[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] throwbot:
Let me make a quick note, that if you're either A) a genius or B) at work and are just skimming through posts, feel free to skip to paragraph 5 (or maybe its 6? ) to skip the fat and jump straight to meat of my querry.

Okay, so I wish my post was actually as interesting as my title (im sensing potential as a news website author). But anyways, so I got a really sweet deal on a refurbished Gold 32 gig 6p through best buy about 2 months ago. Ive been out of the tinkering scene for a couple years, and decided to get a 6p once I started to realize that the legend that is nexus was more than likely coming to an end, courtesy of the Pixel line. I bought the Gold one bc they ran a sale at Best buy for a 32 gig refurbished 6p for $313 for the gold specifically. Apparently they made a mistake in advertising but due to their price match guarantee I was able to capitalize on it. There was only one problem: I hated the gold one. And I dont' mean I liked it the least of the 4 colors offered-- it literally was the only color of the four that I didn't like. I figured I would be able to cover it with a case temporarily and eventually do a housing swap to change the color.

Well, within 2 days of owning the phone, my neighbor slid it into her back pocket for a moment while talking to my girlfriend, and lets just say... how do i put this gently...think Chris Farley, but female, and, "fat girl in a little pants". I winced as inconspicuously as I could, as I watched her hips swaying to a rendition of American woman playing in the background on youtube. Before things got too serious, I came up with an excuse as to why I needed to skedaddle, she handed me my phone, and i slunked out of their apartment carrying my 6p like smeagol getting out of there with his precious. Everything seemed alright upon first inspection, but as I got home and put it in the light I realized-- *Duh Duh Duuuuunnnnn*-- before i even realized what had happened, I had found myself on the wrong side of the "tight jeans bent my made-in-china volume rocker" statistic. At first it gave me problems with hard resets, but eventually I was able to use a razor blade to dislodge the jammed button, which allowed me to push the stock image back onto the device so I could attempt to RMA it.

But then it hit me-- whats the point of messing around with it, if I'm going to replace the housing anyways? Well, at some point along this excruciatingly long version of my story (which probably took less time to actually play out in reality), iFixit delivered quite a slap in the face to me with their "2 out of 10" repairability score. But, my girlfriend gave me just enough confidence to carry on with the project after declaring that my fingers are frickin magic, and that the difficult housing transplant shouldn't be too hard for someone with my level of natural talent.

Moving on to chapter 64: So all I have to do now, is choose which color housing I want to replace the gold with, and order the parts-- this is where I decide to go franken nexus. Since the housing, fingerprint scanner, sim card tray, etc, all have to be bought seperately in order to have a uniform color change, I figured I would mix things up and go with either a white or silver (I'll probably go ahead and get both) main housing, and order the sim tray, volume rockers, fingerprint scanner, and probably even the back bottom piece in black to have a unique loo courtesy of an accent color. And alas; even though I didn't produce the background here quite as quick as Bob Ross with a paint scraper, we have invariably arrived at question number 1:

if you order a replacement housing, do they come with the volume rocker and power button included?

I can't find a definitive answer in any of the pictures for the ones Ive looked at, but since the closest thing I can find to the buttons are the ribbon/cable for them, I'm assuming this is the case. I'm also assuming if I want a white housing with black buttons, that I will have to simply buy a black housing as well? I've found the glass camera cover seperate, the sim trays, the fingerprint scanners-- heck, even the little strip on the bottom-- being sold seperately, but I cannot for the life of me find any volume rocker/power button combos sold individually.

And To conclude The longest, most obvious waste of time that a post could ever hope to achieve..my second question: Say a man were inclined, during his construction of a Franken Nexus, to attempt to swap out the 32 GB ssd memory chip on his mother board with a 128 GB one-- I'm not asking about the level of technical difficulty that presents-- we are, of course, working under the assumption that not only would the technician be in possession of magic frickin fingers, but he also happens to be good buddies with Johnny 5. The guy loves input, he already read up on whats required and he swears that his little third arm could sodder and switch out those memory chips just as good as it can break into any circa 1987 gm vehicle. BUT-- assuming johnny 5 was there to help with the physical removal of the old chip, and the installation of the new one-- would transplant on the motherboard be possible, to turn a 32 GB nexus 6p into a 128? Is there anything that changes with the source code anywhere? In the kernel source code or anything? what would such a job entail, if someone (other than number 5) were to explain it? How feasible would this project be? I used to know some code, but the only thing it was ever good for was getting me into the cool kids treehouse and getting slapped by mindy crane in the seventh grade so I'm not sure how much help it would be for me here.

Thank you for your time, and your INPUT!!! IIIIINNNNPUUUUUTTTTT!!!! who-- easy number 5.