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Step 4How To Take Apart a Motorola C168
How to disassemble a Motorola C168 GoPhone.
No where did I find a tutorial to help me with this part, so I figured it out myself.
This phone was quite a toughie to take apart. I was so used to the relative slide-and-lock ease of Nokia phones, that this phone took my by surprise. Probably the part that is the hardest about taking apart this phone is finding a T4 Torx bit. They're not standard with the basic small screwdriver sets. I had to pull it out of a super-bit box we have.
I had been hoping not to void the warranty for this project, but alas, it was necessary. I don't like voiding warranties on devices I've only owned for 2 days.
The C168 was an interesting challenge. The faceplate was quite hard to remove, but I found the solution. Every few centimeters, there's a screwdriver 'station' where you can insert a screwdriver, and pry off the faceplate. I had to find all of them, and after I got past the bottom ones, I just yanked off the plate. I then did a quick charge check.
I ran into problems when putting it inside the then super dremeled NES Controller:
The phone didn't fit with the keypad on it, and I still had to test it with the buttons in.
No where did I find a tutorial to help me with this part, so I figured it out myself.
This phone was quite a toughie to take apart. I was so used to the relative slide-and-lock ease of Nokia phones, that this phone took my by surprise. Probably the part that is the hardest about taking apart this phone is finding a T4 Torx bit. They're not standard with the basic small screwdriver sets. I had to pull it out of a super-bit box we have.
I had been hoping not to void the warranty for this project, but alas, it was necessary. I don't like voiding warranties on devices I've only owned for 2 days.
The C168 was an interesting challenge. The faceplate was quite hard to remove, but I found the solution. Every few centimeters, there's a screwdriver 'station' where you can insert a screwdriver, and pry off the faceplate. I had to find all of them, and after I got past the bottom ones, I just yanked off the plate. I then did a quick charge check.
I ran into problems when putting it inside the then super dremeled NES Controller:
The phone didn't fit with the keypad on it, and I still had to test it with the buttons in.
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it means, he had to use his dremmel tool to sand down more parts in the controller or on the phone "that tool that was in all the pictures of him sanding the controller"