Motorola Droid Front Panel Replacement

Slide the battery cover downwards while applying pressure to the center of the battery cover with your thumb.

Lift and remove the battery cover out from the phone.

Grasp the upper left corner of the battery and lift it out of its housing.

Use a spudger to lift and remove the black plastic screw cover at the top of the phone near the camera.

Using the tip of a spudger, peel up one corner of the gold ribbon beneath the battery compartment.

Peel the ribbon up off the phone.

Carefully peel the device information label that covers the motherboard EMI shields.

Insert the flat end of a spudger and pry the plastic camera cover up off the phone.

Remove the seven 5.5 mm T5 Torx screws securing the rear case to the inner case.

Insert the flat end of a spudger and pry downwards to release the plastic tab holding the rear case to the motherboard screw.

Gently insert a spudger between the rear case and front case at the top of the phone, near the audio jack.

Carefully pry the top edge of the rear case up from the rest of the phone.

With the spudger still inserted between the rear case and front case, slide the spudger along the right edge of the device, moving toward the bottom, prying as you go.

Continue prying along the bottom edge of the device from right to left, freeing it from the front panel.

Continue prying the rear case from the front case along the left side, moving from bottom to top.

Lift the rear case up out of the phone.

Carefully lift and remove the speaker assembly up out of the phone.

Use a spudger to pry the antenna cable connectors from their respective sockets on the motherboard and the speaker/antenna board.

De-route the antenna cable by pulling it out of the metal clips along the side of the front case.

Peel the black tape covering the side button and display ribbon connectors on the motherboard.

Disconnect the power button/volume button connector from its socket on the motherboard using the flat end of a spudger.

Disconnect the display ribbon connector from its socket on the motherboard using the flat end of a spudger.

Remove three 3.8 mm T5 Torx screws securing the motherboard to the front case.

Disconnect the keypad connector by prying it straight up off its socket on the motherboard.

Remove the motherboard from the phone.

Disconnect the camera button/vibrator connector by prying it straight up off its socket on the speaker board with a spudger.

Lift up the edge of the black plastic rim that includes the speaker board from the side closest to the keypad.

Continue lifting the side of the rim until it is almost vertical, and wiggle it free from the back of the LCD assembly.

Remove the EMI shield by releasing the clips shown with the tip of a spudger.

Remove the five 2.5 mm Phillips screws.

It's either a 2.5 MM Phillips or a T4 Torx. Motorola changed it on later models of the A956.

Remove the single 2.5 mm Phillips screw.

Remove the four 2.5 mm Phillips screws.

Peel the display ribbon up from the keypad's metal backing.

Insert a spudger between the back and front case of the display assembly, and peel the two ribbon cables off the two adhesive pads along the back case of the display assembly.

Use the flat end of a spudger to lift the board that contains the ambient light sensor and display data cable connector out of the screen housing.

Use the tip of a spudger to lift the speaker out of the screen housing.

Peel off the black tape to reveal the front panel connector.

Use the flat end of a spudger or your fingernail to flip up the retaining flap on the front panel ribbon cable ZIF socket.

Disconnect the front panel ribbon cable.

Flip the phone over and remove the front panel.