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all right today I got my hands on the Moto X from Motorola Google's new phone first things first want to apologize for my dirty hands I was working on my car and that stuff grease does not come off anyway to open up the back of the phone take your prying tool and kind of go around the edge the seam between the back plate and the screen just kind of popping up the little latches little clasps all around the backside you'll hear a little click each time that you pop one out the back is glued on pretty tight to the the phone itself so it's not going to come off easily but once you're done I'm clipping the sides you can peel it back just a little bit and slide your prime tool underneath you gotta be really careful while you're doing this because there is a ribbon cable next to the volume buttons that you don't want to break if you break it you won't have all eight buttons anyway let's go ahead and slide it in you can see the ribbon cable right here it's also attached to the LED on the back of the phone as you can see to unlatch it just lift up the little black clasp talk a little bit on the ribbon cable and it'll slide right out and that will release the back of the phone from the phone itself you can see the blue sticky stuff that was holding it all down anyway now we're going to take off the bottom there are four screws on the bottom plastic section here is where they are and once you get the screws out you can just kind of lift up a little bit and the black section will come off right here you can see the charging forward it is soldered on to the board so it's not easily replaceable anyway lift up these two latches they're kind of like Legos just put your little pry tool underneath and lift up and it'll unclasp and then right here is the volume button ribbon cable just lift up a little clasp and slide out the ribbon cable and then latch it back down so you don't break it and then this part to release the battery you do have to lift up this little ribbon cable that's glued onto the battery well more like just the sticky tape stuff it lifts up very easily once you get it started lift that up and off the battery and then the battery will be free to be lifted off as well you just have to take your prime tool and slide it underneath the battery let's go down pretty tight I'm so have to use a little bit of force I've already taken mine off one so it'll usually be a little bit harder than this to lift up and off see kind of where it's stuck the sticky stuff on the back anyway now the batteries out so there's five more screws for the top of the phone and this is kind of the plastic piece that holds on the camera and everything like the little vibrator is once those five screws are out just lift this up and off and once the intamin put all these replacement parts listed in the video description below Amazon is where I usually get them alright replacement parts from Amazon Prime usually gets them here the fastest anyway here's the top plastic piece and then there's two screws right here next to the SIM card slot I would recommend taking the SIM card out before you start this project but you know as long as you take it out right now you'll still be fine just to go you know a paper clip works fine my little tweezers are thin enough that I can press it in this little hole and the SIM card pops up and out now the motherboard you get to be careful when you're lifting this stuff off too because there is a ribbon cable underneath the motherboard attaching it to the screen right there so you can take that lift up the little black clasp then you can slide the ribbon cable out just like that and then you freed the motherboard from the phone the camera is also replaceable same ribbon cable lift up the little clasp and the camera slides out you can replace it pop a new one back in pretty simple and then latch the clasp back down into place once the ribbon cable is fully inserted back into the phone so this is the screen the glass part and the LCD they are glued together so if you crack your glass you have to replace both parts and by the whole component you can't replace just the glass alone there seems to be confusion about that but they are definitely glued together anyway so to put the phone back together take the same ribbon cable the digitizer cable and slide it into the motherboard latching the little black clasp down again set the motherboard into place make sure to lift up the front camera ribbon cable so there's no ribbon cables attached underneath and make sure that the bottom wooden cable isn't bent in any weird ways either when you put it back down you don't want to damage anything when you're screwing everything back into place put a little metal bracket back in there's two little screws that go on to the upper side here and then the lower side right below that take the black plastic piece clip that into place and then there's those five screws on that you took off that will fit right around the edge of that again there's the placement of those battery slip it in stick the little ribbon cable back down again it'll still be sticky so it's kind of press it into place and then we have the volume ribbon cable I'm going to slide in and reel a CH if you don't lift up the latch it's not going to go in so lift it up slide it in and then pinch it back down again and then these two bottom cables for the battery and the antenna just go ahead and click those into place kind of like Legos again and then the bottom plastic piece remember this one has four screws going around the bottom edge of it and putting the SIM card back in the same slot it came out of check and make sure the phone works before I put the back on it looks like everything is going well all right everything looks like ice I'm going to go ahead and put the LED ribbon cable back into the slot and latch it back into place and like I mentioned before all the replacement parts and tools that I use for this project can be found in the video description below I will put links to them and then go ahead and clip around to the outside you'll hear a series of satisfying clicks as you put everything back into place and that's it anyway if you have any questions make sure to leave them in the comments below you can also reach me on Twitter and yeah like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe thanks for watching