In this video I will show you just how easy it is
to replace all three cameras in the LG G5 phone.
You've got two cameras on the back.
You've got a primary and a secondary.
One's a wide angle.
Then on the front you've got a front-facing selfie camera.
And the specs on these cameras are pretty darn good.
You've got 16 megapixel shoots 4K video for the primary.
You can also shoot 4K video with the wide angle.
And even the front-facing camera
is a full 1080 HD video camera.
The cameras weren't focusing very well.
So I decided I was going to replace both of the rear cameras.
It's pretty easy to do.
Just go ahead and shut the phone off.
And pull the battery out.
Once you do that
all you need is a Philips screwdriver.
And just remove these two small Philips screws here.
Pull the sim card out.
And once you get that sim card out
you're basically in the phone.
These phones are not glued together like most smartphones.
There's just a series of friction tabs along each side here.
The trick is keeping pressure between the front and the back.
I've seen suction cup pliers.
But here's a trick that works real well.
A couple of pens
will keep pressure between the front and the back.
And while the pins are keeping pressure, just use a razor blade
to gently release those friction tabs that are on the side.
Just keep working your way forward, move side to side.
And if you only have one pen,
it works just fine as well.
Just keep pressure in there while you gently release those friction tabs.
Again, these phones are not glued together.
So it's very easy to get in here.
And once you get yourself most of the way forward, you're in.
And you can see here is the lens for the two primary cameras.
And we're going to go ahead and put that face down
so it doesn't collect any dust.
And here you got your secondary and your primary cameras.
And the motherboard is just screwed down with these tiny little screws.
They're a little different size than the others.
So you want to keep those organized.
And once you get all your screws out,
you're going to need to first remove the plug
there's a little ribbon cable here for the main camera.
I'll give you a better look here.
Just go ahead and unplug that from the circuit board.
The front-facing camera is super easy.
Once you unplug that
it's actually removed.
It's working fine so we'll just put that one back on.
But if you need a new one that's how you do it.
And the circuit board just clips in here.
You want to make sure you release that
so you don't damage anything.
and then it will just fold up out of your way.
And that's it.
So now we're ready to remove the primary camera.
There's a little bit of adhesive on there.
My replacement one also came with some.
So we'll go ahead and put that on first.
Once we have that laid down we're ready to pop
the wide angle off of the circuit board.
and put the new one on.
It's very easy.
Just plug it back onto the circuit board.
And now we can just lift that ribbon cable
and fold the board back down,
snap it back on.
We can put our front facing camera back on.
And we need to plug the primary back onto the board.
Once we do that we can start putting our screws back in.
I'll speed through this a little bit to save you guys some time.
Once you get all your screws in
There's a little slot here you want to just match it up
with the front of the phone.
Once you do that
you snap it back together.
The friction tabs do all the work.
Get your sim card and your Philips screws back in.
And now we're ready to put the batteries in
and fire it up and test those cameras.
And it looks like we're getting an excellent image on the primary.
Good focus and looks like it's going to zoom just fine.
So let's try the wide angle. It looks good.
It looks like this was a good repair.
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