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how do i take a droid mini apart

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i dropped my phone in water and I need to take it apart to put the battery in rice
 

Rukbat

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1. If it's been more than an hour, the damage has been done. (The salts and other corrosives in the water have already started to destroy the phone.)

2. A phone isn't like a letter - you don't just open it. If you want to learn how to repair a phone, get a job in a repair shop or take a course in phone repair. Probably 75% or more of phones that the owner opens end up going to China to have the gold reclaimed (IOW, on the junk pile). The videos you see on Youtube are nice - but anyone who's actually worked on cellphones can see that the "this is the first phone I've ever opened" is a blatant lie. The fingers are talking a lot louder than the voice.