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all right today we're gonna take apart the motorola Photon it's a dual-core phone from Sprint it's rocking the Android operating system there's a total of 10 screws around the outside there are seven normal screws that you can see me taking apart right here and then there's a screw head and underneath this little rubber tab you can just pop that off with a pair of tweezers just kind of lift up underneath there and then this screw is in that upper part right next to the camera the other two screws are down near the bottom make sure to take out the battery before you start prying away the case or anything let me get a better view you can kind of see it's kind of like a hard piece of plastic you just kind of lift up and out it's got a little bit of sticky stuff on the bottom that you can put back on later if you won't do pop those two screws out these screws are different than all the other screws so it would be pretty easy to put them back into place anyway once those are off the phone itself actually lifts away pretty easily you might need to use a little pry tool around the edges to get it all the way off but it's pretty simple this is the kickstand right here which is replaceable so if your kickstand is stuck in the upright position you get rid of it this is the audio jack the little pins that connect to each part of the headphone jack and then this is the vibrator right here that's what spins around to vibrate your phone unfortunately for this phone not many of the components are replaceable there's one screw holding down the motherboard which is what I'm taking off right now and there's two ribbon cables that one and this one right here once those are snapped off they're kind of like Lego so just kind of lift them off and the board itself is glued on to the LCD so kind of take your pry tool and lift it up just a little bit and I slide my prior tool in all the way and it kinda clicks up and off of the off the mainboard don't have bend too much so it wouldn't damage the motherboard and kind of lift it wiggle it and then you can pry it away and make sure that your piece right there doesn't get ripped away from the motherboard it's just kind of glued on to the front screen so now I have my new screen and I'm gonna put down and I'm going to slide the motherboard into place here making sure the ribbon cables are on the right side of the motherboard correct side of the motherboard and then just snap them down into place just like Legos and now if you look in a video description I'm going to try to find as many replacement parts as I can hopefully there'll be some screens after the phone's been out for a while that you screens are usually pretty cheap on Amazon so I'll post those anyway make sure you get the screws back into place this is the little silver round one and the rest of the video is you know pretty self-explanatory pop the plastic into place make sure it's clipped in all around the sides this one doesn't have very strong Clips around the outsides so that's why it has so many freaking screws so put the two silver ones it's long silver ones down the bottom and then grab your other seven black screws and screw them in around the outside as well as the screw underneath the rubber piece next to the camera pop the battery back in huh the phone works anyway if you any questions leave them in the comments don't forget to like this video if it helped you and don't forget to subscribe it helps me out a lot thanks you