Beyond drilling it out, you can try dab some hot wax into the screw and see if you can make a bit get traction. Otherwise cut a small slot into the screw so you can use a small flat-head bit.

Good guide, easy to follow and execute. However here are some tips to anyone else doing it:

- If you have trouble with the plastic tab under the battery, and don't have any isopropyl alcohol at hand, I can recommend (gently!) pushing some dental floss under the battery, and then working the adhesive loose. A long piece wound around two fingers gives better leverage - just be careful as not to rip off the little ribbon cable on the left side by the battery!

- It would have been nice to have a step on re-applying the back adhesive. I stuck it onto the phone itself, but I think that sticking it to the back glass would have been smarter, as I managed to twisted one edge.

- Also, I agree with @paulbernard & @peterfarkas1513 regarding the incorrect bit being specified/provided in the fix kit. I made the t2 bit work as I needed the phone up and running asap, but I could have been left with a stripped screw.

Finally, I'd recommend starting the phone after reconnecting the battery, before gluing it down, to make sure everything works.

Great for you buddy. Has it perhaps occured to you that the board itself could be ?

If I have to sacrifice one controller in order to show people how to (potentially) fix theirs, then I'm fully fine with that.

Sorry! Meant to be 5 screws.

Yeah, I agree with you completely. But since this was a teardown and I had no intention of putting it back together (and I don't have a solder), I just ripped it off.