It's a hotbed of teardown activity as we attempt to unseat the display—but this glue is trying our patience, and we abandon our pile of iOpeners in favor of a heat gun once again.

As before, the heat and opening pick can do the job, but it's a marathon slog to get here if you're replacing a broken screen.

The Samsung-made display cable, like the cameras, is labeled Star, and combines both display and digitizer in one sealed unit.

There's two final chips piggybacked onto the display:

Samsung S6SY761X touch controller (as seen on the S8 series)

Winbond W25Q80EWUXIE 8 Mb serial NOR flash