Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Screen Repair, Teardown and Reassemble

Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Screen Repair, Teardown and Reassemble Guide

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Recommended Tools:

Plastic Triangle Opening Tool
Nylon Spudger
SIM Card Ejection Tool
Fine Tip Curved Tweezers
Precision Knife Set
2mm Red Adhesive
Multi-Purpose Heat Gun
Professional T4 Torx Screwdriver
Playing Cards

Step 1 

Power down your Droid Turbo 2 smartphone.
 
Step 2 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 SIM Card and microSD Card Tray)
 
Remove the SIM card and microSD card tray.
 
Step 3 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Back Cover)
 
Use the heat gun to warm up the adhesive securing the Droid Turbo 2 rear cover to the midframe.
 
With the precision knife, carefully create separation and insert a plastic triangle opening tool to start slicing through the adhesive.
 
Take your time and apply additional heat as needed. The adhesive securing the cover is relatively mild, once the pick sneaks into the seam, the cover can be peeled up.
 
Step 4 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Midframe)
 
Remove the following 17 T4 Torx screws.
 
Use the tweezers to remove the 2 plastic covers and then detach the connectors underneath.
 
You can now easily separate the Droid Turbo 2 midframe.
 
Step 5 (Motorola Droid Turbo Power & Volume Buttons, Headphone Jack, Vibrator, and LED Flash Cable and Microphone)
 
Remove the physical power and volume buttons from the side of the midframe.
 
Pry the headphone jack up and out of the chassis.
 
Remove the Droid Turbo 2 vibrator.
 
Peel up the piece of Kapton tape, and then release the ZIF connector.
 
Carefully peel up the Droid Turbo 2 dual-LED flash cable and microphone.
 
Step 6 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Loudspeaker, Inductive Charging Coil, Rear Camera Lens and Flash Bezel, and LED Flash)
 
Use the spudger to pry the Droid Turbo 2 loudspeaker up from the plastic midframe.
 
Remove the inductive charging coil.
 
Turn the midframe over and remove the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 rear camera lens and flash bezel.
 
Utilizing the tweezers, remove the dual-LED flash.
 
Step 7 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Front-Facing Camera and Earpiece Speaker)
 
Peel up the black tape.
 
Remove the following 2 T4 Torx screws, and then the bracket.
 
Disconnect the Droid Turbo 2 battery from the motherboard.
 
Use the spudger to detach and remove the 5 MP Droid Turbo 2 front-facing selfie camera.
 
Utilizing the tweezers, pry up the earpiece speaker.
 
Step 8 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Motherboard)
 
Disconnect the bevy of cables from the motherboard.
 
With the cables detached, carefully free the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 motherboard from the display assembly.
 
Step 9 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 IR Sensor Cable and Rear-Facing Camera)
 
Release the ZIF connector and remove the IR sensor cable.
 
Peel up the Kapton tape and release the ZIF connector.
 
Easily pluck out the 21 MP Motorola Droid Turbo 2 rear-facing camera.
 
Step 10 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Battery)
 
With a little spudgering the 3760 milliampere-hour (mAh) Droid Turbo 2 lithium-ion battery can be removed.
 
Step 11 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 Power and Volume Buttons Flex Cable)
 
Carefully peel up and remove the Droid Turbo 2 power and volume buttons flex cable.
 
Step 12 (Motorola Droid Turbo 2 LCD Screen and Digitizer Assembly)
 
Peel up the display assembly cable, it is secured to the frame with relatively mild adhesive.
 
Separate the plastic bezel from the frame.
 
Use the heat gun to warm up the adhesive securing the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 LCD screen and digitizer assembly to the front frame.
 
With a triangle opening tool, work around the Droid Turbo 2 display slicing through the adhesive.
 
Take your time and apply additional heat as needed.
 
Once you have sliced through the adhesive, be mindful of the ribbon cable when decoupling the Droid Turbo 2 display assembly from the frame.
 
 
* To reassemble your device, follow the steps in reverse order.