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Blackberry Motion Teardown - Do not trust around Water...

2018-02-16
the BlackBerry motion survived my durability test and now it's time to tear it down see what makes it water resistant and learn how to replace the individual components let's get started BlackBerry decided to forego the iconic keyboard with this full screen flagship which is totally fine with me keyboards are cool but screen real estate is much better wrong mr. Mobile the physical keyboard is the best reason to buy a blackberry but please keep going don't let me stop you yeah totally so there's no visible screws than the exterior of this phone but it is ip67 water-resistant I know there is adhesive inside and heat usually helps with that I'll use my heat gun and then slip my thin metal pry tool between the metal frame and the slick rubber backing the whole back panel comes off the phone surprisingly easy I doubt I'll ever come off on its own but normally the adhesive on water resistant phones is much stronger than this I actually fully agree with you there I'm still sad about drowning my LGV 30 yeah but look at this adhesive it's barely there getting inside an IP 60 a phone like Samsung or LG is much more difficult I would not trust this blackberry motion around water okay looks like there are six Phillips head screws surrounding that top plate so I'll just pull that black piece up and away from the phone set that off to the side revealing quite a few isolinear optical component things that use okay Zack I'm sorry I should not have taken the mic why don't you take over again I mean it is my channel I've unplugged the battery lego style connector and over here on the left we have a very unique connector in the middle of a cable bridging the three of the volume power and better Bigsby buttons it's interesting to see the connector in the middle of the ribbon instead of on the end I'll unclip the extension ribbon at the bottom and then the screen ribbon cable both unsnapping like little Legos it's still impossible to remove the battery at this point so I'll mosey my way down to the bottom of the phone and remove the seven Phillips head screws which allow for the loudspeaker and plastic shield to come away from the phone this loudspeaker does have a little rubber around the opening which rests up against the water-resistant mesh at the bottom of the phone it is the largest opening into the device so it's good to have multiple layers of liquid protection getting the battery out of this phone was actually much harder than I anticipated there are no visible pull tabs that I noticed so I assumed prying it out was my only option turns out I was wrong and the pull tabs there were three of them are just tucked up underneath the motherboard making a motherboard removal pretty much mandatory if you want to replace the battery just remember to take out that SIM card tray first yeah of course I usually always remember that part it's got a little rubber ring to help keep water from ingressing through that little slot the motherboard has two wire connections along the bottom right side and then one more Lego connection up at the top for the front sensors then the whole motherboard can lift up and out of the metal frame we've revealed the front eight megapixel camera and the rear 12 megapixel camera neither of which have optical stabilization by the way BlackBerry hasn't made a phone with OIS since the Prive in 2015 which is rather unfortunate a YS is really helpful on a cell phone luckily though now we have access to the pull tabs hidden underneath the motherboard like I said there were three but now I'm down to one nice and it broke the prize a mission at this point with too fragile communication ribbons underneath the battery though I highly recommend against using very much force fun fact the battery on the BlackBerry motion is 4,000 milliamp hours making it about 14% larger than the battery on the previous key one saw an improvement see what you can do when you remove the keyboard as I get ready to remove the charging port take a look at this golden extension ribbon it says Krypton on it you know the home planet of Superman I'll unclip that capacitive ribbon button as well as the ever so useful headphone jack and then pull the charging port from the frame of the phone which also includes the circular vibration motor soldered into place permanently normally we would see a large rubber ring around the charging port like there's been on Samsung's iPhones and LG phones but this little guy does not have much rubber at all the waterproofing of this BlackBerry motion seems abnormally week for an ip67 rating pulling out the headphone jack and bottom microphone we get another rubber ring larger than the charging ports for sure so at least some holes are protected I'll tuck everything back into place screen replacements are definitely going to be difficult LCDs that are glued into metal frames are hard to remove successfully without cracking and since I kind of want this phone to work when I put it back together I'm not going to attempt a screen replacement until the screens actually broken up with the battery in next and I see here by the camera we have another Krypton reference yeah actually Krypton was the codename for the BlackBerry motion before it was released interesting one more thing to point out before putting the phone back together is this water damage indicator when water does seep inside this phone the circular white sticker will turn pink and you can see if it's pink or not simply by taking out the SIM card tray and peeking inside I'll get the motherboard back into place with its two wire cables on the bottom right side along with that golden extension ribbon the screen ribbon and the battery ribbon and the side buttons get plugged in as well with that unique connector okay I've got this part the black plastic goes over the top of the motherboard with its six Phillips head screws and the salmon SD card tray can slide right back into the slot it came from nice work mr. mobile bottom plastics are in place with yet another codename krypton reference and then the candy cane shaped back panel can latch on over the top of the phone and click down into place along the sides not too bad not a super huge fan of how hard the battery is to replace or that the water resistance seems less than optimal yeah not to mention the subpar camera sensor that mushy haptic motor and that fingerprint loveand display definitely not given up Mikey 1/4 the motion though I do admire the aesthetics to a point one last little trivia bit it took blackberry five rounds of laser etching on the back panel to get the design and texture had wanted it's always fun to learn about the production process for this stuff I think is a pretty good looking foam I definitely like that extra screen real estate huge thanks to the BlackBerry living Michael Fisher for jumping into the video with me and check out his channel for some pretty in-depth and cinematic tech reviews hey sorry for all the interruptions and a huge thanks for having me on Zack also my dad says hey I think he likes your videos even more than he likes mine well he must have excellent taste in YouTube videos I think the tongue for watching and I'll see you around
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