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all right so I've had the moto active watch for about a year now and basically just an Android wash they can keep track of where you run as a GPS and it has a gigabyte mp3 player with the headphone jack it does bluetooth if you have wireless bluetooth headphones you can listen to him while you run is pretty cool anyway today I decide I'm going to take it apart so I'm going to slide it off the wristband here I'm gonna grab my non-marring tool and kind of pry from the outside between the plastic edge in the screen just kind of wheel it down in there and then the screen pops out actually surprisingly easy here you can see the ribbon cables that attach it to the motherboard and if you lift it up from the bottom right there you can see that the ribbon cables have a little latch that holds them in place and if you grab the little hole first of all grab the piece of tape off the top then if you lift up on the little black piece right here that's the clamp that kind of holds the ribbon cable in place so now that I've released that I can kind of wiggle the ribbon cables out of the the clamp and that releases the screen so if you ever ever cracked your screen on the Moto active that's how to replace it pop it off pop the new one in place and you're good to go you don't need to mess with anything else on so the battery pops out is taped in there on the bottom with double-sided sticky tape so you can just lift that up and off so if you need to replace the battery that would be how to do it and then there's one screw holding the motherboard into place it's a very small Phillips head there's a little rubber piece around the charging port that kind of helps you know a shock and stuff like that so kind of put that somewhere you're going to find it and if you lift up very gently on the ribbon cable you can pry the motherboard out and there's one ribbon cable holding the motherboard into the the frame of the watch still and it's the same concept as the other ribbon cables just kind of grab your little tweezers and pop up the little latch then the motherboard is now free from the back housing the large ribbon cable that goes from the motherboard of the screen the other half of it same thing lift off a sticky tape and grab the little black latch and lift that up then you're free from that battery pops off as well and now all the components are separate from each other including the headphone jack which is interesting only Motorola seems to do the headphone jack in that way it's the same thing on the motorola Photon there to there phone anyway popping the battery back in ribbon cable back in this is all the same way that you took everything apart watch everything down into place put the piece of tape back on top of the ribbon cables as well it helps them from coming loose now here's the part where it kind of got tricky so underneath the underneath the headphone jack there was a another place for a ribbon cable I actually took that off the bottom part and put it into the motherboard before I did this step this step of connecting the motherboard back into the back housing and you'll see why I took off the headphone jack ribbon cable right here because it makes it much easier to lift up the motherboard a little bit put the headphone jack back down on top of the ribbon cable connection and then kind of wedge it into place just like this make sure the headphone jack is put into like the rubber where it came out of that kind of helps like the waterproof part of it anyway put the screw back into place the rubber grommet thing back on top of the charging port and then the screen just reattaches right into here with the old ribbon cable connectors and make sure you latch it back down into place and put the tape on top and you can see that it turns on you want that being snapped back fully into place and everything still works all my music is in here anyway I will put a link in the video description to Amazon so you can check out more specs of this particular watch and I've used it a lot it's great for mountain biking to tell if are you've gone elevation change and the GPS on it is pretty awesome if you have any questions make sure to leave in the comments don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe I usually take apart a bunch of high-tech electronic stuff on a regular basis