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you need a small Phillips head screwdriver and then a pentalobe screwdriver it's the same size that opens up all of the iPhones I need a pry tool and a suction cup put the suction cup close to the home button take your pentalobe screwdriver and undo the bottom two screws right next to the charging port place your suction cup right next to the home button and lift up with your finger at the same time trying to put the pry tool between the frame and the screen I found it a little bit easier to use a razor blade as it was more it was more firm so it could slide down between the frame and the glass easier lift up gently and kind of pariah them apart don't stick your tool in too far though because there's a ribbon cable that you don't want to rip lift up gently between the screen and the frame you can see right here that little ribbon cable that's where the fingerprint sensor connects to the main board so I'm going to do is I'm going to take my little pry tool reach it in there and it's kind of like a little latch so you twist your pry tool up a little bit and it will unlatch on one side and I will come apart here in a second you'll see as I lift up the little ribbon cable connector and unsnap it the top part of the latch comes off which is fine it goes back on pretty easily as well when I say easily I mean you're going to hate every second of it towards the end of the video right here on this bracket there's going to be four screws take off each of the screws and then set them in the location where they came out and then put the bracket right next to them so remember where they go in because they are different sizes there's the bracket and then right here we have different ribbon cables I'm just going to unsnap them just like little Legos this is for the earpiece and camera this one right here is for the LCD and then this one's the digitizer not that you really need to know what those are but they unclip and unsnap just like that now here's the screen we have the earpiece on this side with all the cameras and the sensors and we have the home button with the fingerprint sensor on the bottom I'm going to show you how to take apart that first undo the little screw there's a little little super tiny metal piece it should stick to the screw as you unscrew it as Minded just remember where that goes in the location of it so you can put it back in just in case it does pop off then there's two screws holding on the home button there's a little metal bracket so take that off and then the home button itself is just kind of stuck on like with sticky tape type stuff onto the frame of the phone so you can take any kind of pry tool I know like my razor blade I find that it is pretty stiff and sharp enough to get under on these little tiny seams be super careful around these ribbon cables looks if you rip one you know you have to buy a new part I'm going to show you how to gently pry up around the home button just a little bit on each side until the whole button comes away from the phone very gently any parts for this phone I'm going to list in the video description below so if you have any questions you need to make that let me know if you have a specific part you need let me know and I can usually find a preachy for you and there's the home button and now we're going to take off the earpiece as well as the front-facing camera and light sensor so there's the two screws on either side of the bracket there and the brackets kind of interesting there's a little metal clip on the inside of the bracket that you have to bend just ever so slightly outside of the bracket will come come off so I'm going to bend that out and then the whole bracket comes away from the phone and you can kind of see what I was talking about with a little tiny clip right there so it's very easily clips back into place when you're done anyway once it can be super careful with all these little ribbon cables Apple didn't mess around and they were putting them all into one component right here you can see I'm lifting out the connector for the earpiece as well as the light sensor and then you can see the camera coming away as well in that same ribbon cable group and then the whole thing is kind of stuck down with a little grounding sticker onto the back of the screen so I'll peel up on that very gently once again you don't want to rip any of this stuff unless you break when opening your foam the better that's what I always say there you go now it depends on where you buy your screen from but you might also have to switch out the metal plate there's just those four screws around the outside now once again that's completely depend on where your screen front I'm not going to do it on this screen just because it is super simple four screws pop it out good to go and I'm going to place the group of ribbon cables cameras sensor and everything back into place there's only one spot for everything so you just kind of got to position it does take a little bit to get everything in the right spot but they only fit in one way so it's pretty simple to figure out got it stuck back down onto the screen again and then get the earpiece in there remember the earpiece acts as like a little magnet so let's say you're trying to pick up a screw with your screwdriver and your screwdrivers not magnetized you can easily magnetize it on the back of the on the back of the speaker I'll show you how to do that once I get this bracket into place so my screwdriver won't pick up the screw so I touch it to the back of the speaker and then boom the screwdriver is magnetized and will pick up any screw almost too well so I'm going to grab it with my tweezers instead and place it down into the hole and screw back into place same thing with the other screw and you are done with the earpiece so the home button remember this is where you need to remember what direction that little tiny metal bit was going in let's get the home button pressed down into place get the bracket over the top of it and then hopefully your screw is still stuck in to the top of the ribbon cable so you can just screw it down into place I found that it was a little bit easier to hold it with my pry tool as well as the little screwdriver like this and finally got that thing screwed in again and now to get the screen back on I'm going to start with the digitizer ribbon cable clip that into place once again just like Legos it takes a second to position it right over the top but once it's in place you can just click it down you'll hear a satisfying click with each connection you'll see me struggle a little bit with this last one it's hard to find out exactly where I wanted to clip in and there we go grab your little bracket and once again you should have your screws laid out in a way that you can remember where they went I'm going to screw each one of those back into place once again any parts for this you know the screen anything else you might need will be listed in the video description below and if you need anything else besides that make sure to ask me in the comments or hit me up on Twitter either way hit me up on Facebook and I can answer any questions you have anyway here's the finger print scanner cable that we're going to try to get back into place you're going to hate this thing it never wants to do what you want it to do so I kind of positioned a place with my finger and I have my pry tool that I'm just going to kind of press it in just like little Lego snaps that we were playing with before get it in place and I have a little hinged bracket that I'm going to slip down on top of there as well once you get it into place you can press it down with your finger or with your pry tool once again it just takes forever to get this thing position just right you're going to love Apple anyway that's what it looks like when it's in place and then position the top of the screen in first and then you can kind of snap up the edge of the phone make sure to press only on the edges so you don't crack the screen again and then clip the bottom into place as well and then at this point I like to turn the phone on to make sure it's working and then I don't have to undo the bottom screws more than I need to looks like it all turns on so I'm going to get those bottom screws screwed back into place once again if you have any come any questions or comments or anything else make sure leave in the comments below like this video if it helped you and don't forget to subscribe I get my hands on fairly new phones fairly quickly so you can see the guts of them as soon as they come out hit me up on Google+ Twitter and Facebook love to hear from you and thanks for watching