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This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your FitBit Surge, use our service manual.

  1. FitBit Surge Teardown, The Surge: step 1, image 1 of 2 FitBit Surge Teardown, The Surge: step 1, image 2 of 2
    • Fitbit's latest fitness "super watch" has some pretty nice features, including:

    • Built-in GPS

    • Wrist-based optical heart rate monitor

    • Wireless syncing to smartphone or computer

    • 7+days of battery life without gps and up to 7h with gps (according to some reviews)

  2. FitBit Surge Teardown, Removing the bands: step 2, image 1 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, Removing the bands: step 2, image 2 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, Removing the bands: step 2, image 3 of 3
    • Remove the four screws

    • The bands are glued pretty well so you need to cut your way through to remove them and expose the fibit body

    • Cutting through the middle and lifting sideways worked pretty well

  3. FitBit Surge Teardown, GPS antenna: step 3, image 1 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, GPS antenna: step 3, image 2 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, GPS antenna: step 3, image 3 of 3
    • Once you remove the bands scrape away the glue on the top side to expose the GPS antenna

  4. FitBit Surge Teardown, Bluetooth antenna: step 4, image 1 of 2 FitBit Surge Teardown, Bluetooth antenna: step 4, image 2 of 2
    • On the other band you'll find the bluetooth antenna which is actually a flexible antenna glued to the inside of the band

  5. FitBit Surge Teardown, Opening the body: step 5, image 1 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, Opening the body: step 5, image 2 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, Opening the body: step 5, image 3 of 3
    • With the bands out of the way it's time to go inside Fitbit's guts

    • Remove the four metal parts as shown in the photo

    • After that just insert a screw driver or other sharp object into the fissure and voilá

  6. FitBit Surge Teardown, Touchscreen controller: step 6, image 1 of 2 FitBit Surge Teardown, Touchscreen controller: step 6, image 2 of 2
    • Right after splitting Fitbit into 2 the first component is immediately exposed

    • Cypress CY8CTMA463 touchscreen controller

  7. FitBit Surge Teardown, Microcontroller: step 7, image 1 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, Microcontroller: step 7, image 2 of 3 FitBit Surge Teardown, Microcontroller: step 7, image 3 of 3
    • After removing the large shield on the main PCB the brains of the gadget become visible

    • Silicon Labs EFM32 Giant Gecko (ARM Cortex-M3) EFM32GG395F1024

    • Micron Serial NOR Flash N25Q064A11ESEA0F

    • (Cypress touchscreen controller still visible here plugged into the main PCB)

  8. FitBit Surge Teardown, The other side: step 8, image 1 of 2 FitBit Surge Teardown, The other side: step 8, image 2 of 2
    • After removing the battery holder the main PCB can be carefully dislodged from the plastic body

    • Texas Instruments Battery Charger BQ24232H

    • MediaTek GPS Receiver MT3339 (couldn't find any datasheet, just a press release on it)

    • Texas Instruments Bluetooth Controller CC2564

  9. FitBit Surge Teardown, LCD and back side: step 9, image 1 of 2 FitBit Surge Teardown, LCD and back side: step 9, image 2 of 2
    • The LCD is secured with 3 very visible screws on the bottom side

    • Sharp TFT-LCD LS013B7DH01

  10. FitBit Surge Teardown, Family photo: step 10, image 1 of 1
    • Here are all the parts after the teardown

Tiago Monte

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