Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 Teardown

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 to remove the back cover, battery, camera, middle frame, and motherboard.

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The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3’s back cover is connected quite closely, making it a bit difficult to remove.

The back cover has some small snaps, so it’s no wonder the cover was so firmly fixed.

Antenna overflow outlet

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 supports NFC, and you can see the NFC in the center of the body, so pairing up was quite convenient.

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3’s motherboard

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 comes with a 3.8v, 2910mah/11.06wh Li-polymer battery.

Remove the middle frame.

When the mysterious black component was removed, I found it was a big speaker sound chamber. Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 is certified by JBL, and I believe that is the part that played a role.

Remove the motherboard.

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 uses a FocalTech FT5436 touch chip. It is learned that FocalTech has occupied about 60% of the market share of touch chips.

The bottom also uses the same large sound chamber speaker, together with the top speaker to provide stereo sound.

Two speaker modules

All the chips were covered by the metal shield.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor