Alright, today we’re going to be taking apart the Galaxy Note 5.In this video I’m
going to show you how to take off the back, replace the screen, charging port, and everything
that’s inside. You are going to need a heat gun to heat up the back of the phone in order
to take off that back piece. As well as a giant suction cup. This particular one is
just a windshield mount where you can take your phone and mount it to your car windshield.
I’ll link all the parts and stuff down in the video description below. Make sure to
take out the S pen as well as the SIM card slot, otherwise you’ll have problems opening
your phone later on. And then heat up the back of the phone. You want to heat it up
consistently all over the top and the bottom, and the middle of the phone so that it’s
too hot to touch. Once it’s too hot to touch, then you can take your suction cup; put it
around the bottom is where I started off with. And then just lift it up just barely enough
to slip a metal pry tool underneath. Use a thin metal pry tool. If you use like a razor
blade or something thicker, it will put too much pressure on the glass and it’ll break
the glass. I’ve had that happen before. Once the back is up high enough, you can take
a playing card or something thin and slide it between the glass and the phone so that
it doesn’t re-ahdere back down to the phone again. If it gets hard, heat up the phone
a little bit more, cuz the phone cools down fairly quickly. So the more you heat up the
phone, the easier it is to take off the back. This is a lot harder than it looks. I’ve
sped this part up a little bit so that it doesn’t take up as much time in the video,
but it is really difficult to get the back off the phone. You can take your playing cards
and just kind of slice through the adhesive all the way around the backside. You can see
the white adhesive peeling off of the phone. And now the screws. So there are 20 Philip
size screws all the way around the back of the phone. You can take those off. I will
link all the tools you need in the video description as well. And then the back of the phone you
just pop off from the motherboard. You can see that there’s a little bit of adhesive
along the top that you have to remove as well. You can see here that there’s these contact
points for the QI charger. Those will just rest up against the motherboard. And really
quickly I’m going to show you how to replace the camera lens. There’s this little groove
up along the top, you just take a razor blade or a thin pry tool and just pop that camera
lens off. And the camera lens itself will come in two parts. Usually the metal frame
and the camera lens. And you just re-adhere those together and put your new lens down
into place if yours ever gets broken or anything. Pretty straight forward. Now for all these
little ribbon cables. They’re kind of like little Lego pieces. They latch on and you
can just unsnap them. You can see we have the ear piece, the screen, and down here we
have these two wire connections as well as the little ribbon cable for the fingerprint
scanner. Make sure they are all out of the way while you lift up the motherboard. And
there’s one more ribbon cable connection right down at the bottom, and that’s for
the charging port. So snap that off and that brings up the motherboard. Now that we have
the motherboard we can look at the cameras. The cameras also have the same ribbon cable
connection, also a waffle connection that you can just unsnap like a little Lego piece.
You can see both the cameras are right here. Just snap them back into place; it’s also
fairly easy. Just take them, line them up over the little slot and press them down.
Here’s the little vibrator motor. It’s a tiny little guy for such a big phone. You
can see both the contact points that just rest up against the motherboard like a lot
of other components on this phone. So here’s the charging port. Kind of an interesting
way they installed this thing. There are the two wire cables on top of it, and then one
little screw as well is holding it down. But you can’t lift it off at this point because
the menu button and the back button are wrapped underneath, underneath the glass of the screen.
So they’re between the plastic and the screen which is really annoying. And with the Galaxy
S6 Edge it would just pop right off and then you could just replace your charging port
right there. So in order for us to replace the charging port we have to remove the mid
frame from the screen. So we have to take off the battery first. Same thing with this,
I’m just going to heat it up with my hot air gun and make it so that it’s too hot
to touch and then slide…just kind of pry it up with my pry tool making sure not to
slice it underneath because the battery will rip and you’ll have to replace it if it
breaks open. And then I can take my playing cards and kind of slice through the adhesive
underneath, since it’s not metal the playing cards are a lot safer. Now the battery’s
off. Kind of interesting, you can see the date up here at the top of the battery. And
so right here you can see the plastic frame pressed up against the screen .There’s no
glue along this little inside. So I’m going to take my playing card and just slide it
up underneath this spot. And then heat up the bottom because there is glue holding the
glass onto the plastic frame. Now I’ve taken my little pry tool and slid it between the
plastic and the glass. Kind of where that button slides down between the two layers.
Once they’re separated I can take my playing card and slide it between them to make sure
they don’t stick back together again. And then treat this the same way you did the back
of the phone making sure it’s consistently hot because as soon as it cools down, that
adhesive is going to re-adhere and be really hard to separate. So be consistently heating
up the plastic frame on the screen. And this is really hard as well. Make sure you do not
bend the screen at all or the LCD will crack and you’ll just need to buy a new screen.
Here is the screen. It comes with the LCD, the glass and the digitizer. They are all
one piece and so if you break one of those layers, either the glass or the LCD, you’ll
just have to replace the whole thing. I don’t think a glass only repair is possible with
this phone. I’ll be very impressed if someone can do it. Now that the screen is off I can
work on the charging port. You can see that the buttons are just wrapped around that back
plastic. So once you pry those off the charging port comes loose from the plastic frame and
you are good to go. I will link the replacement charging ports and, you know, all the other
parts down in the video description just like always. You can see that the home button as
well can be replaced. It just slides through this back hole in the frame; very very similar
to the Galaxy Note 4. Up here with the earpiece, just really quick, I’ll show you how these
come out. There’s this little metal latch that pops up and the earpiece and proximity
sensor are all in one unit. So I’m going to unplug those and then slide them back in
their little slots and pin it back down again. So to replace your new charging port, it will
come with its own adhesive usually, if you’re not putting your same one back down again.
So just pin those buttons back around in place and then you can take your plastic and put
it on top of the screen. New screens will also come with their own adhesive. If not,
you can use double sided tape that I put in the video description. You can see right here
there is a little groove in that mid frame that sits right underneath between the LCD
and the glass layer. So make sure that it’s lined up and it’s not going to pinch against
that when you press down again. Now we can set the motherboard back into place making
sure to clip the charging port to the bottom of the motherboard first. Then you can take
the rest of these ribbon cable connections and pin them back down where they came from.
Pretty straight forward. Take the little wire cable connections and put them down into place
as well. And the battery slips in on top of the mid frame. Plug that into the motherboard.
I usually do that last so that there’s no electricity coursing through the board while
I’m working on it. It’s a little bit safer way to do things. And then the back frame
goes on. And then at this point you can turn the phone on because that power button is
connected again with the two little contact points. Everything looks like it’s working
so I’m going to put those 20 screws in place. And then if you buy a new rear back, it will
come with its own adhesive. But, since this is my old one I’m just going to use the
double sided tape. Put that down. Push the back into place and everything works. If you
have any questions be sure to ask them in the comment section below. Make sure to watch
the bend test as well. I found that pretty interesting. Thanks a ton for watching! Hope
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