Steps 1–11: Motorola Droid Teardown

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Motorola Droid Teardown

Introduction

Author:	drwreck

Dr.Wreck has finally worked up the courage to tear apart his Brand New Motorola Droid! What's inside?! Keep it locked to PhoneWreck to see the details as they arrive!

This user-contributed teardown is in response to iFixit's Droid bounty offer.

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Tools used in this guide

Gobs of patience
Guitar Pick
Hex T6
Staple Remover
Will of Steel

Teardown

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Step 1 — Motorola Droid Teardown

Thar she blows! Keep it locked on iFixit and PhoneWreck to see all of the details as they become available!

Step 2

The first step is to remove the backcover and Battery
Here you'll see two screws
- Use your T6 to remove both the Black and Silver Screws.
There are more screws but they are non-conveniently hidden. Finding these was the hardest part!

Step 3

Non-conveniently, Motorola has made the chassis screws hard to find...
- Two are located underneath the plastic piece at the top of the device.
- Use a pin or very fine stiff wedge to lift this away from the double sided tape to reveal two more T6 screws.

Step 4

Finding the rest of the fasteners is a royal pain...
- Though to look under the lens cover and google label? Probably not... you should! There's a T6 under there!
  - Try not to mind Dr.Wreck's massive toe thumbs...

Step 5

You're not done yet! You still need to dig for fasteners at the bottom of the device!
- Luckily there are really *not* easy to find. See that gold grill underneath the battery cover? Yeah... peel that away.

Step 6

With these screws removed, you can pry away the back part of the chassis.
- Use a wedge and work it carefully around the outside of the frame.

Step 7

There it is!
- Use the T6 to remove the last silver PCB screw
- Pull off the flex cables that fast the top of the logic board to the screen portion

Step 8

Now you can flip out the PCB.
- Remove the flex off of the bottom of the PCB to free it.