Alright today we’re going to take apart the Motorola Photon.
It’s a Dual-Core phone from Sprint.
It’s rocking the android operating system.
There are a total of 10 screws around the outside.
There are 7 normal screws that you can see me taking apart right here.
Then there’s a screw hidden underneath this little rubber tab.
You can just pop that off with a pair of tweezers.
Just kind of lift up underneath there.
Then the screw is in the upper part right next to the camera.
The other two screws are down near the bottom.
Make sure to take out the battery before you start prying away the case or anything.
Let me get a better view.
You can kind of see it’s like a hard piece of plastic.
You just kind of lift up and out.
It’s got a little bit of sticky stuff on the bottom that you can put back on later
if you want to.
Pop those two screws out.
These screws are different than all the other screws so it’ll be pretty easy to put them
back into place.
Anyway, once those are off, the phone itself actually lifts away pretty easily.
You might need to use a little pry tool around the edges to get it all the way off, but it’s
pretty simple.
This is the kick stand right here which is replaceable so if your kickstand is stuck
in the upright position you can get rid of it.
This is the audio jack.
The little pins that connect to each part of the headphone jack.
And then this is the vibrator right here; it’s what spins around to vibrate your phone.
Unfortunately for this phone not many of the components are replaceable.
There’s one screw holding down the motherboard which is what I’m taking off right now.
Then there are two ribbon cables: that one and this one right here.
Once those are snapped off….they’re kind of like Legos, you just kind of lift them
off.
Then the board itself is glued onto the LCD so kind of take your pry tool and lift it
up just a little bit.
Then I slide my pry tool in all the way and it kind of clicks up and off of the main board.
Don’t want to bend too much though because it can damage the motherboard.
You can kind of lift it, wiggle it, and then you can pry it away and make sure that the
earpiece right there doesn’t get ripped away from the motherboard, it’s kind of
glued onto the front screen.
So now I have my new screen that I’m going to put down.
I’m going to slide the motherboard into place here, making sure that the ribbon cables
are on the right side of the motherboard – correct side of the motherboard.
Then just snap them down into place just like Legos.
And if you look in the video description I’m going to try to find as many replacement parts
as I can.
Hopefully there will be some screens.
After the phone’s been out for a while screens are usually pretty cheap on Amazon so I’ll
post those.
Anyway, make sure you get the screws back into place.
This is the little silver round one.
The rest of the video is pretty self explanatory.
Pop the plastic into place, make sure it’s clipped in all around the sides.
This phone doesn’t have very strong clips on the outsides so that’s why it has so
many freaking screws.
So put the two silver ones – long silver ones- down in the bottom.
And then grab your other 7 black screws and screw them in around the outside, as well
as the screw underneath the rubber piece next to the camera.
Pop the battery back in and viola, the phone works!
Anyway, if you have any questions leave them in the comments.
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