My Fix Tips

The Canon PowerShot S5IS digital cameras feature a tilt-and-swing LCD screen. You can adjust the LCD screen on different angels. But the LCD cable is an easy broken part due to the frequent movements. When the cable is broken, the common symptoms are:  intermittent display, changes to EVF by itself, upside down pictures.
The cable is not a separate part, you need to replace hinge too. They come together with two switches. Figure 1 is the picture o f the hinge.

Take all the batteries out including the button battery. Remove the eyepiece cover. Remove 3 screws on the bottom (shown on figure 2).

Remove  2 screws beside the viewfinder and all the other screws on the right and left sides. Gently take off the side cover.

Swing the LCD to left side, separate the back cover slowly, and disconnect the keypad cable from main board.

Remove 2 screws and take the hinge cover off.

Pull out the white flat cable; disconnect the LCD cable with yellow and light blue connectors. Remove 3 screws to take the LCD screen apart.

Remove 2 screws here and …

2 screws here. Open up the LCD back cover.

Remove a silver screw here.

And one here. Disconnect the connectors to remove the hinge.

Now put on the new hinge. Watch out the gray guide wires when plugging the cables. Put back the screws and close the LCD cover.

Let the white cable go through the hinge when you put the LCD screen back.

Connect and organize the cables properly.

Put on the hinge cover.

Connect the cable of back cover.

Now put on the side cover and the eyepiece cover.

They are gray and black screws, the gray ones are on the sides to match the body color.