Samsung Mythic SGH-a897 Ear Speaker Replacement
ID: 14132
Description: Use this guide to replace the ear speaker of...
Steps:
- To remove the phone's back cover, slide your fingernail into the slit at the bottom of your phone.
- Place your finger on either bottom corner of the battery slot and lift to remove the battery.
- Using a Phillips #00 Screwdriver, remove the six 5 mm screws from the back casing of the phone.
- Using the iFixit Opening Tool, insert the tool into the seam between the back case and the rest of the phone.
- Working along the seam, pry the back casing from the phone.
- Carefully remove the camera by using the iFixit Tool to pry the camera cable from the motherboard.
- Carefully remove the camera from the phone's motherboard.
- Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, remove the two 3.8mm screws.
- Using tweezers, firmly grip the black lever at the bottom of the motherboard.
- Use the tweezers to flip the black lever up so that it is upright from the motherboard.
- Remove the ZIF cable by carefully using the tweezers to pull the cable straight out.
- On the right from the lever, use the tweezers to unclip the black connector.
- Use the tweezers to unclip the orange ribbon cable from the left side of the phone.
- Use the tweezers to unclip the other orange ribbon cable along the left side of the phone.
- Work carefully, as this is a very delicate part of the phone's motherboard that can easily be broken.
- Using either side of the tweezers, slide a side of the tweezer underneath the red and blue wires and the capacitor.
- Carefully lift the capacitor away from the phone.
- DO NOT remove the motherboard completely. One more clip on the motherboard's backside needs to be removed.
- Carefully tilt the motherboard up from the back of the phone.
- Use tweezers to unclip the black connector.
- Use the tweezers to unclip the connector.
- Remove the daughterboard.
- Use tweezers to unclip the silver connector.
- Then put pressure on the black latch which is circled to release the speaker.
