Lightning connector iPhone 5 replacement - preparation
- In the most of the tool you can't mean that mainly improvisation, the screwdriver you can move around but.
- The following Werkeugset of the iDoc, it costs 34 euros and brings everything you need to exchange with. Screwdriver, suction Cup and plastic Picks are the most important utensils.
- All the screws and parts you remove, you should set sorted to the side. So you are looking for at the end of not long after the right screw.
iPhone5 Lightning connector exchange
Step 1: the Display on the iPhone 5 solve
Note: Place your iPhone in the same way as you would use it. Then, what is meant in this guide, with the top and bottom and the left and the right knowledge.
- Turn off the iPhone and undo the two screws on the left and to the right of the Lightning connector.
- Put the suction Cup as possible about the Home Button, otherwise, next to the Home Button.
- You pull on the suction Cup, so that the Display detaches easily. Slide the plastic Pick into the now-visible gap between the housing and the Display.
- Loosen only the lower part and then proceed with the Plectrum around the housing, so that the complete Display is released.
- The Display is detached from the housing, lift it up high. It is here also connected with a cable.
- At the top right you will find next to the battery, a slightly larger metal plate. This is down fastened with three screws. Loosen all of the screws.
- Under the metal plate you will find a total of three Connections. You can solve this quite careful with the plastic pen. The Display can be removed.
Step 2: remove the battery
- In the bottom third you will find on the right-hand sides of two elongated metal plates. Remove the lower two of the three screws.
- Lift the bottom metal plate with the plastic pin, and remove it. Below you will find the connection from the PCB to the battery. You will also remove this connection with the plastic pen.
- With the flat side of the metal pin, you can now remove the battery. Since this is glued, you need some patience to pry. The battery is glued very strongly, you can apply the glue with a hair dryer from the bottom a little softening.
Step 3: Lightning connector to solve
- At the point of the last screw removed, you can find a thin cable. Remove it gently.
- The Lightning connector is secured with two screws. Obliquely on the left-hand screw you remove now, the easy glued connection to the Home Button.
- In the lower part (below the battery) you will find a total of seven screws. You remove all of these screws.
- Left of the Lightning connector, there is a silver cover. You can solve this with the plastic pen.
- The bottom right is the speaker. Lift the component only slightly, and you try to rotate something. So it is very easy to remove.
- In the removal of the battery, we have taken only two out of the three screws. Now remove the third screw and the second metal plate. Below you will find a flat cable with the plastic pen solve.
Step 4: Lightning connector replacement
- Where the speaker was located, is on the loosened ribbon cable. Right here it is glued to a point. You can solve this issue with the metal pin.
- The cable can now be easily removed. The Lightning port and microphone and headphone Jack solves also.
- Under the component, several washers are located. Make sure that they leave your place.
- The following things you will need to transfer from the old component to the new component: The microphone rubber seal to the left of the Lightning connector, thin cable, and the adhesive film to the thin and the flat cable.
- Now you can use the new component and the instructions from a backward track.
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