Alright, today we’re going to take apart the Galaxy Note 2.
This particular version is from Sprint so it’s the L900.
Verizon has a version as well, I think it’s the i605, I’m not sure what other carriers
carry the Galaxy Note 2.
Anyway, to take it apart it’s pretty simple.
There are 11 screws on the back all surrounding the outside.
These are all the screws.
So I’m going to fast forward me taking those out to save a little bit of time.
To remove the screen itself just take your non-marring tool and kind of just slide it
around the outside of the frame.
I went around the whole frame first just to kind of unclip everything.
You can hear the little clips snapping out as you go around.
And then once it’s all loosened up you can just kind of pry it up with the pry tool.
There’s no tape or anything holding this down it’s just all the little clips.
So it’s not too bad once you get the clips undone.
There are two clips inside the battery case as well.
One at the very bottom and the middle.
So I just snap up right there.
And the other one is a slightly harder one up at the top kind of where the battery connects
in.
It’s right there next to my tool.
This one kind of gave me a little bit of problems.
I tried pulling it back with a pair of tweezers but that didn’t work either.
What I ended up doing is kind of pushing down through where the SD card was and getting
it out from that other angle.
I’ll show you that here in a second.
Just loosened up the top a little bit more to be able to slide it out.
There’s a little rubber washer type thing around the headphone jack.
That kind of came into play later.
Anyways, that’s how I got the snap undone for the uh, right above the battery.
There are these two little rubber washers that also popped out.
Those just snap onto the back plastic.
Pretty simple.
Anyway, here are the guts of the phone.
There are two wire cables and I believe there are six ribbon cables and I’ll show you
where those are all at.
Just make sure…the phone itself is pretty sturdy.
It’s not like taking apart an iPhone or something where the cables rip really easily.
I actually like the design of this phone a lot.
Particularly what we’re taking apart right now is just the speaker; the louder speaker
for the back.
That housing comes off pretty simply.
And then right here you have the charging port cable which I think is an awesome idea
because the charging port is one of the things that goes out on the phone the most.
And so with it’s own little circuit board, if your charging port goes out it’s a really
simple fix anyone can do.
I just detached a ribbon cable right there and then this one is stuck down with a little
bit of the double sided tape at the bottom.
So you just peel it up and then if it ever breaks that’s all you got to replace.
Pretty simple part.
So this wire cable right here drops down to the charging port.
So there’s one of the ribbon cables; there’s two; three; fourth one is right there for
the headphone jack.
And then this is the other ribbon cable that slides down to the other circuit board on
the left side next to the stylus.
And there’s one screw holding the motherboard down and that was it.
There’s the fifth ribbon cable.
And then the motherboard itself just lifts right off.
The camera sometimes kind of holds it in place; just kind of jiggle the camera around and
you can pull the whole assembly out in one piece.
And there is ribbon cable number 6 right next to the top of the stylus.
So to reassemble the board all you got to do is take it, slide it in, make sure the
camera falls into the right spot.
And make sure all the ribbon cables are up and out of the way.
And you press it down just kind of lifting that ribbon cable up and over the board.
The wire cable down on this side is under the board as well so I’m going to grab that
and pull it up to the top.
And then the wire cables, they snap down pretty easily, just right over the little nub that
they were attached to before.
Just kind of got to clip them down into place.
And then the ribbon cables, they also snap in.
It takes a little bit of pressure to do it; it’s kind of like a Lego piece.
And you’ll definitely feel it click in once it goes down.
You just don’t press too hard if you know it’s not going to click into place.
It’s only got one way to fit.
So snap all those down.
Remember there are 6 of them all around the outside.
Pressing that cable down, it helps if you have a non-marring tool like the pry tool
I have right here.
Just kind of focuses the pressure onto it; helps it click in.
Snapping the last ribbon cable on.
Getting that one screw back onto the motherboard.
Charging port goes right back into place; just kind of stick it down on top of the tape
where it was before.
There should still be enough, you know, sticky stuff left on it.
If you’re replacing that part you can get the double sided sticky tape on Amazon for
like 4 or 5 bucks it’s not too bad.
Once you get it in place, snap the ribbon cable down.
Reattaching the rear speaker.
It kind of clips into place just a little bit but then you got to take that one screw
and screw it back in and that will hold it tight.
Take the back cover; snap it into place.
And see this is where that rubber washer, or the rubber, you know, covering around that
headphone jack came into play.
So everything snaps on really easily, exactly the way it was before except for right around
that headphone jack cuz the rubber was kind of bent up out of place.
So I eventually had to do is I kind of just ran my non-marring tool around the top of
it and kind of peeled the screen back up again; just like this, and kind of pressed the rubber
part back into place where it was before.
And then once I was done with that I could snap the back cover on and it was exactly
like it was so that you couldn’t even tell it had been opened.
Take the two rubber washers from the back and just pop those back into place.
They just clip right in.
And then you have all 11 screws that go around the outside.
I’ll fast forward this again.
There we go.
Pop the battery in, turn it on, and make sure it works.
There we go.
That’s how to take apart the Galaxy Note 2.Pretty much all of the Samsung phones are
relatively the same.
They all have the same, you know, set up with the motherboard, ribbon cables, everything
clips on, easy screws.
HTC phones and iPhones are a lot harder to take apart.
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