Motorola Droid Motherboard Replacement

Slide the battery cover downwards while applying pressure to the center of the battery cover with your thumb.

Lift and remove the battery cover out from the phone.

Grasp the upper left corner of the battery and lift it out of its housing.

Use a spudger to lift and remove the black plastic screw cover at the top of the phone near the camera.

Using the tip of a spudger, peel up one corner of the gold ribbon beneath the battery compartment.

Peel the ribbon up off the phone.

Carefully peel the device information label that covers the motherboard EMI shields.

Insert the flat end of a spudger and pry the plastic camera cover up off the phone.

Remove the seven 5.5 mm T5 Torx screws securing the rear case to the inner case.

Insert the flat end of a spudger and pry downwards to release the plastic tab holding the rear case to the motherboard screw.

Gently insert a spudger between the rear case and front case at the top of the phone, near the audio jack.

Carefully pry the top edge of the rear case up from the rest of the phone.

With the spudger still inserted between the rear case and front case, slide the spudger along the right edge of the device, moving toward the bottom, prying as you go.

Continue prying along the bottom edge of the device from right to left, freeing it from the front panel.

Continue prying the rear case from the front case along the left side, moving from bottom to top.

Lift the rear case up out of the phone.

Carefully lift and remove the speaker assembly up out of the phone.

Use a spudger to pry the antenna cable connectors from their respective sockets on the motherboard and the speaker/antenna board.

De-route the antenna cable by pulling it out of the metal clips along the side of the front case.

Peel the black tape covering the side button and display ribbon connectors on the motherboard.

Disconnect the power button/volume button connector from its socket on the motherboard using the flat end of a spudger.

Disconnect the display ribbon connector from its socket on the motherboard using the flat end of a spudger.

Remove three 3.8 mm T5 Torx screws securing the motherboard to the front case.

Disconnect the keypad connector by prying it straight up off its socket on the motherboard.

Remove the motherboard from the phone.