Introduction
The camera turned to be not weather-proof. After a day in heavy rain, enough water seeped, apparently, through the battery compartment, and it refused to turn on. Fuji service centre refused to make repairs to a camera with water damage. No other workshop was ready to do the job. So I had to do it myself.
What you need
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Peel off leatherette on the back left side, near the LCD and the viewfinder. It reveals two screws.
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Unscrew five screws. No need to touch the pair near the mounting hole.
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Unscrew two screws.
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Carefully pry off the port cover panel together with the flap cover. Try not to damage the spring.
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Open the LCD panel
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Unscrew two screws near the top
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Note that they are of different length, the one near the viewfinder is longer.
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Carefully pull the cover out. It may be held by the two blocks of thermal paste (yellow markers).
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Pull off the white ribbon cable. Before pulling out the orange one, unlock the bar on the connector. See red markers.
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Use a thin tip spludger to unstick rubber foam near the viewfinder that may be holding the back cover.
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Peel off black (and one white) sticky patches that cover connectors.
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Remember which patch goes to which spot.
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Pull off the white ribbon cable (yellow marker)
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Unlock and disconnect orange cables.
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Unsolder the speaker.
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Unscrew four screws
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Slightly bend the board to release it from the plastic hook (yellow marker)
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Disconnect two ribbon cables.
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Unsolder four wires going to the battery.
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Peel off the round foam pad and all patches and reattach them to the replacement motherboard.
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Be careful with the patch with copper foil (not on the picture), it is fragile.
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I am rather ashamed, but hey, it works!
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My Hakko FX888D could not sufficiently heat the pads, I had to use a bigger soldering iron.
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Connect and lock the wider cable
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Insert the narrow cable. It is rather fiddly, you need to push it from the side with a pinzette.
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Push the board in place and under the hook.
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Connect and lock all the numerous upper side ribbon cables.
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Solder the speaker
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Screw the board with four screws.
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Put in place sticky patches.
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Connect two ribbon cables.
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Put in place two blocks of thermal paste
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Put the back cover in place.
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Carefully bend out the spring of the port panel cover and put the cover in place.
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Screw six screws that hold the back cover.
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Close and screw the bottom cover
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