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today we're going to be taken apart and fixing the Samsung Galaxy s6 I'm going to go ahead and unplug my braided cable from the phone take out the SIM card with my SIM card removal tool and then grab a heat gun you can also use your sister's hair dryer and you want to heat up the back of the glass so that it's too hot to touch you want the heat to seep through to the glue underneath the glass it'll take about two or three minutes just kind of gently heat up the whole phone all the way around I would recommend watching this entire video all the way through I will draw tips and hints in the entire video also if you feel like you learn anything during the video or if you enjoyed watching this go ahead and hit that subscribe button it does help me out a lot I'm taking my razor blade and slipping it between the metal frame and the back clasp of the phone you can see right here I accidentally dug my razor into the white color of the glass once I realized that the razor can scrape away the color I never repeated that mistake again I slid my razor with the edge not touching the back glass or the inside mid frame of the phone because there are components that you can damage on the inside as well which you'll see if the going starts getting tougher make sure you warm up the glass again so that the adhesive will fall apart a little bit easier you can see I'm just taking my razor blade and sliding it around the edge of the phone that's where the majority of the adhesive is on that back panel just cutting it away from that mid frame going to finish off the last little bit of the adhesive here with my razor blade and that separates the back glass from the phone itself these are pretty cheap I'm going to go ahead and link those in the video description as soon as they become available you can see the adhesive that is stuck to the back of the majority of them will come with adhesive pre-installed here are the screws that you need to remove from the mid frame of the phone in order to get at the screen it's just a small Phillips head screwdriver the tools will be listed down in the video description below go ahead and check that if you need any replacement tools I'm going to heat up the screen of the phone mostly focusing around the edge because that's where the adhesive is holding it onto the frame and I'm going to push from the backside of the frame on the battery so that the screen will pop out from the phone you can see the adhesive along the top here as well as I try to separate it it's really important that you do not press around on the wireless charging pad you can see that here I lifted that up before I started pressing on it it's interesting with the wireless charging pad you can see the connection points on the main board that charged the battery wirelessly I just disconnected the battery along with the fingerprint scanner and home button here and then here is the LCD ribbon cable connector they're like little Legos you just want to unsnap them from the mainboard here's the front camera that popped off once again replacement parts will be linked in the video description below here is the earpiece and that releases the motherboard from the mid frame I'm going to release the 4G and Bluetooth wire cables they're just little snaps and then the charging port on snaps from the back of the motherboard here's the motherboard itself nothing else is really replaceable on the motherboard except for the rear facing camera here it's kind of glued onto the motherboard which was interesting they haven't done that in the past here's the camera I'm going to go ahead and snap that back into place has the same little ribbon cable connector with the Lego piece it also is interesting it has a little circle pin on the front that helps guide it into place I thought that was interesting I haven't seen that before here's the battery batteries a little bit interesting as well you when you're taking out the battery you want to use something thin to slide underneath the battery and cut away the glue if you use a round pry tool it'll put too much pressure on the screen and it will crack between the screen and the battery so make sure you're not prying the battery up you're slicing the battery out with a thin card you can use like a face card as well like a poker card coming in from that other side as well making sure I'm only slicing and not prying you're going to want to take that advice for the rest of phone as well because the screen is so ridiculously thin I'll show you that a little bit later on in the video once we get that separated battery is almost off remember replacement batteries can also be found in the video description below there you go there is one screw holding on the charging port to the mid frame remove that Philips head screw and you would think the charging port would come off but the capacitive buttons are wrapped around the mid frame and underneath the glass we have to wait until we remove the glass and LCD from that panel in order to separate the charging port taking out the earpiece set that off the side and here is the vibrating motor eventually I want to take one of these guys apart and see what's on the inside I'll save that for a future video if you guys are interested now I'm going to heat up the glass this heat job is going to be a little bit more important because we're heating up the entire screen of the phone what I'm going to do now is slide the little car that I've been using between the LCD and the plastic now there is a black shield on the back of the LCD that we're going to try to not separate from the LCD especially if we're going to reuse the screen again so I'm going to slide the thin card between the screen once again if the going gets tough warm up the phone again I like to keep it so that it's just barely too hot to touch and remember don't flex the screen at all you'll be super surprised how easy it breaks you can see that I'm taking my card and sliding it just between the plastic and the black shield you want to leave that black shield intact and attached to the LCD it's not too big of a deal if you accidentally separate it a little bit it's just easier if you keep it intact also I'm being very careful with the LCD ribbon cable down there at the bottom of the screen making sure not to kink that at all if you've been that or I can't get too much it will stop working and your LCD will just be black or gray when you try to reinstall it on your motherboard being gentle with that LCD cable pulling it off to the side heating the phone up one more time making sure to get down there by the capacitive menu buttons and back buttons and then using kind of a slicing sawing motion to get rid of the adhesive attached to the LCD and that black frame now that I'm down towards the bottom of the phone you want to be super careful with those capacitive buttons especially if you're going to reuse your charging port I'm sliding my card between the button and the glass making sure not to cut the button as I press it down and slide off the glass frame once the glass is off and here is where you really want to make sure not to hurt the LCD you can see how thin it is it's kind of like doing brain surgery on a Dorito chip here's the charging port capacitive buttons I'm going to pull those off the backside and that releases the charging port from the phone if you need any replacement parts I'm going to list those in the video description so go ahead and check that out if you need to replace your charging port or your Menu button like this little guy right here just kind of feed that back through the mid frame remember how it goes it goes through that main little hole right there I'll show you as I reinstall it right now we're gonna go ahead and put the phone back together again press the home button into place and then get that charging port it'll guide on top of those two little screw holes right next the charging port itself wrap the capacitive buttons around the back and kind of stick them into place they have little circles on them with guiding pins so you make sure they're in the right spot there's a little metal grill that's on your old screen that you want to transfer over to your new screen and then your new screen should have its own adhesive but if it does not just get some double-sided tape and put the that tape where the adhesive used to be on your old screen slide the LCD ribbon cable through the plastic frame and then line up all four corners and then you want to get that home button lined up perfectly I messed up a little bit here so I'm going to unsnap it get that home button perfect and then snap it back down again the home button will be your main guiding point with that bottom side of the screen get the one little Philips head screw back into the charging port right next to that headphone jack press everything down into place your piece is now sliding in getting that little tiny circuit board at the top and the little groove and that vibrating motor back into its little circle here's the battery again make sure there's nothing underneath the battery when you put it down like that little four g wire press it down into place and then snap the motherboard onto the charging port connection that's on the back of the motherboard right there it's like a little Lego you'll feel it connect it'll be pretty solid get that home button and LCD with the earpiece all snapped in and the front-facing camera snap that boy back into the motherboard and then the last one I do is the battery just to make sure there's no power going to the board as I'm working on it getting the Bluetooth wire press into place along with the 4G cable I'm also going to press the wires down into little grooves that are right next to the board just to make sure that when I put the back frame on it's not going to pinch the cable in any weird way and disconnect it so I won't have service anymore here I'm lining up the charging port with the back frame sliding that screen into place and then clipping it all around that frame as well it's not going to fit perfectly just yet because we don't have the screws holding it down into that back frame but we can test it now that the power button is lined up with little contact pads on the motherboard everything appears to be working we're going to go ahead and screw all these screws back in once again your back panel should come with its own adhesive but if it does not grab some double-sided tape and then lay that down peel up the back of the tape and then you can set your back into place but you know normally they'll come with their own adhesive and they're pretty cheap I will link those in the video description as well pinch the phone shut then you should be good to go no one would be able to tell that the phone was even opened worked out pretty well I'm going to go ahead and test the phone really quick make sure everything is working plug in my braided cable it looks like it's charging it's got the fast charger connected and we should be good to go I am going to do a durability test with this phone I will link that here so if you're curious to see how durable this phone is go ahead and click that link I will have that up as soon as it's done once again it does help me out a lot if you subscribe to my videos don't forget to like if this helped you hope to see you around thanks for watching