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all right so I have a ps4 controller here that we're going to take apart today it's also called a dual shock 4 so there's four screws around the back just here Armel Philips head screws so I'm going to take apart each one of those they're all the same size so I'm just going to set them aside and then I found that if you kind of pinch each of the little handles it kind of will separate the back from the front of the controller and you can kind of wedge a little pry tool in between there's a series of latches around the outside that are stuck really tightly holding the top to the bottom of the controller so if you find each little clasp and clip it it'll pop out and you can see that the back of the controller right here is coming loose from the buttons if you watch at the very end of the video how I put it back together it'll make a lot more sense how it comes apart you see the button came loose right there I can just click it back into place so it's pretty simple right here you can see the battery as well as the white ribbon cable which goes to the charging port so I'm just going to pull that away from the little connector on the motherboard and now I'm going to show you how to replace the charging port if you don't need this step and just want to go to the battery replacement you can skip ahead to about 2 minutes and 30 seconds 2 screws right here that you're going to undo they're just your normal Phillips head and then you can start moving a little pieces of plastic and this is all for the light and that is on the controller for the how it communicates with the camera and the expo and sorry the PlayStation get a little plastic out of the way and there's two little Phillips head screw drivers down screw heads down at the bottom that I'm going to undo and then the charging port itself just comes loose from the controller usually these parts aren't very expensive at all so if yours breaks if you need the part and I haven't listed it in the video description below yet just shoot me a comment and I'll find one for you getting it all put back together getting eels two Phillips head screws back into place tightening them in and then the glass has its own little pins that it kind of sits on top of so everything goes back in its own little groove the controller was made pretty sturdily and then you have the top two Phillips head screws as well so here's the battery the interesting thing about the battery is three point six five volts and a thousand milliamp hours it's lithium-ion I think that this battery feels really light and that you can get a nether battery that would be about the same size that you know doubles the milliamp hours in it so I think it's switchable anyway so here's the two vibrators and the handles of the controllers one is bigger than the other I thought that was interesting as well to kind of give you kind of dual vibrations then to take out the main board inside the controller you have the one screw that holds it into place as you're separating the main board from the top half of the controller there's a few little buttons that might fall out there's not very many it's mostly just a share button at the top along with the other button you can see that mine came loose all you got to do is just grab your little button and pop it back into place not too big of a deal and so all these buttons they are swappable as well you can just pop those out and pop a new ones in then here's the main board nothing on this is really swappable all the like the vibrators and everything else is soldered onto the main board so there's nothing really that you can change out on this section of the controller and then this is a little touch pad up at the top and it comes loose you can see a little white ribbon cable that goes into the main board clip that back into place and then back to the main board again so this is the little speaker right here in the main section so if your speaker goes out you can swap that out and you can see on the main board these little connectors right here is how it gets its communication it just rests against those little gold connectors and then it tells it what to play kind of fun anyway get that position back into place again back on the main board and then set it directly on top of the plastic I keep it facedown just so I don't have to deal with all the buttons coming loose and falling out and then make sure everything finds its correct groove get that little ribbon cable back into place that you took out before just press it in there's a little latch that you have to clip down then get the back plastic with a little battery compartment and I think you know if you do find a different size battery one that lasts longer you can modify that compartment is a little bit you know shave away a little bit of the plastic it looks like the battery you know there's room around the battery as well anyway here's the charging port ribbon you can kind of see me getting that into place just making sure just do it super gently not to bend the cable at all and not to scrape off the little gold connectors on it just push it straight in and it holds itself there's no latches or anything on this connector and then this little guy fell out this is for the reset button on the controller it's just like a little rubber thing that just goes in it so if that popped out just kind of slip it down in the groove in the plastic where it goes took me a second to figure out where that one came from anyway so you see this is how the back goes on it just latches on between the left and the right the triggers and then once the back is clasped on the rest of it just kind of falls into place you can kind of see it just kind of snap it in and you can hear all the little latches clicking shut as you close it you know if you have any questions make sure leave in the comments below don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe I put a videos fairly often you can see my 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