Help changing the top speaker grill on HTC One!

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nalbagli

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• Jun 24, 2013

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Hi, I damaged my phone on the top so I am trying to replace the top speaker grill cover, I already have the replacement but I have no idea how to do it without messing my phone. I have investigated a lot and in the only teardown video I fount the top spekar grill seems to always be attached to the phone, and the ifixit guid has no information on this part of the phone. Please if anyone has done it or knows how to do this any kind of help would be useful as I can't stand to se my phone damaged no more.

Thanks

 

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Ahanix

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• Jun 24, 2013

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nalbagli said:

Hi, I damaged my phone on the top so I am trying to replace the top speaker grill cover, I already have the replacement but I have no idea how to do it without messing my phone. I have investigated a lot and in the only teardown video I fount the top spekar grill seems to always be attached to the phone, and the ifixit guid has no information on this part of the phone. Please if anyone has done it or knows how to do this any kind of help would be useful as I can't stand to se my phone damaged no more.

Thanks

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Good luck, from everything I have seen it is glued to the phone. YMMV but my guess you would need to heat it up, peel it off the phone and then figure some way to glue the new one on.

 

naturecannon

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• Jun 25, 2013

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It looks like the speakers are step 17 in the link below and there are 19 streps shown to dismantle (at that site anyways).

HTC One Repairability Score: One out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair) I see How the HTC"ONE" got its name
HTC One Teardown

Very, very difficult (possibly impossible?) to open the device without damaging the rear case. This makes every component extremely difficult to replace.

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Most videos I have seen of others trying to dismantle the HTCone........break it. GOOD LUCK

 

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nalbagli

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• Jun 25, 2013

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naturecannon said:

It looks like the speakers are step 17 in the link below and there are 19 streps shown to dismantle (at that site anyways).

HTC One Repairability Score: One out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair) I see How the HTC"ONE" got its name
HTC One Teardown


Most videos I have seen of others trying to dismantle the HTCone........break it. GOOD LUCK

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Thanks!!! the thing is I dont want to replace my speakers I only need to replace the top front cover of the speaker, and I cant seem to find a tutorial to do that

 

Glebun

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• Jun 26, 2013

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asking questions in this section is against the rules. please use the correct section next time.

 

orangekid

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• Jun 26, 2013

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Moved to Q&A.

 

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cfendrick

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• Jun 27, 2013

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You are most likely not going to find any thing related to your speaker grill replacement. This phone is not meant to be and have user replaceable parts.

Even most of the pros won't touch it to replace parts, but they buy them to strip for parts to sell to people that want to attempt DIY repairs only to further destroy the phone.

If you do figure it out and everything is repairable, working, and looks new please post a guide.

Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk 2

 

sxp123731

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May 23, 2011

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• Jul 2, 2013

• #8

HTC One Top Cover Replacement

Guys,

I am ordering the top cover (& bottom cover parts) from this site:

http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-htc-one-top-cover-and-bottom-cover.html

My top cover has deep dink/dent since I dropped it from waist high to the floor (NAKED).

The replacement will arrive in 10-15 days from Today.

The top cover speaker grill is glued and screwed while the bottom cover speaker grill only glued.
I manage to take off the top cover by pulling it off and cut the screwed part. I don't want to open the screw since it can be only opened if you open the whole back chassis of the phone.

When the top cover part arrive, I will cut the screw part and just glue it to the phone.
Currently I am using my secondary phone which is the boring iPhone 5, it is still boring even with iOS 7 installed.

Will update the post with pictures and guides when the replacement arrive, wish me luck guys!! :good::good:

LESSON LEARNED: FULL BODY CASE IS A MUST!!!

 

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subhumanderelict

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Dec 3, 2007

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• Jul 2, 2013

• #9

Follow this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2295007

Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk 2

 

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sxp123731

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May 23, 2011

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North Texas

• Jul 3, 2013

• #10

subhumanderelict said:

Follow this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2295007

Sent from my HTCONE using Tapatalk 2

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wow, thanks man!