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Use this guide to remove and replace the rear camera lens from your phone.
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Insert your fingernail or a plastic opening tool into the pivot on the side of the SIM tray.
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Pry open the tray to get it out of the socket.
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Remove the SIM tray with SIM card from the phone.
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Heat the front face (sides, top, bottom) of the phone with the iOpener, a hair dryer, or a heat gun for 60 seconds to loosen the adhesive around the edge of the glass.
Heat the phone in the microwave??? I really hope you meant to say heat the iopener tool in the microwave.
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Attach a suction cup to the lower half of the screen.
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Using the suction cup, pull gently the lower half of the panel.
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Once you’ve opened a large enough gap, insert a plastic tool at the bottom, between the glass and the rest of frame of the phone.
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Slide the plastic opening tool around the screen, prying the display gently away from the body
My phone had a substantial amount of adhesive between the copper area on the back of the display assembly (see pic in step 10) and the frame (see pic in step 13). There was no way to have known that as I started to remove the glass, but this made it difficult to lift the glass up and eventually led to the glass cracking as I tried to work the plastic opening tool up along the side of the phone (about in the spot shown in the second picture of this step). In hindsight, I think it would have been extremely difficult to remove the front glass undamaged without first starting to separatie that adhesive from the frame, but I’m not sure what would have been the best way to do that. My guess is I would have needed to slide a tool with a thinner/sharper edge upward from the bottom while pulling on the suction cup to start separating the back of the display assembly from the frame, and worked on both that and the edges of the glass at the same time.
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Pull the lower half of the screen screen with the suction cup while holding down the frame of the phone to separate both components.
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Once the glass is off, you will see a small clip covering the screen connection to the motherboard at the top of the phone. Use tweezers to grab the clip by the crease on its side and pull it out.
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Undo the screen connection with a plastic tool.
If possible, disconnect the battery BEFORE you undo the screen connector. The battery flex is on the left, just under the LCD cable assembly.
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Remove the display assembly (LCD and Digitizer).
All that copper/tin foil, whatever it is, stayed glued to the case and tore off the screen. I hope it isn’t important. What is it for anyways?
Good Question. Mine ripped a little bit 2.
Probably heat displacement, you’ll find them on the back of most Samsung OEM LCD assemblies & high quality replacements. It’s probably not a big deal if you tear it, after all where’s the heat supposed to go from there? Pat yourself on the back for getting the LCD & glass up in one piece, don’t be surprised if nobody else shares your enthusiasm.
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Use the Phillips Head Screwdriver sized PH000 to remove the sixteen 4mm screws from the frame.
PH00 size screwdriver fit the screw heads better on my phone.
Missing intermediate step: the screw just above the battery holds a little plastic cover that hides the battery connector. Take the cover out and carefully disconnect the battery using the tweezers.
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Put a little pressure on the top, on the bottom, and on the sides of the phone to separate the rear case.
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Once all the clips have popped, pull out the rear case to separate it from the frame with the battery.
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The battery will be on the back side of this frame.
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Insert a plastic opening tool on the side of the frame and pull out the battery.
The battery was glued quite well on mine, I had to slowly go around the whole edge about 3 times. Exercise care at this operation, especially if the old battery is swollen.
To loose the battery it helps to add isopropyl alcohol drop by drop with a syringe all around the batery and on both sides. Give some time to the alcohol to do its job. You may try to heat gently as well.
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The rear camera will be attached to the motherboard on the rear case.
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Use a plastic tool to undo the connection of the rear camera from the motherboard.
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Use the tweezers to remove rear camera from motherboard.
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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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I replaced the S6 Active’s old battery, and never touched the camera (that I know of) but now the camera does not work. I get ‘Camera Failure' error statement. Clearing Cache did not fix it.
Is the camera connection easy to accidently disconnect? Or to test? Don’t want to take my S6 Active apart again unnecessarily.
