Comments on: Motorola Droid Teardown Analysis!

By: gorgamin

gorgamin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:32:28 +0000

i dont think this droid is coming back together again… those surface mount components seems offset at an angle caused by heat trying to get those metal shields off.. the solder probably started melting as a result of the board getting too hot. also look at the first pic… the lcd connectors seem burnt… you’re lucky if this still works…. probably an insurance salvage phone, or something thats already stuffed.

surface mount pcb’s are putting electronic repair shops out of work, as nothing can really be worked upon… it’s too small… and just the wrong amount of heat melts the ball grid array chips. dump and replace. the droid is amazing though, and thank you for sharing this with us… been trying to get a pic of the TI OMAP 3430 (with PowerVR SGX 530) application processor for a while now… the droid is still the fastest gaming phone out there, and that little chip beats the snapdragon in every game. now just to put that GPU to use in the android os itself

By: Sonja

Sonja — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:05:22 +0000

Has anyone measured the power/impedance of the headphone jack? Should be something around 32 ohm/20 mw?
TIA

By: Jeri

Jeri — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:17:40 +0000

To me the initals (“s”, “2″ and “p”) appear to be be an “n” “p” and the two s’s are sinewaves – perhaps this shows signal side and power side.

Also on that same side of the board some of the surface mount components seem to be poorly positioned at an angle, this is not a good manufacturing technique.

Thank you for presenting this website.

By: criminal records

criminal records — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:04:19 +0000

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By: Marc Motzen

Marc Motzen — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:15:02 +0000

Do you know where the second microphone is located? As far as I know there is a second mic on top or on the back of the device.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:52:15 +0000

Its really hard to judge by the pics, but does it appear there would be an easy way to tighten up these “simple” Sliding Mechanisms, mine is loose, but I’d rather not ever deal with Verizon, ever

By: wolf

wolf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:35:13 +0000

Which type of the PMIC? That IC is not TLW5030 on board.

By: wolf

wolf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:34:31 +0000

Which type of the PMIC?

By: wolf

wolf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:32:35 +0000

Which type of the PMIC?

By: wolf

wolf — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:27:28 +0000

I can’t search which one is twl5030. who can tell me.