In this 4 minute video I will teach you how to replace the WiFi antenna in your iPhone
5.
Parts and tools can be found in the video description below.
Start with the two pentalobe screws down at the bottom.
And then grab a suction cup, one that is hopefully bigger than this one.
If your suction cup doesn’t have enough cajones to lift off the screen, go ahead and
grab a metal pry tool or a razor blade and slip it between the metal frame of the phone
and the plastic edge of the glass screen and pry it up very very gently along the edges.
If you pry up on the glass you’re going to break something so make sure to stay along
the edge of the phone and pull it up out of the little clasps that keep the screen down
in.
Then don’t bend it past 90 degrees or you’ll also damage some cables.
Grab the 3 screws that hold down this metal plate.
Lift up the metal plate and put it next to the 3 screws.
And then lift up each of these little ribbon cables kind of like Legos.
Pull them up and away and that releases the screen from the phone.
Put that somewhere special.
And try to stay organized.
Release these 2 screws.
Grab the metal plate.
Put the metal plate next to the two screws that you just barely took out.
Then you can unclip the battery.
The battery’s in there pretty tight.
The sticky tape that they use tends to get harder over time.
So the longer you’ve had the phone the harder it’s going to be to take out your battery.
I’ve found that it was easiest to take a plastic pry tool, slide it between the edge
after, you know, playing with it for a little bit.
And just pry it up from the outside just like that.
I’m going to go ahead and unclip the volume and power cables from the main board because
to get to the WiFi antenna, it’s plugged into the bottom of the motherboard.
So you have to take out the motherboard and flip it around in order for us to unplug it.
Also the vibrating motor is in our way so we’re going to go ahead and unscrew the
two brackets, or the two screws holding down the bracket.
And then put that somewhere special next to the two screws that came out with it.
Grab the one screw at the top and then the vibrating motor comes free.
And this is the little guy that spins around when you get a text message or a phone call.
Kind of cute.
Go ahead and put that away.
Now there is a metal bracket holding down the charging port ribbon cable.
So I’m going to go ahead and unplug that, just like the Legos we were talking about
before.
And then the cellular antenna…I’m going to unclip that as well.
This is a wire cable.
And then just kind of get those up and out of the way so we can work on getting the motherboard
out.
There are two more little ribbon cables that are in the way of one of our screws.
So go ahead and pop that out.
And then that shows us where all of the screws are.
There are 5 of them holding the motherboard down and then another two up here by the camera.
Once the two by the camera are unscrewed we can go ahead and remove that bracket.
Once again keep all the screws organized so you can have an easier time putting it all
back together again.
And then before we can pull out the main board we also have to get rid of the SIM card.
You can do this, you know, at the beginning of the whole process if you’d like as well.
Probably a little bit easier that way.
And don’t forget these two screws; very very important.
They are the grounding screws for the motherboard and if you pry up on it, it will rip the cables
and you’ll be in a pile of bad luck.
So grab the WiFi antenna, unclip it from the back of the main board and then set that somewhere
special.
And then here’s the WiFi antenna itself.
It has a little metal bracket, so go ahead and pull that out.
And the rest of it’s glued down to the back of the phone.
So just very gently, you know, with a pair of tweezers or with your plastic pry tool,
pull that up and away from the back of the phone.
And then you can just take your new one and put it in the exact same spot.
Pretty simple.
This would fix, you know, if your WiFi is grayed out and the settings on your phone.
This would fix it.
Or if your WiFi is just not working very well.
You know, replacing the antenna would help out a lot.
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