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all right so today I'm going to show you how to take apart the Evo 3d and replace the screen on it this screen does have a crack so basically you know take off the back take out the battery make sure the phone obviously will be off I'll put all the tools and stuff and also the replacement parts you need for this project in the video description below so make sure to check that out there are six screws around the outside there are four of them in the corners that are kind of like the star-shaped screws and those come with a screwdriver kit that I'll put in the video description and then the two that I'm taking out right now or just your normal Phillips head and I'm placing the screws in a way on the mat that'll let me you know put them back into the phone fairly easily I'm taking my little pry tool I'm you can use a plastic or metal one and just kind of go between the back frame and the screen just kind of like wiggle it loose and the back section will pop off just like that there are two screws on the motherboard I'm just your regular Phillips head they're small silver screws let's put those over there and then there's four ribbon cables around the outside and you can see me taking my pry tool lifting up the little white section it's like a little latch that lifts up and once you've lifted up all four you can take your pry tool and just kind of you know pull along the edge of the ribbon cable there's a little lip right there that you can press against and it'll pull the actual cable out from the connector so once you've gotten those four cables out and we'll be able to move on to the next step you also have two options here with the vibrator you can either unplug it which is what I'm doing or you can you know wiggle the vibrate a little motor out of the the back frame since my replacement screen is coming with its own little vibrator I am unplugging it and it just phase through that little hole right there and then once you take the motherboard bend it back over and lift up the little heat tape on here there are two more ribbon cables that you have to unlatch and then slide out and they pull out really easily and there's the bottom circuit board that also has one ribbon cable in it and so I unlatch that I removed the tape that's holding the ribbon cable to the latch can see me take that off right here and then once that tape is off then it slides out like any normal ribbon cable and then you have your two circuit boards attached by the antenna wire there and then the broken screen is out and then this is the new screen and it's the LCD digitizer combination I'm not replacing just the glass and replacing the whole screen pop the ribbon cable back into place for the reassembly latch it and you can put that tape back down on and if you want the tape does stick pretty well anyway there's this black protective piece of plastic they have to bend over in order to get the ribbon cables into place this just helps us to let the ribbon cables you don't get cut on the board at all you know when you're working on the phone or when it's in your pocket then you can use the little lips on the side of each of the ribbon cable to press it all the way in and then make sure to latch it back down again and then make sure there's nothing underneath the motherboard as you put it set it back into place feeding the vibrator wire through to plug back in again and then it's just reattach arriving cables the same way that you've been doing it before with that bottom part of the circuit board press into place and latch it once again I'll put the links for all the tools and the screens in the video description below just click down there I do all my stuff through Amazon it's the most reliable and usually the cheapest getting everything positioned gs riotous is pretty difficult if you have a pair of tweezers that would help out as well taking the two screws to the motherboard and putting those back into place and then make sure the Santana wire on the side there's a little groove for it right above the the camera button and then it just fits right down inside that corner right there you'll hear the back housing snap into place all the way around and then don't forget to put the screws in I'm just going to turn on the phone just let you show show you that all works anyway if you have any questions make sure leave in the comments don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe i'm usually taken apart expensive electronics on a on a weekly or daily basis anyway thanks for watching