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MOTOROLA V3 DISASSEMBLY GUIDE

This guide will help you replace housing parts and get to the inner

parts of your phone. I am in no way responsible for any damage

occurred to your phone. If you follow what I say to do in this guide

you should be ok. But you need a lot of time and patience when

disassembling your phone. YOU MUST READ EVERYTHING

CAREFULLY!
Contents:
Steps 1 ~ 5 Facia Replacement.
Steps 1 ~ 13 Screen Replacement.
Step 20 ~ 37 Aerial Cover/Lower Front Housing Replacement.
Step 20 ~ 55 Keypad and Flex Replacement.
Step 62 ~ 64 Lens Replacement.
Page 28 ~ 29 Keypad Hardware Fix, What to do if you don’t have the
plastic frame on your facia, or the battery lock on your battery door:

Tools Needed:
Screwdrivers ~ T3, T4, T5, T6
Precision Tweezers
Mobile Phone Opening Tool
A pin
Brand new Glasses Cloth

Screw Sizes:
Screen Screws ~ T4
Rear Screws ~ T6
Mic Screws ~ T5
Right Flip Screw ~ T3

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL OF

THE TOOLS NEEDED.
You can buy these from eBay or any other mobile phone website.
Take your time and don’t rush! Move away any drinks or liquid, and
have good light.

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Right here we go!

1. Turn off your v3, remove the battery and your sim card.

2. Flick out the small rubber screw covers on the screen. DO NOT

LOOSE these as they are extremely hard to get replacements!
Use the pin to remove the bottom two.

3. Unscrew all 4 screws using the T4 screwdriver.

4. Use your nail to lift up the facia at the top corner of the camera

lens. This should come up easily.

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5. Now use the mobile phone opening tool to slick up around the

edges of the facia, work down one side then the other. Then lift
the bottom part, it will be quite stiff but keep pulling. Don’t be
scared you wont damage your phone. Then remove the chrome
buttons.

6. Flick up the left ribbon with your nail.

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7. Click back the camera ribbon lock, and remove CAREFULLY with

tweezers.

8. Lift off the silver locking washers gently with tweezers. These are

at the bottom of the screen.

9. Lift the small battery and ribbon off of the inner screen housing.

Use tweezers to gently ease it up.

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10. Lift the speaker next to it, make sure the sticky pad is still

attached. If not peel it off of the housing and stick it to the speaker.

11. Lift the camera unit out with tweezers. There is a small hole in the

bottom corner of the unit to lift it out with.

12. Now to remove the side buttons. List each button off with

tweezers. DO NOT CUT THE RIBBONS! You can use a pin to get
behind the stuck down ribbon if necessary.

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13. Once all of the buttons are unstuck and free from being stuck

down. Place the tweezers in the top right of the screen, and slowly
start hinging it out. Keep lifting until it comes free.

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14. Lift the screen out of the Inner screen housing.

15. Your phone should now look like this:

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16. Remove the grey rubber camera housing and metal protector.

Place into the new housing.

17. Flip the phone over and remove the Right Flip Screw with the T3

screwdriver.

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18. Flip the phone open and closed until the chrome flipper pops out.

If this doesn’t happen place the tweezers in between the bar on
the chrome flipper and ease out. Now remove the small metal part
and place this inside the new chrome flipper part with tweezers.
This is quite tricky.

19. Open the flip up on the phone and turn it over. Push out the Left

Larger Flipper with a screwdriver. MIND THE RIBBON!

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