Before you begin Read this website's Legal Guidelines and make sure you understand the risks of this repair. Place your Blackberry 8800 on a clean flat and soft surface, such as a rubber mat or a piece of soft cloth and get the required opening tools
		Step 1 This is the back of the blackberry 8800 with the battery cover removed.
		Step 2 There are 4 torx screws that need to be removed.
		Step 3 Behind the backplate there are 2 more torx screws that need to be removed.
		Step 4 Once the 4 screws are removed you can  then remove the the back cover that covers the top of the phone.  To do this lift up from the bottom and push the casing away and upward simultaneously to ease it ouf of the 2 latches holding it in from the top.
		Step 5 Now the side plastic pieces can be removed from the device with the torque screws removed.
		Step 6   Remove the other side plastic piece just like the first one and flip your phone over and it will look like this.
		Step 7 The bottom of the phone has a plastic clip that holds the backplate and frontplate together that needs to be removed.
		Step 8 This can be done by simply pulling on the plastic piece.
		Step 9 The wire that connects the antenna needs to be removed.  It is delicate so do it with the little flathead screwdriver.
		Step 10 This is what the antenna cable looks like when it is disconnected.
		Step 11 Once the antenna cable is removed you can now seprate the 2 remaining pieces of casing apart.  You can do this by using a flathead screw driver to go around the edge and undoing the snap together latches.
		Step 13 This is the 8800 logicboard from the back.
		Step 12 The last thing connected to the 8800 logicboard is the LCD ribbon cable.
		Step 15 It needs to be disconnected with the flathead screwdriver so you do not pull it of the 8800 logicboard and break the cable.
		Step 16 Now it can be removed from the casing.
		Step 17 This is the 5pin USB connector that can become loose or broken due to everyday use of the phone.

		Before you begin Read this website's Legal Guidelines and make sure you understand the risks of this repair. Place your Blackberry Pearl on a clean flat and soft surface, such as a rubber mat or a piece of soft cloth and get the required opening tools.
		Step 1 This is the pearl from the back.
		Step 2 Another shot of the back of the pearl camera slightly tilted towards side.
		Step 3 Take off the backplate that covers the battery by pressing the release button on the bottom of the pearl.  After you take it off this is what your pearl will look like.
		Step 4 Take the battery out of the pearl.  This can be done by applying downward pressure from the top of the battery and pulling it away from the phone.
		Step 5 Taking out you SIM card involves unlocking the SIM card tray by shifting the metal piece on top of it to the left to unlock it then lift up to release the SIM.
		Step 6 Close the SIM card tray by putting metal flap down and towards the bottom of the pearl and then shift it up towards the top.
		Step 7 Use a torx 5 screw to remove the two screws at the top of the pearl.
		Step 8 Once you remove both screws teh bottom of the phone has a protective clamp that holds that backplate and frontplate together.  Use the green opening tool  to create space below the plastic clamp and phone.  Once you create some space you can push the clamp down towards the bottom to release it.
		Step 9 This is what the phone looks like once the bottom plastic clamp is removed.
		Step 10 Below the clamp are 2 more torx 5 screws that need to be removed.
		Step 11
		Step 13 The next step is the side plastic pieces need to be removed.  This is done easily using the green opening tool to create space between the silver plasic edging and the phone.  Once there is space the edge pieces can be removed.
		Step 12 The silver edge pieces should come off easily once you slide the green tool along the edge creating space between them and the phone.  DO THE SAME FOR BOTH SIDES.
		Step 15 Once the 2 silver edge pieces are removed the backplate can be seperated from the frontplate.  There are some clips on the side that hold it in that can be unclipped using the flathead screwdriver.  If you do that the backplate will come off much easier.
		Step 16 This  is what the pearl looks like after the backplate is removed.
		Step 17 Once the backplate is removed the frontplate can be removed easily. It basically can be pulled right off the Blackberry 8100 logic board.
		Step 18 All that is left is the main logicboard. Here it is from the front with the Blackberry 8100 LCD on top and the keypad on bottom.
		Step 19 This is the backside of the Blackberry 8100 logicboard with the processor, camera, integrated memory, camera etc.
		Step 20 The Blackberry 8100 LCD screen can be removed by releasign the flap that holds the ribbon cable in on the frontside of the logic board.