Blackberry Key2 LE Screen Replacement By AverageCanadianTech

Hey guys how's it going its Ron from average Canadian tech. Here today we got a blackberry ke2 LE in for a screen, repair um, I'm just cleaning up the phone a little because it feels pretty greasy uh in the hand, I'm not sure from what so I'd, rather just clean it up with some rubbing alcohol, real, quick and even then it still feels a little off, but it feels a little cleaner, um yeah. We got to do the screen on this phone regardless it's a pretty interesting phone to take apart. It's a little different from the key one and key two repair which both of those are rather similar, and this one the display it's the same shape and everything. Obviously, but the connector on the inside is a little different, so the back plastic is glued on pretty lightly. I guess like you, don't need too much heat if uh, if any at all um, it should just pull away once you kind of get an underneath it, and it's plastic, so you can bend it almost as much as you want just make sure you don't crease it, and you'll be! Okay, thankfully, there is no fingerprint scanner on the back, so um, just not really anything underneath, except for the power and volume button ribbon.

As you can see there, it sticks out a little. So if you're, using like a playing card which you shouldn't use, you might hit that, but if you're just kind of peeling it away, it's not stuck to that at all. So you don't have to worry about that um. So we're going to remove all the screws on the top and bottom and also the middle metal piece there. They are actually a bit of a different size going up the top.

So I have to keep this kind of in the right order. As you can see, I'm doing that now. I just realized that they are a different size, the bottom ones, I'm checking just to make sure that they were all the same size. So it would seem that the bottom plastic has all one size, the middle metal piece along the um was it along. The sides have uh one size and then the top piece, I think, is the same as the bottom, but I just kept it separate anyway.

My there we go, we got most screws out now we can get out the metal piece in the middle uh. You probably could do the top part first, but I was just getting this at the same time as that, one to make sure I don't mess up the power and volume button, just hide underneath the plastic piece up top in the corner. Here it seems to be a little stuck like it was caught to something but uh. I think it's just tape or something because there's no screw there uh, or it's just glued I got you, but um yeah there. We can get that pesky volume and power button ribbon, uh disconnected, and then it's very lightly glued down to the metal thing above the battery going very careful.

So I don't rip it um. If I rip this, I'm pretty sure I'd have to replace the whole frame or get the buttons replaced and I for sure do not have an extra set of those. So you do not want to break it now we have access to the battery after we got that out. Um, as you can see, thankfully blackberry did add some pull tabs, but I'm not going to use those because I're on the wrong side. I don't want to pull on the same side as the power button and everything, so we're going to use a lot of rubbing alcohol and whatnot, and we're just going to pry it out.

It shouldn't be too hard, given that the pull tabs are underneath it, they should probably light up pretty easily, but um yeah a bit of a weird design on this one, in fact, there's a lot of stuff, that's weird about the phone other than just having a keyboard, at least on the manufacturing side on the inside. It's a shame. They don't make. These phones anymore, though, is blackberry's only between software. Nowadays um there were some people who, like the phones, I was not one of them, but I did appreciate what they offered just making sure that's out the way, and there we go now the battery just kind of pulls away like that.

Um make sure you didn't rip any of the ribbons underneath it doesn't matter for the screen. Obviously, but you don't want to rip the other one there we go now we have access to the screen ribbon. Now we have to heat up the front screen to about 80 degrees Celsius. Here's the new one that will be going on as we can see. The connector goes up through that same spot, get all the plastic pieces off of it.

For some reason, the screen was incredibly hard to take off um once you get underneath it like. If you get underneath through the side or anything, maybe mine was just a one-off, but it was incredibly hard to get the razor in to the side of the screen like it. Just it simply wouldn't go most of the time uh every other phone I've done regardless. If it's a Samsung iPhone, or I don't know any screen that has to come off like this um, it doesn't do this. I can usually get the razor in or whatever and it just kind of slides in no problem um through various layers of the screen, but for some reason this one it's not water resistant in any way.

It was incredibly hard, as I'm literally trying to stab through the hole on the back, to try and push the screen out, because I can't get through the side that easily um I'm not sure why it's so hard um the glue once you get in there. As I said, like comes off okay, I think it's a there's, a plastic frame around the corner. There, uh that I think it's like really stuck onto the plastic frame, seems to give way before the screen will um. You might notice on your own repair as well, that that will come off during the screen, removal, um. But honestly, given how hard this is, I can't imagine most people would have a good time.

They might actually end up hurting themselves or just damaging the phone more because I'm using a lot of force here. I kind of know what I'm doing, but it's a pain I'm trying my best not to cut my finger as you see the glasses sticking out a little now, and it's just not fun. It's coming away in chunks, usually CDs. They come away pretty easily, but not this one. Honestly.

If you can get the whole uh frame with the screen, it might cost you a little more, but it'll save you a lot of frustration finally got underneath the screen, so now we can start pulling it away, and it is shattered everywhere. That's why you got to be careful, thankfully didn't cut myself there, but almost did many glasses everywhere got to clean that up after, of course, this is what's screen right now, it's pretty messed up, trying to clean up all the glass and everything yeah I'll take back. The glue is not forgiving on this one at all. It was maybe on the one side, just a little when I got in, but on the other side. Here I am, as you see, it's, I'm pulling a lot of force, and it takes a lot to rip that out finally got it, though now we just have to clean up the whole frame of it.

If there was any debris left behind uh in that chaos, if you're lucky- and there is none well, congratulations just put on the glue and uh we're going to put the new screen on. In this case I use e 8000 or t7000. Just the black and clear versions of the same glue. Um works pretty good for these types of repairs when you're doing just the screen itself. If you have double-sided tape- and you don't have this glue- that works just fine as well, you can always put it underneath um, like in the middle there, anyways we're going to get the screen all lined up.

You'll notice that on the sides I do not have the little plastic uh buffer between the frame and the screen, so you're going to be able to see the backlight piece. It's not gonna, look totally flush on the sides, but the top and bottom that's what I'm looking for right now. Until I add the other pieces back later so now, that's all in we can just put it face down on the clean table. Get that ribbon connected, make sure there are no kinks in it at all should fold up nicely up against the motherboard. Now we can pop that battery back in make sure you don't get the power and whatnot god almost did just there.

As you saw there, we go it's in now. We have the battery all connected up as well. We have the power button. Furthermore, we need that one connected up as well, so we can turn it on give it a test there. You go, that's a good sign showing the blackberry logo with no defects.

It looks like, so we're going to keep putting this back together. I don't, I don't think, there's a real good order to this, because yeah, but I'm just gonna, put the metal piece over the battery. First get the ribbon over top of it and uh get all the screws in at least on the corners make sure it's not wiggling around at all, so it doesn't mess up that cable. I'm going to get the ones in the bottom as well we're just gonna speed through this um out of this whole repair. At the beginning, I guess I should have mentioned you: don't really need to take out all the screws on the bottom speaker, plastic piece, uh, just the ones that are attached to the metal part once all the screws are in those now we can put the plastic piece back on top of the motherboard and get all the screws back in that make sure it's not sticking up anywhere.

It should clip in the top, but the rest of it kind of just goes like laying down the screws is what holds it in place, but yeah just make sure it's not sticking up. Still there we go now. We just have to put the back plastic piece back on, thankfully, on this one again way easier than a q1 or key two, it just clips in all the corners there's, no weird camera lens nonsense that has to clip in which I always hate on the q1 um yeah we're just going to test this out real, quick and uh. That's how you do a blackberry, key2le um. Hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did feel free to like and subscribe.

It always helps out the channel a lot if you didn't like it, for whatever reason feel free to. Let me know why, in the comments um but yeah we're just going to test this out real quick, make sure the touch and everything works is the capacity buttons are lit up at the bottom um before that uh. Just the last thing that I did mention earlier, we have to put the two plastic rails back in uh. If yours came off, which they most likely did. If you did this repair the same way, they probably won't look as nice as before, because, honestly, I think I broke them, but they look pretty good.

They kind of go into their slot and stay there. I did put a bit of glue there just to make sure they stay um, but yeah. That's pretty much. It guys. Numbers seem to work hope you have a good week and peace.

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