The yellow boxes in picture two highlight connectors with tiny lever latches.

Don't use the metal pry bar here since that can damage the connectors. You can use a fingernail or, better still, a plastic spudger (aka: pry tool). In the first picture, there are blue boxes around the connectors that pop straight up.There are three types of connectors securing them: Now that the rear cover is off you can start to remove the motherboard, which is the large one above the battery and the USB charger board which is below. (The screws still in it are from another phone that's mid-repair.) You can see the cardboard I've been using for a few years. I'm sure it's much more efficient from their standpoint, but for the home-repairist mixing up the screws is a recipe for a very long night, at best, or a disaster, at worst. The Blu isn't quite so bad but some phones (hello, Apple) use a different size screw in almost every hole. You'll also need a piece of thick cardboard larger than the phone, which you'll use to keep track of every screw that comes out of the phone so you make sure it goes back in the right place. (For fun compare the tools in that picture to the toolkit above. I have several at home, one at work, one in my laptop bag and one in my travel kit - because people are always breaking their phones while on the road.ДЄmazon is also a great place to buy replacement screens, like this one I used on the Blu R1 HD. The most important part is the thin metal separator tool. For $11, this kit on Amazon is a good starter for phones. Or profit if you want to make a few bucks too. They'll make your job faster, easier, safer and they'll more than pay for themselves in gratitude and goodwill.

But if you're determined to be your friends', family's and coworker's hero I suggest some good tools. If you're only going to fix one or two phones the basic toolkit you get with a replacement screen, as seen in picture two, will probably be adequate. I've been fixing phones for years so I have a good set of tools, which you can see in the first picture.

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