iPhone SE - Replacing the front camera sensor cable

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.

• 1 × 4.0 mm Phillips
• 1 × 2.2 mm Phillips

1. The earpiece is on the back of the display unit. Remove the two Phillips screws from the cover on the earpiece and put them in the same container.
2. Take the cover off and put it with the screws you removed before.
3. Remove the earpiece.

1. You have to remove the cable set in two steps. First, carefully lift the sensors by pushing the spudger below the ribbon cable at the part where the earpiece is. The ribbon cable is lightly glued in place at this point.
2. Now you can lift the cable set and fold it over toward the rear panel. Carefully detach the ambient microphone using a pair of tweezers.

1. First press the ambient microphone into the hollow in the rubber to secure it.
2. Then connect the front camera and the sensors to the corresponding brackets, and press them with the spudger so the glue will stick.
   It’s important to position the flexible flat cable correctly because, otherwise, the front camera and proximity sensor won’t be fully functional.

• 1 × 4.0 mm Phillips
• 1 × 2.2 mm Phillips

1. Put the earpiece back in its original position on the front camera’s flexible flat cable. Then put the cover back on.
2. Now fasten the Phillips screws. Make sure the front camera is centered on the front of the display. Move it slightly if necessary.

Note that the screws aren’t the same length. If you mix them up, a screw will press against the display glass from the inside and damage it.

• 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.