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Opening pick, meet chassis gap. That's right, no heat or suction cups necessary just yet! This is way too good to be true!
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...and it is. We quickly get bogged down in adhesive and have to break out the heat gun.
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Further complicating matters, the panels are booby-trapped. Both batteries were firmly stuck to their respective rear panels, and tethered to the rest of the phone via fragile cables.
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Careful carving through graphene cooling sheets and sticky strips of adhesive eventually does the trick, but there is almost a casualty.
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We nearly destroyed an eensy flex cable that houses some indicator LEDs and connects the earpiece speaker to the circuit board nearby.
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Alright, that ended up being much dicier than initial impressions led us to expect. Was this the right way in? Maybe the screens are supposed to come off first...
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