Gadgetory

today I'm going to show you the guts of the HTC m9 this is a very difficult phone to work on so attempt it at your own risk and go ahead and turn the phone off unplug it remove my braided cable to get inside of the phone you have to remove this black plastic piece up at the top just kind of slide a little tool underneath and lift up one of the clasps then there's some adhesive and then another clasp along the other side pop that out and put it somewhere safe it's really important to stay totally organized during this repair make sure to keep all your screws in one spot what you'll remember where they go I will link tools and parts in the video description below so check that out remove the SD card slot and the SIM card slot on the other side of the phone with your sim card removal tool and then you can take a plastic pry tool up at the top of the phone and lift it out just a little bit this was extremely difficult to separate the screen from the back metal housing of the phone I ended up taking my pry tool leaving it in the top and then sliding a metal tool between the frame and the back plate and that's kind of releasing the clasps that hold the front of the phone into the back of the phone and stuck in there pretty tight so you have to be a little bit aggressive with it once one side was open the other side came out a lot easier I was able to use my plastic tool for that and then the back separated from the front of the phone pretty straightforward no adhesive or anything else inside of there here is the back metal plate you can see little grooves along this backside what's interesting is is a brand new phone and there is a screw up in the right-hand corner that's just completely missing so I'm not sure if that missed HTC's quality control or what anyway unplug the battery I always do that first just so there's no electricity coursing through the phone while I'm working on it don't want to fry anything lift off those two little wire cables and then each one of the ribbon cables has a piece of tape on it so lift that off lift up the clasp and then you'll be able to slide that ribbon cable out of the connector lucky for you there's like 500 other ribbon cable connectors in this phone so you get lots of practice lift up each of little latches and slide out each of the little ribbon cables it's all kinds of fun this whole video is pretty much watching me disconnect things there's so many different connections inside of this phone some more wire connectors some more ribbon connectors some metal tape along some more ribbon cable connector make sure to keep this tape in a special spots you're going to be putting it back on the phone when you're done it's kind of a little shield lift up another little clasp this is the ribbon cable connector for the LCD screen there's three screws holding on the motherboard I'm going to move this black cable and then another ribbon cable connector down at the bottom this one's for the bottom speaker it's a cute little guy just pull that out of its little hole and then the vibrator motor is interesting that every single thing has a connector on here except for the vibrator motor four screws at the bottom vibrator motor is just soldered onto the main board which is silly now the motherboard comes out and it is connected to the bottom speaker just by some adhesive so I just pop that out bottom speaker is here I'll try to link replacement parts in the view description below here's the wonderful vibrator motor that's soldered onto the main board for some reason and here's the charging port charging ports are one of the first things that go out in phone so I'll link that down in the description below when that becomes available has a little metal bracket on top I'm guessing to provide support there's four screws along the top part of the motherboard here's another connection here HTC light connections so much they put connections on their connections now that that's off we can go ahead and lift up this other ribbon cable connector on this other side above the SIM card tray and then there's a little clasp that holds the camera in so make sure to undo that class before you try to lift out the daughter board the daughter board does have two little latches up on the top the app disconnect as well before the it lifts out from the phone beware of the front-facing camera as well it tries to stay down in that little hole cameras disconnect they're like little Lego pieces from the main board just unsnap those connections here's a 20 megapixel camera the front-facing camera has some metallic tape copper tape is kind of like a shield or a grounding tape so lift that off try not to take off the cameras if at all possible they seem to be a little bit finicky when reinstalling them also here is the water damage indicator sticker looks like it was added as an afterthought to the phone the overall design of the phone isn't geared towards self repair if you haven't noticed yet here I am reinstalling my cameras again and trying to stick down that metal tape as well as possible whether it's a grounding strap or not it is necessary for the cameras functionality here is the SIM card tray it also is attached to the power and volume buttons so pull that off gently if you're planning on reusing it and here is the SD card tray it's got the connectors on connectors here then the earpiece pops out of its little slot your pieces are always magnetized so here's a little tip if you take your screwdriver and rub it on top of the earpiece it magnetizes it so you don't lose your screws so the battery is pretty fun there is a adhesive strip on either side of the battery I didn't heat mine up at all but you know that's always an option I just found it was easier to take a plain card or a thin piece of cardstock and slide it between and just cut through the adhesive but my pry tool in there to help leverage it up a little bit once one side was cut out I could use my pry tool and just kind of lift off the other side pretty straightforward batteries not too difficult to remove just don't pry too hard against the screen if you're planning on keeping the screen so any amount of leverage might break that the battery selves at twenty eight forty milliamp hour I will link those in the video description as well when they become available take off whatever black piece that was if you're planning on keeping the screen you want to be incredibly careful with it right now I'm heating up the phone to soften the adhesive that's holding the LCD and digitizer on to the mid frame once the phone gets too hot to touch I know the glue is ready to be separated there is a little slot right here in the mid frame that you can press up and it'll lift the backlight and LCD away from the mid frame far enough that you can take a playing card or a thin piece of cardstock and slide it between make sure that you get between the backlight and the mid frame on that far back layer because there's many layers to a screen like the glass digitizer LCD and backlight and you want to be between the backlight in the mid frame if you try to separate any of the other layers you're probably going to break your screen now if your screens already broken obviously you don't need to be as careful as I am but I'm going to try to put this phone back together in working order when I'm finished with it so I'm not prying up on the screen at all I'm just slicing through that adhesive once I've made sure I'm between the backlight and the mid frame on that farthest layer and every now and then I'll stop and reheat up the phone to make sure that the adhesive is soft enough for my card and I'm not applying too much pressure to the LCD and digitizer it is extremely fragile and it can break very very easily so be very very careful when you're removing the screen also be careful the ribbon cables on that other side I'm making sure not to pry on that side just so I don't damage the ribbon cables then they'll slide out of the little hole in the mid frame and you should be good to go that's how you remove the screen from the mid frame on the HTC m9 I will link replacement parts in the video description so check that out your new screen might come with adhesive if not you're going to need to take some double-sided tape and put it in place of the black adhesive that was there before I'm going to head and slide the ribbon cable through the mid frame again as I'm installing my new screen back onto the phone and then set it right down inside of the mid frame not too difficult for a screen repair considering how many connections that are in this phone putting whatever black piece that is back on the ribbon cable connectors again setting the SIM card slot back in place with the power button and volume buttons on that side SD cards going back in place as well earpiece press back into its hole daughterboard also getting pressed down in I want to make sure that camera slips down inside of the little slot and gets latch down here's the two little pins on top of the motherboard make sure those are pinched down camera gets pushed down in place as well with that little clasp and now we have a bunch of ribbon cables to put back together this one above the SIM card tray there's four screws on the top that you want to get screwed in slide the battery back into place you can put a strip of adhesive down underneath if you want but I think that you know the frame of the phone is pretty secure anyway get the three screws that are holding the charging port back into place set the speaker back down there in the bottom corner now we have a connector within a connector make sure that's pressed down on to the daughter board first and make sure nothing is underneath the motherboard when you're putting it down on top of the battery there's lots of little connections and ribbon so make sure you pull those all up get that vibrator motor pressed down into place now we got three screws on the motherboard get this black wire cable press down as well you want to be careful with these little connections so you don't bend them make sure you don't use any metal tools on these ribbon cable connectors either because if you cut down through the plastic onto the metal will short out some of connections so be careful with that get that tape that you put off to the side and put it back down on top of the connectors it's a little shield and make sure you get all the little yellow tapes back into place over the little connections as well that'll just help the ribbon cables stay in place if you ever drop your phone or just over the life of the device your phone will last a lot longer if everything is taped back up again latch it down into place get some more of these wire cables hooked up press them down there's some more wire cables down here next to the battery notice I haven't plugged in the battery yet because I want it to be the last thing that I plug in after all the connections have been made again and tape back into place now that everything is taped down and connected I'm going to go ahead and put the battery in and then get those last two silver screws screw it into the battery connector you can test the phone while the back is still loft just make sure not to touch any of the circuit boards that are inside and then you just clasp the front of the phone back into the back of the phone it's kind of like a little clamshell just snap it back into place it does require a bit of force but as long as your ribbon cable connectors lined up where they should be you should be all right press it down hard and you should be good get those top two screws back into place and then you have your little plastic bit put one corner in first and then the other side and you can kind of press it back down into place the phone went back pretty smoothly it would be hard to tell that it was open before just make sure you avoid around the edges of the SIM card slots because that's pretty fragile plug it back in the charging port works fine if you have any questions make sure to leave in the comments below don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe thanks ton for watching hope see you around