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now the goal of this whole video is to open up the VEVO X 20 plus and see what that in screen fingerprint scanner looks like from the inside even though this phone survived my durability test at the end the screen went black when it got cracked over the top of the fingerprint scanner so now let's see how it's all put together and see what can be replaced let's get started there are two visible screws at the bottom of the vivo x20 both of which are 82 screw I'll link the tool kit I use and any replacement parts I find in the video description like usual once those screws are out I'll slip my metal pry tool between the plastic edge of the screen and the metal edge of the phone I've taken apart several other phones with a similar build to this and it's held together with a series of clasps around the outside so a few strategically placed pry tools should be able to pop the screen out of the back metal housing luckily since my screen is already shattered I don't have to worry too much about being gentle and keeping it in one piece there is a little bit of adhesive holding the back to the front panel but there's nothing special attached to that back metal so I'll set it off to the side and start taking out the three screws holding down the large C shaped bracket and then I'll set that off of the side and next to the screws to keep things organized this phone is pretty complex inside unfortunately I'll unclip the battery driven cable first and then the button ribbon and then the charging port ribbon unsnaps like a little Lego which is actually super interesting because the microUSB charging port is only held in place by two little screws down here at the bottom then the whole port comes out this is literally the easiest charging port replacement that I've ever seen there's two screws holding down one more silver bracket over the two extension ribbons that I'll explain in a second I'll fold those down gently making sure not to kink anything and then grab the little green battery pull tab and remove it from the frame the 3900 milliamp power battery is actually pretty easy to remove and to replace compared to other mainstream phones the motherboard has an incredibly small eccentric rotating mass vibration motor tucked over here underneath the camera you can see how it rotates and spins around on its little motor I'll remove four more screws that are holding down the motherboard and unclip one of the two main camera ribbons over here on the side just like a little Lego same here with the earpiece resting in the center of the motherboard there are two wire cables a white and a black one on either side of the phone then the motherboard can pull up and away from the phone body looking at the motherboard we get a close-up view at the sim and SD card tray along with the dual camera setup both 12 megapixel vivo doesn't advertise oh why yes so this little movement and the lens might just be the focusing mechanism moseying are way down at the bottom of the phone to look for that in screen fingerprint scanner we find another a screws I'll keep these organized by setting them on the table next to me arranged in the same shape they were well inside the phone the black plastic pops off revealing the loudspeaker and protective plastics and then all we have left attached to the phone is the extension ribbon for the headphone jack then the headphone jack itself and finally the last remaining ribbon now the screen is very permanently glued on to this metal frame and by permanent I mean any attempt to remove the screen will end up breaking the display and the glass luckily mine is already broken so I don't have too much to worry about but it will all need to be removed in order for us to get a glimpse of how that fingerprint scanner functions I've been warming up the phone with a heat gun getting it barely too hot to touch this softens the adhesive under the screen allowing my thin metal pry tool to slip in between the glass and the plastic edge cutting through the soft esup the display has the fragility of a potato chip underneath that glass so this definitely destroys the display and this is also why I only remove phone screens that are already completely broken when they're glued in like this once my fried tool has cleared all the adhesive around the edges the whole thing can pull up and away from the frame if I were to replace the screen right now I would just clean up that frame and reuse it with the new screen finally we get to see the backside of the in display fingerprint scanner it's got a little latch style connector tying it into the screen ribbon cable I'll unlock that with my plastic pry tool and very carefully pull the fingerprint scanner up and away from the back of the screen it's very lightly adhered to the slot that it's sitting in and it is pulling away with some of the little bits of fragile AMOLED display attached to it you can see inside the slot the screen has different layers the clear glass layer on the outside and then that brownish display layer made up of tiny LEDs that I compared to a fragile potato chip and then finally this little rectangular fingerprint scanner called the FS 9500 made by a company called synaptics that little orange block in the center is the sensor that captures the image of your fingerprint and turns it into an equation based off of the contrasting points of your fingerprint ridges this sensor is designed to work pretty much covered and in close range so it's not the exact same as the colorful normal camera sensor like the one we saw inside of the LGV 30 tear down both of the cameras are designed for different tasks but it's still interesting to see the two sensors side by side thumbs up for that let's take a closer look at the display panel since the fingerprint scanner essentially takes a picture through the LEDs displaying the images you see with your eyes on the phone display the shards are semi translucent and you can see light to the rectangle where the sensor used to be the only reason the rest of the display is as black as it is is because of this black layer of tape covering the AMOLED panel without this black layer of tape the rest of the panel becomes as translucent as the little rectangle above the fingerprint scanner confirmed by the translucent nests under Neath the tape that I peeled away pretty fascinating stuff like mkbhd said in his video he really can't put that finger print scanner anywhere and make it as large as you want since it just works underneath the LED panel lbh seemed to see how the technology improves and progresses this is the first phone ever with an N screen fingerprint scanner and I imagine we'll see it more often in the future and I'll definitely be here to show it to you from the inside so make sure you're subscribed normally at this point I would put the phone back together but I don't have the replacement screen on hand yet so it'll have to wait come hang out with me on Instagram and Twitter and let me know what other phones you want to see the insides of thanks Don for watching and I'll see you around