Today we are going to be opening up the Moto X Pure Edition. This is the phone that came
out in 2015. Luckily everything inside is pretty straight forward. I’ll be walking
you through the whole process. On the back of the phone here there is a Sim card tray
that also holds the SD card. Just put your little Sim card tool in there. Right here
next to that tray there is a little hole, and if you stick your Sim card removal tool
in that hole it will start removing the back of the phone from the housing. Once I had
that little corner up I slipped a card in there. I found that the glue is very strong
though, and I ended up dropping the card and just using my hands to pull it away from the
phone body. I have heard of people using heat to soften the glue and that would make it
a little bit easier to pull it away from the body, but there’s not a whole lot that can
go wrong here. I will show you a few ribbon cables that you have to avoid here in a second.
Basically all you’re doing is pulling away the back panel from the phone itself. Make
sure you do watch out for these orange cables underneath though. If you tear those you will
lose your volume and power buttons; which are pretty darn important. You can see all
the adhesive that is holding back the plastic panel onto the phone itself. Once the plastic
panel is pulled away from the phone you can see all the excess glue. You can remove this
if you want. It will probably make it easier to put the back on when you are done. I will
be linking all the tools you will need for this project down in the video description
below. There are 20 screws here they are all size T4. Once you remove all those screws
there are a couple ribbon cables that you have to pop out. As well as this little plastic
camera shield. Then down here there’s these pull tabs. These pull tabs make it extraordinarily
easy to remove the battery from the inside of the device. So pull these tabs. If you
pull them out horizontal with the phone. It will make it so that the battery is not stuck
to the back panel anymore. When you pull on this adhesive it becomes unsticky and just
slides out from the back of the phone. Here’s how to unplug the battery. Sometimes this
will solve any software issues. So instead of unscrewing the back panel and releasing
the battery you can just unplug the battery and see if it will solve any of your software
problems. After the battery is unplugged you can lift off the back panel. Before we jump
onto the mother board let me show you a little bit about the back panel. Flipping it over
you can see how easily the battery just pops away from the back since we’ve already removed
those pull tabs. You can see that the NFC connector right there on top of the battery
as well. I’m just gonna pop that off. There’s the battery. Here are the volume ribbon cables
connections as well as the LED. The duel LED flash. They just plug down on the mother board
with this little waffle connector right there. Just like a little Lego. Snaps onto the phone
and snaps off. Pretty straight forward. Here’s the headphone jack. Pretty common with Motorola
to have the little pins that just rest on top of the mother board. That’s how the
headphone jack receives its communication. So if you ever have anything get stuck in
there or dirt, grime or anything like that it’s pretty easy to clean out. It just pops
away from the back panel. So here’s the little ribbing cable for the rear facing camera.
It is 21 Megapixles. It just has a little latch that you unlatch, and you can slide
the camera out from its little connection. Here’s the little circuit board on top of
the Sim card, and SD card tray. You just unlatch that from the mother board just like a little
Lego. Here’s the front facing camera. It also has that same Lego connection. It is
a 5 Megapixel camera. Then here’s the vibrator motor. I thought this was interesting. It
has the duel vibrations on either side, and they are different sizes so it give you a
more full vibration because it has a small and a larger side. It’s similar to one of
the Xbox controllers. Here is one of the screen ribbing cables. I’m just going to remove
the tape and flip up the latch and that will let the little ribbon cable slide out of
its little slot. Then there’s one more screw down at the bottom of the phone that’s holding
the mother board into place. So we are going to remove that. Then that lets the bottom
of the mother board slide up, and the top of the mother board pop out of its little
connection on the frame for the screen. So here’s the screen. This is the part that
you want to buy if your LCD is black or if you have a crack in your glass of the screen.
Motorola has been good in the past about selling the screen that is already attached to the
frame of the screen so it’s pretty easy to install once you have this particular part.
If you buy a screen that does not have the frame installed. You’ll have to remove the
plastic frame from your old screen and install the new one usually using heat, and a bunch
of pry tools. It’s much easier to buy the screen with the frame intact. Here’s the
mother board again with the charging port down at the bottom. The charging port is not
replaceable which is unfortunate because usually charging ports are one of the first things
that go out on a cell phone, besides a cracked screen. Putting it all back together. The
mother board does have that one screw at the bottom. Go ahead and screw that into place.
Then get the circuit board that rests on top of the Sim card tray. Plug that in and you’ll
feel it snap into place. Here’s a close up shot of the ribbon cable connector for
the screen. We are just going to slide it into the little plug and then latch the black
plastic part down. That holds it into place. It has the exact same connection as the rear
facing camera. We’re going to latch that down. Then we are going to put the tape back
onto it as well. The tape just makes sure that the latch does stay down, and keeps any
debris away from those connections. We don’t want anything shorting out while you are using
the phone. Getting the front camera back into place. Latching it down with its little Lego
connector, and then sliding the battery back in as well. You can put a little piece of
double sided tape in there to hold it down if you would like. Putting the NFC back onto
of the battery. Then laying the back panel back on top of the phone. Pretty straight
forward. Clamp it into place all around the edges. Then make sure the battery is plugged
back in. As well as the little rubber protective piece on the top of that as well. Then here’s
the little connector for the power button and volume buttons. So once that’s connected
everything should be done. Then I’m going to test the phone before I put the 20 screws
back into place. Everything looks like it went smoothly. The phone is turning on, and
it vibrated. I’m going to go ahead and take all those twenty T4 screws, and put those
back into place. Now the back panel is pretty easy as well. If you’re new back panel didn’t
come with any adhesive then you can just take double sided tape and put it around the outside.
The more the better. Just make sure that you don’t put any adhesive that will rest on top
of the ribbing cables for the volume and power buttons. Otherwise next time you take off
the back of your phone it will rip those right off and render your phone unusable. Thanks
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