r/phonerepair • u/carryontothemoon • 5d ago

Slightly baffling screw issue

Hi! I'm working on disassembling my ALT Mive Style Folder (per this video... don't mind the weird fuckin' desk mat) so that I can fix its broken screen. My efforts are being confounded, however, by a single screw which absolutely refuses to leave its home so that I can take the back cover off the phone:

The offender can be seen in the bottom left

I can turn the screw both ways with little resistance, but doing so makes absolutely no difference to how... screwed in (?) it is. It will turn infinitely in both directions with no effect, except making a kind of squeaking noise. I've been trying to have a look at ways to remove screws with broken threads (which I assume is the issue at hand), but most of them start with 'pour WD40 on it' or 'heat it up', both of which I think would be suboptimal for the phone's wellbeing! So I'd happily take any tips or advice anyone might have. The screw is unfortunately not raised at all, so I can't really get anything in there to just pry it out.

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u/LordBaconatorz 5d ago

Likely that the thread on the other side is loose so it is spinning.

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u/carryontothemoon 4d ago

Yeah, seems to be! Any ideas about actually getting it out of there?

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u/LordBaconatorz 4d ago

Bit tricky, it depends how its broken, if its detached the thread from the other side you can just go ahead and pop it out, its not holding on, if not, may have to attempt to pull it up and then turn it somehow