Motorola V3 RAZR Disassembly Tutorial 1 - Broadband Reports

Motorola V3 RAZR Disassembly Tutorial 1.0
By: Krappy
Materials Needed:
1. Torx 3 Screwdriver
2. Torx 5 Screwdriver
3. Torx 6 Screwdriver
4. Small Flat Head Screwdriver (1.0 size)
5. Patience
6. A bottle of Advil

1. Start by removing the “M” logo where the
earpiece is. Simply slip a small flat head
where you see the small hole underneath
the logo and lift it up. (Simply a sticker.)
2. Now to the inside where the main LCD
screen is. There are 4 rubber stoppers that
cover up the 4 screws that hold the front
plate to the phone. (as shown) Remove
these stoppers.

3. When all 4 screws have been revealed take
a Torx 5 and unscrew these 4 screws.
4. Now flip the phone closed and find a small
whole on the side of the phone near the
earpiece. (As pictured) Stick the flat head
screw driver into this small and lift the
faceplate up, use your fingers to help pull it
up, it is a little tight so you might need to
use a little force, but be careful to not mess
up anything.

5. Continue getting your faceplate off.
6. When your faceplate if off, you will see the
LCD assembly. Along with the buttons that
control the volume, etc. Remove the
buttons and keep them in a safe place
where you won’t lose them.

7. Now you disconnect the 2 cables that
connect to the screen, one if for the camera
and the other connects it to the main board.
By simply lifting the silver cable up and
away from the LCD, and the camera you
will need to left up the brown bracket then
take the cable out.
8. Now you will remove the LCD, 1 st off you
will need to move the side buttons (actual
buttons) away from the housing, you will
1 st need to get a flat head and slide then
under the button and lift it up. You will
need to do a total of 4 buttons. Now on you
will need to lift up the earpiece and back up
battery. Do the same thing you did with the
buttons, slide a flat head under then and lift
it up

9. Now you are ready to remove the LCD just
lift it up and away from the housing. Put
this aside where it can’t be damaged or
scratched.
10. Now you will need to remove the 2 hinges that
hold the top of the phone to the bottom. You will
need to 1 st unscrew a screw where the battery is
towards the back of the phone. You will need a
Torx 3 screwdriver. Now you will remove one of
the two hinges and to do that you must remove
that screw then take a flat head and the hinge that
has the whole so you can loop something in it,
slide the flat head into the hole and gently pull it
outward. Then on the other hinge you have to
look on the inside where the LCD silver
connector was you will see a chrome part, take
the flat head and push it outward, and it will pop
out.

11. Now remove the upper part of the housing
from the bottom. By simply lifting it up on
the left side where the silver film cable is.
12. When the top half of the phone is removed
look to the side of one of the hinges you
will see a white stub, get some tweezers
and pull this out, it is the flipping
mechanism helps with flipping the phone.

13.Now that the top part of the V3 is gone,
down to the bottom part. 1 st you can start
off with taking off the 2 Torx6 screws, and
removing the main board. To remove the
main board you unscrew the 2 Torx6
screws and you unclip some clips that hold
that back piece on. You gently pull it away
and when you take it off there is a cable
connecting to the main board, disconnect
this cable.
14. Now to take off the internal antenna and remove the
main board away from the back piece. 1 st you have to
remove the 2 rubber stoppers that are covering up 2 of
the clips. Then around the outside of the antenna there
are clips that hold it in place, use your flat head and
unhook the antenna from the back plate. Once the
antenna is removed take off the speaker, and the main
board.

15.Now to remove the keypad from the last
part. There are 6 clips that hold it in place 4
of then are underneath the white sticker
where your battery goes, and the other 2 are
visible. You will have to use your flat head
to pry up the clip and pull it out from the
other side.
16.Now you will take off the antenna cover.
To do that you will remove 4 Torx5 screws
and the 2 pieces of the antenna cover and
Mic whole come off.

17. Last of all I forgot to take pictures of this
part but you remove the EL panel with the
keypad on it. I’ll let you figure for yourself.
I’ve walked you through most of it, time for
you to challenge yourself.
18.You are finally done here how everything
should look.

JUST A REMINDER IF ANYONE IS CHANING THEIR HOUSING REMEMBER TO TAKE
THESE SMALL PIECES OFF THEIR OLD ONE.
ENJOY. PLEASE PM OR EMAIL ME ANY MISTAKES I HAD MADE OR ANYTHING I LEFT
OUT.
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