keyboard cleaning

[deb jellison]

Since my out of warranty treo 650 started having keyboard problems, certain keys don't work, etc, I am trying to take it apart to clean it. I cannot get that stubby antennae (sp?) off. Anyone know how that comes off?

[niltomek]

Hi Deb.
Under the smallest of the two grey rubber caps on the back of the phone, just under the antenna there's a screw unscrew it using a T5 torx screwdriver. However there are six other T5 screws and two flat cable connections you need two get passes to actually access the keyboard plastic. This could be rather tricky. I found refitting the second flat cable especially hard to get right. You also have to remove the SIMcard holder and the SD card before the back plastics come off. To get it off after you removed the screws you need to get your nail into the tiny gap on one side of the phone at a time and snap it open. Start at the multi connector end.

There are good instructions here. Go quite far down the page.
http://treotricks.blogspot.com/2005_...s_archive.html


Good luck
/T