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Picture 1: There is adhesive across the bottom on either side of the home button.
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Picture 2: There are 3 clips on each side of the screen.
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Picture 3: There are 2 clips at the top of the screen.
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You'll be releasing the clips and adhesive in the next steps to open the iPod:
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Picture 1: Place the suction cup on the screen just above the home button. Apply low-level heat (100 degrees Celsius) to the bottom edge of the iPod for about a minute.
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Pictures 2 & 3: Use the suction cup to pull the front panel up just enough to wedge the blue pry tool in between the front panel and rear case.
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Remove suction cup once you've wedged the blue pry tool.
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If you're unable to create suction (e.g. the screen is badly cracked), we provide a back-up method in the next step.
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Skip this step if the suction cup method worked.
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Picture 1: Wedge iSesamo underneath the black bezel around the screen.
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Picture 2: Pry up just enough to wedge blue pry tool and remove the iSesamo.
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Picture 3: Continue prying up under the bezel with the blue pry tool.
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If you're replacing the screen and it comes with the bezel pre-installed, pry between the screen and bezel to minimize the likelihood of damaging the rear case.
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Picture 1: Apply low-level heat (100° Celsius) to the home button contact for 30 seconds.
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Picture 2: Use the spudger to peel up the home button contact.
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Picture 3: If you can't wedge the spudger under the home button contact, use your fingernail or iSesamo to get it started.
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Don't try to remove the home button contact - it's still connected to the logic board.
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Picture 1: Apply low-level heat in 30 second increments as needed to loosen the battery adhesive.
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Hold the heat gun three inches from the battery to avoid overheating.
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Picture 2: Use the spudger to pry up the upper right corner of the battery.
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Picture 3: Work your way around the battery to free it, taking care not to tear the charging port cable underneath.
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Picture 1: Push the flat end of the spudger under the charging port ribbon cable and pry up until you're able to grab the assembly with your fingers.
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Picture 2: Use your fingers to carefully finish removing the assembly, noting the ribbon cable, headset jack, charging port and loudspeaker are all connected.
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Disconnect LCD and digitizer cables.
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Flip over the logic board and battery. Disconnect front-facing camera.
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Peel up LCD cable from logic board.
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Pictures 1 & 2: Peel up the camera cable then use the blue pry tool to remove the camera from its socket. Place in COMPARTMENT B.
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Starting on the left, peel up the tape roll covering the buttons cable. Place in COMPARTMENT C.
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Then starting on the right, peel up the strip of tape just below. Place in COMPARTMENT C.
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Remove two 2.0 mm #00 Phillips screws securing the volume button end of the button ribbon cable to the rear case. Place screws in SLOT 7.
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Use tweezers to lift volume button bracket out of the way just enough to allow the volume buttons to be extracted.
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Use tweezers to remove volume buttons. Place in COMPARTMENT D.
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Picture 1: Remove two 2.3 mm #00 Phillips screws. Place screws in SLOT 8.
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Picture 2: Use plastic tweezers to remove small plate. Place in COMPARTMENT E.
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Picture 3: Remove one 1.6 mm #00 Phillips screw. Place screw in SLOT 9.
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Insert the spudger at the bottom of the microphone and push it up to free it from the rear case.
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Grab the microphone with your fingers and continue peeling up
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Remove two 1.3 mm Phillips #00 screws. Place in SLOT 10.
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Remove one 1.5 mm Phillips #00 screw. Place in SLOT 11.
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From COMPARTMENT F, push the wifi antenna firmly into place on the upper-left corner of the rear case.
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From COMPARTMENT D, attach volume buttons bracket to volume buttons cable.
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Picture 1: Retrieve the power button from COMPARTMENT E. Maintain the orientation when seating the power button.
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Use tweezers to seat the power button.
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Seat rear camera frame.
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Picture 1: From COMPARTMENT D, replace volume buttons. Note the orientation when seating.
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Seat volume buttons bracket.
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Replace two 2.0 mm #00 Phillips screws securing the volume button end of the button ribbon cable to the rear case from SLOT 7.
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From COMPARTMENT B, seat the camera in its socket on the rear case.
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Attach rear case to the front panel, logic board, battery and charging port assembly over the next few steps.
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Picture 1: Power up the device and test the LCD and digitizer before closing it.
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After reassembling an iPod, it is common to see a screen with lines down the LCD or a white screen. Try turning it off and back on. If that doesn't work, you may have to perform a soft reset. (press and hold power and home buttons simultaneously for ten seconds).
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Picture 2: Place the clips at the top of the front panel before seating the rest of front panel.
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Picture 3: Finish seating the remaining clips in the next step.
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Almost done!
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