Samsung Galaxy Note Vibrator Replacement

Grasp the cap of the stylus and remove it from its slot in the midframe.

Pry with a plastic opening tool, or your fingernail, in the divot to the right of the rear-facing camera, near the volume rocker.

Lift and remove the rear case from the phone.

Insert your finger in the notch of the battery compartment.

Press the battery toward the rear facing camera while pulling outward.

Use the flat end of a spudger, or your fingernail, to press the microSD card slightly deeper into its slot until you hear a click.

After the click, release the card and it will pop out of its slot.

Remove the microSD card from its slot in the midframe.

Use a plastic opening tool, or your fingernail, to push the SIM card out of its compartment.

Slide the SIM card out the rest of the way with your thumb and remove it from the device.

Remove the nine 3.4 mm Phillips #00 screws securing the midframe to the display assembly.

Insert your plastic opening tool to the left of the power button between the midframe and the front panel assembly and pry.

Slide the plastic opening tool down the seam.

Insert your plastic opening tool to the left of the headphone jack between the midframe and the display assembly.

Slide the opening tool along the top edge of the phone.

Continue to run the plastic opening tool around the perimeter of the phone until the midframe is separated.

Remove the midframe from the display assembly.

Use the flat end of a spudger to carefully disconnect the display cable connector.

Use a spudger to disconnect the front-facing camera assembly cable connector.

Disconnect the headphone jack/earpiece speaker assembly cable connector.

Disconnect the digitizer cable connector.

Disconnect the soft button cable connector with the flat end of a spudger.

Use a spudger to disconnect the USB board cable connector.

Disconnect the antenna cable connector.

Remove the two 3.4 mm Phillips #00 screws securing the motherboard to the display assembly.

Remove the motherboard assembly from the display assembly.

Insert the tip of a spudger under the vibrator connector cable near the contacts then slide it toward the vibrator itself.

Insert the flat end of a spudger under the vibrator connector cable and pry it up from the adhesive.

Remove the vibrator from the display assembly.