Einleitung

Removing the battery.

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    • Use the plastic opening tool to remove the 4 buttons on each corner of the Sidekick.

    • Gently pry open button and remove button.

    • Do this for each of the 3 buttons remaining.

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    • The bumpers on the top and bottom of the phone can be removed by simply "peeling" them off.

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    • Use the T6 Torx Screwdriver to remove the 4 screws that are underneath the 4 buttons you removed in step one.

    Those aren’t Phillips head screws.

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    • Flip the screen up halfway (90 degrees), to reveal the 2 screws above the right side of the keyboard.

    • Use the Torx 6 screwdriver to remove these 2 screws.

    • Be careful in handling the phone after removing the screws, because the two main bodies of the phone are no longer attached.

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    • After removing the 6 screws and both bumpers, the phone will be easy to separate into the two main bodies.

    • You can use your hands to simply pull apart the top casing from the bottom casing.

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    • Remove the 5 screws using the Phillips #00 Screwdriver.

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    • Separate control board from housing using your fingers.

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    • Lightly pry upward on battery and back plate, and remove.

    • Do not use metal tool to pry. Use your fingers.

michael albaum

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I have the battery out. Is their a way to check if it holds a charge? when I plugged charger into sidekick nothing lit up? is it a battery problem or a charge issue? The phone was never damaged. like the rest stop using it so died. figured battery is toast. this was a replacement tutorial. but doesn't show new battery going in to make sure you did correctly. I need the text messages and other data from my phone pretty bad. any help greatly appreciated.

Kyle Wilkins -

Hi, I don’t have any Sidekick-specific advice here, but some for general data recovery from old phones like these. What I’ve done in the past is hunt down another donor phone that is functional, with a working charger, and use it to diagnose the issues on your phone, and make a working model with your motherboard.

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