Motorola Cliq Motherboard Replacement

Turning over your phone, place two fingers on the back cover and apply pressure away from the camera to slide the back cover off.

Pinch the battery pull tab located below the camera, pull it upwards, and remove the battery.

Wedge a plastic opening tool behind the panel covering the camera, pry it up, and remove it using your fingers.

Remove the six 4.0 mm T4 Torx screws which line the edge of the back of the phone.

Turn the phone over and slide out the keyboard.

Wedge a plastic opening tool where the keyboard meets the back casing of the phone next to the headphone jack.

Carefully pry open the back casing along the keyboard's edge until at least two corners of the back casing are separated from the keyboard.

Carefully separate the back casing from the rest of the phone.

Gently pry ZIF connector upwards using the flat end of a spudger tool.

Press your thumb against the orange power cable and pull it down slowly to disconnect the power cable from the bottom of the keyboard.

The rear casing and the rest of the phone should now be completely separated.

Wedge the plastic opening tool underneath the black display connector and pry it off its socket on the motherboard.

Pry the orange keyboard connector from its socket on the motherboard using the edge of the plastic opening tool.

Carefully grab the sides of the motherboard with your fingers and remove it from the phone.