iPhone 5s battery replacement in 6 minutes! - YouTube

All right, today we're going to take out the battery in the iPhone 5s.

First take your Pentalobe screwdriver, the same screwdriver that's used for all of the

iPhones, and take out the two screws near the base.

Then take your suction cup and put it as close to the home button as possible.

And take a metal pry tool or anything that's sturdy enough to fit between the glass screen

and the metal frame.

I like to use a razor blade just because of how firm it is.

It doesn't bend around and it makes sure that the screen comes up when in control.

So you can see I'm just barely prying it up very very gently right here, and then I'm

going to switch to a plastic tool to not damage the frame or the screen.

And you have to very careful when you're lifting it up because there is a little ribbon cable

attached to the home button that you can see right here, and there is a little clasp that

you have to lift up.

It's just like a little latch so I'm going to get my little pry tool in there and just

clip it up.

You can see it bend back just like a little door.

And the whole little thing comes off, you can see that it'll detach itself as soon as

I get the ribbon cable un-clipped.

It's just kind of like a LEGO.

So I lift up and away from the bottom and it unsnaps.

And now we're going to take off the screen just so we don't damage it while we're removing

the battery.

It's pretty simple, there's just four screws around the outside of the little metal bracket.

I'm undoing each of those right now.

Make sure not to bend the screen past ninety degrees or it will damage the cables.

Any parts that you need for those will be down in the video description below, tools

batteries, if you need anything else just ask me in the comments, I usually respond

pretty quick.

So now I'm going to take off these three ribbon cable connectors.

This one's for the speaker on the screen.

This next one is for the LCD on the screen, and then this last one is for the digitizer

on the screen, which is the part where you touch and it recognizes where your finger

is.

Now the screen is off, you can just kind of see the back of it here.

You have the earpiece with your cameras and everything, and then you have your fingerprint

sensor on the home button.

Now take out the battery.

There are two screws holding on this metal bracket that holds the battery connector in

place.

So I'm going to take off this screw.

Keep it separate from the other screws you took off it earlier cause they are different

lengths.

And I'm going to remove this bracket and set it next to the screws so I know which one

goes in which hole.

And I'm going to take my pry tool and lift up on the little latch, you can see the three

pin connector right there.

And now I flip the phone around and I'm going to start prying down from the top of the battery.

Just kind of using the frame as leverage and pushing my pry tool underneath the battery

so I'm not doing a whole lot of pulling up on the frame or the back, I'm more just sliding

the tool underneath.

And that un-sticks it from the two strands of sticky tape that you'll see here in just

a second.

Then just kind of wiggle the battery loose and the battery is now free from the iPhone

5s.

The iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c battery is interchangeable.

I will list the iPhone 5s battery below though because it is the bigger battery, it will

last longer.

Anyway, press it down into place inside the phone, make sure it's completely flat.

And put the three-pin connector back into place and the metal bracket back on top.

Screwing it back in.

If you have any questions you can either leave them in the comments or you can always hit

me up on Twitter or Facebook, I'll put links at the end of the video for that.

Now we're going to reattach the screen, starting with the digitizer cable.

Just kind of clip that into place.

It's just kind of like Legos.

You'll just have to position it with your finger and then you'll hear a snap as it goes

in.

Be gentle though.

We want to break the least amount of stuff possible when we open these phones up.

Hopefully nothing.

You can see me struggle a little bit with this last one, it's takes a second to figure

out where the connection actually is.

And then I'm going to put the bracket back into place, grabbing each of the screws that

I laid out before, remembering where they went, I usually lay the screws out around

the bracket next to the hole they go in.

Once again any parts for this can be found in the video description below.

Amazon is usually the cheapest place to get batteries and stuff, so I'll put a link there.

Now the fun part.

The little ribbon cable for the thumb print reader or finger print reader is pretty hard

to get back into place.

You have to line it up kind of with your finger first and then take your plastic pry tool

and just kind of gently press it into place.

It takes a while, you're going to love it.

So now that that's clicked in you have your little bracket and you set that into place

just sitting kind of on top of it.

Make sure it's oriented in the right direction, and you can press it or click it back down

into place with your finger.

Takes a second to get it all lined up.

And that's what it looks like when it's all pressed down into place, so it'll clip in

on both sides and hold that ribbon cable in very securely.

Then line the top of the screen up with the frame and kind of clip it up on the sides,

being careful not to press it too hard in the center of the screen, we don't want to

crack it.

And it will clip back into place.

And you can see that it's completely flush with the phone again.

And then at this point I like to turn it on just to make sure everything's working so

I don't have to jump back in, just in case I forgot to connect any cables or anything

like that.

If you have any questions, make sure to leave them in the comments section below, and then

also don't forget to get those bottom two screws in.

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