How to disassemble Olympus Stylus 1030 camera

Olympus Stylus 1030 SW Camera Disassembly procedure.

Remove the exterior casing as explained below to expose the camera's interior

components, and then follow the further removal instructions.

Camera Casing.

Carefully pry off the lens frame using a plastic opening tool.emove front panel's top three screws (type T6) using a 1.5 mm screwdriver. Remove the top sided three screws, using a #00 Philips Head Screwdriver.Either using tweezers or gently holding the front panel by the right side, carefully remove it by pivoting it outwards.The location of the pivoting point is above the lens and is shown by the circle markup within the rectangle of the last image.

Remove loose washer plate from T6 screw hole using tweezers.
Slowly peel off the seal from beneath the front plate.
See photo for the locations of the tape strips beneath this seal.

Using a #00 Philips Head
Screwdriver, remove two screws located on a left side of the camera.

Using a #00 Philips Head Screwdriver, remove two black color speaker screws.
Lift out the speaker plate as it comes off after you unscrew the holding screws from previous step.
Open up the multi connector cover.
The Multi connector compartment is used to connect the AV cable and play pictures on a TV and it has a waterproof cover.
The multi connector/speaker side panel can be detached by sliding it off the panel itself.

Using a #00 Philips Head Screwdriver, remove the screw located below the multi connector cover.
Using a #00 Philips Head Screwdriver, remove two screws located at the bottom of the camera.
Using a #00 Philips Head Screwdriver, remove the screw inside the Battery/card compartment cover.
To expose the screw located inside the battery/card compartment, you will first have to open the compartment cover.

Remove two screws (PH00) from the interior front cover
Carefully detach the interior front plate by rotating it outwards until it is freed from the back panel
Lift out the shutter and power buttons and their retaining plate.

Open the A/V port door
Unscrew four corner screws that hold the front and back halves of the casing together using the #00 Philips Head Screwdriver
Use a plastic spudger or fingernail to release the top holding clip
Slowly unfold the front and back halves of the camera to expose the electrical ribbons.

Using plastic opening tool and tweezers gently pivot the black plastic strip up locking the ribbon in place.
Once the black strip releases the ribbon gently unattach the wide copper ribbon off the computer chip by using your thumb or tweezers.
Once all 3 ribbons are disconnected, the front and back halves can be separated.