Alcatel One Touch Fierce Teardown

ID: 23019

Description: Tearing down a water damaged Alcatel One Touch...

Steps:

1. Phillips #000 is highly recommended. As you can see i'm too broke for the iFixIt equivalent.
2. The iSesamo is also always handy.

3. This is the Metro PCS variant of the phone in a nice metallic silver color.
4. The front of this particular device is water damaged and finger print damaged.

5. With the back plastic removed.
6. "DO NOT REMOVE"
7. Challenge accepted

8. The second cover is removed. We now have a better look at the components.

9. The battery. Doesn't last very long.

10. The 5MP camera located on the back of the phone.

11. The daughter board contains the Micro USB port

12. The main PCB

13. The VGA camera located on the front of the phone.

14. The remains of the front panel

15. Trying to remove the front panel assembly.
16. It seemed to have quite a bit of adhesive.
17. Luckily i have a good amount of picks available.
18. Oh no, i think i hear cracking...

19. Crap! i totally saw this coming.
20. To avoid this use a heat gun to loosen the glue...not too much heat though.

21. I now have a functional phone without an LCD screen.