**Building a Custom iPhone 5**

As I began working on my custom iPhone 5 project, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and curiosity. I had always been fascinated by the inner workings of electronic devices, and this project allowed me to take things apart and put them back together again. My first task was to remove the SIM card tray from the phone, which involved prying it open with a spudger. As I carefully lifted out the tray, I couldn't help but notice the intricate design of the phone's circuitry.

**Preparing the Phone for Assembly**

Next, I turned my attention to the headphone jack port. I wanted to make sure that everything was lined up properly before proceeding with the assembly process. I inserted a small screwdriver into one of the holes and gently pried it open, revealing the tiny pins inside. I then removed any debris or dust that may have accumulated in the hole, making sure that everything was clean and free from obstructions. With the headphone jack port secured, I moved on to the next task: attaching the display.

**Attaching the Display**

One of the most challenging parts of building a custom phone is attaching the display. I used a combination of adhesive and screws to secure the display in place, making sure that it was properly aligned with the rest of the phone's components. I also made sure to support the display, as it can be fragile and prone to damage. As I screwed down the plate that held down the ribbon cables, I felt a sense of satisfaction knowing that my hard work would soon pay off.

**Adding Additional Components**

With the display in place, I was ready to add additional components to the phone. First, I attached the front-facing camera, making sure that it was properly aligned with the rest of the phone's casing. Next, I added the battery, which required a bit of finesse to install. I used a combination of adhesive and screws to secure the battery in place, making sure that it was firmly attached to the main board. As I worked, I couldn't help but notice the intricate design of the phone's circuitry.

**Testing the Phone**

Finally, it was time to test the phone. I turned on the display and was greeted by the familiar sight of the Apple logo. I also tested the home button, which worked perfectly after a few attempts. I was thrilled to see that everything was working as expected, and I couldn't wait to share my creation with others.

**Adding the Final Touches**

With the phone fully assembled, I added a few final touches before moving on to the next stage of the project. First, I installed the antenna, which required a bit of precision to align properly. Next, I attached the Bluetooth module, making sure that it was securely fastened in place. As I worked, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment at having built something from scratch.

**The Finished Product**

As I finally closed up the phone, I couldn't help but admire my handiwork. The custom iPhone 5 was a thing of beauty, with its sleek design and intricate circuitry on full display. I had successfully taken apart and reassembled one of Apple's most iconic devices, and it felt amazing to have done so. With a final check to make sure everything was working properly, I was ready to hand over my creation to the next person in line.

**The Giveaway**

I decided to give away my custom iPhone 5 as part of a special giveaway, where one lucky winner would receive this incredible device. I couldn't wait to see who would be selected and what they would do with their new phone. With the display turned on and the camera working perfectly, I knew that my creation was something truly special.

**The Destruction Video**

Before I gave away the phone, I decided to create a destruction video showcasing all the parts that were removed from the original iPhone 5. It was a fun and creative way to demonstrate how the custom iPhone 5 came together, and I was excited to share it with my audience.

**Conclusion**

As I looked back on my journey building a custom iPhone 5, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. From prying open the SIM card tray to adding the final touches, every step of the process had been a learning experience. And in the end, it was all worth it to see my creation come together in such an incredible way.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody this is Erica the technology nerd who likes to film stuff please excuse my incredibly boring background this is a brand new apartment I don't have a single piece of furniture yet that I own besides this chair that I'm sitting on and these three lamps and camera so I'm just making do with what I've got but as you remember I had taken my iPhone 5 which was defective had some issues with the display issues with the back back light really uneven backlight was not pleasant so it was out of warranty and I decided you know you know I don't really want to sell something defective I hate doing that I'm not going to get back a good amount anyway if I sell it so I figured why not give it away why not fix it and give it away but if I was to fix it and give it away I would need to have the parts sponsored so that I could fix the iPhone 5 up but in order to make an interesting video to introduce the company that has sponsored me I took the iPhone 5 took parts that I wanted to keep side and completely destructed the crap out of the thing please follow the link in the description if you want to see the ultimate iPhone 5 destruction I did some very obnoxious things to it but it was overall very fun so errad supply.com has sponsored me the parts to be able to put together the iPhone 5 again get it working and be able to give it away errad supply.com sells both aftermarket parts and OEM parts so that you can fix things like Android phones iPhones other things such as that so they have supplied me with this backing here and they were gracious enough to supply me with a brand new display and here I've got oops and here I've got in all these little baggies the needed parts to be able to reassemble this iPhone 5 and there's already a little bits of pieces here and there that I've started to reassemble such as the clips so this should be lots of fun let's go ahead and do that now see if it's all nice and working and then I will go about figuring out how to give this thing away so let's go ahead and see how this process of putting it back together goes oh boy the first thing that I want to say about this iPhone 5 that I am reconstructing is that it's going to be a special custom iPhone 5 meaning the back is going to be a silver and the front is going to be black and we're also going to have black button accents just because I think it's going to look pretty badass now I learned my lesson going with the black iPhone 5 those poor chamfered edges just really did not stand a chance the backing color was very dark and because it was very dark once that anodized aluminum started to chip it was pretty contrasty the difference between the black and the silverish color underneath just made it look really cheap so with a white backing it's just not as obvious it will chip over time as well as all the back covers were anodized aluminum but really it will not stand out as much so I'm quickly just getting those buttons into place you can see it's a really nice contrast here okay I feel like I have gotten the most brutal part done and over with it really tested my patience you can see that I've gotten all the buttons into place they are indeed now working and they look quite nice I think in terms of the accents but this entire thing here is all one piece and up in this corner do you see that little post there there was a hook that I had to push underneath and ever so carefully put into place without bending this microphone ribbon cable here so now we have several pieces into place including the microphone on the back and this entire ribbon assembly moving on now this little jobber here with the two screws is a little bit loose and it took absolutely forever to get back into place but there's a little bit of foam here it's supposed to be protecting or keeping that microphone in place so much of this phone like a lot of other phones are held together with a lot of double-sided tap this is the Wi-Fi antenna and we're just going to stick this guy back in place very carefully also I think I have soiled the camera so it's good to just use this microfiber try to get any fingerprints I left behind also it's a good idea to use a Q-tip with isopropyl alcohol and that won't leave behind any residue I have just reattached the Wi-Fi antenna to the motherboard you can see there's this really tiny little connector here now I've got that camera wedged back into place and the LED light and everything else just lines up all the screw holes everything line up but I have to tell you right now this is not my favorite thing to put back together taking it apart was you know it was all easy and stuff but this is just this is a monster now I was able to take this clip right here and push it downward there's a little bit of double-sided adhesive and you can see here's the cable for the Wi-Fi it connects right in there and it's leing right here underneath the main board and I was able to put these two screws into place holding down the LED flash keeping everything nice and together now I'm finally getting a chance to screw down all those screws to hold the motherboard in place some things that I'd like to point out here are mechanisms like this little swivel here that works for the SIM card tray I pre-re replaced this as well as these clips on the sides here I had replaced all of these in the very beginning very many little screws and hard to keep track of everything we've got some contacts on this vibrating motor here that need to line up right there before I screw it in all right my little vibrating friend here is now well seated and ready to go and if you've ever wondered how apple is able to tell whether you've gotten your phone wet inside this guy is just littered everywhere inside with these moisture indicators now just taking a chance to admire my work here and the fact that this is really looking like a phone now finally inside I did not get any dust inside the camera yay it's funny because when I got this phone I noticed that there was a big piece of dust inside of there and I just lived with it so boom now I have replaced this tape I'm probably going to need some double-sided adhesive I can just get that from the store double-sided tape to hold down the battery once I'm done otherwise you can see here that there are these two cables here on the board now down here we have some washers these are the easiest parts to lose there's four of them and they just go on their respective screw holes also something to point out here is that I replaced the speaker Grill and also the microphone Grill I actually took it over from the other phone and transplanted them and they've got this mesh here that's very easily bent and there's just double-sided adhesive holding it on just a tacky adhesive so I had to make sure that the mesh was as flat as possible otherwise they just would not stick finally they're sticking pretty well okay so now I've got another piece that has many different pieces connected attached finally this is really not so easy so we've got this large ribbon cable here I've now pushed it down onto the main board there's some double-side adhesive underneath here and then we've got several places to screw this all in place this assembly we've also got another cable connecting onto the main board this is the lightning charger port we've got a rubber gasket right here that's covering the microphone right here this is for your earphones and now I'm about to replace the loudspeaker which is going to be right in here all righty I've now got the loud speaker just set in place it just easily wedged in right here I was able to screw it in and then we have a ribbon cable here with some contact points made sure that this little hole lined up my curiosity now is to make sure that everything can plug in properly so let's go ahead yeah that works you can see that I have put in several other screws the washers underneath are helping to keep these screws in place so everything looks nice and secure and looks like it's assembled correctly let's go ahead and test out the headphone Port as well now if everything is lined up correctly this should just pop right in and indeed it does good everything looks to be working properly a as we are finally coming to a conclusion here I just need to hook in the display and add the battery in on the main board here we have several connectors and now I'm just going to Simply place this guy down as well it's just going to clip into place and you can see there corresponding ribbon cables we've got one for the front-facing camera one for the display and also one for the digitizer and now there is a piece right here that needs to be installed and screwed down as to keep these connectors in place so now we have the display in place and this plate is holding down the ribbon cables with these three screws now we just need to put the battery in and that's fairly straightforward I don't have any type of double-sided adhesive so we're just going to go with it just making sure to support the display so it doesn't fall and we just need to attach the battery here I want to test the display before closing it up make sure that everything is turning on at least and of course I just connected the ribbon cable onto the main board for the battery so let's go ahead and see if we can get this guy to turn on hold this down and we see an Apple logo now the home button right now is not going to be working until I close down the case because we have metal contacts right here that touch down onto these ones right here but we can just see if it works and yeah well battery is low here but uh we've got this display working so this is a compelling reason enough to close her on up we've got these final metal pieces here that I need to screw in in order to hold down the ribbon cables here especially for the battery okay so now the battery plates are screwed in loud speakers working just fine vibrate switch is also working buttons are working the fact that it's able to find Wi-Fi networks means that the Wi-Fi antenna is working great now there are some hooks here underneath the display that hook underneath the casing so we're supposed to just push inward like so starting from the top and we're just supposed to press downward now when you're pressing downward you need to be very careful because if you bend this you end up bending the plastic frame it ends up lifting the adhesive and the display just doesn't stick down properly anymore so I was very careful and I finally got the display down I just need to replace some screws down here but really this is the done deal you can see that it's getting cell reception just fine all the antennas are working great the display is working great I noticed at first that the home button was not working so I took it apart we put it back together again now it's working so maybe something was just loose or something weird see it works just fine the home button so this is a fully working iPhone 5 it is a cust iPhone 5 now let's go ahead and open the camera yes hello Mr camera working just fine and the front-facing camera is working just fine as well so yay excellent it is working the speakers are working all antennas and radios are working Bluetooth is also working so now I just have to give this thing away what do you guys think of it fancy schmancy and custom here I actually really like this I would totally use a phone that looks like this it seems that white and black are all the rage right now so tell me what you guys think if this is something that you are interested in you've also got the black accented SIM tray as well I need to figure out now how I'm going to orchestrate this giveaway but this is working I promise it's a great little phone the display is actually nice as well now I just got to do a hard reset to get all my crap off of it but there you go and please check out the destruction video of the iPhone 5 all the parts that are in here right now were taken out of that previous iPhone 5 and now put into this one pretty cool a so this has been Erica the technology nerd who likes to film stuff please rate comment and subscribe please stay tuned for the giveaway I need to figure out how I'm going to be doing this exactly I will keep you updated I promise I'm incredibly excited that this is working and that I did not break anything so there you go have a good night everyone\n"