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in front of me we have the Umi super phone that is the same phone did my durability test on so that's why it has a couple of scratches on the back and a crack screen on the front you can see when I turned the phone on at the top half of the screen does function but the part below the crack does not function so this phone only costs $200 so it will normally not be cost effective to fix parts are hard to find for this device so why am I taking it apart first off so we can analyze the build quality of a $200 phone versus a $700 phone like the galaxy s7 and sometimes when you have important information on your phone and the screen breaks you'll need to Frankenstein two phones together in order to save or backup your information many non techie people don't backup their pictures or text messages and are willing to pay money to recover those when their phone breaks so let's get on with the teardown holding down the power button just restarts the phone so we're going to do this live like you see and remove the SIM card tray and the bottom plastic protections over the bottom and top of the phone there are six screws that hold the back housing into the front housing and then you can just pull that off the back all of the buttons do fall out which is extremely annoying the battery is a four thousand milliamp battery the buttons will be annoying later on but I'll show you how to deal with them there's four screws around this back plastic piece and then one more screw underneath the fingerprint scanner talk to the fingerprint scanner through the back plastic and then pop that off of the phone then there's little latch connection that holds the side buttons into place you can just lift that up and slide that out remove the wire cable connector and unplug the battery since this phone was not turned off when we started working on it that's very important there's not a lot of tape or sticky stuff underneath the battery just pops out on its own using the blunt end of my metal pry tool be careful to not damage this extension ribbon cable and this is just like you see on the oneplus series there's another latch for the screen ribbons we're going to pop that off and then there's a weird little cable that's actually soldered on to the mainboard this design is not my favorite I'm going to remove the top tape and that exposes some more connections for us there's a similar Lego type connection right here at the top we're going to pop that off and lift it up so it's not in the way of the motherboard and the motherboard is released from the frame there's a little metal pocket at the bottom of the motherboard that holds it in place and then make sure you lift up the earpiece as well so that doesn't get caught and remove the rear facing camera and the front-facing camera from the motherboard one has the Lego connection D front-facing has the latch the rear is a Panasonic 13 megapixel and the front is a 5-megapixel selfie camera stick it back into place just tuck it in with little latch and plug the Lego one in and then make sure you lock down the latch so that the camera doesn't fall out if you ever drop your phone there are four screws at the bottom near the charging port once those are off the top plastic piece will come away there aren't any components on this plastic piece unplug little wire connection and then unsnap the extension ribbon cable there's one screw holding the charging board into place and you can pull that away after pulling off the vibrator motor from the plastic itself you don't want to damage those wires here is the type C charging port I will try to find replacement parts and link as many as I can down in the video description below but if you're trying to back up someone's information you might just need to buy a new phone or swap motherboards and screens because this is the screen this is where you would take your replacement parts and put them on the new screen that's working if you want to back up your data the screen is embedded into the metal frame I imagine if they sell parts at all it will be without the metal frame you'll need to transfer the new LCD into the old frame after removing the cracked LCD kind of complicated putting a charging port back into place plug in the extension ribbon cable the wire and the little screw underneath the plastic panel and then there are four screws that hold the top of the panel into place motherboard gets tucked in after making sure there's no wires or ribbon cables underneath it don't want to pinch those down set the earpiece into place and the motherboard gets tucked underneath that little metal edge on the bottom right corner get all the buttons into place plug in that wire cable connection slide the ribbon cable into the latch and latch it down after making sure all the contacts are straight if that ribbon cable is kinked at all in the contacts aren't touching where they should be it's not going to work right get the top ribbon cable snapped down like a little Lego and put the tape back into place the tape is in super mandatory so if you ripped that or anything just tries to get back as best as possible volume buttons are plugged in and the battery is the last thing that we're going to plug in so there's no power coursing through the board I'm going to test the phone before I put the back panel on and it looks like everything is working besides the fact that my phone is still busted from the durability test but the back plastic gone get those five screws into place before tacking down the finger scanner now these buttons are super annoying they're not held into the back housing I imagine because this is a $200 phone design so I'm setting those into place as best as I can and then I'm just taking the top of the phone with motherboard in the screen and setting that down into the back instead of the other way around which is how I would usually do it that way the buttons don't fall out when I'm moving the back panel there are six screws holding down the back panel into the front housing and then we're going to put those plastic pieces back into place as well they just tuck in it's actually a lot easier to use these snapping back pieces than it is to use the glue covered ones on the Nexus 6p if you have any questions them down in the comments I do behind the scenes stuff on Instagram Twitter and snapchat recently as well check out my durability video of this Umi super foam I've done 27 other durability videos on popular phones like the iPhone 6s the galaxy s7 and the LG g5 so check those out in my smartphone durability playlist hope see around thanks for watching