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all right so today I'm going to show you how to replace the charging port on the iPhone 5 and it's actually pretty simple you know if you used a screwdriver or your and opened anything before you can probably accomplish this and basically take off the bottom two screws this is the same pentalobe screwdriver that you would have used for the iPhone 4 now they're pretty inexpensive online I'll list the the tools that I use in the video description below as well as where to find them on Amazon I'm the tool kit itself is only like 15 bucks it's not too bad anyway grab a little suction cup once you got those screws out and pry up a little bit in hindsight definitely use a plastic tool for this if you don't want to scratch up your phone but by this point you know the phones are mostly scratched anyway it would be able to tell then be very careful when you're pulling the screen away from the body you can see that there is a metal bracket right here if you're going to take the screen off redo these three screws take them out and then you can pop the screen off but what I just did is I kind of just leaned the screen back up against something so I wouldn't put any stress on the cables I'm but it would still be out of my way right here I'm taking apart three screws off the metal bracket and the metal bracket comes apart in two places and you can kind of see that I'm placing the screws on the piece of paper in such a way that I'll remember where they go later so all three screws and the tube bracket pieces are organized right there pop the ribbon cable off with just your plastic pry tool lift it away it's kind of like a little Lego piece snaps on and off just like that then there are seven screws down at the bottom this corner one and once again I'm placing the screws very carefully in a certain order and then there's four screws holding the actual charging port in place there's the two upper ones and the two lower ones are smaller and then here's the other bottom left corner and there's one more screw right here that kind of holds this other little metal part in place anyways you can kind of see the place where the screws just correspond directly with where they are on the phone and then I can put them back a lot easier now that I know where anyway there's a little wire cable right here that you have to snap off just kind of pry it up a little bit and then this part you have you're really careful with this little ribbon cable right here is glued on to the plastic piece below it so if you just kind of pry up around you to the corners eventually the glue will just unstick itself and you're good to go if you rip that cable you'll have some problems in the future anyway here's the speaker itself pull that out you can see this little plastic bit up top that's what kept it under the main motherboard put that if you need to replace that that part is only like five bucks on Amazon I'll put a link in the video description for that as well anyway then you take the ribbon cable and just kind of pull it away gently and just kind of unstick it from the glue that is below it it comes off pretty easily and then pull it off and you can see it's all of this right here is the part that you're replacing you have the headphone jack on the left side and then the microphone between the headphone jack right here and then you have the charger itself to put it back in I start by just putting the charging port in the correct spot and just kind of popping it into place it fits slides right back in that groove where it came from and then positioning the the headphone jack and the microphone in place as well and then just kind of pressing down you know sliding this little corner underneath the motherboard and then pressing down the rest of the ribbon cable into place and then you snap the ribbon cable in just like a little Lego just where I came from anyway put the speaker back in by sliding that little notch underneath the motherboard and then all you have to do to make sure the little cables all line up there's a little groove a little pin that sticks up that aligns that ribbon cable and you might get all the screws back into place doesn't really matter what order you do them in and then snap the wire cable back in it's just like a little pan that snaps onto the head of the little pin in the motherboard it's pretty straightforward and you win as far these little metal brackets go I position them and then I put the center screw in first and that keeps the brackets in one place where I can adjust them just a little bit so I can put the top and the bottom screw in then I took the top room cables in and snap them the screen down on top of the iPhone itself and you'll hear it snap all the way around the outside and then you're good to go make sure you do put the bottom two screws in the pentalobe ones too to hold the screen down VM everything works you have any questions make sure to leave them in the comment section below make sure to LIKE this 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