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I dropped my nexus bringing in groceries, which smashed the screen. I replaced the screen myself but broke a connector on the motherboard in the process! I bought a new motherboard from iFixit and now, at last, my Nexus lives again. It was a horrible two weeks without it.
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I broke a connector when I was installing the digitizer! The ZIF socket on the original motherboard was pretty much destroyed so I had to order another through iFixit, and the replacement mobo works great. I'm very pleased now.
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Carefully inspect the ZIF sockets before you manipulate them! Be absolutely certain which parts articulate before you go pushing around with your tools! I snapped some of the gold contacts off of the display connector on the mobo, destroying the mobo and creating the phantom-of-the-opera effect in the photo above.
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