I took apart my Librem 5 and there was a loose thing rolling around inside. What is this and where is its appropriate location? [IMG20250929193152]

Others have had the same problem. Seek and ye shall find. Basically it comes loose as part of taking the Librem 5 apart and then typically the customer doesn’t know where it came from. Edit: Adding e.g. Disassembled my Librem 5 and this fell out and another link from there.

There are three golden pins. I suspect it is the one near the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module: [image] Repairing a Librem 5 Modem Librem 5 It is possible to remove the antenna connectors using just the fingernails, like I did when I replaced my Redpine module with the …

The one near the wifi board is the only one I’ve had fall out when taking my phone apart. It is a little tricky to put back, but not too hard.

@Dlonk did you find where it goes? I saw those when taking my phone apart. Here is one of them (image taken from Chassis - Purism user documentation ) : [image] There was at least one more later on, but I can’t remember where, and I’m not going to take the phone apart just to see, sorry …

Nah I put it in a ziploc bag and left it off to the side, and put the phone back together because I was busy. So I appreciate the image! I need to open it up and put that back in.

Other images are available in and from the topic that I linked above. Probably it should be covered by the official Purism documentation as you are not the first and you won’t be the last. @JCS .

Thank you for the heads-up. I created this issue to track this documentation improvement.

Loose thing inside my phone

Hardware Librem 5

FranklyFlawless September 30, 2025, 1:27am 3

There are three golden pins. I suspect it is the one near the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module: