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the D Tech 50 it's time to take a party pretty inexpensive budget phone from blackberry besides the plastic earpieces it did pretty darn well in my durability test video so let's see what it looks like on the inside the back of the phone thankfully is very easy to remove a gentle nudge from my thin metal pry tool allows the hold back to just pull off if you want one of these thin metal pry tools I'll link them in the video description the back is held down by some simple adhesive and some clasps it's lightweight enough that will never come off on its own though on the back of the back cover you also have the NFC pad NFC stands for near field communication just like the name States it allows for your phone to communicate with other devices that are very close to it because of this communication the pad needs to have protection from other electronic noise or interference from the internal circuits of the phone and that's what this huge black rectangle of metallic tape is for it's not to hold the battery in place it's there to shield the NFC pad it does tear pretty easy though so when you try to remove it keep it intact as much as possible now for the internals there are five screws down at the bottom of the phone and then the plastic shield comes up and away attached best shield we get the loudspeaker and the two little golden contact pads that you see let it receive the signal from the motherboard there are three screws holding down the metal plate over the battery which technically I should have removed and unplugged first the phone is probably still fine it's just a safety thing always unplug or remove the battery from electronics before diving in I'll set that silver cover off on the side and then unsnap the battery and the charging port ribbons they are connected just like little Legos the charging port ribbon is pretty much too small charging port in the history of charging ports I have never seen one this small on any other phone I would even classify it as a cute little charging port it is micro USB which is currently being phased out on all of the newer cellphones now in favor of USB C and the little metal circular thing you see on the side is the vibration motor for the phone thumbs up for how cute and easy that was to remove the two thousand six hundred and ten milliamp hour battery is held down by some of those same magical pull tabs we found on the iPhone just gently pull those little pull tabs out from underneath the battery and they will stretch and release there is one pull tab on the bottom of the battery and two pull tabs at the top of the battery three total both of my top pull tabs broke halfway through so I did have to initiate the pry of shame he does help with this prize you don't want to bend the battery too much since you know explosions and fire and all that stuff there is one more metal plate held down by two screws this one pulls away and then we can unplug the little snap on the side and the screen ribbon cable connector there are two more little Lego snaps along the side of the motherboard as well at the top in the bottom and then we have four more screws holding down the top black plastic piece at the top of the phone once that is off we can see the earpiece with its two little golden contact points on the underside these just rest up against the motherboard to receive the signal to remove the motherboard I'm going to unclip the big ribbon cable and then the black signal wire as well and then the motherboard will just lift up and away from the phone if you are smart enough to remove the SIM card tray I swear I don't forget these things on purpose I just don't remember that it exists with like every single tear down that I do I'll remember on the next one hopefully one cool thing about the motherboard is the LED flash is built-in that's kind of fun the small 8 megapixel camera is still attached to the motherboard as well and now that the motherboard is out of the frame we can see with these little side ribbons to the bottom one is for the front capacitive buttons the middle one is for that programmable convenience button on the side of the phone and the top ribbon is for the volume rocker the 13 megapixel camera is still sitting inside of the phone frame this plugs into the back of the motherboard which I'll show you in just a second all of the other components like the front sensors ND all-important headphone jack are attached to this ribbon cable here now if you want to replace the screen it is very much attached to the frame kind of similar to how the recent Samsung Galaxy phones are so only attempt removing your screen if it is already broken because it will not survive the removal process it will require a lot of heat from a blow-dryer or hair gun to soften the adhesive as you remove it replacement parts of this phone are actually pretty hard to find BlackBerry doesn't sell a whole lot but I'll link the parts that I do find down in the video description as soon as they become available if you find any that I don't have link to let me know in the comments and I'll add them as soon as I can remember that rear camera this time I'll be plugging it into the motherboard before setting it down into place just line up the little plug with its counterpart on the motherboard and it'll snap in like a little Lego make sure everything is out from underneath the motherboard before setting it down into place and then clip in all of the ribbon cable there are those three tiny ones along that left side the screen ribbon in the center and the top sensors need to be plugged in as well before that top black plastic shield goes down over the top of them and there's always that black signal wire that gets clipped in as well the built-in flash is actually dual colored which does help with the image quality when taking pictures while using the flash the cute little charging pork is tucked into the little slot at the bottom of the phone along with the circular vibrating motor and remember that the battery gets tucked underneath the charging port ribbon cable you don't want to be pinching things that shouldn't be pinched the bottom plastic is pushed down over the charging port and the two metal plates protecting their ribbon connectors get set back into place as well the metal plates are important these are so that the connections don't pop loose if you ever drop your phone which does tend to happen with almost everybody and we can screw back in all of the screws it is important to keep these organized during the repair process since there are so many of them quick note on the camera lens we did discover it is made out of glass in my last durability video and it just rests inside of the black plastic back if I find any replacement lenses I will link them in a video description so if yours breaks you can replace it and that is it everything should snap into place relatively easily if you have to apply too much force something isn't where it needs to be and you should recheck all of your connections let me know if you have any questions in the comments let me know a phone you want to see torn down next I do read all of the comments and the phones I see suggested most often will definitely get the jerry-rigged treatment thanks for watching I'll see you around