Amazon Echo Spot Teardown

Geschrieben von: mcwiggin
Veröffentlicht: 17/01/18
  • Kommentare: 19

Amazon Echo Spot Teardown

Veröffentlicht: 17/01/18

Teardown

Einleitung

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    • Amazon Echo Spot

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    • Remove Bottom Plate

    • 3 hex screws on the bottom. One completely open hole

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    • There is a Micro USB port hiding in the back under a plastic cover.

    • Attaching a USB cable to the port reveals a device that classifies itself as an "Android Device"

    • It is also possible by holding down all 3 buttons on the top to put the device into FASTBOOT mode. Lots more to explore here.

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    • Remove the screen. This part sucks. Looks like it might be possible for the screen to rotate out, but its pretty stuck in. Lots of careful prying was required.

    A strong suction cup makes this job easy. I used a knife sharpener which has a really good suction cup on its bottom.

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    • Disconnect Cables

    What type of connectors do the screen use ?

    any adapter available to connect to a mipi to hdmi port

    or directly to a raspberry pie ?

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    • Display Assembly

    • Note there is a camera and what appears to be either a light or motion sensor next to the camera.

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    • Display module is round and glued to the cover glass

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    • Logic Board

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    • Chips

    • MediaTek MT8163V - Quad ARM Cortex-A53 System on a Chip

    • GOODIX GT5668 - Touchscreen Controller

    • Cypress CYW43569 - 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Bluetooth 4.1

    • MediaTek MT6323LGA - PMIC

    • Micron MT52L512M32D2PF-107 WT D9SSF - 16Gbit LPDDR3 SDRAM

    • SK hynix H26M41208HPR - 8GB NAND

Tinte & Feder

mcwiggin

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17 Kommentare

What display is being used? Rectangular or circular shape? Can you please publish article number and or manufacturer code?

Andreas -

He said the display was round. I have no idea what the code would be, but I’d assume it’s a custom Amazon display.

Liam Powell -

Thanks for doing this. Any photos of the speaker system? The sound is pretty good for such a small device.

Martin P -

Any photo of the power-plug? (+ in center?) Specification of the power adapter?

Gorm Næss -

What display is being used? Can you please publish article number and or manufacturer code?

It seems that display is octogonal shape, not circular.

OLED or LCD panel ??

Daniel Fernandez -

the display itself looks like it’s round but the frame is octagonal so it will fit in the chassis without rotating. that would be my best guess.

Logan Teffertiller -

we need part number of this display.Can anyone suggest?

Patel Ankitkumar Navneetbhai -

could you me the Mic Array Board to us？ I really want to confirm wheather Amazon has the agrithm that the microphone placement can support not on the same surface？

Lexina -

Your step 4 is all wrong. you don’t have to pry at all. With a clean (oil free) palm, jusy apply slight pressure on the front of the screen while holding the back firmly with the other hand. then use just a small quick counter clockwise twist, the screen will move just about 1/2 inch. You’ll feel it click. Then the screen will literally fall out in you hand.

markmiller -

My WiFi not working o you think you could fix that

Joseph Massarelli -

Any insights about how they’re molding the outer shell? How are they getting away with those undercuts?

Peej -

How do you repair a screen flicker?

Mario Salas -

what type of connector does the display uses ?

thomas -

Do you have a solution to the screen jitter problem ???

Failure that deeply affects this device and no solution from Amazon.

Luc Janssen -

What is it that actually causes the display to flicker? Do you know please? Can it be repaired? Thanks. Nick

Nick Parks -

The display flicker seems to be a very common problem with the Spot. Mine flickers once approximately every 1.2-1.4 seconds. Going to have to disassemble it and reconnect everything outside of the case and use an o-scope to find what’s bad. Given the near constant frequency of the flicker, I’m going to say either a bad cap or display controller. Possibly a bad signal telling the display controller to go to sleep and then waking it back up?

dkreskowiakk -

Do you know if the display uses a mipi connector? Looks a lot like this one

Warren Binder -