[Q] XT720 Disassemble? - Milestone XT720 General

I have 2 broken xt720's that I need to make one good one out of. I cant find anything on the web about how to disassemble this phone. I have repaired many iPhones, radios, computers but I just would like a guide on how this phone comes apart before attempting it. Thanks

Nobody even attempt to do it? I havent even looked at it yet...

seems like you'll be the first one to bodly go where no one has gone before
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you'll be our hero
please post lots of pictures and details after you open them up
Thanks

Will do. Thanks

marvinmadman said:
I have 2 broken xt720's that I need to make one good one out of. I cant find anything on the web about how to disassemble this phone. I have repaired many iPhones, radios, computers but I just would like a guide on how this phone comes apart before attempting it. Thanks
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I think I can get original Motorola guide for service centers on disassembling XT720. Will try to do it and will post the results here.

Took mine apart today...
its fairly simple and only 6 screws
two are exposed
two are partially exposed near the bottom
and two are hidden (under 8.0 xenon sticker and the other is under a screw sized sitcker in the corner by the lense)

Yeah I ended up just doing it. It wasnt bad. But I needed to changed the earpiece speaker which is attached to the line in jack, power button, and volume keys via a ribbon that is sticky taped around a thin edge of the case. It was a *****, but not that bad. Sorry I didnt take any pics. Too impatient.

Had the misfortune of breaking one of the SIM slot pins.
Hope you guys could help out here. How to remove the screws under :
a) Speaker Grill without damaging the grill
b) Stickers (beside the camera and the 8.0 label) without damaging them
thanks
danny

Both are sticky taped on. Grab under an edge and peel off.

Took apart mine yesterday and replaced the LCD , now the phone is not powering up , will take it to a shop here to see what happened

Xjester said:
Took apart mine yesterday and replaced the LCD , now the phone is not powering up , will take it to a shop here to see what happened
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Where do you get something like an XT720 fixed in isl? Blue area? Or do you take it somewhere in pindi...

HELP!!
Ha no one made a video of the disassembly yet!! I'm too scared to READ instructions and do it!! Can one of you please post a video just showing how to take the screws out..??!!
Thanks in advance
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harleyhemant said:
HELP!!
Ha no one made a video of the disassembly yet!! I'm too scared to READ instructions and do it!! Can one of you please post a video just showing how to take the screws out..??!!
Thanks in advance
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FOUND IT!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCVqEMZbU0

Xjester said:
Took apart mine yesterday and replaced the LCD , now the phone is not powering up , will take it to a shop here to see what happened
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Hi, I have disassembled XT720, replaced digitizer then assembled back but I have to same issue - phone is not powering up. So I revert old digitzer back but the same ... I'm really sure that I make all of processes very precisely, no connectors are unplugged, everything is on right place ... everything is like before.
Is there any thing what I missed? Thank you for feedback.

nosretep said:
Hi, I have disassembled XT720, replaced digitizer then assembled back but I have to same issue - phone is not powering up. So I revert old digitzer back but the same ... I'm really sure that I make all of processes very precisely, no connectors are unplugged, everything is on right place ... everything is like before.
Is there any thing what I missed? Thank you for feedback.
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same happened to me...and some problem was with power button, but I didn't bother with it
try to connect charger and see what is happening
(I think that if you connect computer and phone it will boot up)

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motherboard pictures help please

hello i have a tg01 with dead usb...... not charging and in windows pc it says that it is malfunction..... i look at motherboard and have something missing near usb jack... who have a detalied picture af motherboard please give me one to see what's missing.... thanks
TG01 Motherboard
Here is a picture which I hope will help. Thee is also a French site which I will try and find the URL for (I have - just need to look up) which shows a step by step dissasembly which is excellent.
Good luck
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Kevin
kevinpwhite said:
Here is a picture which I hope will help. Thee is also a French site which I will try and find the URL for (I have - just need to look up) which shows a step by step dissasembly which is excellent.
Good luck
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Regards,
Kevin
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Here you are.... Oh la la!
http://toshiba-tg01.forumactif.com/t1205-tuto-demontage-du-toshiba-tg01
Pere said:
Here you are.... Oh la la!
http://toshiba-tg01.forumactif.com/t1205-tuto-demontage-du-toshiba-tg01
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Perfect - exactly the one I was referring to.....well done and thank you, Pere
thanks you guys.... great help
Hey, it's my toshiba!
i appologise if this is a stupid question but do you think cleaning and making the motherboard and cpu and everything nice and clean and shiny and removing dust and muck or whatever will make the phone have a longer life and perform better?
chdeul said:
Hey, it's my toshiba!
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Hi chdeul! Nice to hear from you! Great job, as you can see, I value your tutorial a lot!
Best Regards
i have problem with nfs shift hd .. the phone is unresponsive and i need to reset... when i install chainfire hd2-3d patch driver it's working but at lower framerate..... anybody have this problem?
jonnyhall1bmx1 said:
i appologise if this is a stupid question but do you think cleaning and making the motherboard and cpu and everything nice and clean and shiny and removing dust and muck or whatever will make the phone have a longer life and perform better?
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A qualified yes to your question....
A buildup of dirt may in time cause unwanted electrical contact and possibly spurious behaviour. This would be more likely if there was carbon or metal dust present; unlikely in normal domestic usage.
If you do want to clean, then I would strongly recommend using a proper 'air-duster' aerosol for stuff like fluff or if necessary a proprietary electronic cleaning solvent (eg Electrolube, which can be obtained from Maplin or Radiospares or a similar supplier). Do not attempt to brush the circuit board or use things like cotton buds as there is a high risk of causing mechanical damage to components.
Hope that is of some help...
Best regards,
Kevin
could someone tell me what is this and what value it have.... that i have missing on pcb of mi tg01
Unfortunately, I dissasemble my TG01 2 days ago. If I dissasemble it apart soon, I would look.
Mine Too!
My TG01 has just started to do exactly the same thing
I have to wiggle the USB charger vigorously in the jack just to get it to charge, and it always drops the connection halfway through syncing when connected to the copmuter
I'm thinking about opening it up and taking a closer look at the connector, I just want my TG01 back to normal again Maybe I'll even try replacing the jack using some parts off ebay depends if the jack looks loose
I'll open it up some-point this weekend and take a look for you onell...
You marked left one but I can see missing part on the right....
the right piece is there but is not a good picture..... the left one is missing
This is Zener diode 1N4764A-TAP or similar cos E2 mean GLASS-e2
thank you very much.... i replace that zenner diode .... but usb still dont work.... i gess something else is fried uffff..... any ideas?
onell said:
thank you very much.... i replace that zenner diode .... but usb still dont work.... i gess something else is fried uffff..... any ideas?
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My suggestion: On these days, you can find a TG01 for 100€ or less googlyng a bit.
You can also ask for a TG01 with broken screen for a bargain....
And if you only want the Motherboard, you could contact with someone needing the touch screen and share it!
good luck!
Problem is there is no FUSE in the usb charging line as is in majority handsets with usb charging and usb host.
My tg01 cannot charging using wall charger.I think its burn the charger ic and smell like burning rubber before.Anyone know which one is the charger circuit ic?.Is there charging ic is the right one on upper pics???

[Q] screen replacement issues (with pics)

first off this is my first post, ive come to xda for a while to get roms and learn a bit about my phone! any ways, my issue is my new screen... a while back i dropped it while bike riding and broke the glass. i just got my replacement screen and put it in today. when it first loads it looks ok, maybe a little yellowish, but ok... now when i lock it then unlock it you can barely see the screen and when i take the battery out and try again it starts fine and ends bad.... im running gtgs gingerbread and i have unclipped the screen and such and im wondering if it is an issue with the screen or if it is other parts... thanks guys
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after locking, trying to unlock
I get that same problem about once per week, I thought I was the only one with this problem.. I lock and unlock again and it would go back to normal.
where did you buy the screen? I replaced mine but got a bad one and am trying to resolve the issue with the reseller. I have a fealling I'm gonna have a long rant bad mouthing the seller ( in China ) I want to know if we used the same website.
Did u check the display setting?
durvall said:
I get that same problem about once per week, I thought I was the only one with this problem.. I lock and unlock again and it would go back to normal.
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how does your screen look with whites? i was messing around a bit more before i locked it and found out what is most likely the issue and if its not , i have two lol you can see what im talking about in the pic
Dani897 said:
where did you buy the screen? I replaced mine but got a bad one and am trying to resolve the issue with the reseller. I have a fealling I'm gonna have a long rant bad mouthing the seller ( in China ) I want to know if we used the same website.
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i got mine from whole sale gadget parts, i am able to return it, but i was hoping it was fixable but after this other picture i would say not lol. only thing im worried about is that when i send it back i might have to send my full assembly. when i ordered the screen i thought i was getting the full assembly but it was just the screen and digitizer and so i called and the guy said it should have been the full and he would make sure it was on there next order they get. so fingers crossed on that one, because i taped the screen in pretty good lol.
Truckerglenn said:
Did u check the display setting?
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settings were fine, i was able to see enough to go and change the brightness and all and nothing worked
here is what it does with a white background... yea its a screen issue, not the phone
Doublea34 said:
how does your screen look with whites? i was messing around a bit more before i locked it and found out what is most likely the issue and if its not , i have two lol you can see what im talking about in the pic
i got mine from whole sale gadget parts, i am able to return it, but i was hoping it was fixable but after this other picture i would say not lol. only thing im worried about is that when i send it back i might have to send my full assembly. when i ordered the screen i thought i was getting the full assembly but it was just the screen and digitizer and so i called and the guy said it should have been the full and he would make sure it was on there next order they get. so fingers crossed on that one, because i taped the screen in pretty good lol.
settings were fine, i was able to see enough to go and change the brightness and all and nothing worked
here is what it does with a white background... yea its a screen issue, not the phone
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got mine from xcrater because everyone else was out of stock at the time. it looked legit enough with a maltese cross in the logo and an English website, I didn't figure the Chinese would use a Maltese cross. but the seller is in China and they seem to have turned the return process into a negotiation, they even asked me to cancel the PayPal dispute before the whole thing was properly handeled. believe when this is over I'm posting a thread with details, email records ands sending them the link so they might think twice about how they handle business.
alsoi have that same dark spot but mine is in the upper left corner and its a lot bigger. I don't have the random total screen darkness though.

[Q] Vibrate Motor

Not sure if hardware questions are allowed here, but my vibrate motor (I purposely avoided using the term vibrator) is making a chirping noise now, and I'm wondering how hard it is to replace. I saw some YouTube videos on replacing the screen, but nothing specific to the vibrate motor. I build/upgrade my own PCs routinely, and also repair my laptops, cars, a/c unit, or whatever else needs fixing, so I'm not scared to work on my cellphone either.
I know what happened to cause the noise. I sprayed some electrical contact spray into the mini-USB port to clean it out, and apparently some of the spray got into the vibrate motor as well. Doh!
Probably should still be in Q/A , but anyways. If you can work on a PC, or have worked on a PC Mother Board. Then replacing the motor should be no issue. It's fairly straight forward. It will take you more time to get to it, then to actually replace it.
prboy1969 said:
Probably should still be in Q/A , but anyways. If you can work on a PC, or have worked on a PC Mother Board. Then replacing the motor should be no issue. It's fairly straight forward. It will take you more time to get to it, then to actually replace it.
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Probably most similar to working on a laptop with all the layers involved. PCs are easy to open and work on. On laptops, you have to remove the keyboard before doing anything else, so similar to having to remove the panel underneath the battery on a cell phone first. The biggest problem may be finding a schematic of where the vibrate motor is located. So far, everything I have seen is about changing the screen, so they don't mention the vibrate motor.
jdjohn said:
Probably most similar to working on a laptop with all the layers involved. PCs are easy to open and work on. On laptops, you have to remove the keyboard before doing anything else, so similar to having to remove the panel underneath the battery on a cell phone first. The biggest problem may be finding a schematic of where the vibrate motor is located. So far, everything I have seen is about changing the screen, so they don't mention the vibrate motor.
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Just open the phone. I'm sure you'll see the motor. Usually they're of a bigger shape and size
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I opened one up for you. I've attached some pics for you. What you want to replace is what the arrow is pointing to
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Very helpful, thanks!
Your very welcome . Always here to do my part.
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No-go on replacing the vibrate motor. It's soldered into the board, and too risky to heat it up because it's so close to other connectors. The battery and USB connectors are right next to the vibrate motor, and you don't want to melt those connectors by accident. I guess I'll have to live with the squeak. I've already turned off all Haptic feedback responses, and am just leaving vibrate on for ringing and messaging notfications.
There are places that will replace parts like that for you around here. But where you live IDK. You could ask at an electronics shop. See if they have any people they could recommend.
prboy1969 said:
There are places that will replace parts like that for you around here. But where you live IDK. You could ask at an electronics shop. See if they have any people they could recommend.
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That was actually the advice I got from one of those shops. Very nice and knowledgable guy. He popped the back and removed the board while I watched. He said he could try it, but that it was very risky and he wouldn't advise it. I suggested spraying some WD-40 into the motor, but he said it would leave a white residue everywhere from the propellent gases of the can, and possibly corrode some of the plastic parts, which made sense. He did blow some regular compressed air into it, but that didn't help. He didn't charge me anything.
It was kinda cool when he booted my phone and saw the flash screen (a spinning blue bee at the time). It started a whole discussion about rooting.
That's definitely the route I would go. I've seen the repair shop around here do some really delicate work. They have some specifically designed equipment to get the job done. But I've seen them work on everything from a Motherboard for a CPU, to an OG EVO. A Spinning Blue Bee you say
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prboy1969 said:
That's definitely the route I would go. I've seen the repair shop around here do some really delicate work. They have some specifically designed equipment to get the job done. But I've seen them work on everything from a Motherboard for a CPU, to an OG EVO. A Spinning Blue Bee you say
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The Spinning Blue Bee works well, but apparently the bee has a problem with the WeatherBug. :laugh:

Apparent liquid damage

Hi,
A few days ago my phone turned off. I sent it to the LG reapir center and they came back with liquid damage diagnosis. The phone was nowhere close to any liquid, therefore I am not too sure what to do. I would really appreciate if you could look at the picture below and advise me how I should fight my case.
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@nicbell fix your picture plz
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@nicbell fix your picture plz
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Hi, it seems ok to me.The direct link is: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30m2ydu&s=8#.U-n2LvldWOY
OK guess it's just not viewable in Tapatalk
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OK guess it's just not viewable in Tapatalk
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Can you just click the link in the post above? Cheers
I think you should send to google not LG. LG is really strict and Google is a bit more understanding. Maybe if you send it to google stating that you sent the phone to LG and they returned it damaged maybe you will get lucky? Even better google may not even check it. But it sounds kinda fishy to me that your phone just suddenly wouldn't turn on and. LG finds water damage.
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nicbell said:
Can you just click the link in the post above? Cheers
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I did
Sandman-007 said:
I think you should send to google not LG. LG is really strict and Google is a bit more understanding. Maybe if you send it to google stating that you sent the phone to LG and they returned it damaged maybe you will get lucky? Even better google may not even check it. But it sounds kinda fishy to me that your phone just suddenly wouldn't turn on and. LG finds water damage.
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I did
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Hi, I am afraid I can't send it to google as it was not bought via google play. AI find marks around battery quite strange. It seems to me like a battery leakage, not liquid damage.
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@nicbell fix your picture plz
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Tapatalk hates it when the backup text is used in image tags lol, annoying because desktop view prompts for it and people enter random letters instead of leaving it blank. -.-
I think the fact that the liquid damage is right next to the battery and there are no other signs of liquid damage anywhere except the centre of the phone, it must be battery fluid. How can external liquid make it to the centre of the phone without touching any other parts?
Ask LG to demonstrate how the liquid damage is not from the battery and ask them to demonstrate with evidence, the path they believe the liquid to have taken from external to the phone.
rootSU said:
I think the fact that the liquid damage is right next to the battery and there are no other signs of liquid damage anywhere except the centre of the phone, it must be battery fluid. How can external liquid make it to the centre of the phone without touching any other parts?
Ask LG to demonstrate how the liquid damage is not from the battery and ask them to demonstrate with evidence, the path they believe the liquid to have taken from external to the phone.
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Hi, LG came back to me with the following:
Yes there does seem to be some tains around there but that does not indicate that the liquid has come from the battery. The liquid can come in from the 3.5mm jack on the handset or through the casing itself, and if a repair engineer has taken the handset apart to look at the damage, if the liquid was coming from the battery this would have been mentioned when the pictures were sent over. With regards to the liquid indicator, if the liquid does not hit that point then the indicator will not change. But the liquid has got into the phone, obviously missed the indicator and corroded the main board.
Any ideas?

Solder motherboard, possible? [Picture]

Attached is a picture of the motherboard.
I have made a circle on one part of it. As you can see, there is a blue thing to the right - before, there were 2 blue things next to eachother. But the left blue thing is now gone, I don't know where... But seems like it has fallen out somehow...
Is it possible to solder this together? Or do I need the blue thing there?
When trying to use the motherboard, everything works very well - EXCEPT the touch screen, I cannot do anything because the screen doesn't feel my fingers (nowhere on the screen). And no, I have no clue if this is the reason for the touch screen not to work, but that's my guess as it worked good before.
Any help would be much appreciated, I don't have much knowledge about soldering and so on, as you might already have understood from my description above...
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I would highly suggest that you do not try soldering if you don't have any previous knowledge or experience. As for if the "blue thing" is needed or not I am unsure because I myself know little about what each piece does on the board. But as far as the touch screen issues goes, if the touch screen worked before the blue piece came of, it most likely has to do with it. If it didn't (or even if it did work before), try finding a second device that is the same as yours (or if its cheap and you can afford it order a new lcd/digitizer for it) and try connecting it to that motherboard and see if it works, if so problem fixed, if not, you may be able to take i to a phone repair place and have it fixed, though most times getting a new motherboard/device would be cheaper.
The-10th-Doctor said:
I would highly suggest that you do not try soldering if you don't have any previous knowledge or experience. As for if the "blue thing" is needed or not I am unsure because I myself know little about what each piece does on the board. But as far as the touch screen issues goes, if the touch screen worked before the blue piece came of, it most likely has to do with it. If it didn't (or even if it did work before), try finding a second device that is the same as yours (or if its cheap and you can afford it order a new lcd/digitizer for it) and try connecting it to that motherboard and see if it works, if so problem fixed, if not, you may be able to take i to a phone repair place and have it fixed, though most times getting a new motherboard/device would be cheaper.
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Thanks for the reply.. I have actually ordered two other "broken" phones, so I will receive them in a week or something... And I will do exactly what you suggested, to try another motherboard and see if it is a problem with the screen or motherboard. I am very sure it is the motherboard though, because the lcd and digitizer worked great just before I discovered that.
Would still appreciate answers regarding soldering this, if that is possible or not.
Solder motherboard, possible?
Robinjoeh said:
Thanks for the reply.. I have actually ordered two other "broken" phones, so I will receive them in a week or something... And I will do exactly what you suggested, to try another motherboard and see if it is a problem with the screen or motherboard. I am very sure it is the motherboard though, because the lcd and digitizer worked great just before I discovered that.
Would still appreciate answers regarding soldering this, if that is possible or not.
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It seems like your missing a resistor . you can simply measure the values on the existing component and order the same value on digikey. let me know if you need help with soldering
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It seems like your missing a resistor . you can simply measure the values on the existing component and order the same value on digikey. let me know if you need help with soldering
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Ah, a resistor! Not easy to know when you have no clue what it is...
How do I measure the values on the existing component? I don't really think I need any help with soldering, but pretty much everything before that... Haha
Thanks!

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