Alright, check this out.
We have the Note 2 and the Samsung Mega next to each other with their batteries.
And an iPhone 4s for size comparison.
These are some gigantic phones.
Today we’re going to take apart the Samsung Mega.
There are 14 screws surrounding the outside of the phone.
Instead of making you watch me take apart each screw, I’m just going to diagram them
out here.
You can pause this if you need to.
Then to separate the screen from the phone itself, it’s exactly like the Galaxy S4
where it’s in the middle of the silver bracket around the outside.
There’s a little opening.
I just spread it open with my finger a little bit and then slip my pry tool in and swipe
it around the outside edge, gently unclasping each clasp as I circle the outside.
And then at the top, inside the little battery compartment, there’s another little latch.
It gave me a little trouble.
Just wiggle it around a little bit and you’ll see that the back just slides away from the
rest of the phone.
Right here you can see the loud speaker as well that’s also attached to the back, and
I’ll go back to that in a second.
Here’s the charging port.
You could technically get inside this phone, switch the charging port and be completely
done in about 3 minutes.
The charging port is that easy to fix.
I unclasped the two ribbon cables up at the top and I’m just swiping my pry tool underneath
the charging port; just un-sticking it from the tape below it.
And that is it.
The charging port is out and ready to swap.
Samsung usually has these for about 10 bucks or so.
I’ll list them in the video description below as soon as they become available so
you can swap yours out if you need to.
There’s a little wire cable that I just unclipped; just lift it up.
Two ribbon cables up at the top.
One ribbon cable at the side.
And another one up by the audio port; the phone jack right here.
And they are just like little Legos.
You just unclasp them from the motherboard.
And then there’s one screw right in the middle of the motherboard that holds the whole
thing down.
And that’s the only small screw on this whole thing.
All the rest of the screws are the same size.
You’ll see one more wire cable right here.
I’m going to lift it up and off the board.
And then one more ribbon cable that’s kind of on that little leg of the motherboard right
down here.
I missed it the first time around.
Unlatch it right there and the motherboard comes loose from the phone.
And you can also see the camera right there.
That also has a little ribbon cable that you can also unclasp as well.
So if you need to switch out the camera it’s pretty straightforward.
Here’s the screen of the phone.
This is what you’ll be replacing if you ever crack it or drop it.
I will also link another video that shows how to separate the glass but the success
rate on that is very very low.
So I would recommend replacing the whole thing as a unit.
The headphone jack and everything else, depending on what screen you get, you might need to
swap out the headphone jack and the earpiece.
There’s just that little screw at the top that let’s all those loose as well as the
camera.
Anyway, putting the motherboard back into place right now.
Making sure all of the wire cables and ribbon cables are on the right side of the motherboard,
which is the upper side, and not pinched down beneath.
Just clicking them all into place.
You got to make sure that they sit right before you apply any pressure so you don’t bend
any of the connections.
So I’m going to find the little groove that it sits in and then press it down just like
a little Lego.
Lifting this up making sure that the ribbon cable is on the upper side of the motherboard
as well.
Once again any replacement parts and stuff you can find in the video description below.
If you need anything specific just leave me a comment or email me and I’ll find it for
ya.
Make sure you get the right parts so you’re not wasting your time or your money.
Right now I’m just clipping in one of the little wire cables.
You need to be really careful with the head of it so I’m being super gentle as I press
is down into place cuz you only got one chance at this.
If you bend one of the heads on these wire cables then you just got to get a new wire
cable and they are kind of hard to find.
Same thing with this other side; being super careful and super gentle.
Making sure it lines up and then clipping it into place.
Just making sure all the wires and all the cables are pressed down.
Getting that final screw back into place as well.
If you forget to latch one of the little ribbon cables when you get the whole phone put back
together, then you have to waste your time and open it all up again.
So check twice before you put everything back together.
The charging port is going back in.
I’m just going to press it back down into place over the glue where it was before.
Snap the two ribbon cables that connect it to the rest of the phone.
Put that in place.
Slide it down inside the little groove that it was sitting in.
And place the back in place as well.
So here is the speaker.
It has those two little connectors that attach to the motherboard, and that’s how the speaker
that’s attached to the frame gets its power.
Clipping the frame back into the screen right here.
You’ll hear a bunch of tiny little clicks as all the latches go back into place, sitting
completely flush again.
There’s nothing to indicate that the phone was opened.
Get all these screws back into place again…all 14 of them in this gigantic phone.
The battery’s back in, the back is back on and everything works.
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