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| + | [* black] In with the opening pick! That's right, no heat or suction cups necessary. This is way to good to be true! |
| + | [* black] ...and it is. We got bogged down in adhesive pretty quickly and had to break out the heat gun. |
| [* black] The panels are also a bit booby-trapped: Both batteries were firmly stuck to their respective rear panels, while tethered to the rest of the phone via fragile cables. Carefully carving through graphene cooling sheets and sticky strips of adhesive eventually wins the day. | |
| [* black] We also nearly destroyed a small flex cable that connects the earpiece speaker (via spring contacts) and houses a couple little indicator LEDs. | |
| [* black] Yikes, that was dicier than it looked. Was this the right way in? Maybe the screen is supposed to come off first. |