Nintendo Game Boy Advance Sp Screen Replacement Repair Guide

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

7

Time Required

                          10 - 20 minutes            

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Battery               

• Turn your GBA upside down so that the battery compartment is facing up.
• Remove the one Phillips screw holding the battery compartment cover in place.
• Remove the battery compartment cover.

Turn your GBA upside down so that the battery compartment is facing up.

Remove the one Phillips screw holding the battery compartment cover in place.

Remove the battery compartment cover.

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Step 2

              Battery               

• Pry the battery up with your fingernail or Spudger.

Pry the battery up with your fingernail or Spudger.

Step 3

              Lower Case               

• Remove the 6 Tripoint screws holding the case together.
• Pry the 2 halves apart. Do not force it though, or you may break your GBA.
• Set the bottom half away for later.
• Be sure not to lose the small, square nut that hold the battery compartment nut in or else you will not be able to screw the battery compartment in.

Remove the 6 Tripoint screws holding the case together.

Pry the 2 halves apart. Do not force it though, or you may break your GBA.

Set the bottom half away for later.

Be sure not to lose the small, square nut that hold the battery compartment nut in or else you will not be able to screw the battery compartment in.

Step 4

              Motherboard               

• Unscrew the three Phillips screws holding the motherboard to the mid case.
• WARNING!!! Do NOT Take the motherboard off yet. It is still Secured with A Ribbon Cable.
• Turn the GBA so that it is like the Third photo.

Unscrew the three Phillips screws holding the motherboard to the mid case.

WARNING!!! Do NOT Take the motherboard off yet. It is still Secured with A Ribbon Cable.

Turn the GBA so that it is like the Third photo.

Step 5

              Screen ZIF Connector               

• Fold the motherboard down like in the first photo. Be sure that the case is ON TOP of the motherboard.
• Use a screwdriver or tweezers to unplug the ZIF Connector from the motherboard.
• Take the Screen ribbon cable out of the motherboard.

Fold the motherboard down like in the first photo. Be sure that the case is ON TOP of the motherboard.

Use a screwdriver or tweezers to unplug the ZIF Connector from the motherboard.

Take the Screen ribbon cable out of the motherboard.

Step 6

• Use a flat-blade screwdriver or the pointed side of a spudger to remove the 5 rubber screw covers.
• Unscrew the 5 tri point screws under the rubber pads.
• Close the GBA and unscrew the single Phillips screw on the bottom.
• We are done with the screws now!

Use a flat-blade screwdriver or the pointed side of a spudger to remove the 5 rubber screw covers.

Unscrew the 5 tri point screws under the rubber pads.

Close the GBA and unscrew the single Phillips screw on the bottom.

We are done with the screws now!

Step 7

              Screen               

• Open up the GBA and everything should fall apart. Thread the ribbon cable through the opening and lift the screen out of the upper case.
• You are done!!

Open up the GBA and everything should fall apart. Thread the ribbon cable through the opening and lift the screen out of the upper case.

You are done!!

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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toontown2007 - Aug 20, 2018

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One issue - you never mentioned how to get the hinge off, so getting the ribbon in and out is.. hard.

Justin Castle - Sep 8, 2022

Last part of step 5, that screw hidden under the ribbon cable, is what holds the hinge in.

Jorick Earl Bastian - Oct 27, 2018

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hello can i ask something? can you take apart the lcd? because my lcd has fungus

Lucas Hoekstra (Lucas9810) - Oct 30, 2018

I am pretty sure, as the actual screen can be separated from the plastic cover (the thing that says game boy advance). I’ve never seen fungus in a screen though. That’s interesting.

Federico Celani - Jan 28, 2019

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Hello friend! One question: in the replace screen there is retroillumination? or i have to do something? Thx for your answer!