Motorola Cliq Motherboard Replacement
ID: 14262
Description: This guide explains how to replace a damaged or...
Steps:
- Turning over your phone, place two fingers on the back cover and apply pressure away from the camera to slide the back cover off.
- Pinch the battery pull tab located below the camera, pull it upwards, and remove the battery.
- The pull tab may be tucked under the battery.
- Wedge a plastic opening tool behind the panel covering the camera, pry it up, and remove it using your fingers.
- The panel is held down by adhesive and may require you to wedge and pry the right side of the panel before it can be easily removed.
- Remove the six 4.0 mm T4 Torx screws which line the edge of the back of the phone.
- Turn the phone over and slide out the keyboard.
- Wedge a plastic opening tool where the keyboard meets the back casing of the phone next to the headphone jack.
- Carefully pry open the back casing along the keyboard's edge until at least two corners of the back casing are separated from the keyboard.
- Do not fully separate the rear panel from the phone. A cable is connecting the two parts together.
- Carefully separate the back casing from the rest of the phone.
- Gently pry ZIF connector upwards using the flat end of a spudger tool.
- The ZIF connector is glued down. Be gentle! Ripping it off or breaking it will make your phone inoperable.
- You may need adhesive to keep your power cable in place when reassembling your phone.
- Press your thumb against the orange power cable and pull it down slowly to disconnect the power cable from the bottom of the keyboard.
- The rear casing and the rest of the phone should now be completely separated.
- Wedge the plastic opening tool underneath the black display connector and pry it off its socket on the motherboard.
- Pry the orange keyboard connector from its socket on the motherboard using the edge of the plastic opening tool.
- Carefully grab the sides of the motherboard with your fingers and remove it from the phone.
