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- [David] Hey guys, Dave from theunlocker.com,
and today we're going to do a quick tip
on how to replace the battery on your iPhone 5.
Okay, so here we have the iPhone.
It's an iPhone 5, obviously, and it hasn't
been holding a charge, so that's why I'm
actually gonna change the battery.
So, first thing you need to do,
obviously, is buy the battery.
I went on Amazon.
I'm a little concerned, because
the battery was extremely cheap.
It was under $10 for the battery,
and all of these tools to help remove it and replace it,
which kind of concerns me, but we're gonna see
if it works, and if it does, great.
So, first thing you need to do is you need
to take the pentaband one, which, if you buy
this kit on Amazon like I did, you'll find
that it comes with all of that.
That's the one with the little spikes on the top.
And we need to remove the two screws
down here at the bottom, next to the charging port.
So, let's do that.
Okay, once you get those two screws out,
be sure to put them somewhere where you'll
be able to find them later, like
on a plastic bag or a piece of paper.
And then you're gonna take a suction cup,
and stick that firmly onto the screen,
as best as you can,
and then we're gonna use the little
divider tool that they have,
and we've got to try to pull this up.
Okay, so after fighting with that for a little bit,
the trick is to actually put the suction cup
as close to the button, the home button,
as you can without actually going over it,
because the air will make the suction cup
come off if you cover it.
But as close as you can get gives you
a little more leverage, and then I literally
just held this down on the edge here
and pulled as hard as I could,
and eventually you get a little gap.
So you wanna just kind of use the tool
to work your way around that little gap,
and twist it a little bit till it comes up.
So you want to pull this now up, but do not
try to pull it back further than about that.
This has some connectors in it,
and if you try to do that it'll just rip them.
So you don't want to do that.
Okay, once you have it like this,
we're going to take the little Phillips screwdriver
and remove the battery cable cover.
Okay, now after getting those out,
and by the way, I ran into my first little hitch
with using this cheap battery kit,
was that the screwdriver didn't fit.
So keep that in mind when you're buying them.
You might have to go out and get
a little eyeglass screwdriver to get that out.
But, now that those two are out,
you'll see it's just this piece here.
So, just going to try to get him out as easily as I can,
and put that to the side.
You'll see that the battery actually
came disconnected already when I did that.
And after working on the right side of this,
with the plastic tool for a while,
because you'll realize it is glued down,
it'll eventually pop out.
Once that's out, obviously we need to do the opposite.
Put in our battery.
And try to get the cable into the side here,
so you can connect the battery connector,
there we go, to where it was currently connected.
Or, before where it was connected.
And then we just work backwards.
So now we're gonna put this guy back on,
and put the screws back in.
Okay, now once you have those two screws back in,
and that's in there and it's nice and snug,
we can close this back up.
We'll just make sure it all lines up.
Check to make sure that none of these came unconnected,
by the way, before you do close it, actually.
That's probably a good idea.
And then slide it back together, and it will take
a little bit of pressure to do that, obviously.
And then once it's back in and it's flush,
we can put these screws back in.
Okay, once you get those two screws
back in, you're all set.
We're gonna power it on, and as long
as it comes on, it works.
And there you go. Enjoy.
And there you go.
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