Great video cracking open the Motorola Razr giving you the lowdown on its insides. Short and sweet.
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Motorola Droid Razr cracked open (video)
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Wait a minute....is it really that easy to remove the back??
And finally....it has the same chip for FM Radio. SOMEBODY needs to get that working for me....LOL!! I tried some ways and it didnt work.
EDIT...I just tried with my fingernails and almost had the sides with the power and volume buttons , the top and the bottom up. I heard something separating, sounded like glue, adhesive so I stopped...lol Too scared to finish...and the other side with the Sim card was too hard to do.
2nd EDIT: Nevermind...I just removed it with my fingernails...I GOTTA post pics ASAP. It smells like glue or adhesive, and its sticky on the battery. The Kevlar is REALLY thin. The entire back actually feels like plastic.
I cant believe I actually did it with just my fingernails... Once some of it comes up you just work the rest off. And the separating you hear is the glue, adhesive that is on the battery helping hold the back on.
IF Seido does make an extended battery...it seriously isnt hard to remove the back. What company is gonna be brave enough to do extended batteries......
One pic and a clip coming soon. Wasnt too hard to do one handed. Recorded with my Droid X1. Once you remove the back....you MIGHT hear it creak by the camera, speaker when you put the back on again so be warned.
And finally....it has the same chip for FM Radio. SOMEBODY needs to get that working for me....LOL!! I tried some ways and it didnt work.
EDIT...I just tried with my fingernails and almost had the sides with the power and volume buttons , the top and the bottom up. I heard something separating, sounded like glue, adhesive so I stopped...lol Too scared to finish...and the other side with the Sim card was too hard to do.
2nd EDIT: Nevermind...I just removed it with my fingernails...I GOTTA post pics ASAP. It smells like glue or adhesive, and its sticky on the battery. The Kevlar is REALLY thin. The entire back actually feels like plastic.
I cant believe I actually did it with just my fingernails... Once some of it comes up you just work the rest off. And the separating you hear is the glue, adhesive that is on the battery helping hold the back on.
IF Seido does make an extended battery...it seriously isnt hard to remove the back. What company is gonna be brave enough to do extended batteries......
One pic and a clip coming soon. Wasnt too hard to do one handed. Recorded with my Droid X1. Once you remove the back....you MIGHT hear it creak by the camera, speaker when you put the back on again so be warned.
Pic:
Video coming soon. All fingernail, one handed...lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPwW0QPtjU&feature=youtu.be
Video coming soon. All fingernail, one handed...lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDPwW0QPtjU&feature=youtu.be
Ok, I'll ask...Why?
lol....just to see how easy, hard it would be. Its not as hard as it may seem. And to show some folks that IF a company did do after market batteries it wouldnt be hard to do yourself.
After doing this....I wouldnt want Verizon to replace my entire phone if it just had a defective battery. I might get a new phone and get introduced to more problems or problems I didnt have before.
After doing this....I wouldnt want Verizon to replace my entire phone if it just had a defective battery. I might get a new phone and get introduced to more problems or problems I didnt have before.
executor485
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So... Rather than fight with Verizon, just have them send you a refurb, then you do the battery swap and send them back the refurb with your bad battery.
They dont care which phone they get back as long as they get back A phone.
That sounds like a plan. Didnt think if that. I wonder now tho...do they really have to send it back to Moto for a bad battery, or could they do this themselves at the store?
Gravytrain
Android Enthusiast
executor485
Well-Known Member
That would require the tech agents at the store to have intelligence. Maybe it's just the stores around here, but I've had to tell them how to do their job (an OTA update broke my wife's DroidX and I had to get the Verizon store to do their USB update). They tried to tell me I was SOL and I had to buy a new phone, etc etc. After they finally listened and plugged it into their computer and updated the software, it worked perfectly. Magic!
I've found that the best route to take is to simply ignore Verizon's tech support, do your own research, find the solution and go that route. If it requires something along the lines of a refurb, do your best to get any/all components from your original phone to reduce the number of issues you have with the refurb. Verizons simple/only solution is to send you a refurb because it's cheaper for them (time is money).
tom108
Android Expert
it would be really easy for a company like seidio to make a super duper battery and just have a new back cover. but they are also good at making slim extended cells.
with rumor of the razrmax floating around, I am thinking it will be the same phone with bigger battery and a larger back cover for it. probably be able to buy those parts from vendors when they hit the market.
with rumor of the razrmax floating around, I am thinking it will be the same phone with bigger battery and a larger back cover for it. probably be able to buy those parts from vendors when they hit the market.
Szadzik
Extreme Android User
I never trusted ANY tech support as they usually are people taken from the street and just trained up to take calls. They have a database of issues and go from that. 1% is like us, enthusiast, the rest is just doing their job.
It's like that in every single support centre.