Free runner disassembly guide

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Hi,

Is there a free runner disassemble guide?Also was any one able the open the LCD and separate it into Touch panel,Backlit and the color screen?Please let me know.

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Sriranjan

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RANJAN <[hidden email]> writes:
> Is there a free runner disassemble guide?

If you search the wiki for Neo1973 (aka gta01) disassembly guide,
you'll find what you need. The instructions are the same for both
gta01 and gta02.

> Also was any one able the open the LCD and separate it into Touch
> panel,Backlit and the color screen?Please let me know.

I don't think anyone ever tried. If you do, please share the results.

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>I don't think anyone ever tried. If you do, please share the results.

Hi,

Was able to remove the LCD from the metal sandwich kind casing.But there are two cords (highly delicate and flexible) which run from the LCD to the mother board.One is shielded with some sort or metal tape which I did remove and the other is glued.

Please advice.

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Hi,
you can remove the LDC module (LCD + Touch) by removing the silver tape and opening the Hirose FPCB plug.

But I have no idea how to open the combined LCD+Touch-Module. Most likely you will destroy it.

Maybe this helps:


Nikolazs


Am 07.11.2009 um 21:36 schrieb RANJAN:

>I don't think anyone ever tried. If you do, please share the results.

Hi,

Was able to remove the LCD from the metal sandwich kind casing.But there are two cords (highly delicate and flexible) which run from the LCD to the mother board.One is shielded with some sort or metal tape which I did remove and the other is glued.

Please advice.

Sriranjan


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Hi,

Please keep the list Cc'd on useful discussions! Adding Cc back in
assumption you dropped it by mistake.

Also please follow a well-established tradition to use the ``>''
symbol for quotations instead of indenting text.

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:30:59PM -0800, RANJAN wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Paul Fertser <[1][hidden email]> wrote:
>   RANJAN <[2][hidden email]> writes:
>   > Is there a free runner disassemble guide?
>
>   If you search the wiki for Neo1973 (aka gta01) disassembly guide,
>   you'll find what you need. The instructions are the same for both
>   gta01 and gta02.
>   > Also was any one able the open the LCD and separate it into Touch
>   > panel,Backlit and the color screen?Please let me know.
>
>   I don't think anyone ever tried. If you do, please share the results.
>
> Was able to remove the LCD from the metal sandwich kind casing.But there are two
> cords (highly delicate and flexible) which run from the LCD to the mother
> board.One is shielded with some sort or metal tape which I did remove and the
> other is glued.

The flat cable with a small flexible shield glued on top of it is the
one connecting the LCD Module (LCM) to the board. If you unlock the
connector you'll be able to easily disconnect it. As to the links
inside the LCM, that's an unknown territory, any reports (preferrably
with photos) are appreciated.

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But I have no idea how to open the combined LCD+Touch-Module. Most likely you will destroy it.

Maybe this helps:

The touch resistive layer is on the top metal case and the color LCD is kind of sandwiched between the Resistive later which is pasted to the metal frame and the back lit is hooked to the frame.(I may be successful in releasing the hooks).

But my query is :how is the LCD layer connected?

And how do you remove the Hirose connector?

Sriranjan


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>The flat cable with a small flexible shield glued on top of it is the
>one connecting the LCD Module (LCM) to the board. If you unlock the
>connector you'll be able to easily disconnect it. As to the links
>inside the LCM, that's an unknown territory, any reports (preferrably
>with photos) are appreciated.
Hirose Unlocked.

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On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:39:33PM -0800, RANJAN wrote:
> >I don't think anyone ever tried. If you do, please share the results.
>
> Attached are the pics of LCD opened (still the touch layer is to be separated
> from the backlit).

Good pics you've got there but i'm afraid that being attached to the
mails they won't reach the mailing list. So if you want to share them
you need to put them on some server.

Also i'm unsure if cross-posting to both devel and community makes
sense, probably we should continue on devel only.

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