Motorola V3 Installation instructions

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MOTOROLA V3 DISASSEMBLY GUIDE
This guide will help you repla e housing parts and get to the inner
parts of your phone. I am in no way responsible for any damage
o urred 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 patien e when
disassembling your phone.
YOU MUST READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY!
!ONLY BUY HOUSINGS FROM CNN.CN, AS THEY ARE OEM!
Contents:
Steps 1 ~ 5 Fa ia Repla ement.
Steps 1 ~ 13 S reen Repla ement.
Step 20 ~ 37 Aerial Cover/Lower Front Housing Repla ement.
Step 20 ~ 55 Keypad and Flex Repla ement.
Step 62 ~ 64 Lens Repla ement.
Page 28 ~ 29 Keypad Hardware Fix, What to do if you don’t have the
plasti frame on your fa ia, or the battery lo k on your battery door:
Tools Needed:
S rewdrivers ~ T3, T4, T5, T6
Pre ision Tweezers
Mobile Phone Opening Tool
A pin
Brand new Glasses Cloth
S rew Sizes:
S reen S rews ~ T4
Rear S rews ~ T6
Mi S rews ~ T5
Right Flip S rew ~ T3
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL OF
THE TOOLS NEEDED.
You an 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.
Right here we go!

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1. Turn off your v3, remove the battery and your sim ard.
2. Fli k out the small rubber s rew overs on the s reen. DO NOT
LOOSE these as they are extremely hard to get repla ements!
Use the pin to remove the bottom two.
3. Uns rew all 4 s rews using the T4 s rewdriver.
4. Use your nail to lift up the fa ia at the top orner of the amera
lens. This should ome up easily.

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5. Now use the mobile phone opening tool to slide up around the
edges of the fa ia, work down one side then the other. Then lift
the bottom part, it will be quite stiff but keep pulling. Don’t be
s ared you wont damage your phone. Then remove the hrome
buttons.
6. Fli k up the left ribbon with your nail.

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7. Cli k ba k the amera ribbon lo k, and remove CAREFULLY with
tweezers.
8. Lift off the silver lo king washers gently with tweezers. These are
at the bottom of the s reen.
9. Lift the small battery and ribbon off of the inner s reen housing.
Use tweezers to gently ease it up.

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10. Lift the speaker next to it, make sure the sti ky pad is still
atta hed. If not peel it off of the housing and sti k it to the speaker.
11. Lift the amera unit out with tweezers. There is a small hole in the
bottom orner of the unit to lift it out with.
12. Now to remove the side buttons. List ea h button off with
tweezers. DO NOT CUT THE RIBBONS! You an use a pin to get
behind the stu k down ribbon if ne essary.

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13. On e all of the buttons are unstu k and free from being stu k
down. Pla e the tweezers in the top right of the s reen, and slowly
start hinging it out. Keep lifting until it omes free.

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14. Lift the s reen out of the Inner s reen housing.
15. Your phone should now look like this:

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16. Remove the grey rubber amera housing and metal prote tor.
Pla e into the new housing.
17. Flip the phone over and remove the Right Flip S rew with the T3
s rewdriver.

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18. Flip the phone open and losed until the hrome flipper pops out.
If this doesn’t happen pla e the tweezers in between the bar on
the hrome flipper and ease out. Now remove the small metal part
and pla e this inside the new hrome flipper part with tweezers.
This is quite tri ky.
19. Open the flip up on the phone and turn it over. Push out the Left
Larger Flipper with a s rewdriver. MIND THE RIBBON!

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20. Turn the phone over and uns rew the 2 Rear S rews.
21. The aerial over should separate slightly when lifted. Open it until
you an see the ribbon.

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22. Pull down the ribbon with the tweezers to dis onne t.
23. Push the bottom sideways away from the top this should un lip
the Aerial Cover from the lower & mi housing. If not use the
Mobile Phone Opening tool around the edge and flip up the
edges.
24. You now need to
uns rew the 4 s rews
holding the lower over
on. Use the T5
s rewdriver.

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25. Layout as they were. And remove the lower housing and mi
over.
26. Put the amera unit Into the new s reen housing, and remove
speaker mesh from old housing to the new housing with tweezers
& lay into the new housing.

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27. Remove the bla k overings on the aerial prote tor.

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28. Pla e the s rewdriver under the right hand side of the see through
plasti overing, CAREFUL DON’T SCRATCH THE PCB! Lift until
it li ks and un lips itself. The rest should follow.
29. Unhook the at h and push the battery terminals until it omes
free.
30. Remove the speaker from its rubber surround with tweezers.

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31. Lift up the large rubber surround with tweezers then lift.
32. Lift up the mesh below with tweezers and transfer it to the new
aerial over.

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33. Remove the gold s rew onta ts with tweezers and pla e into the
new aerial over.
34. Now lift the sim ard holder up and off its right pin, and move
down. It should ome away easily.
35. Put it into the new aerial over and press down the right side over
the pin.

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36. Push the speaker ba k in, and then put the PCB ba k in. Push
gently to lip in.
37. Now get the aerial & plasti overing. Put one side in and under
the edges. Then bend out the opposite side of the aerial over to
let it lip in. Push down to make sure its all lipped in. Then
repla e the rubber parts.

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38. Lift up the metal tabs at the bottom of the rear keypad with
tweezers.
39. Lift the white film with the phone data on it. Use tweezers then
pull with your fingers.

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40. Lift up the rest of the metal tabs, make sure that they are all
verti al. Then push them one at a time until the keypad omes out.

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41. Flip the phone over. Push the flipper me hanism as far in as you
an and list up the right hand side of the s reen. You an lift it out
then. WATCH THE RIBBON ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE, DON’T
SEVERE IT! Unhook the ribbon as soon as you an.
42. From the outside push out the fli ker using a s rewdriver. Then
pull it out from the other side. Make sure you remove the flipper
and its bla k housing.