Get Your Smart Phone Working Again When SHTF/Zombie Virus Hits!

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So there's no power left and as far as you can tell, it's not coming back on anytime soon. You're in a panic and have forgotten everything you learned from your survival and how to defend against zombie invasion eBooks on your smart phone... and the battery on that smart phone died out awhile ago. You need those survival eBooks!

What do you do?
Why... start sacrificing your yard that you've worked so hard on of course! No... seriously, in a post-apocalyptic world those cutesy solar yard lights can be reused to get your smart phone back up and running. And those yard stakes will make a great tool for zombie brain penetration!... WIN/WIN!
Materials That Will Be Used In This Project
* old smart phone
* 4 solar yard lights
* paperclip
* shoe string
* electrical tape
Tools That You Will Likely Need
* screwdriver
* scissors
* knife (a kitchen knife will do just fine)
(all links refer to the items I used in this project for those curious)
*** Please Note: There are many different ways I could have done this. Ultimately my goal was to get it done without the use of electricity, with as few items as possible, and using only items that would be typical to find in your own home. In addition everyone's phone will be different - this is how I was able to accomplish getting my smart phone running again with the above concepts in mind. So... having said that, let's get started!

Step 1: Dismantle Those Yard Lights

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The only thing we need from those yard lights right now are the solar panels. The ground post and frosted cover on the one's I found (not in my neighbor's yard, I promise! ... at least, no neighbors that were still alive...) were easy to pop off as shown in the first image. So from looking at that first image it looks like we have two screws to tackle. Let's get that done.
Shown in the second image is what we're now looking at. There's no electricity to solder those solar panel wires off of the circuit board, so we'll have to cut them as shown in the second image.
Those solar panels still have a lot of plastic and such that they're stuck to. Ideally we'd like to get rid of all of that. In my case there was nothing holding the outer metal casing to the inside plastic and I was able to slide it right off by pushing down on the top of the solar panel area as shown in the third image.
Now, looking at the fourth image we have some type of glue on the wires. We need that stuff gone. I was able to easily remove this just using my fingernails.
I tried to just get the panels to pop out, but they were clearly glued down. So I took a kitchen knife and began to cut around the plastic casing being very mindful not to cut the wires as shown in the fifth image. This plastic was surprisingly easy to cut through. I did this on all four corners, however, I still needed to get the panel out, so I very slowly very carefully began a cut right at the edge of the plastic and the panel as shown in the sixth image.
With one plastic ledge finally gone I was able to start pulling the panel away from the plastic. I used a plastic measuring spoon to help me wedge between the two and gently pulled them apart as seen in the seventh image. (In hindsight I should have used a piece of plastic that I cut off from the casing to keep materials at a minimum... oops!)
Oh boy! You're going to have to do that 3 more times.
Well, move on to the next step when you finish.

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