My BlackBerry Bold suffered some minor “wear and tear” over the weekend which caused some of the buttons on the keyboard to become sticky. So what did I do? I watched the handy video below on how to disassemble a BlackBerry Bold and cleaned the unit on my own rather than sending it in for repair/replacement.
I love that practically every single part of a BlackBerry is user-replaceable. If I broke anything other than the main chip board on the Bold, I could easily buy the part to replace it and open my device back up again to get it working.
Here are some close-up images of the cleaning process.
Very cool.
The prices for replacement parts seems pretty high, though.
I replaced the housing on my Bold, thanks to your link to the video. My parts supplier is:
http://truesupplier.com/_search.php?page=1&q=blackberry+bold
The prices are good, but they ship from Hong Kong – takes about 14 days to receive them.