Samsung Rogue Front Function Keys Replacement
ID: 9033
Description: This guide will provide a step-by-step...
Steps:
- Before disassembling your Samsung Rogue, make sure it is powered off.
- With your thumbs, push down on the back cover of your phone and slide it away from the camera.
- You can now remove the battery by prying it up with your finger.
- Use a plastic opening tool to carefully pry the back cover surrounding the camera up from the phone.
- Remove the five 3.4mm Philips screws securing the backing of the phone.
- Use a plastic opening tool to carefully pry off the back cover.
- Make sure you are prying along the edge and not between the two halves of the phone that slide away from each other.
- Be careful to not drop the volume changing piece, for it can easily slip out.
- Remove the two 3.45 mm Philips screws below the white sticker.
- Carefully lift the motherboard up from the bottom edge.
- The film of wires is still attached to the motherboard, so do not completely remove the motherboard just yet or you may damage it.
- Use a plastic opening tool to disconnect the film from the motherboard.
- Remove the eight 1.7mm Philips screws above the keyboard.
- Carefully remove keyboard frame from the sliding mechanisms underneath.
- Remove the five 3.0mm Philips screws around the outside of the sliding mechanisms.
- Use a plastic opening tool to pry off the upper slide plate.
- Be careful of the film of wires when taking off the upper slide plate.
- Use tweezers to open the two black gates by putting them in the "up" position.
- With the same tweezers, carefully pull out the orange strips from the two specified gates.
- Using tweezers, gently remove the bottom orange strip from the device.
- At this point you can easily lift out the rubber function key pad as well.
- There are two ways you can take out the front function keys:
- 1) Use a plastic phone opening tool to pry out the piece from the front of the phone.
- 2) Simply pop out the piece from the inside by pushing on its tabs.
