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This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your iPhone 1st Generation Dock, use our service manual.

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    • The Original iPhone dock!

    • This dock only holds the original iPhone. It will not hold the iPhone 3G/3GS as it is wider and thicker.

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    • Use a hair dryer or heat gun to weaken the adhesive holding the rubber foot to the dock.

    • Use a razor blade or flathead screwdriver to pull up part of the rubber foot.

    • While still hot, pull the rubber foot off the dock.

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    • Using a spudger or a flat head screwdriver, release the 6 clips holding the dock to the white plastic molding.

    • You will need to pry this out as the dock contains a weight that is stuck to the top casing with adhesive.

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    • Heat up the adhesive that covers the three screws, so you can unscrew the screws that hold the weight in the base of the dock.

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    • Remove the three screws holding the weight to the bottom plate.

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    • The dock should look like this.

    • If not, go back and see what you did wrong.

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    • Now remove the green logic board from the little plastic pegs on the bottom plate.

    • There is one peg under each black foam padding.

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    • The little white things are the pegs.

    • Gently use a spudger or flathead screwdriver to pry the logic board from the bottom plate.

    • Be very careful, as you could break the board doing this.

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    • Once done separating the logic board from the bottom plate, you should have 2 parts.

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    • Disassembly is now complete. You will have five separate parts as shown in the picture.

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    • Boom! Your done. It took me 32 minutes to figure this out with out damaging the dock.

    • I can do it in 3 minutes now that I've mastered the process.

    • If you don't replace the white top cover of the dock when reassembling, you will have a universal dock, that can also be used with an iPhone 3G/3GS.

    • It will also work with any iPod with a 30 pin connector.

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