Motorola Droid Teardown Images!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment you have all been waiting for has arrived. Dr.Wreck has fully dissasembled his Brand New Motorola Droid from Verizon.
Stay tuned to his Twitter, and RSS feed for all the details as they come out! We’re currently in the process of identifying all of the devices on the logic board. Keep it locked on www.phonewreck.com!
Process
Taking this device apart is NO EASY TASK! Motorola has worked wonders to make this thing as suprising and delicate as possible. Dr.Wreck loves challenges, thus he commends you oh, motorola engineers!
The first thing you’ll need to do is remove the back cover and battery. Grab your trusty T6 and remove both the silver and black screws from the rear of the chassis. The silver screw holds the PCB in place. The Black Screws hold the back plate on the screen portion of the device.
Finding the next set of screws was a challenge. Dr.Wreck noticed a small wedge under the plastic piece above the google label at the very back of the phone. Here you’ll need a pin or very small prying device to get underneath and lift it away.
It’s important to be careful with these steps as these plastic pieces tend to be slightly brittle. Once you pull this piece away you will reveal another two T6 screws. Remove them.
Now to find the other screws… Where could they be?!
Aha, there’s another one placed underneath the google label and camera lens cover! Very sneaky Motorola.. Very sneaky indeed…
Now comes the most frustrating part…
The final 3 screws are located underneath that faux gold grating that covers the bottom of the battery door. Use a pin, wedge or staple remover to pry this up. Remove the 3 final and amazingly disguised T6 screws to free the Droid’s PCB.
Now, use your wedge the pry out the clips on the back part of the frame.
Tada!!!
Unfortunately, we’re far from done. There is still one more silver T6 locking the logic board in place. Remove that.
Now we need to pop off those flex cables that connect the device to the screen.
You can now flip away the PCB. And remove the remaining flex cable.
Now that the PCB is free, all that’s really left to do is remove the screen and slider mechanism. This can be done by pulling at the black plastic frame that creates the upper border for the device.
And that’s it! Interestingly enough, the sliding mechanism is essentially just two rails that are imbedded within the screen portion of the device – this is the simplest sliding mechanism we’ve ever seen! Stay tuned for the review to see what Dr.Wreck and Dr.Phone actually think about it!
OH AWEXOME! Look at how complicated that crap is!!
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Dr. Wreck you must have a large set of cajones to teardown the Droid, damn! Anyways love the phoneWreck site, always good to see the internals of these things and how theyre built. When is the review coming?! You didnt wreck it pre-review right?
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I’d like better photos of the board so that we can see what chips are running this thing… have anything else ?
Feel free to send me the parts, I’ll photograph them at high res if you want.
- Seriously.
Very cool, someone did X-Rays here:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/1500-x-rayed-my-droid-today.html
Now put it back togeather!
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Wow… looks very well built. Looks like Motorola has itself a good phone. Can’t wait to get one at the end of this month once my contract with AT&T is over. GO DROID!!!!!
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I plan to follow your steps on disassembling the phone when I purchase one this Friday, but my question is do you have any suggestions on the easiest way to remove the camera lens. Fed’s are camera shy.
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are there going to be more detailed pictures? very nice stuff. I’d love to see the PCB/everything close up (super high-res!!!).
I would like to know if the camera clicking(when autofocus is engaged) is caused by the camera module being improperly installed.
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You certainly killed my desire to dismantle my Droid. With those glued on pieces, that thing will definitely look molested after it is put back together.
I’d also like to join in with the others asking for closeup/hi-res photos of the PCB. The Droid has a root terminal running attached to a serial port somewhere in the phone; accessing it would unlock all the capabilities of the phone. Are there any signs of a debug port on the PCB? Are there any ICs near the USB port and if so, what are they?
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