the Lightning connector is one of
Apple's newest innovations offering many
new benefits like the reversible cord
but sometimes the cool new innovation
stops working and that's when we come in
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and I'll be
walking you through this repair but as
always make sure to check out our step
by step guide on ifixit.com when you do
your repair for this repair you will
need one of our iPhone 4 pentalobe screw
drivers which conveniently works for the
iPhone 5 a Phillips double zero
screwdriver a small flat-head
screwdriver a sim ejector tool or a
paper clip if you don't have one handy a
set of plastic opening tools a small
suction cups and a spudger if you don't
have any of these tools I would
recommend grabbing one of our pro Tech
tool kits it has all the tools you'll
need for this repair and many others and
while you can do this repair without it
I strongly recommend using one of our
magnetic Macs
it's not listed as one of the required
tools for this repair but I don't know
how I'd live without it the iPhone 5 has
a ton of really small screws and using
them at will not only keep them all in
one place but you can organize them I
like to write what step I took the piece
or screw out on but you can make
whatever doodles help okay so now that I
have all my parts and tools together I'm
gonna get started and as always make
sure your phone is off and completely
disconnected from any power source check
and check now we can remove the two
pentalobe screws down by the lightning
connector
okay with those screws out we're going
to use our small suction cup to help us
lift up the front panel you're going to
want to place this right above the home
button and once you've got it on there
nice and tight
gently pull up to separate the front
panel of the rear case I personally
found this to be the most difficult part
of the repair
there's several Clips around the display
holding it in place and they really work
you may have to use more force than you
would think but you only need to open it
enough to get the plastic opening tool
in once you get the tool in there you're
going to want to gently pry the front
panel away from the rear case
start at the bottom and work your way up
the sides now that the clips along the
bottom and the sides of the phone are
released we can finally lift up the
panel away from the rear case but be
careful
there are several cables that connect
the display to the phone and we don't
want to damage those you don't want to
lift the display more than about 90
degrees from the rear case next up we
need to remove the three Phillips screws
holding the cable bracket in place and
then using our trusty plastic opening
tool disconnect the three cables
connecting the display assembly to the
logic board
now that the front panel assembly has
been removed we can work on getting the
battery out to start with we're going to
remove the battery connector bracket
which is held on by two Phillips screws
with that bracket off we're going to
gently pry the battery connector up and
out of the socket the battery is held in
place by a good amount of adhesive so to
free it you're going to use your opening
tool to gently pry it out of the rear
case take your time and be careful you
don't want to deform or puncture the
battery when prying up the battery it's
essential that you only pry from these
three locations make sure you especially
avoid the area around the pool tab as
they are a sensitive chips that can be
easily damaged by the prying tool now
that the battery is out all potential
power sources have been removed from the
phone so we can get to work on getting
the logic board out the first thing we
need to do is disconnect a bunch of
cables remove two brackets holding the
logic board in place and pop out the SIM
card
when lifting the logic board out make
sure you live from the bottom here and
before you go talking on it too hard you
need to disconnect the antenna cable
that is connected to the back of the
board and just like that the logic board
is out now we can turn our attention to
the lightning connector assembly to do
that we just need to remove a few screws
with those screws removed we're going to
use the flat edge of our spudger to
gently pry the lightning connector away
from the rear case
now that that's out we can carefully
peel the speaker assembly away from the
Lightning connector ribbing cables of
course you can find all the parts and
tools you need for this and many repairs
at ifixit.com and let us know how it
goes
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