How to Buy Replacement Parts for Your Motorola Phone
Years ago, when I hacked my iPhone 5 screen for the 20th time, I ordered a repair kit from iFixit and repaired it myself . Replacing the display turned out to be surprisingly easy, and it was significantly cheaper to do it yourself than to ask Apple or anyone else. So easy that I started suggesting to my friends if they bought a $ 10 replacement display on eBay.
Then with the iPhone 6, Apple started using displays with glue (which means that repairing them requires a hairdryer and removing that glue), and after three broken phones, I switched to a Samsung device that somehow I managed to never break.
While Apple deliberately makes it harder for you to repair your own device, Motorola is now making it a little easier, which is quite rare in an industry that generally encourages you to replace your device every two years. The company recently partnered with iFixit and offers parts and DIY repair instructions for their phones for sale online.
In the past, even the parts for my iPhone 5 were from third parties and not directly from Apple. Motorola is the first major smartphone manufacturer to offer parts directly. They want you to be able to get your phone fixed.
As far as what you can fix, the answer is pretty much everything. iFixit offers instructions on how to replace the battery, display, rear and front camera, motherboard, and more for a range of Motorola smartphones .
Before grabbing a kit, I definitely recommend going over the instructions a bit. While I found it very easy to change the displays on my older iPhones, there were a few tiny cogs involved in the process that I see are causing a problem for some users.
I’m also quite tech-savvy, and I suppose you are too, if that’s what you’re going to try, but unless you’re a nerd or at least someone who’s used to working with fine details, it might not be For you. You can seriously damage your phone when it’s jailbroken, and that could potentially be much worse than the little repair you’re trying to do. This is not something that you should just accidentally try to do.
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All of this is to say that repairing your own phone is a very enjoyable experience, it can save you some money and can help extend the lifespan of this smartphone by several years.