Original iPhone Dock Teardown

Steps

Step 1 — Teardown

• The Original iPhone dock!
• This dock only holds the original iPhone. It will not hold the iPhone 3G/3GS as it is wider and thicker.

Step 2

• Use a hair dryer or heat gun to weaken the adhesive holding the rubber foot to the dock.
• Use a razor blade or flathead screwdriver to pull up part of the rubber foot.
• While still hot, pull the rubber foot off the dock.

Step 3

• Using a spudger or a flat head screwdriver, release the 6 clips holding the dock to the white plastic molding.
• You will need to pry this out as the dock contains a weight that is stuck to the top casing with adhesive.

Step 4

• Heat up the adhesive that covers the three screws, so you can unscrew the screws that hold the weight in the base of the dock.

Step 5

• Remove the 3 screws holding the weight to the bottom plate.

Step 6

• The dock should look like this.
• If not, go back and see what you did wrong.

Step 7

• Now remove the green logic board from the little plastic pegs on the bottom plate.
• There is one peg under each black foam padding.

Step 8

• The little white things in the red circle are the pegs.
• Gently use a spudger or flathead screwdriver to pry the logic board from the bottom plate.
• Be very careful, as you could break the board doing this.

  
  

  

  

  

  Step 9

  • Once done separating the logic board from the bottom plate, you should have 2 parts.
  

  

  

  

  Step 10

  • Disassembly is now complete. You will have five separate parts as shown in the picture.
  

  

  

  

  Step 11

  • Boom! Your done. It took me 32 minutes to figure this out with out damaging the dock.
  • I can do it in 3 minutes now that I've mastered the process.
  • If you don't replace the white top cover of the dock when reassembling, you will have a universal dock, that can also be used with an iPhone 3G/3GS.
  • It will also work with any iPod with a 30 pin connector.