To start the teardown, remove the two screws near the bottom.

Use a suction cup to pull of the screen.

Hint: Be careful, as you do not want to pull out any wires.

Now remove the bracket encasing the screen cables.

Remove all of the screws surrounding the metal plate.

Use a plastic spudger to remove the metal plate once unscrewed.

Disconnect the cables that attach the screen to the board.

Then simply pull the screen away from the base.

Make sure that all connectors have been disconnected.

Disconnect the battery from the device.

First, remove the 3 screws above the battery connector.

Use a plastic spudger to remove the metal plates.

Take the battery connector out of its socket.

Remove the SIM card with a paper clip or a SIM card ejector.

Push your paper clip or SIM card ejector into the small hole on the right side of your device.

Push as hard but as gently as possible until it starts to come out. Then use your fingers to take it the rest of the way out.

Remove the metal cover near the camera module to reveal the screw and camera connectors

Remove the connector next to the camera from its port and then lift the camera module away from the phone.

Remove the screws surrounding the IO board in all locations.

Take out the screws surrounding the power port.

Find each cable within these 3 pictures and carefully take them off of the IO board.

Unscrew the screw holding onto the vibrator.

Pry the vibrator off with a plastic spudger.

Start to pull up the adhesive parts of the IO board.

Slowly remove the main parts of the IO board.

Unscrew any screws that are stopping you from completely taking the IO board out.

And now you're finished!

For reassembly, follow these steps in reverse order.

This tear down was a lot of fun for me and my team member. We learned a lot about the inside of the iPhone 5 and everything went according to plan. Next time, we want to actually fix a problem to get it working again.