Give your Nokia flip phone new life with a replacement screen.
Although flip, or clamshell, phones are designed to protect the display, replacement may become necessary if it becomes cracked or severely scratched. To continue to use your Nokia flip phone, purchase a replacement screen and housing for your model online and carefully follow the steps to replace it yourself. Work with clean hands and on a dry, lint-free surface where there's plenty of room to spread out the phone's components.
Instructions
1. Remove your Nokia's back cover, battery and SIM or memory cards if you use them.
2. Remove the two visible screws. These may be at the top corners of the backside of the phone, and you should see them when you remove the back cover.
3. Remove the camera cover. If your Nokia flip phone has a camera, remove its cover after unplugging the camera connector. Lever it up to remove the socket from the plug.
4. Pry off the phone's front cover. For a pry tool, you can use a credit card or guitar plectrum. Start at one corner, then pry off the opposite corner.
5. Separate the flip phone into two halves. Place the front half so the display is on the top side, right side up, connecting ribbon at the bottom.
6. Remove the metal bar when the phone halves connect. Slide the metal bar to the left to remove it.
7. Remove the ringer. Turn the top half so the display is underneath and the connecting side is at the top. Located on the bottom right corner, remove the ringer by levering it away from the phone. It may be attached with double-sided tape.
8. Remove the ribbon. There will be a gap at the upper right corner, where the ribbon needs to be slid through. Pull the ribbon, from the top left corner down the left side and the piece across the bottom, to the left to remove.
9. Remove the frame around the display. Turn over the top half of the phone, then slide your pry tool under the edge of the outer piece, which may have the Nokia branding, to release it.
10. Remove the square piece above the LCD display. Use the pry tool to gently lift it off, keeping a firm hold on it to avoid losing it.
11. Replace the LCD screen and housing. The display and housing will be in one piece.
12. Reverse these steps for reassembly.
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