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in this four-minute video I will teach you how to replace the Wi-Fi antenna in your iPhone five parts and tools can be found in the video description below start with the two pentalobe screws down at the bottom and then grab a suction cup one that is hopefully bigger than this one if your suction cup doesn't have enough cojones to lift off the screen go ahead and grab a metal pry tool or a razor blade and slip it between the metal frame of the phone and the plastic edge of the glass screen and pry up very very gently along the edges if you pry up on the glass you're going to break something so make sure to stay along the edge of the phone and pull it up out of the little clasps that keeps the screen down in then don't bend it past 90 degrees or else you'll damage some cables grab the three screws that hold down this metal plate lift up metal plate and put it next to the three screws and then lift up each of these little ribbon cables kind of like Legos pull them up and away and that releases the screen from the phone put that somewhere special and try to stay organized release these two screws grab the metal plate put those next put the metal plate next to the two screws that you just barely took out then you can unclip the battery the batteries in there pretty tight the sticky tape that they use tends to get harder over time so the longer you've had the phone the harder it is going to be to take out your battery I found that it was easiest to take a plastic pry tool slide it between the edge after you know playing with it for a little bit and just pry it up from the outside just like that I'm going to go ahead and unclip the volume and power cables from the mainboard because to get to the Wi-Fi antenna it's plugged in to the bottom of the motherboard so we have to take out the motherboard and flip it around in order for us to unplug it also the vibrating motor is in our way so we're going to go ahead and unscrew the two brackets all the two screws holding down the bracket and then put that somewhere special next to the two screws that came out with it grab the one screw at the top and then the vibrating motor comes free and this is the little guy that spins around when you get a text message a phone call kind of cute go ahead and put that away now there is a metal bracket holding down the charging port ribbon cable so I'm going to go ahead and unplug that just like the Legos we were talking about before and then the cellular antenna going to unclip that as well this is a wire cable and then just kind of get those up and out of the way so we can work on getting the motherboard out there's two more little ribbon cables that are in the way of one of our screws so go ahead and pop that out and then that shows us where all of the screws are there are five of them holding the motherboard down and then another two up here by the camera once the two by the camera are unscrewed we can go ahead and remove that bracket once again keep all the screws organized so you can have an easier time putting it all back together again and then before we can pull out the mainboard we also have to get rid of the SIM card you can do this you know at the beginning of the whole process if you'd like as well probably a little bit easier that way and don't forget these two screws very very important they're the grounding screws for the motherboard and if you pry up on it it'll rip the cables and you'll be in a pile of bad luck so grab the Wi-Fi antenna unclip it from the back of the mainboard and then set that somewhere special and then here's the Wi-Fi antenna itself it has a little metal bracket so go ahead and pull that out and then the rest of its glued down to the back of the phone so just very gently you know with a pair of tweezers or with your plastic pry tool pull that up and away from the back of the phone and then you can just take your new one and put it in the exact same spot pretty simple this would fix you know if your Wi-Fi is grayed out in the settings on your phone this would fix it or if your Wi-Fi is just not working very well you know replacing the antenna would help out a lot anyway if I helped you at all feel free to subscribe don't forget to like this video if it helped you and thanks for watching