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all right so I managed to get my hands on one of the brand new Galaxy s5 so this particular model is for Sprint I'm going to show you how to take it apart fix the screen fix the charging port and a couple of things inside the phone so to get the screen off of the phone you do have to heat it up I have a heat gun you can also use a blow dryer as long as it gets the phone hot enough that you don't want to touch it anymore when it's too hot to touch it means that the glue that's holding the screen down is more pliable and it will allow the screen to lift up from the device itself so I have a little pry tool and then once I lift the screen up I can slip a little piece of plastic whether it's a guitar pick or a piece of plastic it'll hold the screen in place and not let it read here back to the base of the phone so I'm going to keep on heating it up as I put my little tools in around the sides make sure that you don't pry out from the bottom of the phone because that's where all of the cables are for the buttons the home button and the back button and the menu buttons also there is one cable that I'll show you here that is actually controlling the LCD and the digitizer so make sure you don't touch that either once you unclip that from the phone you can lift the screen up and then pry the bottom buttons off of the front glass as a side note I just recently started using Instagram and I think we should all be friends so feel free to add me at Zach's jerry-rigged I am just pulling the home button off prying very gently because if you rip one of these cables then you're gonna have to buy the new replacement part for it the whole screen removal process took me about 15 minutes I don't think you can do it any faster than that and still be safe and there's the screen super impressed with how thin it is hopefully Samsung makes this part relatively cheap for how difficult it is to go off the phone and then here's the connector for it so this is the whole screen I'll put a link in the video description below for the screen any tools that you'll need to finish this project there are 10 screws holding the mid frame into the rear frame and then there's also three screws from the back as well that you'll have to get undone once you get all the screws undone you can see the frame kind of pull away from the mid frame if you unclasp the little latches around the battery case you'll be able to pull the back frame away from the mid frame start up at the top unclip the top of it and then the base of it will slide out of the little grooves that are built for that charging port to hold it in place and then here are all of the buttons and the little connections that attach them to the motherboard you can see that each button has its own little connections which is something that you know Samsung has really taken advantage of that this time around usually the buttons plug into the motherboard somewhere so the more they have the iPhones do it there's also the rear speaker there here is the 3G and 4G antennas that connect the charging port to the mainboard just unclip those and there's two screws holding down the board's to the frame and right here the charging port connects underneath the main boards I'm just going to unclip that like a little Lego and then the fingerprint sensor also is sitting right there on the top so I'm going to clip that as well there you have the motherboard where the cameras are attached you can also see the heart rate monitor on the other side I'm going to go ahead and unclip the camera so if your cameras ever get blurry or get dust specks or just you know stop working if they get cracked you can replace them pretty easily I'll put links in the video description below for replacement parts as well and then the charging port so this is the thing that you'll be replacing most often on this phone mostly because the charging port suffers the most abuse besides obviously cracking the screen so this charging port has the menu buttons the back button the fingerprint scanner and is the charging port itself as well Samsung is usually pretty good about making these pretty cheap as they have with the galaxy s4 the galaxy s3 and all of their the notes in the past anyway here's the mid frame we're going to go ahead and reinstall all the components on the phone now there are little grooves that are built-in for the charging ports just make sure that it sits back exactly inside of those little grooves and then I'm going to go ahead and start a clipping the antennas back on as well make sure you line it directly above the little nub that it sits on top of because if you bend these little antennas than you you can only have one shot at it go ahead and clip the cameras back on like I mentioned before it's a lot like Legos really expensive Legos you can just clip on to the main board again position it directly above and then you'll feel feel it snap into place I'm going to go ahead and drop the motherboard into place now I do still have to clip that charging port onto the back as well as the fingerprint scanner and the 3g and 4g antennas there's those two screws that hold the mainboard and charging port into place and then when you're slipping the mid frame into the rear frame start with the charging port because there's a little groove that's built in to hold it steady once that's wiggled into place it does take a second then you can snap the rest of the mid frame into place remember those 10 screws that hold the mid frame to the rear frame and then the three screws that go in directly from the back of the phone as well and then you just want to take the the menu buttons and kind of retake them I'm just using the same tape that they came with it's actually pretty sticky still and now just put those back into place as well as clipping the digitizer slash LCD cable into place same Lego style connector and then I am pushing the screen back down replacement screens should come with their own adhesive whether it's a you know super glue or some kind of crazy glue or just you know double-sided stick 3m sticky tape you can just reapply that and stick it back down I'm just going to reuse the adhesive that came with the phone it's actually you know still pretty strong anyway that's it if you have any questions make sure leave in the comments below I will put in your replacement parts and tools also in the video description below and don't forget to hit me up on Instagram as well as subscribe to my youtube channel thanks for watching