iPhone SE - Removing the mainboard

1. Turn your iPhone off completely to avoid damaging it during the repair.
2. Press the standby button for about three seconds until the slider appears.
3. Wipe it from left to right. Now your iPhone will shut down completely, which can take about ten seconds.

• 2 × Pentalobe

1. You need a pentalobe screwdriver to open the iPhone SE.
2. Remove the two pentalobe screws at the bottom of the enclosure. They are located to the right and left of the Lightning connector. Store these screws in the same box.

1. Put your iPhone SE on a soft, clean surface to avoid scratching the back.
2. To lift the display, you need a suction cup and a hard plastic pick. If the screen is severely cracked, cover all of it with tape before you continue. Risk of injury due to broken glass.
3. Place the suction cup over the Home button if possible (otherwise, put it next to the button). While lifting the display with the suction cup, use the hard plastic pick to press down the aluminum frame. At the same time, insert the hard plastic pick between the aluminum frame and the display. This usually takes several attempts.
4. Once a little gap has opened up between these two parts, you can open it further by slightly turning the pick.
5. As soon as you can lift the display a few millimeters, you have to carefully work your way around the outside until it’s loosened on both sides.Don’t take off the display all the way. You have to disconnect the Home button first.
6. There’s a metal cover blocking the Home button. Carefully detach the cover using a pair of tweezers.
7. As soon as the cover is off, you can disconnect the Home button from the flexible flat Lightning cable.

• 2 × 1.5 mm Phillips
• Connector

1. The battery contact and the contact for the flexible flat Lightning cable are under a cover. This cover is fastened with two Phillips screws. Remove the Phillips screws using a Phillips screwdriver and then lift the cover with a pair of tweezers. Put all the parts in the same compartment of the organizer tray.
2. Carefully detach the battery contact using the spudger. Insert the pointed tip of the spudger slightly below the connector. If you don’t have a spudger, you can also try using your fingernail.

• 1 × 1.4 mm Phillips
• 1 × 1.5 mm Phillips
• 2 × 1.1 mm Phillips
• Connector

1. First remove the four Phillips screws from the silver cover. Put the screws in the same container. Then lift the cover to remove it.
2. Disconnect the following three overlapping connectors in the order shown in the image. Be very careful. Place the pointed tip of the spudger very slightly below each contact and lift it up.

• Lightning connector
• Antenna

1. Disconnect the plug connection on the Lightning connector’s flex cable. Place the pointed tip of the spudger very slightly below the contact and lift it up. The flex cable is lightly glued to the back cover. Detach it from the back cover and then carefully fold the cable over.
2. Also use the spudger to detach the antenna cable from the logic board.

1. Remove the SIM card and SIM card tray from the enclosure.

• Connector

1. Use the spudger to disconnect the flexible flat standby cable’s contact from the logic board.

1. The antenna contact is fastened with two Phillips screws. Remove these screws.
   1 x 1.1 mm Phillips screw
   1 x 2.2 mm Phillips screw
2. Remove the contact from the enclosure.

1. Remove the six screws that attach the logic board to the back cover.
   3 x 2.7 mm Phillips screw
   1 x 2.7 mm Phillips screw (not magnetic)
   2 x 2.1 mm Phillips screw
2. Use the tweezers to carefully disconnect the flexible flat standby cable from the logic board.
3. Use the flat end of the spudger to carefully lift the logic board out of the back cover.Please note: The bottom of the logic board is connected to an antenna cable.
4. Carefully lift the logic board and turn it 180° along its longitudinal axis, i.e. towards the volume rocker switch.
5. Disconnect the antenna contact from the logic board.

1. Connect the antenna cable to the socket on the bottom of the logic board.
2. Put the logic board in the back cover.
3. Put the flexible flat standby cable’s antenna back on the logic board’s screw connection.
4. Use the six screws to attach the logic board to the back cover as before.
   3 x 2.7 mm Phillips screw
   1 x 2.7 mm Phillips screw (not magnetic)
   2 x 2.1 mm Phillips screw

1. Put the antenna contact back in its position in the enclosure.
2. Fasten the contact with the two Phillips screws.
   1 x 1.1 mm Phillips screw (at 90° angle)
   1 x 2.2 mm Phillips screw

• Connector

1. Connect the flexible flat standby cable’s plug contact to the logic board.

1. Reinsert the SIM card and SIM card tray into the enclosure.

• Connector
• Antenna

1. Connect the antenna cable to the logic board.
2. Reconnect the Lightning connector to the logic board.

• Front camera flex
• LCD
• Digitizer
• 1 × 1.4 mm Phillips
• 1 × 1.5 mm Phillips
• 2 × 1.1 mm Phillips

1. Reconnect the connectors. Connecting the display connector sometimes takes a few tries. Be very careful to avoid bending the connectors.
2. Start your iPhone as soon as the connectors are securely attached. Check the function of the LCD, touchscreen, proximity sensor, front camera and earpiece.
   If the display connectors aren’t connected properly, stripes will appear on the display or parts of the touchscreen won’t work.
3. Install the cover and screw it in place.

• Connector
• 2 × 1.5 mm Phillips

1. Connect the battery contact to the logic board.
2. Put the cover back on and screw it in place with the two Phillips screws.

1. Insert the display into the enclosure at the upper edge where the connection cables are. The display has to click into place correctly.
2. Before you can connect your device to the display, you have to connect the Home button to the Lightning connector and secure them with the cover.
3. Carefully press on the display toward the Home button until it’s entirely in the frame. The display has to be flush with the frame.

• 2 × 3.8 mm Pentalobe

1. Now screw in the two pentalobe screws at the bottom of the enclosure.

When the battery is removed from the device, the iPhone loses the time and sets itself to 1:00 a.m. on 1/1/1970. You could have trouble connecting to the cellular network if the time isn’t set.

After a repair, complete the following steps:

1. Synchronize your iPhone with iTunes or connect to a WLAN network and wait until the time is set.
2. Remove the SIM tray with the SIM card and reinsert it.
3. Activate airplane mode on the device and then deactivate airplane mode.