Vodafone 1615 disassembly

Vodafone 1615 disassembly

Tools required: Torx 5 screwdriver, plastic tool such as a guitar plectrum or credit card.

Slide the phone open then turn it around. Remove the four circled screws.

Loosen the front cover by running something like the edge of a credit card around the join.

Lift the cover up to reveal two ribbon connectors (circled) which connect the LCD to the phone. These connectors attach like a plug and socket. Simply pull them down, away from the green circuit board, to unplug.

You can now lift the screen away from the phone. Reverse the whole procedure for reassembly.

T Mobile Google G1 disassembly

T Mobile Google G1 disassembly

Tools required: Torx 5 screwdriver, Torx 6 screwdriver, Philips size 00 screwdriver, plastic tool such as a guitar plectrum or credit card.

Remove your back cover, battery, sim and memory card. Now remove the four torx 5 screws, circled in red, and the torx 6 screw, circled in blue.

Run something like a credit card around the join of the battery compartment to release it.

Your phone should look like below. Remove the two screws circled at the top of the phone and lever off the connectors at the opposite end of the two wires, also circled in red.

Your phone should now look like below. The large connector, circled at the bottom of the phone, needs to be detached. This attaches like a plug and socket. Just lever it up to unplug. The other circled connector attaches in a different way. Remove the orange sticky tape, flick the black latch up and then slide the orange ribbon away from the phone. Now push the green circuit board at the bottom of the phone in the direction of the arrow. You should feel it click and release.

Lift the green circuit board up and after removing the sticky silver foil (this can be thrown away) you have access two more ribbon connectors. Each attaches like a plug and socket. Just lever them away from the circuit board to unplug.

Another ribbon needs to be disconnected. Peel the orange sticky tape away, flick the black latch up and then slide the orange ribbon away from the phone. The circuit board will now be free.

Your phone should now look like below. Remove the four small screws, circled in white and the two longer screws, circled in red. Now push your small screwdriver into the two gaps circled in blue. Be firm. This will release the phone control part (trackball, on/off button etc) on the other side of the phone.

Pry the user control part off and you phone will look like below. Now lift the screen away from the rest of the phone.

You phone should now look like below. On the reverse side of the screen (pictured below, left) there are four screws. Two small screws, circled in white, a larger screw circled in blue and another large screw opposite (move the arm of the slider across to access this screw).

Pry the phone apart, as shown below.

Your phone should now look like below.

Lift the metal part from right to left. It will still be connected by three ribbons on the underside of this part.

You now have access three more ribbon connectors. The two at the bottom attach like a plug and socket. Just lever them away from the phone to unplug. To detach the orange ribbon, remove the orange sticky tape, flick the black latch up and then slide the ribbon out.

Your phone should now look like below. Peel away the silver foil indicated by the arrow. This is not needed so don't worry about damaging it but be careful because the ribbons it is stuck to can tear. Also remove the speaker, circled in blue.

With the foil removed your phone should look like below. Another ribbon connector needs to be released (circled). To remove, flick the black latch up and then slide the orange ribbon out. Now use your credit card to lever the screen out. Start at the top then slide the screen out in the direction indicated by the arrows.

You should now have the LCD screen removed. Reverse the whole procedure for reassembly.

Sony Ericsson Z750i disassembly

Sony Ericsson Z750i disassembly

Tools required: Torx 6 screwdriver, plastic tool such as a guitar plectrum or credit card.

Remove your back cover, battery, sim and memory card. Four screws need to be removed. The two at the top are covered by rubber stoppers which can be levered out with your screwdriver.

Run something like a credit card around the join of the battery compartment to release it from the rest of the phone.

With the battery compartment removed your phone should look like below. The memory card door will also come away. A ribbon connector (circled) needs to be disconnected. It attaches like a plug and socket. Just lever this up to unplug. Next, pull the grey part, at the top of the phone, in the direction shown by the arrows.

Your phone should now look like below. Another ribbon connector needs to be detached (circled). Again, this attaches like a plug and socket. Just lever it up to unplug.

Once you have disconnected the ribbon in the previous stage, lift the part it is connected to away from the phone, as shown below. Now pull the housing in the direction shown by the arrow. This will release the circuit board.

Your phone should now look like below. Note that the volume button on the side of the phone will come out with the circuit board, as you can see below.

Pull the top and bottom parts of the phone away from each other. The parts will separate without force.

Turn the top half of the phone over. Starting it the point circled below, peel the sticker off.

Remove the two circled screws and then remove the sticker at the top of the screen.

Remove these two screws as well.

Run something like the edge of a credit card all the way around the join of the housing.

The cover half of the cover should now be removed, as shown below. You should also be able to lift the screen assembly away from the other half of the cover.

Your phone should now look like below.

Turn the phone over and remove the black part, as shown below. It is stuck down lightly with a small piece of double sided tape. Now lever the circled black part out with your fingernail. It just clips in and out.

The circled ribbon connector needs to be disconnected. Just flick the black latch up and pull the small screen away from the phone.

You should now have the small LCD screen removed. The two circled connectors need to be detached. They attach like a plug and socket. Just lever each one up to unplug.

Now remove the black plastic part from the phone. It will come away with very little force. The circled ribbon connector needs to be disconnected. Just flick the black latch up and pull the orange ribbon away from the circuit board.

Turn the phone over and the large LCD screen can be levered away from the phone (just slide your plastic tool under it). You now have both LCD screens removed. Reverse the whole procedure for reassembly.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 disassembly

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 disassembly

Tools required: Torx 6 screwdriver, Philips size 0 screwdriver, plastic tool such as a guitar plectrum or credit card.

Remove your back cover, battery, sim, memory card and stylus.

Run something like a credit card around the join of the cover at the bottom of the phone.

Your phone should look like below. Remove the screw you now have access to then lift the part away that the screw was holding in place.

You should now have access to two more screws. Remove these screws.

Run your plastic tool around the join of the battery compartment, all the way round the phone.

Your phone should now look like below. Remove the piece of tape (circled) giving you access to a plug and socket type connector. Slide the connector out.

Below is a close up of the connector once it has been disconnected. Remove the screw, top right of the phone

Now lift away the antenna. A connector (circled, top right) need to be detached. This attaches like a plug and socket. Just lever it up to unplug. Clips around the edge of the phone hold the green circuit board in place. Pull these back a little to release the circuit board.

The circuit board will still be attached by a ribbon connector. Remove the orange tape then lever the connector away from the circuit board.

Your phone should now look like below. Remove the four circled screws and you can lift away the keyboard part of the phone.

Your phone should now look like below. Four more screws need to be removed. Two screws will be covered with sticky rubber covers. Just peel these off.

Run your plastic tool around the join of the housing to split into into two halves.

Your phone should now look like below. Peel away as much of the silver foil as possible. This is not needed so don't worry about damaging it but be careful because the ribbons it is stuck to can tear.

With the foil removed your phone should look like below. Another ribbon connector needs to be released (circled). This attaches in a different way to the previous ones. Flick the black latch up and then pull the orange ribbon out.

You can now lift the set of ribbons away from the phone, as shown below. You can use double sided tape to hold these ribbons in place when you reassemble the phone. Peel back the four circled stickers and the LCD screen and digitizer (one part) will be loose.

You should now have the LCD screen & digitizer removed. Reverse the whole procedure for reassembly.