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in this video I will show you the internals of the galaxy s6 edge and kind of give you a general idea of how everything inside can be replaced including the back of the phone the camera the charging port the motherboard all of the good stuff go and remove the SIM card tray up at the top of the phone with your SIM card removal tool all the parts and tools for this project will be linked in the video description below now if the back of your phone is cracked it's going to be a little bit harder to remove it from the phone I'm going to go ahead and heat it up with a blow-dryer or a heat gun if your phone is not cracked you can take a suction cup and suction it to the glass and once it's warm the adhesive will allow the back glass to lift up a little bit from the back of the phone and make the removable back easier to remove now if your phone is cracked like it is on my device you're going to need to heat it up and the suction cup won't stick to the back because all the cracks allow air to get underneath the suction cup so you take a little metal pry tool and kind of slip it between the metal frame of the phone and the glass back you want to be really careful while you're doing this you don't crack the back even more and just kind of slide the tool around the edge of the phone to kind of cut through the adhesive that's holding it to the device and you'll get a better understanding of how it's held down once you see what's underneath once I've initiated the cutting with the metal pry tool I use a playing card which is a little bit thinner and doesn't stretch the glass as much as the metal tool does ends up being a little bit easier in the long run once the glass is mostly up I can cut through the last remaining adhesive with the card and pull the glass up away from the device so the things you want to watch out for is that black Qi charger underneath the glass if you cut through that then it'll stop working and you won't be able to Qi charge your phone anymore here's the broken back I'm just going to discard this as the replacement backs are pretty cheap I'm going to run you through a camera lens replacement really quick down at the bottom there's little groove that you can slip your tweezers through or just any kind of metal pry tool you can lift up the lens if your lens has ever scratched or cracked you can replace it fairly easily these are pretty cheap on Amazon I will link these in the video description below as well pretty straightforward with a replacement you just pull off the adhesive from the back glass and push it down and side of the little metal frame making sure that you never ever touch the inside of the glass you don't want to leave any fingerprints or smudges or dust on the inside of the lens if there is any debris under here your camera will not focus once you get the new lens installed so be super careful and make sure that it's clean once the glass lens is in place on the little metal bracket you can just press it down and then when you get your new back installed on the phone it will hold it on to the mid frame so you don't need to really worry about adhesive on the camera itself grab a screwdriver and there's 13 screws holding down the frame to the frame of the screen once you get those screws out lift off the Qi charging pad and then you can press against the back of the phone and push it out of the mid frame pretty straightforward I would recommend pressing up at the top of the phone you can do the bottom but it does kind of get caught on the charging port as you can see a little bit right there once the mid frame is off you can see the Qi charging pad the camera lens and the buttons are kind of interesting right here you can see if your power button ever stops working you can remove the button bracket and a little ribbon cable it has just two little gold contact points that attach to the motherboard as the motherboard rests on top of the button itself and you can just put it right back inside of its bracket and pin it into the frame and all the buttons are pretty similar you can see the volume rockers on the other side as well so grab a plastic pry tool we're going to disconnect all these little ribbon cables some people call them waffle connectors from the motherboard of the phone this one here is the battery the one you saw previously was the fingerprint scanner this one's for the earpiece and proximity sensor here we have the front-facing camera and you're just going to unsnap these from the motherboard like little Legos here is the LCD and digitizer and then down here we have some wire cable connectors and these ones just unsnap from the motherboard as well kind of pull those out of your way and then you can lift the motherboard up and away from the plastic frame and then the bottom of it is attached to the charging port ribbon cable connector so once snap that like a little Lego and you're good to go here's the rear-facing camera also has its own little ribbon cable connector and it is also slightly glued to the motherboard here's the rear camera I'm going to push that back into place and snap it back into the motherboard all these parts are replaceable now for the battery so batteries go out pretty regularly on these phones especially after you've had it for a year or two and if you're going to replace the battery and want to keep the screen in one piece you know as and not break the screen as you're removing the battery it helps if you heat it up a little bit and slide a thin metal tool not a razor blade because it's a little bit too thick between the battery and the frame making sure not to push or bend the screen at all or it will crack you want also make sure not to puncture the battery or it could you know start on fire explode and we want to avoid that if at all possible so now that we've lifted the battery up out of the phone we do have to remove the motherboard in order to get at the battery because it has that little black lip up at the top here is the vibrator motor we can lift that out as well so this is where you get all your notifications or if you know if your phone's vibrating when it's ringing this is what is causing that so there's a little metal tab that is holding the proximity sensor and the earpiece down into the plastic frame and then down here at the charging port there's two screws that are holding it in place we got one screw over here by the headphone jack and then we have another screw over here in the center of the board once those two screws are out you can lift the charging port away from the plastic frame of the phone the charging port is pretty interesting you know it has the headphone jack the charging port it does have the wire cable connectors on it you can see in the center there you have the home button where that presses down and it has the two capacitive buttons on either side of the device you have the back button and the menu button you have the fingerprint scanner ribbon cable there the LCD cable and this is the entire screen of the device right here you can see it has the LCD the digitizer and the black plastic frame that holds it all together and I would strongly strongly recommend that if this is the part that you replace if your screen is broken some people may attempt a glass only repair but I you know would bet that that's pretty impossible with this phone so I will link the entire screen replacement in the video description below you can grab that if your screen is broken now to put the phone back together again you saw me put the charging port back into place with the two screws here's the vibrator motor as well as the front facing camera the earpiece proximity sensor make sure to get that little top of it pinned down in the slot that's in the plastic frame well here's one more part so this is a little microphone that's attached to the top of the phone with this little waffle connector a little Lego piece so you can just clip back into place there I like Samsung because most of their parts are modular and can be replaced on a whim if you need to so here is the charging port and how it connects back to the motherboard I find that it's easiest to put it in place while it's lifted up like that and you can just set the motherboard down into the frame take the battery and slide it underneath the motherboard remember that black plastic lip that's up there at the top definitely needs to be below the motherboard and just clip it back into place snapping it down like a little Lego piece here is the fingerprint scanner ribbon cable that I'm also going to clip down up here the earpiece and the proximity sensor gets clipped to the motherboard and the LCD cable right there and then these are little wire ribbon cables that need to be clipped down into place as well remember not to push so hard that you bend them like it will you know snap in and you'll feel it just make sure not to put too much pressure and damaging the connections because that will make it harder later on make sure that the ribbon cable is also fed into the little grooves that it's designed for it otherwise the back you know a mid frame of the phone will not sit into place like it is right here I slide the charging port in first and then get those 13 screws back into place pretty straightforward and here are the replacement backs I will link these in the video description as well they are tempered glass I believe they are pretty scratch resistant and they do have the pre-installed adhesive on the back so you don't have to buy extra adhesive to put on to the onto the phone so it makes it a lot easier when you're doing these kind of replacements it does not have the IMEI or the information of the device on the back as like the original one does though I am going to put a blue back on a white phone just because it's the only one I have at the moment and just pressing it down into place peel off the protection and you can see that it fits exactly like the original does it doesn't stick up too far and matches exactly along with the edge of the device making sure everything still works on the phone and I'm just going to test out how scratch-resistant it is just because that's what I do grab my razor blade scratch it right along the logo and it looks like we're good to go there are zero scratches on the back of the device so I'm pretty impressed with it anyway I did do a durability test with the galaxy s6 edge I will link that video here at the end of this one if you have any questions leave in the comments don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget subscribe it does help me out thanks a ton for watching hope see you around you