iPhone 7 Plus Front Camera Replacement By Save Apple Dollars

iPhone 7 plus front camera replacement guide. The tools were gonna need are a proprietary pantalone screwdriver at the lips head, double or triple zero screwdriver either one will work. A proprietary, Y screwdriver, a suction cup for prying. The screen apart also a plastic triangular pick tool for separating the screen. This is an optional tool here. This will help remove the adhesive around the contour of the screen and a plastic spider for prying connections.

Apart then also tweezers for managing screws and difficult to get to components. If the phone is on go ahead and power it down near the charging port, there are two pantalone screws: securing the screen to the phone case, go ahead and remove the two pantalone screws go ahead and place the suction cup, as close as you can to the home button, make sure it's firmly secured and nice and tight now loop, either your index or your middle finger through the suction cup loop pinch. The sides of the phone with your other fingers make sure that you have leverage now pull as hard as you can on the suction cup. This will create a small crack for you to sneak the triangular pick through and go ahead and start prying it from left to right to pry the screen apart. The tension and resistance that you'll feel is going to be from the adhesive, the waterproof adhesive.

You can go ahead and remove or cut away this adhesive with the metallic prying tool. You can use it in tandem with the plastic tool or just the plastic tool itself. In case you don't want to risk scratching the phone run. The tool along both sides of the phone ride, the screen up just a little, no more than an inch remember this phone folds out like a book and not straight up what you want to do is you want to pull it down and then flip it over like a book, and you're going to close it and then push it back in when we're done. So that's how it opens up, go ahead and loosen up the top of the adhesive near the top of the phone.

Now it just tilts it and push it out and then open it right up just like a book and that's it ready. The screen is connected in two places to the logic board, we'll need to remove the cover that guards the connection it's secured with four white tip screws go ahead and remove the four white tip screws, as you see here now, go ahead and lift and remove the cover. This will expose the two connections once the digitizer and one to the LCD, with the plastic prying tool go ahead and get underneath the LCD connection now go ahead and get underneath the digitizer connection. This side is now loose, let's undo the top go ahead and remove the three white tip screws that are guarding the shield and then remove the shield now, with a plastic prying tool get underneath and pop out the camera connection, and this will completely loosen up the screen. We can now separate the screen from the phone on the screen.

Remove the five Phillips head screws that are securing the shield bracket that holds the speaker and the camera together, go ahead and remove the five screws. As you see there now you can gently lift the shield and move it out of the way pry back the camera, slightly lift the speaker. Here's what the earpiece speaker looks like removing the camera is a little tricky, go ahead and peel it back and expose the ambient sensor and just pry it out in the orientation that you see here now gently in this top left corner work, the prying tool, plastic, prying tool underneath that camera corner be very careful because the camera is connected to the speaker, cable, with a little of adhesive. Here's what the camera looks like when it's out reassembly place the speaker portion of the cable right along the two guiding pins and leg. The cable in place now go ahead and tuck in the ambient sensor.

First, you can use the plastic prying tool to gently push it into its socket. Now go ahead and place the ear speaker over the cable and fold up the camera portion of the cable over the speaker and put the camera into its socket now go ahead and place the bracket over the camera and the speaker make sure everything is aligned and re-secure it with the five Phillips head screws, let's reattach the screen to the phone go ahead and align it side-by-side now at the top, go ahead and secure the camera connection first, by aligning it in the following orientation and then clicking it into its socket. You can use the plastic prying tool to assist you to make sure you get a good connection. Now go ahead and place the shield over the connection and secure it with the three white tip screws. Moving on to the bottom: go ahead and secure the LCD and the digitizer a portion of the screen, the digitizer first, it's the smaller ribbon, cable go ahead and click that into place make sure it's nice and firm click then secure the LCD.

Now you can put the cable cover over both of the connections secure it with the four white tip screws. If you got the mixed of the one, all the way in the right is the longer one. We can clamp up the phone now go ahead and fold it up now, at the very top make sure you tuck that in first and the latches are in at the top, then you can go ahead and clamp. It shut going around the contour, making sure that it's sealed and clamped in once you went around the contour a few times, and you feel, like you, have a good seal. It's time to reinstall the two pantalone screen near the charging port.

You can go ahead and load the two screws into their sockets and then tighten them with the pantalone screwdriver. Now, let's go ahead and power on and test the phone looks good. Thank you for watching. If this video helped you please hit like and subscribe, and check out more awesome videos at apple. com.

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