up the glue
underneath. It will soften the glue and allow the back to be separated from the phone a
lot easier. I’m going to heat it up until the glass is just barely too hot to touch.
Then I can slide a razor blade in-between the frame and the glass or use a playing card
and just slip it all the way up. Once it’s at the right temperature the glue will just
cut very easily away with the playing card. I’m going to use my prying tool to pull
off the glass back the last little bit and you can see the adhesive as it separates from
the very top of the phone. Now the battery does have this nifty little pull tab. It reminds
me a lot of the iPhone 4 and 4S, but before we start pulling things we do have to remove
some screws. I will link all the tools and replacement parts in the video description,
so check that out. There are 7 screws on this top panel I’m going to remove those, and
the battery can be unplugged from the mother board. Then we can start pulling on things.
Once the battery is lifted up and away from the device we can see some extension ribbon
cables, fairly interesting, we will jump into those in a minute. Here are 8 screws on the
bottom housing. I’m going to remove those. This is the loud speaker for the One Plus
X. You can see the two little contact points that rest on the charging port, and that’s
how it gets its signal. Here’s the extension cable for the Amoled screen. We are going
to unplug that just like a little Lego. We are going to unplug the buttons, and then
the extension cable here on the mother board and you can just see that it routes down to
the bottom of the phone. It’s really all this piece is, is just an extension cable
to plug to the screen into. There’s one more screw at the top of the mother board.
We are going to remove that. Also a wire cable down at the bottom left. Then the camera.
This is a 13 Megapixel rear camera. The front is an 8 Megapixel. Now to remove the mother
board there are 2 little pins at the bottom of the board. Just unpin those and the whole
thing should pop out. There is a little groove at the top of the mother board that sits in
there as well. Here’s a ribbon cable for the charging port. We’re going to pull that
down to the bottom of the device. Now before we start tugging on things there is one more
screw at the bottom, and then we are going to lift away the vibrator motor as well as
the wire cable (that we unsnapped before). Then the rest of the charging port can be
pulled away from the device. It’s nice that the charging port is replaceable, since this
is one of the common things that are replaced on the device. You can see here it also has
the mic attached to it. Now here’s the screen of the device. The screen is glued very securely
into the frame of the phone. Which is unfortunate and makes it very difficult to repair. If
you are going to repair the screen; just heat up the screen to hotter than you can touch.
Then remove the Amoled and front glass with the same method that you removed the back
panel. The glue is much stronger for the Amoled screen though. It is a very messy and dangerous
process. I do not recommend it unless you absolutely have no other option and have nothing
to lose. Cause the screen will not survive the process. Your new screen will have to
work. You just slip it through the frame and plug it into the main board. I don’t recommend
it but if you have to do it you have to do it. Putting the phone back together. You’re
going to take the charging port and plug in that wire cable. Make sure that the pins on
the pins on the charging port line up with the plastic pin on the frames as well. I’m
going to plug in the charging port to the back of the mother board before I lay it down
into place. Putting the top in first making sure that there are no ribbing cables or wire
cables on the bottom side. Then I can just press the bottom of the motherboard back into
the frame of the phone. You’ll hear it clip down as each of those little clasps grab onto
the bottom of the board again. Putting the 13 Megapixel camera back into its slot. Getting
that screw back into place on the top right. Plugging in the wire cable. Getting the extension
cable for the screen; bringing it down to the bottom of the phone and then plugging
that screen back into the cable, and setting it down into place. Plugging the power and
volume buttons back in. Getting the screw into the charging port before I put this loud
speaker back into place and clipping it down. There are 8 screws that hold that into place.
Then we can plop the battery back in, and plug it in before we get the top metal panel,
and put that into place as well. I’m going to test the phone. This is actually the first
time I’ve turned it on… I forgot to turn it on when I pulled it out of the box. Getting
the top medal plate back into place. Remember there are 7 screws holding that down. Then
to put the back panel back on I’m just using double sided tap. You can use as much or as
little as you want. Then putting the duel Sim card tray back into place. Everything is good!
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