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Sachin Patil

Sachin Patil

Free Software Developer | GNU Emacs Hacker

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ZTE Blade teardown

Published on Apr 19, 2014 by Sachin.

In an attempt to unlock RAM from 256MB to 512MB I bricked my ZTE Blade. These are the final snaps before it died. [Here](http://www.modaco.com/topic/339048-guide-flashing-firmware-to-bladelibra-via-windows/) is the method I followed.

Snaps

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Figure 1: Motherboard–when outer cover removed
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Figure 2: Touch panel
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Figure 3: Inner back cover(front view)
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Figure 4: Inner back cover(rear view)** You can see speaker at the bottom.
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Figure 5: Front cover which encloses touch panel(rear view)** You can see sensor circuitry at the top-left.
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Figure 6: Front cover which encloses touch panel(front view).
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Figure 7: Buttons.
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Figure 8: Motherboard: A closer look.
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Figure 9: Motherboard: A closer look(flip side).
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Figure 10: Display.
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Figure 11: Display with Android logo at boot time.
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Figure 12: Display with IDEA provider logo. It doesn’t go any further.

Fortunately, I got another Blade with broken touch screen. I managed to replace the board[Figure 9]. It was an amazing experience and I got all the hardware working :). Out of excitement, I bricked the new hardware too :P but this time it was successfully de-bricked(method-5)