Today I’m going to show you how to take apart and fix almost everything on the LG
G Flex2.
It’s a fairly long name but it’s actually a pretty simple phone to take apart.
Once you remove the back cover you will see that there are 13 phillips head screws.
I will link all the tools that you’ll need in the video description below as well as
replacement parts for this particular phone.
There are 13 screws that hold the back plastic panel onto the back of the phone.
Once you remove those screws you can just grab the little plastic and lift it up.
It’s held on by a series of clasps; you’ll hear those pop off as you remove the back
cover.
Here are the little connection points for the power button.
And then here is the water sensor.
You can see it’s white on one side and red on the other so if it gets wet the red will
bleed through onto the white.
For the rest of this project you’ll need a pry tool.
You don’t have to buy the sexy green one if you don’t want.
You can always use a plastic knife or your fingernails if you’re super cheap.
But I will link these in the video description below as well.
Here is the speaker.
It just rests on top of the charging port.
It will pop right off since we already took out the screws.
You can see the gold contact points there as well that just rest against the charging
port.
Remove the antenna cables; they’re just little wire connectors that just pop off the
little gold connection.
And there are two Phillips head screws along the charging port as well that you’ll have
to remove.
Take your non-marring pry tool and lift up these little waffle connectors.
They are like little Lego pieces; you just unsnap them from the board.
And there’s one big one up here on the motherboard as well that you can unsnap and then unstick
from the battery.
It’s held on by just a little bit of adhesive.
Once everything is disconnected from the charging port you can go ahead and lift that off from
the frame of the screen.
The charging port also has the headphone jack; you can see that attached to the side as well.
And the microphone is down there as well.
I will link these in the video description so if you ever need to replace them they are
fairly easy to replace.
Here is the battery.
Go ahead and lift up the top connection to the motherboard and then the battery should
come out.
There might be a little adhesive holding it onto the motherboard as well.
I will link replacement batteries in the video description.
Here are the top parts of the antenna wire cables.
And then there’s some ribbon cables up along the top as well.
The first one was the front camera.
Here is the rear facing camera; 13 megapixels.
And then we can lift out the motherboard.
There are no screws or anything else holding this down.
Pretty straight forward.
You can see the dual SIM card/SD card slot that’s soldered onto the main board, so
that’s not replaceable, unfortunately.
And on the back you can see the processor and a few other components.
Here is the vibrator motor.
You can see it’s got these two little gold springs on there that just rest up against
the motherboard and that’s how it gets its signal.
Here is the 13 megapixel rear camera that I’m lifting up out of the green frame.
You can see that it has the optical image stabilization there on the side.
Here is the front facing camera; just rests inside this little slot.
And then we have the ear piece as well as the front sensors.
So here is the screen itself.
So if you break your screen, whether it’s just the glass or the LCD, this is the part
you want to buy.
It comes with the frame that holds all of the cameras and the motherboard and the battery.
It’s a much easier repair than trying to replace just the glass or just the LCD.
I will link this part in the video description as well.
Now I’m just replacing the front camera, putting back in the vibrator motor and the
rear facing camera; just fits down in its slot.
Motherboard gets tucked back in and underneath the ribbon cables, and pull out the wire cables
so they’re not stuck under there as well.
And you can see that you just line up the gold connector right over the little circle
and then pop it back into place.
You’ll hear a satisfying snap as it gets pressed down on top of its connection.
You’ll know if it’s connected or not.
Here is the battery; just tucking that back into its little slot on the frame and plugging
it into the motherboard.
If you want to be super safe you might want to plug the battery into the motherboard last,
but it’s not a super big deal whatever order you do it in.
Got the charging port screwed back into the main frame.
And getting these antenna cables tucked back into their grooves.
If they’re not tucked back in, the back casing won’t fit perfectly over the screen.
Get the charging port plugged in with the three connections that are on it; One on the
motherboard and the other two that are down below the battery.
Make sure those are pressed in and then you can take the rear speaker and then clip that
down into place as well.
You’ll hear it snap in.
Pretty straight forward.
Getting the rear plastic housing placed back over the phone as well.
Snapping it in all the way around.
And before I put the screws in I’m going to make sure that the phone turns on and that
everything is working correctly.
The screen is looking good.
I’m going to flip it back over and put all 13 screws back into place, and then the back
cover goes on.
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