BlackBerry KEYone Restoration - Screen Fell Off By Hugh Jeffreys

Hi guys welcome back to another huge Jeffries video in this video, I'm going to be repairing this blackberry key one from TCL. This is an android blackberry released in 2017. The screen is shattered and has fallen off the phone completely breaking the cable around the back is also missing a droplet from the iconic blackberry logo. I picked this one up from eBay for 185 Aussie or around 130 us dollars, which may sound excessive for a broken blackberry. However, here in Australia, blackberries are almost impossible to find, and the working ones are listed between four and five hundred dollars. Unlike the blackberry PRI, I restored recently this key one isn't made by the Canadian company itself as they quit producing their own phones in 2016.

This blackberry branded device is actually made by a company called TCL. There has also been many other companies to release branded devices, including the upcoming blackberry 5g. You may have noticed in the listing the display was still working and connected. However, the screens on these phones had a tendency to fall off. So during shipping, the box must have taken a hit or two for the screen to come loose upon opening the box.

I was greeted to a detached display, while the seller could have added some bubble, wrap around the phone to stop it moving inside the box. The screen needed to be replaced anyway, also included, was a different type of blackberry charger than what would have been included originally and a new pair of headphones to begin, our repairs I'll remove the already detached LCD to open up the key one I'll need to remove a piece of plastic up top right next to that headphone jack, it's glued and clipped into place. So I'll use a bit of heat to assist. This proved challenging as the gap between the frame and plastic piece is very tiny. I did put a couple of marks in the plastic in doing this.

Although replacement pieces can be found quite cheaply online after removing the top panel, all that needs to come out is two Phillips head screws and the top portion of the phone comes right out of place. In my case, the earpiece also came loose to get the back panel off it simply clipped into place, so you can slide around a plastic pick to remove the back panel. Unfortunately, there is no user replaceable battery, but given how easy the back comes off, the hardest part would be finding a replacement battery. There is a small amount of adhesive for the lower portion, but it's ridiculously easy compared to all those fragile glass phones that are practically superglued together. This phone isn't dust or water resistant, and you can clearly tell that, given the amount of dust that's accumulated inside we'll clean that later on, but for now we're going to move across to getting the new screen on, so we can actually test out the phone to make sure it actually works.

I'll, disconnect the two Phillips head screws from the battery connection and disconnect the battery proceeding with three more screws. I can remove a bracket and disconnect the LCD cable, removing what's left of it, for our replacement display. Furthermore, I purchased this one for 78 dollars. It was the only one here in Australia. However, you can find them for around thirty dollars from China, but I didn't want to wait three months for a screen that probably didn't work have to pay thirty dollars to post it back waste another month or two just to go out and buy this one anyway.

With that settled I'll need to clean the frame before I can test fit our new LCD positioning it into place. I tried to connect the screen connection onto the motherboard. However, I came across a little of an issue, I'm not sure if it's something I caused, or it came like this, but the connector pins were a little bent using a spider. I could gently bend them back afterwards. The connector went in without any issues reconnecting our battery flipping our blackberry over we can see our replacement display is functioning.

This phone was reset and ready to go after setting it up. We can see our blackberry is functioning as it should I'll need to remove the protective film from the back of the display and crack out some adhesive to stick this into place I'll be using this stuff, which is e800. I have no idea what that stands for, but it's adhesive that comes out of a giant tube, and we'll be using that to stick this back down into place running it all the way around the perimeter. I can seat the new LCD into place, wiping away any excess further. Furthermore, I can place an object on top to add pressure, while the glue dries afterwards.

Furthermore, I suggest testing out the LCD to make sure it's all functioning as it should with that good to go it's time to clean the inside of this blackberry before we assemble it I'll just use one of these anti-static brushes to brush away any of the dust inside I'll reinstall the bracket and its three screws and reconnect our battery. The reason I'm not replacing it here is: I couldn't find a replacement battery here in Australia. If anyone knows any reputable sellers to sell blackberry parts, please let me know down below I'll, apply some new adhesive for the back panel and give our back panel a good clean before we can reinstall it onto our device. I'll need to remove the protective film off of the adhesive and the back panel simply clicks back down into place up top I'll reinstall, the earpiece speaker, which fell out when I removed the top portion of the phone and cleaned that top piece prior to reinstalling it. For this I used some alcohol, along with a brush and microfiber cloth to remove any dirt and grime buildup on this piece pushing it back into place, I can reinstall the two Phillips head screws before reinstalling the plastic piece.

I'd recommend replacing this part as it can get damaged during the removal. However, I didn't do so here in an attempt to repair our missing blackberry duplex, I'm going to be using this cap off a lid to try and reconstruct a little droplet to go in its place. Whilst the color is almost correct, it's slightly off, but it should do I'll cut out a section of this cap as well as a little template of the duplex itself. I'll then adhere the duplex onto the plastic piece before trying to cut it out with some scissors. This proved a lot more difficult than I first anticipated.

As this is absolutely tiny, I could have replaced the whole back panel, but considering it had no damage. I didn't see the need to. I tried sanding down my newly designed piece to try and make it fit in with the phone. The piece from the cap was quite a lot thicker, so a lot of sanding was done as you can see, it. Kinda worked, but doesn't look very neat at all, so I opted just to draw it in.

Instead, I went out and purchased a metallic permanent marker, so I'm going to try that to see if this would work and blend in nicely I'll, clean off our space using some alcohol and simply draw on our duplex honestly, I'm not sure how this will hold up durability, wise, it's supposed to be water resistant, and it's a permanent marker, but it may wear off over time either way. It looks okay for now I'll, remove the plastic protective film, and we're done, so this is it a fully functional blackberry, key one cosmetically? It has a few marks around on the frame. However, I didn't see the need to replace it as this is the phone I'd be using without a case, because, unlike a lot of other phones that are as slippery as a wet bar of soap and have a back constructed from a fragile material like glass, the back of this phone has a rubberized texture for extra grip whilst being a stealthy looking phone. It is lacking a few features found in the older blackberry PRI, such as an OLED screen, louder, front-facing, speaker and, of course, that slide-out keyboard, but that aside, it runs a newer version of android, that's much faster than android 6. Opening up settings.

This phone has 32 gigs of storage, three gigs of ram, and it's running android 8.1, just like the blackberry key2, don't let that box for you, it's not running latest android that hasn't dated very well and for a phone advertised as a secure smartphone. It's a shame. It hasn't seen a security update in well over a year, not sure whether that's due to blackberry or TCL, but someone dropped the ball with that, one, of course, being a blackberry branded device. Furthermore, it has all the software features to go along with it from keyboard shortcuts, a programmable key on the side of the phone, a touch, sensitive keyboard and a fingerprint reader in the space bar. They really do know how to make some really useful features, and on that note this has been a huge Jeffries video if you like what you saw hit that subscribe button and consider checking out the phone restoration playlist for more videos.

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Source : Hugh Jeffreys