Nintendo 3DS Microphone Replacement

Step 1 Nintendo 3DS Microphone Replacement

• Unscrew the four Phillips #00 screws along the top of the back cover.
• The screws are held in place by locking washers, and will not come out of the back cover.
• The comments section is full of unlucky souls who will tell you that the screws here through step 4 will strip incredibly easily. Press down fairly hard, and go slow.
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Step 2



• Hold the device in one hand and turn it over.
• Grab the top edge of the back cover with your opposite hand so that the cover does not fall back into place.
• Flip the 3DS over again so that the back cover is facing up.
• Pull the back cover up and away from the rest of the device to remove it.
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Step 3
• Insert a plastic opening tool into the notch in the lower case above the battery.
• Pry the battery up with the plastic opening tool.
• Grab the top edge of the battery and lift it out of the lower case.
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Step 4
• Remove the nine 6.3 mm black Phillips screws from the lower case.
• Remove the 2.4 mm silver Phillips screw above the game cartridge slot.
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Step 5
• Lift the bottom edge of the lower case off the rest of the 3DS.
• There are still two ribbon cables connecting the mother board to the case, so be sure not to pull the lower case all the way off.
• Use a plastic opening tool to pry the shoulder button ribbon cables off their sockets on the motherboard.
• Remove the lower case from the device.
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Step 6
• Grasp the microphone ribbon cable near the microphone with a pair of tweezers.
• Pull the microphone straight up out of the upper case.
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Step 7
• Use the flat end of a spudger or your fingernail to flip up the retaining flap on the Microphone ribbon cable ZIF socket.
• Be sure you are prying up on the hinged retaining flap, not the socket itself.
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Step 8
• Lift the microphone and its attached ribbon cable off the motherboard.
• If your replacement microphone doesn't come with a silicone cover, peel the cover off the original one and reuse it.
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