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all right so here we have the Nexus 4 LG e 960 screen replacement this is a t-mobile phone you can see that the screen is cracked right there first step we're going to take out the SIM card just take a little paperclip pop it in a little circle hole and out pops the SIM card on the screen itself is unresponsive so I can't turn the phone off but it's not a huge problem there's a pentalobe screw two of them down at the very bottom we're going to unscrew those pop out the screws and then try to separate the back housing from the screen right next to the silver part you see me taking my pry tool and kind of moving around and all the parts for this project can be found on Amazon the screens the charging port everything so I'll list those in the video description below this part is actually pretty complicated the back housing is stuck very securely with the screen so it takes a second or two more like ten minutes to separate them and you kind of have to get aggressive there towards the end I found that starting by the charging port and prying up a little bit and then using my fingers to hold it apart while I move down the edge of the phone works the best you can see it wanting to separate right there and it clicks off luckily there's no wires or anything that connect the back housing directly to the front so you'll be just fine pulling it apart there's 11 different screws around the back make sure you keep them organized most of them of the same size except for the bottom two and the two on the battery which I'm going to show you right now be very very careful when you're lifting this up the part that connects it to the motherboard is not very strong at all so make sure you lift it directly up and don't pry left or right very much where it will snap off remove this wire cable by just lifting up Jared very gently with your pry tool and then remove the blue tape off the battery and you'll be able to lift this wire up and out of your way there are no screws holding down the motherboard which is nice just these little ribbon cable connectors they pop up and off the motherboard like Legos they're pretty durable little guys so you can just you know wiggle them straight up and out this is for the screen one of them's for the LCD and the other ones for the digitizer just lift them up and out of your way and then the audio port has its own little ribbon cable right there as well there's four of them total and the motherboard just kind of Wiggles up and out from the housing and just set this off to the side now we're going to take out the battery the very is very securely glued to the housing and so you just kind of take your pry tool and just wiggle it under the flat or the pry tool the better I like this little red stick so I use it quite a lot you know you can be a little bit aggressive with it there's nothing that you can really damage underneath there all right to get to the charging port is underneath this black piece the charging port is just glued to the phone itself so you just take the blue part that was at the bottom there just kind of wiggle it gently up and then you can place the new charging port in its spot it's pretty simple if there's nothing else really holding it down in place now we are heating up the front of the screen so we can separate the phone from the screen itself I took about 45 seconds to heat it up it's got to be a little bit hotter like if you touch it it's going to be too hot to leave your finger there that's about the temperature that you want it at I use a little razor to separate the screen from the housing you can use whatever tool you want to just having a really thin tool helped me separate it be very careful when you're prying up on the glass little shards will pop up I would recommend wearing safety glasses also if you can't find a tool better than a razor blade you know more power to you razor blades are not that safe once I got the screen pried up a little bit I was able to take my red pry tool and kind of you know use it instead worked out a lot better it's very gently a kind of pulling away with if the screen is broken you don't have to worry too much about you know damaging it anymore the only thing I would recommend is try to get it off in one piece because the more big pieces you can get off the better and just remember I'm going to scream that's I buy I get them from Amazon so I will list those in the video description below if you just want to check out that link I'll have the right one all set up for you same with the charging port sometimes you can even get camera replacement lenses out of Amazon as well anyway so you can see right here as I was lifting it up I didn't quite grab the bottom part of the phone the bottom part of the glass was still stuck on there so I tossed that and I got the heat gun back out and heated up for another about 45 seconds till it was almost too hot to touch and then I used my super dangerous razor blade as well as my red plastic pry tool to kind of separate the glass from the rest of the phone and you want to get every single little bit of glass that you can because when you put the new screen down on if there's even just one tiny little speck of glass it makes it so it is not able to sit flush with the phone and it might even leave little pressure marks on the LCD so make sure you clean it off super well and even get the excess glue out from around the edges it's better to take your time so you only have to do it once more time to take apart your phone the more you're at risk of damaging something anyway so now we have the new screen so we're going to feed the ribbon cables through the phone this is for the digitizer and LCD again and once they're fed through the phone you got to make sure that everything is through so that some of the ribbon cables are not bunched up on the wrong side of the screen you can see me pulling off a little plastic protector right there and making sure that all of the cables are fed through once I'm sure that the phone screen will fit flush with the phone and the ribbon cables are pulled through I will grab my superglue and we can also use double-sided sticky tape if you want I just find that super glue works just as well and it keeps the phone sitting with the lens sitting a little more flush with the phone the sticky tape kind of leaves a little bit of space so you can see me putting glue everywhere except for where the cameras are and make sure that none of it will bleed over onto the cameras because once you've got it on a camera there's no that I set one din flush with the phone and I leave the charging port end up just a little bit so I can still put some glue around the edges as well as get some glue down around the base I'm luckily around the base there's a lot of room for the superglue so I just kind of piled it up down there in the bottom and then I held it shut for probably about a minute or two your to kind of let the glue just dry a little bit and hold it still and now that it's dry there's a little plastic piece that works with the upper Mike that kind of cuts the sound in toward some other boards make sure that plastic piece is there that little grate them at the top and now I'm putting the black speaker in over the charging port that you just replaced the charging port is the whole blue motherboard underneath that black speaker I'll list it in the video description as you are putting the motherboard on to the phone make sure you have all the little ribbon connect livened connectors pulled up and away so they're not underneath the motherboard remember there's four of them as well as the one wire cable make sure the camera is sitting flush inside that little square then you can kind of see me pushing down on the ribbon cables getting them into place it's a lot like a Lego piece they just kind of snap on and kind of hear them click when you press them in then you see the little wire cable there I'm pressing that and it will click as well you definitely know when they are connected again now here's the battery kit battery connector remember be very gentle with it clip it into place and then put the two screws back in I turned on the phone really quick just to make sure it was working before I put the rest of it together now put on the plastic motherboard protector and then get all of those screws that you have before all of the black ones now that weren't for the batteries should be the same size and then the two silver screws go in the bottom right above the charging port now the back housings on putting two screws back in for the bottom the pentalobe screws and everything works anyway thanks for watching if you could subscribe that does mean a lot to me I do like making these videos and remember everything can be found in the video description below as far as parts of stuff go anyway like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe thanks for watching