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Is your LCD cracked or not working properly? Use this guide to help replace it, and return your GoPro to tip top shape!
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Pull the tab on the back of the device to release the back cover. It should come right off.
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Use the battery tab to pull the battery out of the device.
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Using a plastic opening tool, pry the gray, front face plate until it can be removed from the housing.
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Using your screwdriver, remove the four 8.1mm PH00 screws securing the motherboard to the black housing unit and set them aside.
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Use the plastic opening tool to help pry the motherboard/midframe up from the main housing. Once you can get a hold of the edge, simply pull the internal components up and out!
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Remove the ribbon cable connecting the housing to the motherboard by flicking up the black clip with the spudger tool and gently pulling the cable out.
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Once the internal components are removed, take out your handy dandy spudger tool and pry off the piece of tape that holds down the image sensor.
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Using your screwdriver, remove the four PH00 screws securing the image sensor to the motherboard.
Removing this and attempting to reconnect the connector ribbon will be really difficult when re-assembling. If you are simply replacing the LCD screen I recommend skipping to Step 13.
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Using the spudger tool, pry off the connector ribbon from the motherboard (don't worry it comes off pretty easily).
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Remove the image sensor from the motherboard assembly.
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Using your screwdriver, remove the three 4mm PH00 screws that hold down the metal plate.
The threads on the top left screw are different so be sure to take note of which screw is which (although maybe it doesn’t matter that much).
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Using the spudger tool, pry off the corresponding ribbon cable from the motherboard.
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The microSD/accessory board is ready to come off.
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Using your trusty screwdriver, remove the single 3.2mm PH00 screw connecting the motherboard to the midframe.
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Use the spudger tool to disconnect the front LCD from the motherboard. Gently pull the ribbon cable out.
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Gently pull the motherboard away from the midframe.
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Now that you have removed the plastic midframe from the motherboard, nothing is standing in the way of the LCD!
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Carefully remove the ribbon cable from the midframe. It is attached with glue, so a spudger tool (or a heat gun if it's stubborn) will be needed.
Unlike the picture, it was not necessary for me to remove the lens in order to remove the LCD. I had to use a hair dryer to soften the glue allowing me to remove the ribbon cable.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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Where did you buy the replacement from?
I got my one from AliExpress (https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product...).
Merci beaucoup, trés utile pour les pilotes de drones fpv!
Thanks a lot, very helpfull for drone racers!
Dose it work for the silver édition as well ?
Thanks for this! I will just add that there is no need to take off the image sensor and the microSD board. You can simply skip from Step 6 to Step 13 without removing the motherboard. I wasted a lot of effort and almost broke my GoPro doing Steps 6-13.
Great job, great pics!
Repeating Devin Roach’s advice from 2018: To replace only the LCD screen, you do NOT need to remove the SD card and motherboard - in other words, you can skip steps 7-13.
Thank you, and thank Devin Roach! You just saved me a bunch of trouble and money!
Between steps 5. and 6. just as you get the electronics out of the housing, you can see where the LCD ribbon cable connects into the mid frame. This "ifixit" tutorial is about LCD problems, right? So I would put in the instructions there, to check the LCD ribbon cable, to see if it is seated correctly, before further disassembly. You're having us completely disassemble the whole camera, to check on something that might be fixed right at the beginning, before any significant disassembly even begins. Also: your "parts needed" section contains all the components of the camera, which seems odd.
All that said, the pictures are great and this has been helpful. Maybe just re-title this tutorial "complete teardown of Hero3+"
