iPhone 5c Screen Replacement

Screen Replacement guide

Steps: 8

1. Remove Pentalobe screws
2. Lift up screen
3. Detach cover
4. Detach connectors
5. Remove home button
6. Remove earpiece speaker
7. Remove front-facing camera and sensor cable
8. Remove LCD shield plate

Tools

Pentalobe screwdriver
Phillips screwdriver
Metal spatula
Plastic spatula
Suction cup

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Preface

Use the following picture guide to easily change the display on your iPhone 5c. You should make a backup of your iPhone before changing the display and then turn it off.

Step 1: Remove Pentalobe screws

Turn off your iPhone before you start the repair!

First, remove the two pentalobe screws on the bottom of the iPhone.

Step 2: Lift up screen

Slowly lift up the screen, together with the inner metal frame it is attached to inside the device. Be careful not to insert the metal plectrum too far into the device in the area around the home button.

Now you make good use of the suction cup or the thin metal spatula in order to lift the screen out of the frame. Which of the two you will use depends largely on the state of your screen. If it’s still mostly uncracked, the suction cup will work just fine.

Schritt 3: Detach cover

Carefully bend open the screen a little bit, just until you can remove these four screws securing the metal cover.

Step 4: Detach connectors

Underneath the metal cover you will find three connectors. Disconnect them and you can simply remove your old screen.

Step 5: Remove home button

Remove the two 1.3 mm Phillips #000 screws securing the home button bracket to the display assembly.

Use a plastic opening tool to pry the edge of the home button ribbon cable up from the display assembly.

Start under the contact points on the right and work to the left.

Starting from the left and going right may rip your ribbon cable. The contacts are well adhered to the front panel and should be peeled up first.

If you have trouble sliding the plastic opening tool under the contact points, flip the tool over and gently push against the right side of the contact cable to loosen the adhesive, then try again.

Gently push the top right corner of the home button up away from the front panel.

Do not push the home button all the way through; you only need to get a corner free so that you can pry it out with a spudger.

This membrane is very thin. If you feel like you are going to tear the button, apply heat and try again.

Step 6: Remove earpiece speaker

* If you bought the item with Spare Parts(Front Camera, Sensor Flex, Shield plate, Earpiece Speaker), no need to do this step.

Remove two Phillips #000 screws securing the upper component bracket to the display assembly.

Remove the earpiece speaker from the iPhone.

Step 7: Remove front-facing camera and sensor cable

* If you bought the item with Spare Parts(Front Camera, Sensor Flex, Shield plate, Earpiece Speaker), no need to do this step.

Using the pointed end of a spudger, gently pry the earpiece speaker contact cable up, to separate this portion of the camera and sensor cable from the adhesive below.

There is a small, square, plastic and metal holder for the proximity sensor. This holder is essential for the proximity sensor to function correctly.

If replacing the proximity sensor make sure that the holder remains adhered to the back of the display. If it comes off with the old proximity sensor, remove it from the old sensor and use a tiny bit of adhesive to re-attach it to the back of the display.