Nikon D7100 Dial mode button Replacement

Geschrieben von: Wesley Eveld

Kommentare: 27

Nikon D7100 Dial mode button Replacement

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20 Minuten

Einleitung

If your Nikon D71000 Dial Mode Button does not switch the camera mode when twisted, use this guide to replace the Dial Mode Button.

No special skills are required to be able to perform this replacement.

Before beginning with this guide, make sure that the device is turned off and disconnected from any external source.

Werkzeuge

Phillips #0 Screwdriver

Schritt 1

Remove the five screws on the bottom of the camera with a JIS #000 head screwdriver.

Schritt 2

Remove the 3 screws under the battery flap and remove the bottom cover.

There is an addition screw at the very top of the battery bay. If you don't remove this screw, you will damage the core body of the camera (Ask me how I know).

Thomas Fons Revilla -

Yes. There is another screw inside the battery bay. You save a lot of D7100 👍

Tu - 08/12/22

Schritt 3

Remove the 2 screws inside the camera on the back corners.

Schritt 4

Open the HDMI flap and remove the 2 screws.

Schritt 5

Remove the screw next to the camera strap loop.

Schritt 6

Remove the 2 screws on each side of the view finder.

Only 1 screw on each side of viewfinder totaling 2 screws, 1 on the left and 1 on the right.

Drew Creates -

Schritt 7

Remove the 2 screws above and below the SD card flap.

becareful,might lose thread your screw.

Yu Yu - 15/10/20

the two screws under the car door turn very hard (D7200). I affixed a 25mm plastic (delrin) wheel on my JIS 00 + screwdriver for better torque. This worked.

Bernard Delley -

Step 7 might be skipped, if you just need to get at the LCD screen. This side panel with the car slits only supports the lower screw for the back panel in step 8. The back panel might lift off in step 10, without removing the side panel of step 7. If step 10 does not lift off, do step 7 preceding step 10.

Bernard Delley -

This step has 4 screws total. 2 above and 2 below. You throw off the screw count if you don't label each step correctly. Not a mistake but a bit of a play on words making a quick glance seem deceptive.

Drew Creates -

Schritt 8

Peel off the adhesive leather screw cover and remove the 2 screws under it.

Schritt 9

Remove the Diopter adjustment control sticker and remove the screw under it.

If you skipped step 7, you have to loosen the 4 step 7 screws by about 1mm to get the back panel off cleanly in the next step.

Bernard Delley -

Schritt 10

Separate the back panel of the camera from the actual camera.
Be careful not to tear any of the ribbon cables.

Schritt 11

Disconnect the LCD ribbon cables and power cable from the motherboard.

Flip up the dark grey tab on the ribbon cable connector with your fingernail to release the clamp before removal. When reassembling ensure the cable is fully reinserted then push the tab back down to lock.

Stephen Lipiec - 19/03/20

Schritt 12

Unscrew all 16 screws around the back plate of the camera.

This does not need to be done whatsoever for mode dial replacement. This is only needed if you are replacing the screen.

Thomas Fons Revilla -

Schritt 13

Then unscrew the remaining screws holding the back plate to the LCD.
Then simply remove the plate with the LCD.

Are all the screws the same length / size ? Thanks

trevee359 - 22/11/18

Disassembling the D7200, the screen is glued to the frame but it can be carefully prised off using dentist’s hook, make sure you scrape of any old screen glass around the edge.

a.brown.1 - 15/09/19

When starting disassembly group each set of removed screws from each disassembly section and GROUP them, put an earbud cleaner or similar inbetween each group of screws to seperate them as you progress through the disassembly. Then you can work back in reverse when you have installed the new LCD screen. Remember to use a dust blower to remove flakes of the old LCD after installing the new LCD before starting to put the screws back.

a.brown.1 - 15/09/19

I used about 15 ziplocked bags to hold each step screws parts in. Having hard time removing's LCD glass from frame .

John Burns Smiley -

This does not need to be done whatsoever for mode dial replacement. This is only needed if you are replacing the screen.

Thomas Fons Revilla -

Schritt 14

Undo the 5 ribbon cable connectors by flipping the latches up with a plastic spudger.

Schritt 15

Remove the black 4 pin connector by pulling it out of the connector.

this one goes vertically up.

Bernard Delley -

Schritt 16

Remove the 7 screws holding the motherboard in place.

Schritt 17

This is what you should see after removing the motherboard.

Schritt 18

After following the guide to remove the back LCD screen from the motherboard, remove the 2 marked screws.

Step 20 should be performed first.
These do not need to be removed. This is only needed for accessing the lower internals of the camera.
Other screws are removed. See later comments.

Thomas Fons Revilla -

Schritt 19

Remove these 5 screws along the top of camera body.

There are only 3 screws, not 5. But yet again, these do not need to be removed to access the top shell. You can remove these later much more easily once the top shell is removed. This would be done to remove the top shell internals.

However, instead of removing these screws. Remove the screws on each side of the camera attaching the top shell to the bottom. Silver on the left, black on the right.

Thomas Fons Revilla -

Schritt 20

Remove these 2 screws on the top of the camera and pull the top screen, flash, and dial-mode button from the main body of the camera.

There are two additional screws on the front side of the camera above the mount opening that also need to be removed, and you also remove the front Shell.

Thomas Fons Revilla -

Schritt 21

Remove the screws holding the dial-mode PCB board down.

Schritt 22

Remove the potentiometer and PCB off together.

Schritt 23

Remove the large screw in the middle of the dial-mode button. This allows you to replace it.

The screw gets you where you need to go, but doesn't describe how to fix the most common problem with these cameras. The mode dial does not lock.

Once you have removed this screw, the mode dial will fall off. You will also find a metal ring with a downward tongue that slots into the mode dial below. This ring is what locks the mode dial, and is suppose to be attached into the mode dial part that was removed. When it's dislodged, the dial is operable but does not lock.

To reinstall it into the dial, the orientation does not matter. You will need to push down on the lock button, and insert the ring around the tabs in the dial. I found it easiest to do this on a table pushing down on the dial, and using a 000 flat head to push down each side into the dial.

It can then be reinstalled into the body.

Thomas Fons Revilla -

Abschluss

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

Tinte & Feder

Wesley Eveld

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7 Kommentare

Thanks for the write up! I just used it to replace my D7100 mode dial.

One caveat, in step 19, there are no screws under the circles that are drawn. Those screws were removed to get the LCD off, I ended up removing several other screws (some unnecessarily I believe) before I was able to get the top panel to separate from the main body.

There are 2 screws on the sides that definitely need to be removed as they clearly hold the top panel to the body. One of these is visible underneath the strap retainer in photo 18. The other one is the same location on the SD card slot side of the body.

edit - I’m also unsure why this shows how to remove the LCD from the back plate as this is unnecessary for replacing the mode dial.

Matt Hayward - 06/01/19

Okay write up. I tried this and it took me forever to figure out how to disassemble the camera, in the end it wasn’t worth it. The steps after step 18 are just missing information/wrong.

E H - 01/03/19

All was going well until taking the top screen off. Pulled the top off and wires pulled out from some where most likely have a pile of parts. In reality a !#^& poor explaintion.

CHEEPER TO SEND IT TO NIKON.

chris - 13/06/19

Many thanks for a good clear guide! I used steps 1 to 10 to remove the base and back so that I could change out the worn buttons around the display. The only problem I had was reconnecting the ribbon cables. After a bit of research I found that you need to flip up the dark grey tabs on the ribbon cable connectors with your fingernail to release the clamps before removing the cables. When reassembling ensure the cables are fully reinserted then push the tabs back down to lock.

Stephen Lipiec - 19/03/20

My D7200 plate indicator popped off, I just bought the new switch / replacement switch, gently popped off the indicator plate (to know what mode you’re in) and reglued it onto my old rotating dial.

My rotating switch IS broken though, in the sense that it will rotate from indent to indent and the push down switch doesn’t stop it, but I don’t care. It stays where it’s supposed to and I always check what mode I’m in anyways before starting.

I did NOT want to go through the steps above to disassemble my camera, just for the indicator plate. Not worth it.

William Dayton - 26/05/20

There is a screw in the battery compartment that needs to be removed to remove the top. To remove the top easily, remove the two screws below the flash lip and on the front ring around the lens opening. The small connector on the upper left of the motherboard just pulls out, no lock. The connector with the red and black wires on the upper right sort of lifts out. Lift one side. As you are probably looking at it, the top or bottom. The steel washer with the tang clips into the top of the dial. The tang should be located across from the flat side of the shaft. I used ice cube trays to separate my screws. If there were longer screws, I laid them in their respective locations and took a picture. Yes there are only three screw to remove in step 19. They are vertical compared to the others. The top two are not screws. Step 18 is not needed. Disassembly of the back is not necessary, but informative if you need it.

John Colle -

This has to be the only horrible guide I've ever come across on iFixit. I don't know what this person was trying to accomplish adding pointless steps, and then missing massive ones.

Corrections are commented

Thomas Fons Revilla -