Camera kill switch not working?

Riddle solved.

Taking apart my Librem5 (the one I had received from Librem5 in exchange for the one on which the camera hks didn’t work) I found this after a while in my workspace without knowing where it came from:

Looking around a bit I found the solution. Took the following picture from the article on how to take apart the Librem5. The green marks show the location of these pins:

The following pictures show

  • left picture, green mark: where the pins are located in the middle plastic frame beside the screws below the two modules (in this example the wifi/bluetooth module)
  • middle picture, red arrow: the connection pad on the mein pcb it connects to with its bottom side
  • right picture, red arrow: the connection pad on the module it connects to on the upper side. This rim would be touched by a screw would the module be fixed at with a screw directly I guess.

When the plastic frame is removed these pins tend to fall out of the frame like in this picture:

They can easily be put back in their holes and probably will stick there if fixed with some glue.

I’d suggest to add this to the article by @david.hamner, because at the moment it is the resource everybody is pointing to when needing a manual on how to disassemble the phone.

No worries anymore :wink:, @Manuel.

PS: So funny, look where I found the pin when I first wondered where it’d belong.

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