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Nexus 5X Teardown

Written By: Witrigs (and 3 other contributors)
Published: December 31, 2015
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Nexus 5X Teardown

Written By: Witrigs (and 3 other contributors)
Published: December 31, 2015
  • Comments: 4
  • Favorites: 26
  • Views: 12k

Teardown

Archived Guide
This guide is retained solely for historical purposes. Use the updated version of the guide to perform your repair.

Introduction

For the official iFixit teardown of the Nexus 5X, click here.

Come to blog of Witrigs to see more detailed steps about LG Nexus 5X spare parts replacement.

What you need

Video Overview

This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your Nexus 5X, use our service manual.

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    • Remove SIM card tray.

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    • Use guitar picks to loosen clips securing rear cover and remove back cover.

    • A handy notch is also available for back panel removal.

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    • Twist off 10 Phillips screws together.

    • Pry up bottom half and upper half of middle frame.

    • Clips securing midframe exists, be careful to pry up it.

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  4. Nexus 5X Teardown: step 4, image 1 of 1

    • Here is the whole middle frame.

    • The bottom half includes loudspeaker. The top half comes with fingerprint scanner.

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    • A flexible clip is here. Loosen it and get the loudspeaker assembly only.

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    • Tear tape firstly.

    • Loosen adhesive at both sides.

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    • Release battery connector.

    • Pry up and remove battery ( Adhesive underneath is not strong).

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    • Loosen LCD screen connector and rear camera connector.

    • Pry up and remove motherboard assembly.

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    • Release front camera connector and remove it.

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  11. Nexus 5X Teardown: step 10, image 1 of 1

    • Here come with motherboard only.

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    • The adhesive underneath rear camera is strong. Be careful to pry up and remove it.

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    • Adhesive underneath vibration motor is a little bit strong. Pry it up carefully.

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    • Tear tape securing earpiece.

    • Use tweezers to pry up earpiece.

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    • Remove headphone jack.

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    • The sticker underneath LCD with digitizer is a little bit strong, so use heat gun to soften it for a few minutes.

    • With the help of suction cup and guitar picks, remove LCD screen carefully.

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  17. Nexus 5X Teardown: step 16, image 1 of 1

    • Done.

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3 Guide Comments

Where is the camera's microphone placed? I replaced my camera module and now I hear noises when shooting video. May it happen because I haven't glue it back? It happens even while the phone is static, but video is fine.

lioraviram42 - Reply

I suggest that you can take it off and put some new adhesive on the backside of rear camera, and then see what happened.

Witrigs -

Um. You have a teardown that is not the iFixit official teardown, but has the same title, and links to your offsite blog/YT channel? Isn't that a bit misleading?

I think you should rename this Guide so as to not create confusion with the iFixit article with the same title. My 2¢.

David Spalding - Reply

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