HOWTO: Disassemble your PPC/XV 6700
From Bellybuttonporn
I recently fixed my broken phone by buying an additional phone and using it as parts. Here's how I did it. You can click on the pictures to see bigger versions.
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Step 1: Prepare
Gather your phone(s) and tools. You'll need:
- Tiny screwdriver. Since I'm a cheapskate I borrowed my roommate's eyeglasses repair kit.
- .050 allen wrench or #7 Torx bit.
- (not pictured) utility knife Do not use this unless I specifically tell you to.
- Your hands.
In general, you're going to have to take most of the phone apart to get to anything you want to replace. When you take stuff apart, use your hands only. Do not use the utility knife or anything else to pry the parts apart. You will ruin your phone.
Step 1.5: What's wrong?
The scratches circled here are from dropping the phone once, and also pry marks from the first time I opened my phone. If you follow my instructions, you will not do this to your phone. My phone got crushed under a chair. The screen is fine, but the dpad nub is pushed in. The device thinks I'm constantly hitting enter.
Step 2: Remove everything
Just to make it easier, remove all of the user-removable stuff from your phone. Battery cover, battery (duh), stylus, and memory card / placeholder.
This is my dog. She was super interested in my phone while I was fixing it.
Step 3: Upper back plate
First we remove the upper back plate. This covers the camera mechanism. Remove the "void" sticker using your utility knife. Your warranty is now void. Now unscrew the two circled screws. Using your fingers pry up at the bottom (where the screws were). There is a snap at the top which should let go pretty easily.
Step 4: Camera
Remove the circled screw. The camera plate will lift out really easily. There is a connector in the upper-right corner. If you can't get a good grip on the board, you may use a flathead screwdriver to gently lift up on it. Do not pry.
Here is the board out of the phone.
This is the underside. When you reassemble the phone, this connector has to go back together.
Now take the actual camera out. The connector doesn't really hold very well, so it should just lift right out. It might have even fell out when you were taking the board out.
Step 5: Phone back
Remove all 5 circled screws. The top middle is phillips and the other 4 are hex.
There are plastic clips holding the case together, approximately where the blue squiggles are. You must carefully pry the case apart using your fingers. I cannot stress this enough. If you use a tool, you will end up with gouges.
Start at the bottom of the phone and work your way up. It will probably stick a little on the left side, and at the top. If you have the sides and bottom loose and the top absolutely will not budge, you may use a flathead screwdriver at the top. Insert it into one of the two holes in the plastic piece at the top where it will be covered by the piece you already took off. Gently pop it off.
When you have it loose, open it like a book. The speaker is still connected to the main board. You can either pop the speaker out (easy), or disconnect it (hard). I recommend popping the speaker out by pushing it down through the back plate with your finger.
If you decide to disconnect the speaker, this is the tiny connector you must disconnect. Use a pair of needle-nose pliers. Don't blame me when you accidentally rip the wires out of the connector.
Step 6: Main board
Remove this circled screw.
Open the slider and then pop this ribbon cable off.
Carefully lift the top end of the main board out first. The usb and headphone jacks on the bottom hold it in place, so you have to tilt it out. Be very careful of the volume slider (blue squiggle), especially when you're putting it back together.
When you have the board free of the case, tilt it up to the left. There is still a giant ribbon cable attached. Use your fingers to peel the big gray tape (circled in red) off. Throw it away. Use your fingernails (not the utility knife) to scrape any residue off, if you want.
Step 7: Slider
Ok, time for an easy step again. Remove the 4 circled screws. The front of the phone is now free of the keyboard section.
Step 8: Front
Now unscrew the 4 hex screws circled in red.
Using your utility knife, gently insert pry the back plate off of the slider. Start in position 1 and work your way around. Hopefully it's loose by the time you get to position 4. Slide the ribbon cable through the back plate so you can get it off.
Step 9: Front Buttons
Remove the two screws circled. The blue squiggle shows you the position of an orange piece of tape. Gently lift it with your fingernail so that you can slide the ribbon out of the edge connector on the board.
Step 10: LCD
Remove the screw circled in red.
There are copper foil panels glued to the back of the LCD. Gently pry them off (blue #1 and #2) and leave them attached at the edge.
Release the LCD ribbon cable from the connector by gently lifting the black latch bar at the outboard edge.
The LCD is held in place now by 3 plastic tabs. Gently pull the plastic away from the LCD at position 3 and position 4 to pop the lower part out. Slide it down and off.
Here's the parts laid out.
I haven't taken the LCD chunk apart because I didn't need to. Since I have a broken one I might as well. If I do that later, I'll update this with more instructions.
Done!
You're now done. Replace whatever was broken, then put it back together. Of course, if you've already removed the broken part in an earlier step you don't need to keep going.
Here is another pic of my dog:
Reassembly
In general, just go backwards from the disassembly instructions. Do not overtighten any screws. Watch out for the following:
- Watch where ribbon cables are routed. They have to go through various slots in the plastic to get where they need to be.
- Remember to flip the black latch bar back down to secure the LCD ribbon cable.
- When reinserting the main-board there is a little rubber piece on the bottom that falls off. Make sure that's still on there when you put it in. Seat the botttom at an angle. Then make sure the volume control button is lined up with the black tab on the mainboard. If it's not lined up you'll break this tab off when you try to change the volume. That is bad.
- The speaker is in a rubber gasket. There are notches on the speaker, gasket, and plastic housing to help you line them up.
- When you put the upper-back cover back on, make sure the macro/regular selector by the camera lens lines up with the black lever on the camera. Same deal as the volume slider.
Tips
I took an index card and put loops of tape on it to hold the screws in place:
I put them on there head-down in order of when I removed them, and in the general position of where they went. That way when your dog bumps the table or you sneeze, they don't fly everywhere.
