Motorola MOTORAZR V3i Installation instructions

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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
disassembling your phone.
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
THE TOOLS NEEDED.
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.
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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. Now unscrew all four T5 Screws.
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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. Then lift up the bottom part if it doesn’t come away
freely.
6. Next remove the chrome buttons.
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Your phone should now look like this.
7. Flick up the left ribbon with your nail, or use tweezers.
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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.
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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. Then lift the
camera unit out.
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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.
13.Once all the buttons are unstuck and free from being stuck down.
Place the tweezers in the bottom of the right of the screen and
slowly start hinging it out. Keep lifting until it comes free.
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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.
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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. Now
remove the small metal part and place this into your
new flipper part with tweezers. This is quite tricky.
18.Open the flip up on the phone and turn it over. Push the left larger
flipper out with a screwdriver. MIND THE RIBBON.
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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.
You can then lift it out. WATCH THE RIBBON ON THE OPPOSITE
SIDE, DON’T SEVERE IT! Unhook the ribbon as soon as you can
from the left hinge.
20.From the outside push out the flicker using a screwdriver. Then
pull it out from the other side. Make sure you remove the flipper
and its black housing. Put this into the new housing.
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