a plastic piece broke from this thing.

[preppystud]

when i tried to replace the new battery, a little plastic piece from the lower left corner broke from this thing.

1. does that affect the function of thing thing? ( i don't know its name.)

2. and what is the function of that wide flat ribbon cable on the left side of nexus 7 which connects to this thing?

thanks.

 

[GSDer]

Please see the answers you already received in https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=803855

 

[preppystud]

not really. they didn't tell me what that cable is for.

 

[GSDer]

I'm not tearing mine apart to find out, but it looks like a display connection (for the digitizer/display). You could probably look on the iFixit site at their teardown to be sure.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+7+2nd+Generation+Teardown/16072