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finally got my hands on one of the new Nexus 5's this one's made by LG I'm going to take it apart and see what's inside first of all I need to take off the back of the phone and generally speaking the backs of not supposed to come off so you have to be a little persuasive about it I separated the back with my fingernail and kind of used a pry tool to unlatch the little clasps that go around the the back of the phone and just kind of trace the pry tool you know up and around and all the way down the other side little by little working each clasp individually and then as you move I start at the top of the phone and move my way down there's some glue that hold the bottom of the phone to the back case you can kind of see as I pry away there and I'm just working it gently try not to bend the back too much working my pry tool up in there and it is finally off you can see the back of the phone and here are six screws around the top of the phone we're going to take apart you can see in my little diagram there and now the black plastic is going to come off the top of the phone and this exposes the motherboard to us so you can see the camera all the different wire cables there's four screws down at the bottom as well so I'm going to take those out and then the bottom bracket will pop up and off away from the phone just use my little pry tool to get it away the charging port on this phone is removable and replaceable which is really nice this is the speaker for the phone by the way if it comes off with deep black back on it and so the charging ports connected up here on the main board so I'm going to unlatch that it's kind of nice to see a different carrier besides Samsung make their charging ports replaceable this is little wire cable along the outside as well be super careful when you're lifting this up I kind of lifted a rope up around the base of the head of the wire cable so it wouldn't bend or break the head of it there's another ribbon cable latch right there kind of like Legos just unsnap t'v to replace the battery you just lift up at the bottom and then there's another little ribbon cable that attaches to the motherboard super simple I'll replace any I'll place any parts that I find either on Amazon or each trade supply down in the video description below replacement parts so if you ever need to buy a new battery on your charging port you can find them down there there's another two wire cubile on the other side attached to the motherboard and this disconnects the charging port from the mainboard itself and so now I'm going to pry it away and like I was saying usually Samsung is the only one who makes their charging ports replaceable so it's nice to see other companies like LG branching out and to into that because the first thing that usually breaks out a phone is the charging port and Samsung's charging ports are all around you know 10 or 15 bucks so it makes it super repairable especially for the end user now it is up and away from the phone and if you're just replacing your charging port that's all you got to do grab your new one place it in latch it down and you're good to go right here there's another ribbon cable up along the top of the phone I'm going to unlatch that and then there's another one right here by the camera there's not very many ribbon cables on this phone that completely detaches the motherboard away from the phone itself so I'm going to wiggle that up and off around the camera the ribbon cable got caught on the mainboard there and we are free so that's the mainboard and here is the earpiece also very replaceable just pop it up and out so if your speaker goes out it's super easy to replace it and grab another one it's kind of like a little Lego piece you can play with Legos you can operate on a phone pop it back into place also the headphone jack is very replaceable pops up and out away from the phone you can see how little connectors right there that touch the jack of your earphones when you plug them in and then they will all feed up to the mainboard as well camera also pops up and out so if you replace your camera super simple once again if you need replacement parts that I haven't listed just send me an email or just leave a comment in the comments below and I will get that to you this is the screen right here so if you need to replace the screen it comes apart as a whole unit this video I'm not showing you how to take apart the glass of the screen mostly because the success rate of that is super low so I would highly recommend just replacing the whole screen as unit the glass and the LED putting foam back together got the motherboard slip down over the ribbon cables making sure that the ribbon cables are on the top side of the motherboard and not pinched down underneath latch them both on just like the little Legos I was talking about before grab in the charging port laying down that into place and the same spot it was before there's little guidelines along the plastic of the phone as well that guide and make sure all the ribbon cables are in the same spot that they came out of so it's pretty simple you're not going to misplace something especially like these little wire cables have grooves that they sit down inside so they said exactly like it was when it was manufactured now you only have one chance of this these little wire cables they do Bend really easily the heads of them so you want to make sure that it is directly on top of the port that plugs into before you apply too much pressure because if you do break one then you're just out of luck and you got to buy another cable so be super careful line it up press it down get the battery back in there clip it into place as well latch the charging port ribbon cable into place and the bottom bracket which also includes the loudspeaker get the screws back into place all four of those one here's a diagram again same thing with the top you're going to want to get all of the six screws back into place as well once again if you have any questions make sure to leave them in the comments I usually respond pretty quickly overall I'm pretty satisfied with foam very well built in my mind compared to the Samsung I think is very similar to how Samsung is done with their phones with the Galaxy S series the three the four and the notes there will be a series of satisfying clicks as you pinch shut the back around the outside of the phone and once again if you need a replacement parts let me know it will link what I have down in the video description below and that is it don't forget to subscribe to my channel you can also hit me up on Google+ Twitter at Zach's jerry-rigged and also Facebook jerry-rigged everything hope see you around thanks