u/honeycrispquotient

My Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/YotoPlayer/s/S10VqZlnyn

TL,DR: I wanted to replace my son's Yoto Mini Screen; the resources below helped!

Helpful Article: Yoto Mini SD Card Replacement (There is also this youtube video showing how to replace an SD card without removing the screen, but I needed to remove the screen)
Note: I followed what a comment said and did not cut the pins on the bottom of the screen. I instead scraped a bit at the melted plastic so that it was small enough to push back through. This made it so that I could snap the pins back into place upon reassembly.

Helpful Reddit Comment: Yoto Mini Screen Replacement

Some things I didn't know:
- How to open the yoto past undoing the screws of the circuit board: To open it more, the front orange knobs have to be popped off and unscrewed. Using a small flathead screwdriver makes this easy. I also used needle-nose pliers to unscrew the hex nut, and then took out the washer. You can then gently push the knobs back through the plastic cover and it separates the circuit board from the cover
- Where to detach the screen from the circuit board: The little copper trace (flat wire path) can be gently pulled out of the white plastic pin header. The helpful reddit comment linked above was really what helped me visually see that. Otherwise I probably would have detached the pin header from the circuit board with too much force

The best parts: working through each step with my son, him holding a fingerlight to "help" (he cast more shadow than light but I didn't tell him), and lastly, my son's grin and our high five when we saw the replacement screen light up in his yoto.

Pics Explained: 1-his yoto turned on with no functional screen, notice water spot behind plastic cover; 2-disassembled first, now working on second; 3-front of circuit board with screen removed (upside-down because the knobs should be on top); 4-back of circuit board with screen removed (also upside-down); 5-disassembled broken yoto with black shavings from scraped melted plastic pins (speaker works intermittently, screen doesn't work, I will probably dispose of this one now); 6-assembled functional yoto, happy

The question: Can/How do I replace the screen on a yoto mini?

We have had yoto minis for several years, so the versions we have, have given much life!

My son gave his yoto mini a bath several months back. We turned it off immediately, opened it up, and dried it out as best we could. The yoto mini plays audio just fine, but the display screen never lit back up again. This is mostly fine and he's happy with its functionality. Unless I need to reset it for some reason, it's not a terminal issue.

My daughter's speaker stopped working about a year ago. It continued to work only with headphones, which was functional enough. Now, however, it does not even work with headphones. Given that she's had it for a really long time, and we're about to embark on a cross-country road-trip, we happily invested in a new yoto mini.

Now that hers is essentially dead as an audio player, I was wondering if I could relatively easily put her screen into his yoto? I have removed all screws on the circuit board, but can't pull it off the yoto with mild force.

Has anyone disassembled a yoto down to all parts and can provide some guidance or wisdom?

Edit/Update: HERE

I looked online and couldn't see anything that was dainty/chain like for the wire portion of the receiver. I bought some plated bezel wire, bent it verrrry gently around the receiver wire, and love it!

It's not heavy, it is comfortable. Hopefully it lasts and causes no issues.