Samsung Mythic SGH-a897 Motherboard Replacement

Slide your fingernail into the slit at the bottom of the phone to remove the back cover.

Place your finger in either of the bottom corner of the battery slot and lift to remove the battery.

Remove six 5 mm Phillips #0 screws from the back of the phone.

Insert a plastic opening tool into the seam between the back case and the rest of the phone.

Working along the seam, pry the back from the phone.

Use a plastic opening tool to disconnect the camera cable from the motherboard.

Carefully remove the camera from the phone.

Remove the two remaining 3.75 mm Phillips screws.

Firmly grip the black lever with tweezers

Use the tweezers to flip the black lever up so that it is perpendicular to the motherboard.

Carefully use the tweezers to slide the black ZIF cable out of the socket.

Use the tweezers to unclip the black connector as shown.

Use the tweezers to unclip the orange flexible circuit board from the side of the phone.

Use the tweezers to unclip the other orange, smaller flexible circuit board.

Slide one side of the tweezers underneath the red and blue wires of the capacitor.

Carefully apply pressure away from the phone to lift.

Carefully tilt the motherboard up from the back of the phone.

Use tweezers to unclip the black connector.