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!
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I want to buy one…….
But I don’t know when I can buy it in China…
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Can the camera be removed without damaging the phone? My last two phones they were in with double-stick tape and unplugged nicely.
Does this void the warranty? lol
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Dropped my droid today.. the cheap flimsy volume switch popped out. Verizon dosen’t do repairs
Was told to call motorola….(too late to call today). Why can’t someone just tell you where you can take it to have it fixed. Won’t be a Verizon customer after this….. DROID SUCKS!!!!
Awesome images here. I have tried and tested both phones (iPhone, Milestone), although not side by side. My immediate response was ‘Is Motorola and Google afraid of a lawsuit from Apple in terms of Multi touch’? I’d love that feature on this phone.
I love the functionaility of the Milestone though, and the screen is utterly gorgeous. One other thing that I liked was the ‘lip’ at the bottom of the Milestone which I found not an intrusion, more a welcome step to stabability when sliding out that generously sized QWERTY keypad.
I think Android will dominate the smart phone market in 2010 – with the HTC Bravo ‘Google Phone’ coming out with its 1GHz Snapdragon CPU.
Thank you for the images
Regards,
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Hey This site is very nice and informative. Good as always and the team of Dr Wreck! This site rocks!
Any chance you could show the details of the keyboard inner workings?
I don’t like the flat rubbery sheet, and have been wondering about the feasability of replacing that with sheet of rounded hard plastic caps, for beter tactile feedback.
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To the noob who cant hang on to his or her phone. If you drop a phone its gonna break duh. The droid dominates all smartphones.. Verizon is also the whip. No they dont repair phones, no carrier does. Maybe you need a gitter bug or a old school nextel to hold up to your clumsyness. Take your crying else where, after all its not the phones fault you dropped it!
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my phone fell in the jacuzzi…after owning it for 3 days. I placed it in rice for several days…it would turn on, but just kept rebooting. I took it apart according to the photos above…hoped to find something of significance to fix, but nothing. After putting it back together, now it won’t even turn on. I wish I’d had insurance on it now. I think I’m screwed out of the $200 I paid for it. Lesson learned.
Couples things I’d like to add.
The screws are actually T5.
The first silver screw has a black plastic tab partial covering it
Yes you can remove the camera without damaging the phone.
I pulled my camera the other night since I also can not have one where I work and its actually pretty easy. Breaking the phone down may seem intimidating but its actually pretty easy just as long as you take it slow and don’t try to bend the panels more then say 5 degrees (Im talking about the outer plates/covers).
Some useful and required tools to pull the camera (T5 torx, 2 guitar picks one soft one hard or other wedges, a small flat head about the same size as the T5).
Start off with the analysis above, when removing the first silver screw my model had a black plastic tab partial cover it. You can just unscrew the torx, the thread will push the screw past (You will have to use you’re wedge to hold it up a little during installation).
The next step I removed the camera lens plate (Be very careful to not bend any of the plates so they will go back on without bendage on the corners, etc..) I used two guitar picks to work under the plate and managed to save all my stick. Verizoned used double stick plastic tape when securing the panels so you can actually replace it if need be. The lens covering is actually one piece with the back casing.
Next using the space providing from removing the camera plate, I worked off the top foot rest. Again be careful not to overly bend anything.
The part that worried me the most but presented no problems, You now need to remove the copper speaker plate. It is super thin and very very easy to bend and deface. Use you’re soft pick to work under it (it would help to have a very small flat head to start a corner first). Of all the pieces this one is the most prowne to crease marks if you bend it to much.
You should now have access to all the screws, take them out or loosen them enough to begin start unsnapping the case on its sides. There are two snaps on the top and bottom and 3 on each side. I used my hard pick to start on the bottom left corner (when looking from the back) and worked around. Catch you’re buttons when they fall out.)
when pulling the back out, notice the little tab right in the middle of the phone that sits above the batter and below the memory card (pull that out if you havnt by now) That little tab has a kind of lego man hand clip on it holding onto the center post (the first silver screw). just use you’re pick to pull it downward toward the phones bottom. The back casing should now be free.
You now have access to the last silver and two black screws holding down the main board.
Use you’re flat head to remove the two LCD socket connections, carefully unplug the wifi antenna on the bottom right of the board and remove that screw under it.
** You dont have to remove the keyboard socket connection but I found it easier to remove the camera since I could better manipulate the mainboard without a tether holding it down. **
You can now roll the main board to the left where you will have access to the camera socket connection. Carefully pry it out with you’re flat head.
Putting it all back together is really easy, just pay attention to a few things.
Dont forget to plug the 2 LCD sockets back in, the Screen socket, the wifi antenna
**take note of the wifi antenna, there are two small clips the antenna pushes into in the middle of the cable that hold it away from the egdge of the casing so you dont crimp the antenna when snapping the back case.**
Pay attention to you’re buttons, the on/off button can only install one way the camera button can install either way but I noticed if you put it in with the protruding edge facing down or towards the fron of the phone it dosnt sit quit right. The volume rocker dosnt matter, its the same on all sides.
Double check all you’re screws, and snap the back casing back on **starting** with the bottom side first (the clips are somewhat different on that side and kind of hinge on so its easier to just start there. keep an eye on the right side and use you’ flat head to make sure the wifi antenna is still out of the way from the casing edge.
Put all you’re plates back on and firmly press them into place, install memory, etc…
I recommend also removing you’re camera from the interface. You will need to update you’re firmware to 2.1, root the phone, install Power user and root manager (BGsoft this cost 1.99 from the market place).
Power user you get from the market place
root manager you get from the market place (1.99us)
google the firmware update and instructions for installing it.
I should add to my last post….
The headphone jack does use the camera module for its connections back into the mainboard. SO, if you take out the camera you will be rendering the headphone jack useless (it wont make contact with anything inside the case).
To circumvent this, just pick up a Blue tooth headset since the Droid is A2DP complaint.
I have not found nor do I suspect the USB port can be used for USB headsets.
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is not a phone is a robot
is droid from another planet 
very nice post. thanks
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What about the display?
Is it possible to open this whitout opening the Phone?
e.g. for to clean the speaker slot.
What about the Display glas?
Can this be swaped seperately or is this one unit with the Display?
How are they doing the buttons at the edge of the display? Is that part of the LCD glass assembly?