Alright so I managed to get my hands on one of the brand new Galaxy S5s.
This particular model is for Sprint.
I’m going to show you how to take it apart, fix the screen, fix the charging port and
a couple other things inside the phone.
So to get the screen off of the phone you do have to heat it up.
I have a heat gun; you can also use a blow dryer as long as it gets the phone hot enough
that you don’t want to touch it anymore.
When it’s too hot to touch, it means that the glue holding the screen down is more pliable
and it will allow the screen to lift up from the device itself.
So I have my little pry tool and then once I lift the screen up I can slip a little piece
of plastic, whether it’s a guitar pick or a piece of plastic; it’ll hold the screen
in place and not let it re-adhere back to the base of the phone.
So I’m going to keep on heating it up as I put my little tools in around the sides.
Make sure that you don’t pry up from the bottom of the phone cuz that’s where all
of the cables are for the buttons; the home button, and the back button, and the menu
buttons.
Also there’s one cable that I’ll show you here that is actually controlling the
LCD and the digitizer.
So make sure you don’t touch that either.
Once you unclip that from the phone you can lift the screen up and then pry the bottom
buttons off of the front glass.
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Prying very gently because if you rip one of these cables then you’re going to have
to buy the new replacement part for it.
The whole screen removal process took me about 15 minutes.
I don’t think you can do it any faster than that and still be safe.
And there’s the screen; super impressed with how thin it is.
Hopefully Samsung makes this part relatively cheap for how difficult it is to get off the
phone.
And then here’s the connector for it.
So this is the whole screen.
I’ll put a link in the video description below for the screen and any tools you’ll
need to finish this project.
There are ten screws holding the mid frame into the rear frame.
And then there’s also three screws from the back as well that you’ll have to get
undone.
Once you get all the screws undone, you can kind of see the frame pull away from the mid
frame.
If you unclasp the little latches around the battery case, you’ll be able to pull the
back frame away from the mid frame.
Start up at the top, unclip the top of it and then the base of it will slide out of
the little grooves that are built for that charging port to hold it in place.
And then here are all of the buttons and the little connections that attach them to the
motherboard.
You can see that each button has it’s own little connections which is something that,
you know, Samsung has really taken advantage of that this time around.
Usually the buttons plug into the motherboard somewhere, similar to how the iPhones do it.
There’s also the rear speaker there.
Here are the 3G and 4G antennas that connect the charging port to the main board.
So you just unclip those.
And then there are two screws holding down the boards to the frame.
And right here, the charging port connects underneath the main board.
So I’m just going to unclip that like a little Lego.
And then the fingerprint sensor also is sitting right there on the top so I’m going to unclip
that as well.
There you have the motherboard where the cameras are attached.
You can also see the heart rate monitor on the other side.
I’m going to go ahead and unclip the cameras.
So if your cameras ever get blurry or dust specks or just, you know, stop working, if
they ever get cracked you can replace them pretty easily.
I’ll put links in the video description below for replacement parts as well.
And then the charging port.
So this is the thing that you’ll be replacing most often on this phone.
Mostly because the charging port suffers the most abuse besides obviously cracking the
screen.
So this charging port has the menu buttons, the back button, the fingerprint scanner and
has the charging port itself as well.
Samsung’s usually pretty good about making these pretty cheap as they have with the Galaxy
S4, the Galaxy S3 and all of their, um, the Notes in the past.
Anyway here’s the mid frame.
We’re going to go ahead and reinstall all the components on the phone now.
There are little grooves that are built in for the charging port so just make sure that
it sits back exactly inside of those little grooves.
And then I’m going to go ahead and start clipping the antennas back on as well.
Make sure you line it up directly above the little nub that it sits on top of cuz if you
bend these little antennas, then you kind of only have one shot at it.
I’m going to go ahead and clip the cameras back on, like I mentioned before it’s a
lot like Legos, really expensive Legos you can just clip on to the main board again.
Position it directly above and then you’ll feel it snap into place.
I’m going to go ahead and drop the motherboard into place now.
I do still have to clip that charging port onto the back, as well as the fingerprint
scanner and the 3G and 4G antennas.
There are those 2 screws that hold the main board and charging port into place.
And then when you’re slipping the mid frame into the rear frame, start with the charging
port cuz there’s a little groove that’s built in to hold it steady.
Once that’s wiggled into place, it does take a second, then you can snap the rest
of the mid frame into place.
Remember those 10 screws that hold the mid frame to the rear frame.
And then the 3 screws that go in directly from the back of the phone as well.
And then you just want to take the menu buttons and kind of re-tape them.
I’m just using the same tape that they came with.
It’s actually pretty sticky still.
And then just put those back into place as well as clipping the digitizer/LCD cable into
place; same Lego style connector.
And then I’m pushing the screen back down.
Replacement screens should come with their own adhesive whether it’s, you know, super
glue or some kind of crazy glue, or just you know, double sided 3M sticky tape.
You can just reapply that and stick it down.
I’m just going to reuse the adhesive that came with the phone.
It’s actually, you know, still pretty strong.
Anyway, that’s it.
If you have any questions make sure to leave them in the comments below.
I will put any replacement parts and tools also in the video description below.
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Thanks for watching!