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what's up YouTube today we're going to do a teardown and repair video for the Nexus 5x this phone is made by LG first thing you want to do is remove the SIM card tray take a little tool put it in the hole in the SIM card tray will pop out you can remove it from your device then the back plastic of the phone will on snap from the screen it is held on pretty tight so if you make a little opening with your fingernail you can put a pry tool in between the screen and the back frame and you can unpop each of the little latches from the frame and remove the back there is no adhesive which is very nice just slide your pry tool all along the edge and all of the little clasps will come undone we can see that we'll need a screwdriver to remove the back plastics from the phone I will link all the tools down in the video description to remove the lower plastic bracket there's four screws and then pop it off the base of the phone with a pry tool and remove it this is actually the loudspeaker of the phone you can see the two contact points down here at the bottom I will link replacement parts in the video description below as well there are six screws along the top I use a razor blade to start the top corner just lift it up a little bit and I can unsnap the rest of the back plastic piece off of the phone here's the battery connection just unsnap that like a little Lego same thing with the rear camera and the front-facing camera and then we have the LCD connection down here at the bottom unsnap all of those and then the motherboard can be released from the phone body here we see the LEDs for the camera as well as some noise cancelling microphones in the charging port down here at the bottom unfortunately is not replaceable it is soldered on to the board so if your charging port ever goes back here just out of luck unless you can solder here's a SIM card tray at the back as well this is not replaceable either the battery is held in with adhesive if you're going to pry it out it is helpful if you have a sturdy metal pry tool I thing you want to be really careful of though is to make sure not to puncture the battery at all that will ruin the battery once it's lifted up just a little bit switch to a plastic tool because you are less likely to rip anything on the battery itself here's the battery I will link replacement batteries down in the video description usually they're pretty darn cheap here's the rear facing camera this is a twelve point three megapixel camera and if you think that's a weird number it's because it is here's the front-facing camera it is a 5 megapixel pretty cute little guy here's the vibrator motor you can see the two gold little Springs that are up at the top and those rest in contact with the main board and that's how it receives its signal here's the earpiece it's got some metallic tape along the top take that off and put it somewhere safe you're going to reuse it if you have to replace your earpiece you want to put the tape back down on top of it again pretty straightforward has the two cold contact points as well that just rest against the motherboard here is the headphone jack has the same kind of gold pins along the side that communicate with the motherboard as well here's the screen it is an IPS LCD display similar to what the iPhones have if you're going to replace your screen there's a good chance that when you buy it it will not come with the plastic frame so you have to remove the screen which is the LCD in the glass from the plastic frame if your LCD is already broken this won't be a big deal just heat it up and pull it out from the device I'm not going to do it in this video just because the chances of my screen surviving the removal from the back frame is pretty slim if you can find a screen that is sold with the frame intact so the LCD the glass panel in the front and the back plastic frame that would be ideal and in the past LG has sold them as whole units so hopefully they continue to do that in the future go ahead and snap all the pieces back into the phone again the front facing camera the vibrator motor and then here is the earpiece going to use that same metal tape to tack it back down into place here's the rear camera twelve point three megapixels and the headphone jack just going to pop that back in a little holder that is there on the plastic frame and then the motherboard goes down into place as well make sure the little ribbon cables for all the parts are on the upper side of the motherboard and then snap those down into place like little Lego pieces and make sure the motherboard is pressed down along that headphone jack as well so that the gold contact points will touch the motherboard and receive their communication put the battery back into place clip it onto the mainboard and then here's something kind of cool there's a bunch of pins on the motherboard and those come in contact with this back plastic piece and that is how the fingerprint scanner receives this communication from the mainboard as well there's a couple water damage indicators one there on the back of the phone and then one more if you saw previously in the video in the SIM card tray slot so those will tell if your phone has been wet or not go ahead and put that two loudspeaker back into place and then put all screws and as well remember all the tools and stuff are down in the video description and then the back plastic piece will just clamp down into place it is very very secure that back plastic panel does not want to come off easy so you have to be use a little bit of pressure to snap it down into place if you have any questions go ahead and leave them in the below don't forget to like if this video helped you or you found it interesting and don't forget to subscribe thanks done for watching hope to see you around feel free to scroll through my channel and check out some of my other repair videos or durability test videos