Motorola Razr V3 — Disassembly Guide — Part 1

Welcome to the Celtnet Mobiles: Motorola Razr V3 Disassembly Page 1 — There are a number of broken Motorola V3s on the web and if you have a scratched housing or screen or even a borken screen you can use these as donours to repair yor own phone. Or, maybe, you just want to change the colour of your phone? If this is you, then this guide will tell you precisely how to disassemble your phone so that you can then do the repairs or modifications you need before re-assembling the phone.

This is the first section of an three-part series of articles that take you through all the steps required to safely disassemble your Motorola Razr V3 mobile phone.

This article takes you through the tools you will need and the first steps required in disassembling your phone (essentially removing the battery and SIM card). If you would like to know more about what the various parts of the phone are and how they work, see my eight-part article on how mobile/cellular telephones work.

Welcome to the new home of the Celtnet Mobiles in formation site. This page is the first in a series of three articles that take you through the process of dismantling your Motorola Razr V3 mobile/cellular phone.


Motorola Razr V3 Disassembly: Part 1

Getting Started

Tools for disassembly

Before you start you will need a few tools, as above. To disassemble the phone you will need two Torx screwdrivers: a T5 and a T6. You will also need a flat plastic implement to prise apart the components of the phone. Anything flat but rigid will do. I used an old SIM card here. It needs to be plastic to ensure that you don't scratch the fascias whilst taking them apart. You will also need a small flat-head screwdriver to ease some of the components apart. In addition you will need a needle or a pin to remove some of the rubber protective components. Once you've assembled all these items the next stage is to begin disassembly.

front and back view of V3 Razr

First we'll start with front and back views of the classic V3 RAZR mobile phone. I know that you'll be familiar with these views already, but I'm placing them here so that you can use them to orient yourselves when going throug the various other images on this site.

Removing the battery case

The first and simplest thing to do is to remove the battery case. Just use the flat-head screwdriver to press the button at the top of this pannel. This will reveal the battery and SIM card inside (as below)


Removing the battery case
Remove the battery and the SIM card

Once the battery bay is open pop out the battery itself and then slide out the SIM card. But do not use this SIM card to perform the following procedures as they are quite violent and may damage your SIM card.

The easy part of the procedure is now done. To learn how to remove the main fascias, jump to the next part of this course.







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