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More tearing apart iPhone photos

Here are the last of the photos we took while disassembling the iPhone.
To get to the LCD screen you nee to remove a series of tiny screws around the chrome bezel. Once you do that you can pop it off.

iPhone LCD removal
We didn’t do a full removal of the LCD. Quite frankly that would […]

Tearing apart the iPhone - iPhone pictures

The iPhone has a main processor and memory chips from Samsung Electronics. It’s audio-processing chip is from Britain’s Wolfson Microelectronics PLC. The WiFi chip is from Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
In the photos below, we see an even better shot of the bottom of that iPhone mother board as well as the ribbon connectors that attach […]

inside iPhone - pictures of what is inside the iPhone

Here we have close up photos of the iPhone sim card slot which is under the double pcb iPhone motherboard. The two pcb’s are connected with locking interconnect clips. It was exciting to finally get this far into the iPhone. I felt like Indiana Jones.

Photos of the iPhone brain - What powers the iPhone

The next set of photos we removed the screws that hold down the iPhone mother board. We pryed the mother board up a bit to get a shot of the iPhone’s Sim card slot and the ribbon cables that flow throughout the rest of the iPhone that connect it to various things like the LCD […]

Apple iPhone battery pictures - upclose photos

Can you change your battery for your iPhone? Is it a simple plug and play battery.

It seems that the iPhone battery takes up half the space of the iPhone.
The iPhone battery label details

iPhone guts exposed - iPhone circuits and connectors

In this series of photos, you’ll notice a few things. First of all the iPhone battery is indeed soldered to the motherboard with three wires, red, white and black. This means that only an authorized Apple tech will be able to install a new battery (unless you’re like us and void your warranty by taking […]

iPhone battery photo and camera exposed

In this series of photos we have our first photo of the iPhone battery and a closer look at the iPhone 2 mega pixel camera hardware. The black thing next to the camera is black foam. Notice the white wire also near that general area? Thats one of the antenna hookups that attaches to the […]

iPhone inside photos - iPhone pictures

Inside the iPhone
Now that we got the back cover off of the iPhone, we can take a closer look at what is inside the iPhone.
Picture 1-3 shows the cover off of the back of the iPhone. You’ll see the iPhone battery is the large square in the middle. The third picture shows the iPhone […]

How to disassemble an iPhone - Photos

WARNING:
Doing any of this will void your warranty. You’ve been warned!
Now that we’ve got that the antenna cover off we’re gonna take that aluminum case backing off. This part is the hardest part! Again if you have a case cracking tool, use it. Be very careful since the silver bezel is right next to that […]

Taking apart an Apple iPhone - Photos

WARNING:
Attempting any of these things will VOID your Apple iPhone warranty. You have been warned. Now that that’s out of the way… on to the take apart !
We’ve decided to take our iPhone apart to see what is inside this amazing cellphone. How does it work? Is there a little wizard in the phone […]


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