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To disassemble and reassemble a Nokia N8, you will need a T6 and a T5 Torx star type
screwdriver. A small bladed screwdriver, pair of tweezers
and a plastic knife. So first thing is to make sure its switched
off, and we need to remove the bottom cover so take your T5 screwdriver and undo this
screw about 3 or 4 turns, no need to take it out yet.
Thats about 3 or 4 turns. And just lift the bottom off. Now the bottom contains the GSM
and 3G antenna. So if it’s damaged or broken you could find a few reception problems.
Now the battery bar, just lift up this corner here and just lift it away. And get hold of
the battery, and just pull that out. Now go back to your T5 screwdriver again. And undo
these 2 screws. Now they’re not very tight to undo, so when you do them back up, just
do them finger tight or otherwise your snap them off.
Now come to the top of the phone, and open your HDMI port you’ll find a small black
screw there. So go back to your T5 screwdriver again. Just undo that screw. And it’s quite
a bit smaller than the others so you can’t really get mixed up.
Now a lot of people have been having trouble pushing it off from the back, so I’ll show
you an alternative method here. Take a piece of sticky tape and just apply it along the
top, like that. Make sure this HDMI port is lifted out. Like so, so that little stem isn’t
sticking inside. Then bring this over, so its sits on the top like that. That gives
you something to get hold of, and then you can just pull the top up, and it comes off.
Now we can undo these 2 screws, so back to your T5 screwdriver again. And these are the
last 2 screws holding the screen on. And before we remove the screen, just want to take off
this Wi-Fi antenna, if you just pop that up, and it comes off nice and easy. And turn it
over, and just lift the screen up from the top. Now be careful here, this little rubber
gasket sometimes falls off, it’s for the secondary camera, so just lift that out and
put that somewhere safe. And just open the screen up and we need to unplug these 2 cables,
so just pop that one up, like so. And the same again here, just unplug that. And there’s
your screen assembly. Now we’ve got 3 more screws to undo, these
are slightly bigger, so use your T6 screwdriver to undo these 2 silver screws in the centre.
And if the small metal clips fall out at this stage, don’t worry I’ll show you where
they go when we put it back together. Then you’ve got a black self tapping screw at
the top here. It’s quite a bit longer than the others so you can’t get it mixed up.
Now we can lift the mainboard cover away from the body, like so. And these small metal clips,
they come off quite easy. Just put them somewhere safe. Now if you need to replace the earpiece
you need to use a sharp tool, and just insert it here, and then just prise the earpiece
out. Just held on with double sided sticky tape. When you put it back in, you can’t
put it in the wrong way because it’s got 2 small plastic lugs here, and they’re a
slightly different size each side. So it’ll only go back in with the small lugs on this
side. And if you need to replace the charging socket, that comes out like so. And then you
can put your new one back in again. So now we can lift the mainboard away from the body,
before we do that there’s a little rubber gasket here for the proximity sensor, sometimes
that falls off so just get hold of that and put that somewhere safe, so you can’t lose
it. And that comes away. That’s your mainboard. Now we got the loudspeaker, I suggest you
use a plastic knife to lever this off because it’s got quite a strong magnet on there,
and it will attached itself to your screw driver. Now be careful not to damage this
surface because that can make your music a bit distorted. Now we’ve got the camera
flash. So use your bladed screwdriver and just get your screwdriver in there, and just
lever that out, a small plastic clip just there that locates in that slot. So once you’ve
lifted that up you can take that off. Now if you’re replacing these covers you can
just take them out, and they come out quite easy. So you can push it out from the back,
and lift it out. Then we’ve got these little screws and nuts at the bottom here, these
can be a bit fiddly. So take your T5 screwdriver and just hold that nut and undo that screw,
completely. And then the nut will just fall out, like so. The same here, undo that screw
and the little nut just falls out. So now it’s time for reassembly, so take one of
these little nuts and hold it so it looks like that. Get hold of that little tab with
your tweezers and just offer it up into the case like so. To keep it in place you want
to take the screw and just screw it into that nut just a few turns just to hold it in place.
There you go, so that’s that one done. Same again this side, get hold of your little nut
and hold that part there and just offer it up into the case so it looks like that. And
again get your screw and just do it up a few turns just to hold it in while you put it
back together, don’t do it fully up. Then we got the sim card cover, just put your sim
card cover back in again and just making sure that little rubber lugs is sitting nicely,
and then you’ve got your memory card, so put that in and just making sure that those
little rubber tabs are sitting there. Now we can put the loudspeaker back in, it doesn’t
matter which way round you put it, so if you put it round this way, or this way it will
work both ways. Push that into place, then you’ve got your camera flash, this silver
part is the capacitor just put that in first and then push that down until it clicks into
place. Now we’re ready to put the mainboard back on again, so offer up the mainboard with
the micro USB lined up at the top and don’t push it down just yet we need to line up this
switch with the screen lock switch so at the moment it’s not lined up. So if you line
it up you can see that’s now working ok. So before we put the next part on we need
to put the proximity sensor gasket on, just get hold of that. And put it on that way round
so the 2 little holes are at the bottom. And make sure your headphone socket is sitting
in nicely which it is. Then take your mainboard cover and just offer that up. Now we need
to put those silver screws self tapping screws back into the centre holes. Using the larger
T6 screwdriver. And now we got that slightly longer black self tapping screw in the top
here. And then we got these small silver clips to go in. I’ll try and get nice and close
for this, you need to hold it so the little hooks are facing towards you and then offer
that up into the little groove there, and push that down until it goes completely flush
you can see that’s completely flush now. The same with the other side, get the little
hooks facing you and then offer it up into that groove and then push it down, you can
use a screwdriver if you want to. just push that down until it goes completely flush which
it is. Now before we put the screen on we need to put that little rubber gasket back
on the secondary camera, now it’s got a little flat corner and the flat corner goes
towards the corner of the phone, so just drop that onto there, like so. And now take your
screen plugs and offer them up and try and get it nice and straight and just push them
into place if you get it lined up they go on quite easy it can be a bit fiddly so that
one’s gone on and now we’ve got the LCD screen plug here again just try and line it
up as best you can and push it gently into place you’ll feet it pop on there. Now we
got to make sure this chipboard slides underneath that ribbon cable which it has done and I’m
just going to final check to make sure that plugs pushed on which it is yep they’re
both ok. So carefully bring the screen down making sure that rubber gaskets in place and
then turn it over and put these 4 threaded screws in each corner and then back to your
T5 screwdriver just do these screws up finger tight and then while we’re at the top here
we’ll put the Wi-Fi antenna back on again so have the little gold contact towards this
connector here and just push that into place like so. Then we want to put the top cover
back on so just offer that up and make sure it’s nice and flush along the back there.
And remove the sticky tape and make sure this moves freely in and out if its trapped then
just take the top cover off and make sure this is pulled fully out when you put it back
on then take that small black self tapping screw and put it into the top hole here using
your T5 screwdriver don’t do it up too tight or you’ll just strip it that’s fine then
come to the bottom put the battery back in with the gold connectors on this side, and
your battery bar put the ‘T’ piece in that little hole there put that back into
place then take the bottom and just offer that up and it should just go into place.
Now you’ve got a bit of a space there at the moment but if you take your T5 screwdriver
hold that down and just do that up again hold that down and that’s it, it’s all back
together again so please give me the thumbs up any comments or suggestions do so below
and I’ll try my best to make some more in the future thanks for watching :)