Wii U GamePad Camera Replacement

Introduction

This guide will help you to replace your camera. For this replacement, you will need to use tweezers.

What you need

Step 1 Battery

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Place Gamepad face down and remove the two 4.7 mm screws with a Phillips size #00 screwdriver.

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Step 2

Lift and remove the battery plate.

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Step 3

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With your finger, press down and pull back on the battery connector plug.
Remove the battery from the battery case.

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Step 4 Outer Case

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Remove 10 9mm screws with Tri-Wing size Y1 screwdriver around the outer case.
Lift up on the back of case.
Lift gently because the rumble motor in the back of the case is still connected by a cable to the motherboard.

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Step 5

Unplug outer case rumble motor connector from the motherboard with your fingers.
Do not pull on the wires as shown in this picture, they will likely break off. Pull directly on the plug (NOT the receptacle)

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Step 6 Speakers

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With your fingers, unplug the left speaker cable from the motherboard.

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Step 7

Tool used on this step:

Tweezers

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Remove the right speaker cable that's connected to the motherboard with the tweezers.

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Step 8 Wi-Fi Board

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Tool used on this step:

Tweezers

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Open the top and bottom clasp that connects the white flex cable to the motherboard with the tweezer.
Remove the white flex cable with the tweezers.

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Step 9

With your fingers, lift and remove Wi-Fi board.
Remove the board carefully as there are still two wires attached.

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Step 10

Disconnect the black and white wires off of the back of the Wi-Fi module.

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Step 11

Lift and remove the Wi-Fi module.

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Step 12 Motherboard

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Tool used on this step:

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Disconnect the analog connector with tweezers.

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Step 13

Remove the blue connector using tweezers.

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Step 14

Carefully lift the black clasp. It is prone to breaking if only lifted from one point. Remove the brown ribbon by using the tweezers.
Unclasp and release the small digitizer ribbon cable to the left of the brown ribbon.
Be careful, the small clasp breaks easily.

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Step 15

Remove the small orange ribbon with the tweezers.

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Step 16

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Remove these two connectors to the motherboard with your fingers.

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Step 17

Remove the NFC communicator.
When removing the NFC communicator, be careful with the small connector on the back side.
Remove the small connector plug-in on the back.