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Use a plastic opening tool to flip open the power button ZIF connector.

• This connector will not be removed until the motherboard is free.

Flip open the ambient light sensor ZIF socket with a plastic opening tool.

Use a pair of tweezers to pull the blue tab on the ambient light sensor cable to remove it from its socket.

Use a plastic opening tool to lift up and disconnect the display data cable.

Lift up on the antenna connector with a plastic opening tool to disconnect it.

De-route the antenna cable.

Remove the six 2.6 mm Phillips #00 screws securing the motherboard to the frame.

Use a plastic opening tool to gently lever up the bottom side of the motherboard to free from the adhesive on its underside.

Lever the top side of the motherboard up with a plastic opening tool until it comes free.

Lift the motherboard out of the Kindle Fire, making sure that the power button cable from step 8 comes free from its connector.

Remove the 2.5 mm Phillips #00 scew securing the power button board to the Kindle Fire.

Lift the power button board out of the Kindle Fire.

Use the flat end of a spudger to peel the ambient light sensor cable off of the frame.

• You will need to peel up the silver tape in the cable's lower right bend. The silver tape under the lower left bend of the cable does not need to come up with it.

Use the flat end of a spudger to peel up the silver tape securing the antenna cable.

Remove the three 3.6 mm Phillips #00 screws securing the frame and ambient light sensor.

Slide the ambient light sensor out from under the frame and remove it from the Kindle Fire.

• If the ambient light sensor will not easily come out, slightly lift the frame with a plastic opening tool to allow it to come free.