Introduction
This guide will give a step by step instruction on how to safely remove the components leading up to the front facing camera.
What you need
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Use a heat gun to gently heat the back edges of the phone to loosen the adhesive.
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Use a plastic opening tool to pry the back cover up.
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Carefully lift the back cover off.
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Tool used on this step:Tweezers$4.99
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Use tweezers to disconnect the red pull-away tab up from the motherboard.
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Detach the orange camera ribbon cable, below the red tab, using the tweezers.
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Grip the green tab and lift the battery up and out of the chassis.
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Use a Phillips #000 screwdriver to remove the ten screws from the motherboard harness.
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Pull the motherboard harness up using the tweezers
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Use the pointed tip of a spudger to lift the front-facing camera's pin connection, gently prying on the plug vertically until it completely releases.
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Lift the front-facing camera up and out using tweezers.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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