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all right today we're going to take apart the ZTE force from Sprint pretty solid little phone make sure you take out the battery and then the sticker on the inside all that needs to come out as well as well as the screw in underneath this little sticker make sure to check the video description for a bunch of replacement parts speakers screens I'll try to find the cheapest ones off of Amazon and put those on there for you there are eight screws around the outside of the phone that I'm taking out right now as soon as those screws are out the outside of the frame almost falls apart with just your fingers there's a few small little clips that holds the screen onto the back end of the frame and you can just see me I'm not even using a tool just to pull this apart there you go and these little black hooks or what I'm talking about that hold that sticker in place that's why the sticker has to come off there's the vibrator and here we have a ribbon cable attaching the digitizer to the motherboard so just pick up that little flap right there and then the ribbon cable slides right out and then the motherboard itself is glued on to the screen it's not very tight though this one screw holding down the top circuit board of the camera doesn't need to come out and you can kind of see I'm just kind of loosening up around the motherboard right now and if I slide my pry tool all the way through it kind of pops the motherboard away from the screen you can see it loosen up right there and then the motherboard is released it's not too hard but just make sure to loosen it up enough that you don't apply too much force otherwise you'll crack and damage things so now we're moving the circuit board from around the camera it's also glued on so it's a little bit of prying here in there pulls it away there we go there is a on the right side of that that's with a clip that kind of snaps it all in place I'll show you when I install it there's another ribbon cable right here that I just loosened up and then this part of it was glued on as well so that'll snap off and pull away from the motherboard to replace the earpiece you just pry this little black box out it's glued on as well makers of this phone love the glue that's it leave the screen in place any way to reinstall it just kind of tap it back into place you can reuse the same glue there's enough of it there slip the motherboard back in and then all you have to do is slide the little ribbon cable into the slot that it came out of and make sure to latch the the ribbon cable docking point back down so it doesn't slip out just like this so latch it down press it back into place using the same tape and then here's that Lego piece I was talking about right on there on that right side just make sure that clicks into place and then get that screw back on there as well now hold it tight this last ribbon cable from the screen and then make sure you latch that back into place as well back housing and then there's that nice little pile of eight screws right there that also need to be screwed back into the the foam I kind of forgot to battery back and everything works anyway if you have any questions leave them in the comments don't forget to like the video and don't forget subscribe thanks remember to check the description for Amazon parts