Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

14

Time Required

                          15 - 20 minutes

Sections

6

  • Battery
  • 3 steps
  • Front Face Plate
  • 1 step
  • Image Sensor
  • 5 steps
  • microSD and Accessory Board
  • 2 steps
  • Motherboard
  • 2 steps
  • LCD Display
  • 1 step

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Battery
  • Pull the tab on the back of the device to release the back cover. It should come right off.
  • The device pictured does not include the back cover.

Pull the tab on the back of the device to release the back cover. It should come right off.

The device pictured does not include the back cover.

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Step 2

  • Use the battery tab to pull the battery out of the device.

Use the battery tab to pull the battery out of the device.

Step 3

  • Remove the battery from the slot.

Remove the battery from the slot.

Step 4

              Front Face Plate
  • Using a plastic opening tool, pry the gray, front face plate until it can be removed from the housing.
  • To avoid breaking or weakening the tabs on the face plate which hold it in place, alternate the sides from which you pry and check each tab before separating the plate from the body.

Using a plastic opening tool, pry the gray, front face plate until it can be removed from the housing.

To avoid breaking or weakening the tabs on the face plate which hold it in place, alternate the sides from which you pry and check each tab before separating the plate from the body.

Step 5

              Image Sensor
  • Using your screwdriver, remove the four 8.1mm PH00 screws securing the motherboard to the black housing unit and set them aside.
  • Use the plastic opening tool to help pry the motherboard/midframe up from the main housing. Once you can get a hold of the edge, simply pull the internal components up and out!
  • Watch out for the ribbon cable connecting the midframe and the motherboard to the GoPro housing. See the next step.

Using your screwdriver, remove the four 8.1mm PH00 screws securing the motherboard to the black housing unit and set them aside.

Use the plastic opening tool to help pry the motherboard/midframe up from the main housing. Once you can get a hold of the edge, simply pull the internal components up and out!

Watch out for the ribbon cable connecting the midframe and the motherboard to the GoPro housing. See the next step.

Step 6

  • Remove the ribbon cable connecting the housing to the motherboard by flicking up the black clip with the spudger tool and gently pulling the cable out.

Remove the ribbon cable connecting the housing to the motherboard by flicking up the black clip with the spudger tool and gently pulling the cable out.

Step 7

  • Once the internal components are removed, take out your handy dandy spudger tool and pry off the piece of tape that holds down the image sensor.
  • Disclaimer: Our device is just a teardown unit and no longer has the tape. The markup depicts the location where the tape would be located.

Once the internal components are removed, take out your handy dandy spudger tool and pry off the piece of tape that holds down the image sensor.

Disclaimer: Our device is just a teardown unit and no longer has the tape. The markup depicts the location where the tape would be located.

Step 8

  • Using your screwdriver, remove the four PH00 screws securing the image sensor to the motherboard.
  • Disclaimer: The unit used for this guide did not include these screws. Set them aside so you do not mix them up with the previously removed screws.

Using your screwdriver, remove the four PH00 screws securing the image sensor to the motherboard.

Disclaimer: The unit used for this guide did not include these screws. Set them aside so you do not mix them up with the previously removed screws.

Step 9

  • Using the spudger tool, pry off the connector ribbon from the motherboard (don’t worry it comes off pretty easily).
  • Remove the image sensor from the motherboard assembly.

Using the spudger tool, pry off the connector ribbon from the motherboard (don’t worry it comes off pretty easily).

Remove the image sensor from the motherboard assembly.

Step 10

              microSD and Accessory Board
  • Using your screwdriver, remove the three 4mm PH00 screws that hold down the metal plate.

Using your screwdriver, remove the three 4mm PH00 screws that hold down the metal plate.

Step 11

  • Using the spudger tool, pry off the corresponding ribbon cable from the motherboard.
  • The microSD/accessory board is ready to come off.

Using the spudger tool, pry off the corresponding ribbon cable from the motherboard.

The microSD/accessory board is ready to come off.

Step 12

              Motherboard
  • Using your trusty screwdriver, remove the single 3.2mm PH00 screw connecting the motherboard to the midframe.

Using your trusty screwdriver, remove the single 3.2mm PH00 screw connecting the motherboard to the midframe.

Step 13

  • Use the spudger tool to disconnect the front LCD from the motherboard. Gently pull the ribbon cable out.
  • Gently pull the motherboard away from the midframe.

Use the spudger tool to disconnect the front LCD from the motherboard. Gently pull the ribbon cable out.

Gently pull the motherboard away from the midframe.

Step 14

              LCD Display
  • Now that you have removed the plastic midframe from the motherboard, nothing is standing in the way of the LCD!
  • Carefully remove the ribbon cable from the midframe. It is attached with glue, so a spudger tool (or a heat gun if it’s stubborn) will be needed.

Now that you have removed the plastic midframe from the motherboard, nothing is standing in the way of the LCD!

Carefully remove the ribbon cable from the midframe. It is attached with glue, so a spudger tool (or a heat gun if it’s stubborn) will be needed.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Colin Murphy - Sep 15, 2016

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Where did you buy the replacement from?

John Mills - Apr 3, 2017

I got my one from AliExpress (https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product...).

PoLy “PoLy” Vincent - Aug 26, 2017

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Merci beaucoup, trés utile pour les pilotes de drones fpv!

Thanks a lot, very helpfull for drone racers!

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mojooe - Jun 14, 2018

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Dose it work for the silver édition as well ?

Devin Roach - Jun 22, 2018

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Thanks for this! I will just add that there is no need to take off the image sensor and the microSD board. You can simply skip from Step 6 to Step 13 without removing the motherboard. I wasted a lot of effort and almost broke my GoPro doing Steps 6-13.