Removing the hinge cover on JFL92

My JFL92 has an issue with the integrated camera that has been progressively getting worse: the camera won't work when the display is open between about 60 degrees and about 120 degrees. It used to work after the computer has been on for a while, but now the only way I can get it to work is by moving the screen back and forth between the regions where it does work and where it doesn't. If I do this several times, the non-functional range decreases until it works in the vicinity of 90 degrees. This procedure has to be repeated every time I turn it off (or even put it on standby) and I suspect it will soon stop working altogether, so I would like to remove the hinge cover to see what happens when I move the display back and forth.

Problem is, how do I do that? The hinge cover is attached to the touch-sensitive strip above the keyboard (the one that has the power button in the middle) and this thing just won't come off. I can lift the corners right next to the keyboard and snap the hinge cover itself out, but the other corners of the strip appear to be stuck. I have the IFL90 disassembly guide and it says to just pull the strip up from the right, but their panel looks different from mine and this doesn't seem to be working for me. Do I have to unscrew something first? Or just apply more force? I don't want to snap the darn thing in two.

 

take the battery out and you will see the clips that hold the panel in place

 

Thanks. I see 3 edges under the battery that appear to be holding the panel in place, but they won't budge. I suspect it's just more of those hidden crevices that they use throughout the underside panels, but it's hard to be sure.

EDIT: Well, I've found this nice disassembly guide and managed to remove the panel, but there is nothing obviously wrong under it. Moving the display back and forth moves the cables that lead to the camera (and to the display), but this has presumably always been this way and I don't see why it should break anything. The problem lies elsewhere, probably somewhere along the camera cable.