Manual 04 - Volume Rocker & Cable

Power down the device.

Remove the battery cover and place it in ZONE I.

Remove two 3.6 mm T4 Torx screws. Place them in SLOT 1.

Use the pointed end of the spudger to pry up the speaker assembly. Remove it with your fingers and place it in ZONE I (below battery cover).

Peel up the tape covering the logic board.

Place it on the inside of the battery cover in ZONE I, sticky side down.

Remove two 1.7 mm #00 Phillips screws from the battery connector. Place in SLOT 2.

Use flat end of spudger to disconnect the battery.

Picture 1: Remove two 1.8 mm #00 Phillips screws. Place in SLOT 3.

Picture 2: Remove the shield held down by the screws and place it in SLOT 3 (with the screws).

Use blue pry tool to disconnect charging port daughter board cable.

Picture 1: Use the blue pry tool to disconnect soft keys/digitizer cable.

Pictures 2 & 3: Disconnect antenna then gently bend straight up (so it's out of the way when you remove the charging port board).

Gently pull up on the charging port board cable (red square) while using the pointed tip of the spudger to wedge under the board and lift.

Use your fingers to finish removing the board.

Place charging port daughter board in ZONE II.

Remove SD and SIM cards. Place in COMPARTMENT A.

Picture 1: Remove six 3.6 mm T4 Torx screws. Place in SLOT 1 (with two bottom screws).

Picture 2: Remove two 1.7 mm #00 Phillips screws. Place in SLOT 2 (with battery connector screws).

Use curved tip tweezers to peel up electrical tape covering volume cable connector. Adhere tape to wall of COMPARTMENT B.

The bar on the ZIF connector is small and fragile. Take care when performing this step:

Use the tip of the iSesamo to open the ZIF connector.

Pictures 1 & 2: Use the pointed tip of the spudger to push the cable away from the socket slightly. Use your finger to finish pulling the cable free.

Picture 3: Close the ZIF connector to ensure it doesn't get disturbed/broken as you continue to disassemble the phone.

Picture 1: Use a guitar pick to wedge directly under the home soft key.

Picture 2: Wedge a second guitar pick directly under the escape soft key.

Picture 3: Use your fingers to continue separating the mid-body from the front panel, starting in the lower-left corner.

Picture 1: Continue separating along the right side.

Picture 2: Turn the phone over, then finish removing the mid-body.

Picture 3: The power button will fall out as you're removing the mid-body. Place it in COMPARTMENT B.

Place the mid-body or front panel in ZONE II depending on the repair needed.

Use the flat end of the spudger to push the volume rocker and cable free.

Place volume rocker and cable in COMPARTMENT D

Retrieve volume rocker and cable from COMPARTMENT D.

Seat the rocker first, then:

Seat the ends of the cable over the tabs (red squares) then push firmly into place.

Retrieve the power button from COMPARTMENT B.

Retrieve the mid-body from ZONE II and turn it upside down:

Seat the power button in the mid-body using the orientation pictured.

With the mid-body and front panel upside down:

Slide the bottom edge (AT&T logo) of the front panel into the mid-body.

Work your way from bottom to top, snapping the front panel into place on the mid-body. Snap the top edge (soft keys) into place.

Snap either side of the front panel into the mid-body.

Check around the perimeter of the phone to ensure all edges are snapped into place.

Picture 1: Cautiously open the volume rocker cable ZIF connector with an iSesamo tool.

Picture 2: Push volume rocker cable into place.

Picture 3: Close ZIF connector.

Picture 1: Cover ZIF connector with tape from COMPARTMENT B.

Picture 2: Replace two 1.7 mm #00 Phillips screws from SLOT 2.

Picture 3: Replace six 3.6 mm T4 Torx screws from SLOT 1.

Replace SD and SIM cards from COMPARTMENT A:

Picture 1 shows the correct orientation when seating the cards.

Retrieve charging port board from ZONE II.

Pictures 1 & 2: Seat charging port and push it into place.

Picture 3: Seat antenna cable.

Seat soft keys/digitizer cable.

Seat charging port daughter board cable.

Cover charging port cable connector with shield from SLOT 3.

Replace two 1.8 mm #00 Phillips screws from SLOT 3.

Seat battery connector.

Replace two 1.7 mm #00 Phillips screws from SLOT 2 to secure battery connector.

Retrieve logic board tape from battery cover in ZONE I.

Seat it over the center of the logic board.

Replace speaker assembly from ZONE I:

Position top edge first then push speaker assembly fully into place.

Replace two 3.6 mm T4 Torx screws from SLOT 1 to secure speaker assembly.

Seat battery cover from ZONE I.

Power up and test device.