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Motorola v3i Disassembly Manual

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Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0
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MOTOROLA v3i DISASSEMBLY GUIDE
This guide will help you replace housing parts and get to the inner
parts of your phone. I am in no way responsible for any damage
occurred to your phone. If you follow what I say to do in this guide
you should be ok. But you need a lot of time and patience when
YOU MUST READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY!
!ONLY BUY HOUSINGS FROM CNN.CN, AS THEY ARE OEM!
Contents:
Steps 2~5,66 Facia Replacement.
Steps 2~5,55,56~63 Lcd Lens Replacement.
Step 24~42, 48~50,59~61 Aerial/Lower Front Housing Replacement.
Step 1~9,16~20,24~27,43,45~47,51 Keypad and Flex Replacement.
Step 1~8,10,12~14,56,66 LCD Replacement.
Tools Needed:
Screwdrivers ~ T3,T5,T6
Precision Tweezers
Mobile Phone Opening Tool
Brand new Glasses Cloth
Double Sided Tape
Screw Sizes:
LCD Housing Screws ~ T5 x 4
Rear Screws ~ T6 x 2
Lower Inner Housing Screws ~ T5 x 4
Rear Slip Screw ~ T3 x 1
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL OF
You can buy these from eBay or any other mobile phone website.
Take your time and don't rush! Move away any drinks or liquid, and
have good light.
Compiled Exclusively for MotoModders.net
disassembling your phone.
THE TOOLS NEEDED.

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  • Page 1 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 1 MOTOROLA v3i DISASSEMBLY GUIDE This guide will help you replace housing parts and get to the inner parts of your phone. I am in no way responsible for any damage occurred to your phone. If you follow what I say to do in this guide you should be ok.
  • Page 2 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 2 1. Turn off your v3i; remove the battery cover, battery, sim card, and TF card. 2. Flick the rubber screw covers off with a small pin; make sure you don’t loose these! 3.
  • Page 3 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 3 4. Use your nail to lift up the top corner of the front facia (by the camera) This should lift up easily. 5. Now use the mobile phone opening tool to slide down the edges of the facia.
  • Page 4 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 4 Your phone should now look like this. 7. Flick up the left ribbon with your nail, or use tweezers. Compiled Exclusively for MotoModders.net...
  • Page 5 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 5 8. Next flick up the right hand (camera) ribbon. 9. Lift the bottom silver locking washers gently with tweezers. These are at the bottom of the screen. Compiled Exclusively for MotoModders.net...
  • Page 6 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 6 10. Lift up the speaker at attached to the ribbon at the bottom of the inner screen housing, gently ease them up. 11. Lift off the rubber camera surround with tweezers; just slide the tweezers between the rubber and the housing.
  • Page 7 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 7 12. Now to remove the side buttons. Lift each button off with tweezers. DO NOT CUT THE RIBBONS! You can use a pin to get behind the stuck down ribbon if necessary.
  • Page 8 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 8 14. Lift the screen unit out of the inner screen housing. 15. Remove the grey rubber camera housing and the metal protector to the right of it. Place this into the new housing.
  • Page 9 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 9 16. Flip the phone over and remove the T3 screw that holds in the left flip. 17. Flip the phone open and the right small chrome flipper should pop out. If this doesn’t place the tweezers in between the thin bar on the chrome flipper and ease it out.
  • Page 10 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 10 19. Turn the phone over so the other flipper is facing you and place a screwdriver on the small brass part, and push hard, push it in as far as you can so that the small brass part pops out of the keypad hinge.
  • Page 11 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 11 21. Dig out the small magnet to the right of the screen (YOU NEED THIS PART ITS WHAT CHANGES THE SCREEN DISPLAY WHEN YOU FLIP THE PHONE OPEN). 22. Remove the blue earpiece mesh and place it into the new housing (make sure the stickiness is removed with the mesh).
  • Page 12 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 12 24. Get the main body of the phone and turn it over, now unscrew the two T6 screws. 25. The aerial cover should separate slightly when lifted. Open it until you can see the ribbon.
  • Page 13 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 13 27. Push the bottom aerial housing away from the top this should unclip the aerial cover from the lower mic housing. If not use the mobile phone opening tool around the edge and it will lift up.
  • Page 14 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 14 28. You now need to unscrew all four T5 screws that hold the lower mic housing on. 29. Layout the screws and the metal antenna part as they were, remove the lower housing and mic cover.
  • Page 15 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 15 30. Remove the rubber clip coverings on the aerial connector. 31. Place tweezers under the right hand side of the plastic aerial cover, CAREFULLY SO YOU DON’T SCRATCH THE PCB! Lift it up until it clicks and unclips itself.
  • Page 16 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 16 32. Unhook the catch and push on the PCB from the opposite side until the PCB comes free. Your lower housing assembly should now look like this. Compiled Exclusively for MotoModders.net...
  • Page 17 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 17 33. Remove the speaker from the housing with tweezers. 34. Lift up the large rubber surround with tweezers. 35. Lift up the mesh below and place it into the new housing, then place the rubber on top of it, and then put the speaker back in place.
  • Page 18 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 18 36. Remove the gold screw contacts (at the top of the lower housing) with tweezers, and place them into the new housing. 37. Now push the sim card holder so that the very bottom part unclips to the opposite side.
  • Page 19 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 19 38. Now pull the left hand side of the sim card holder down at an angle so it unclips. 39. Now unfree the sim card holder from the left hand side, it should simply slide out once unclipped.
  • Page 20 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 20 Your lower housing should now look like this. 41. Get the PCB board and place it into the housing, push down gently so that it slips in place. 42. Now get the plastic aerial covering and the aerial. Put one side in and under the edge of the housing.
  • Page 21 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 21 43. Lift up the metal tabs at the bottom of the rear keypad with tweezers. 44. Lift the white IMEI data sheet up from the bottom right hand corner with tweezers (CAREFULLY AS NOT TO RIP IT).
  • Page 22 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 22 45. Now lift up the rest of the metal tabs that were hidden below the data sheet. Make sure they are all vertical. Then push them one by one until the keypad becomes free. Then pull from the other side.
  • Page 23 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 23 46. Lift up the top of the keypad with your nail. Then use the mobile phone opening tool to hinge it up all over. Make sure all the tabs are unstuck. And pull them through the keypad housing.
  • Page 24 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 24 48. Get the new mic cover and remove the blue plastic covering. Place it on the new mic cover. 49. Assemble the mic cover and the lower front housing. The mic cover slides into it.
  • Page 25 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 25 51. Now put the new keypad into the keypad housing, align the metal tabs and push them through the slots on the keypad housing. Turn the phone over and while pushing down as hard as you can bend down the metal tabs.
  • Page 26 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 26 54. Push the flipper in as far as you can MIND NOT TO SCRATCH THE NEW KEYPAD HOUSING. Slide it back into the new keypad housing. 55. Now to remove the front LCD glass, get the screen you removed and place your nail or the mobile phone opening tool under one edge and lift up slowly.
  • Page 27 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 27 56. Put the LCD unit into the new housing, then the camera unit in and clip the connector back in. Stick the earpiece back down, press down firmly with your finger (if the speaker is not sticky anymore use some double sided tape).
  • Page 28 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 28 59. Now get the bottom aerial housing and clip the keypad flex connector back into the main board PCB. Make sure this is properly connected. 60. Now push the aerial housing down onto the keypad housing. Until it clicks into place.
  • Page 29 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 29 61. Now screw back into place the two T6 screws at the back. 62. You can now put the battery in and turn on your phone to make sure it works. 63. Now get the new facia and take the mesh from your old facia and transfer it into the new one.
  • Page 30 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 30 64. Close the phone and replace the silver locking washers at the bottom. 65. Put the side buttons into the housing. 66. Get the new facia and push the bottom in first and then forward.
  • Page 31 Ajay16 Motorola v3i Disassembly Guide v1.0 Page: 31 67. Open the phone and clean all the dust/smears off of the screen. Do this to the outer screen as well. 68. Make sure you do this when your phone is turned off or the screen is black.
  • Page 32 The guys that find out the seem edits, file developers and decompilers. Also thanks to everyone at Motomodders.net who make all the modding possible! Keep it up guys! And thanks to Motorola for releasing such cool and different phones! Compiled Exclusively for MotoModders.net...