Today we are going to take apart the Moto X 2. This is the second generation Moto X that came
out in 2014
Turn off the phone and use your little tool to remove the SIM card
and you can use that same tool or any metal little
stick to poke through a little slot in the back the hole
to pray away the back from the phone.
I used it to create a little slot and then slid a razor down inside
instead to give me a little bit more leverage. Once I had one corner up
I was able to pull it off and away from the back on the phone
Make sure to avoid those ribbon cables that are along the left side
if you damage those you'll have problems later on
here's the back of the phone
and be careful when you're taking off these little rubber protectors
the first one is on its way to mars and I still have not found it yet (haha)
the second one protects the battery connection you don't need to take off
these screws for this repair
but if you do the bottom one has the little bracket for the
volume and power buttons and then the other ones just remove this little logo
piece.
Pretty straightforward and then all these screws to hold the back plate
onto the phone itself so make sure you remove every single one of those
and then pop this connector off the motherboard. It is similar to a Lego piece
just lifted up and away.
It will un snap. Then take the little tape off the connector (you'll have
to do this a couple times) Then set it on the piece of plastic right next to it
so you don't lose it.
lift up a little lever and slide out the ribbon cable from
the connectors itself. The ribbon cable goes to the volume and power buttons
then you can snap the battery cable from the motherboard in a lot of times if
your phone is acting up or
power cycling or just not turn on disconnecting and reconnecting the
battery will
fix your phone so you can give that a shot you wont need to take your phone apart
for that.
you can see little contact pads for the ear piece
and this part is really cool I think, to remove the battery just grab these
little pull tabs and pull the adhesives straight from the
back side of the phone. It pulls it out so the battery
releases from the back of the phone a lot easier than it normally would have
just kinda poke it with your finger in the the back and it will pop out
and there's still a little bit of adhesive in there, but as you can see the battery
pretty much just falls into your hands once you
pull the adhesive tabs up from the bottom of the phone
Here is the battery I will link replacement parts in the video description below
The lens also comes out fairly easily, just lift up on the little tab
to replace that I'll try to find replacement parts the description below
as well
Motorola replacement parts usually harder to find than most phones
but I'll do my best. Removing the tape for the
LCD ribbon connector there's a little tab on the top of the connector
actually been kinda used to leverage at the connector self you can lift up this
little locking flap
and pull that cable out and those are the two cables that are connected to the
screen
then wiggle the motherboard away from the frame of this screen
and so here's the screen
it is the glass, the LCD, and the frame of the phone
all kinda glued together into one piece these ribbon cables are attached to that
as well
it will make you repair a hundred times easier if you buy the replacement piece
that has all those parts combine
the glass, LCD, and frame, if you don't buy them together you'll have to use a heat
gun to separate
the glue and mesh them all together later on
you might need to move over the rubber piece and the metal frame but that's still
easier than using a heat gun to try to separate all of that stuff
before we try to put it back together again I am going to show you stuff on the motherboard
got little rubber protectors on the microphones so if we ever have problems
hearing
people or they have problems hearing you I guess you can take those off and clean them
and then here is the rear-facing camera
has the same the latch connectors that you've been working on this whole time
slipped the connector up in the camera pop right now
once again I will put all replacement parts & tools in the description below
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camera
pretty straightforward has the same lego type connector that you've been dealing
with
on that side of the phone this whole time you see the little by vibrator motor
right next to that
and the proximity sensor and light sensor on the back of the phone
well I guess front of the phone depending on which way we're looking at it. Putting the phone
back together again you wanna grab the motherboard and slip it up into the top
of the frame
first making sure to line up the ribbon cables and then there's a little latch
down at the bottom that kinda pins the motherboard into the frame as well
reconnecting the ribbon cables push them in as far as you can and latch
that down
and then use the same tape you took off to make sure that latch doesn't come up again
same thing with that LCD connector
and make sure you put the tape over that camera as well
pretty straightforward
now to get the very back in there you can add extra
double sided tape in there to help keep the battery secure
it was a little bit sticky still so I just poped the battery in there and I'm not
going to worry about the extra tape
getting the buttons back in, they have little holes
in the middle of the buttons so when you take that little metal bracket
and stick it on the top again it'll stick through those buttons to help keep
them in place
and its way don't really need to take that apart
unless you're gonna work on the buttons themselves. I would recommend just leaving
that screw in
if you ever to replace a screen or the battery. To get the screen positioned back in
I started with the top
and then just pressed it gently into place around the backside
remember its not gonna close completely but you want to be pretty darn close
otherwise the screws arent gonna reach and pin it down the rest away
getting those power button flex cables press down along with the battery
then the volume and power pushed into the little circuit board right there and
locked down.
Im testing it really quick before I put in those bazillion screws in the back
just to make sure everything's connected right
and if you take off the logo and the volume buttons make sure those screws are
back in as well they're all the same size
I believe it's a T4. make sure that the rubber connectors back in if this
one ever comes back from Mars I'll be sure to find it
and pop it back in place make sure that the logo is positioned correctly because that will
keep the back from lining up with the edge of the phone if it's not directly
centered
so you might need to adjust it a couple times if you took it off. the back of the phone actually
went on a lot easier than I thought it would
and actually looks like it was never taken apart which
I was worried about because of how it was adhered to the phone in the first place
as you can see there is almost no indication that the phone was taken
apart
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