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What you need

  1. Lyve Home Teardown, Turn Lyve Home upside down: step 1, image 1 of 1
    • Insert wisdom here.

  2. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove rubber pad: step 2, image 1 of 1
    • This should be easy to remove

  3. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove 4x hex case screws: step 3, image 1 of 1
    • In my case the sticky membrane that glues the rubber to the plastic stayed on the plastic.

    • Remove the 4 hex screws that hold the bottom cover to the case

  4. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove bottom cover: step 4, image 1 of 1
    • Remove the bottom cover carefully. it should pop right out.

  5. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove main board enclosure: step 5, image 1 of 2 Lyve Home Teardown, Remove main board enclosure: step 5, image 2 of 2
    • Remove the 6 hex screws attaching the main board enclosure to case

    • Remove connection ribbons that connect to the front LCD screen

  6. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove Mainboard enclosure: step 6, image 1 of 3 Lyve Home Teardown, Remove Mainboard enclosure: step 6, image 2 of 3 Lyve Home Teardown, Remove Mainboard enclosure: step 6, image 3 of 3
    • Remove the mainboard enclousre from the case by placing your finger in the middle hole and removing it carefully from the case

    • Remove the tape on top of the ribbon connector. this connects to the harddrive

    • Unlock the connector by flipping the lock back to front. this flap is located closets to the heatsink

    • pull the ribbon cable away from the mailboard

  7. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove the harddrive: step 7, image 1 of 2 Lyve Home Teardown, Remove the harddrive: step 7, image 2 of 2
    • Remove the hard drive by pulling it out

  8. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove Main board enclosure: step 8, image 1 of 2 Lyve Home Teardown, Remove Main board enclosure: step 8, image 2 of 2
    • Remove the 4 hex screws, 2x are holding the main board from the expansion board. 1x is holding the sound and power metal shield and 1 is left holding the expansion board from the enclosure.

    • Remove metal audio/power shield

    • Remove main board from the enclosure board.

  9. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove Main board from Expansion Board: step 9, image 1 of 2 Lyve Home Teardown, Remove Main board from Expansion Board: step 9, image 2 of 2
    • Remove the main board carefully away from the expansion board.

  10. Lyve Home Teardown, Remove expansion board from enclosure: step 10, image 1 of 2 Lyve Home Teardown, Remove expansion board from enclosure: step 10, image 2 of 2
    • Carefully remove the expansion board away from the enclosure but un clipping it.

    • Its recommended to start from the side with the SD card slot.

  11. Lyve Home Teardown, EXTRA - Board Pictures: step 11, image 1 of 2 Lyve Home Teardown, EXTRA - Board Pictures: step 11, image 2 of 2
    • These are pictures of the main board components under the shielding

    • Qualcomm | PM8921 | AD4J957

  12. Lyve Home Teardown, EXTRA - Board Pictures 2: step 12, image 1 of 3 Lyve Home Teardown, EXTRA - Board Pictures 2: step 12, image 2 of 3 Lyve Home Teardown, EXTRA - Board Pictures 2: step 12, image 3 of 3
    • These are pictures of the main board components under the shielding

    • Kingston eMMC 8GB | 240047-002,A00G | 1305 M30231710.10 | KE4CN3H5A

    • Gigabit Ethernet | Atheros | AR8151

    • Broadcom | BCM4339XXUBG

Adonis Sardinas

Member since: 03/03/16

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Excellent!!! Been looking for this for a while. Too bad someone hasn't hacked the firmware or board to make accesible from the USB port. Anyways I guess I can harvest the 2 TB drive. Thanks again

imdfonz - Reply

well done!!! we may need to have video and reusability of the component

or buding software to make local cloud

ALOK CHAUBEY - Reply

I am very interested in a hack. Maybe raspberry pi?

Paul Margraff - Reply

I've been trying to figure out a use for the LCD touchscreen of the Lyve Device.... The LCD seems to be a PJ050IA-01J and when I did a search online I found this: http://www.panelook.com/PJ050IA-14A_Inno...

It seems to be a match other than the -14A vs -01J suffix difference...

If I can just figure out the signal interface it would be nice to reuse the screen with some other device like a Raspberry Pi or even an Intel Compute Stick...

Signal Category : MIPI

Signal Class : MIPI (4 data lanes)

Input Voltage for Panel : 1.8/5.4/-5.4V (Typ.)(IOVCC/VSP/VSN)

Interface Type : FPC

Roland G - Reply

Just found this on aliexpress... it seems that the LCD panel is similar to the one used on Doogee X5 Max cellphones... here's a link for the screen

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Doogee-X...

However the connector doesn't seem to jive...

Roland G - Reply

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