Read this website's Legal Guidelines and make sure you understand the risks of this repair. Place your T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 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 way your sidekick looks facing up.
Step 2
Another angle of the sidekick 2008 from more of a birds eye view.
Step 3
Step 4
First you need to take off the battery then remove the backplate.
Step 5
Remove the screw on the top corner. They need to be removed using a Torx screwdriver.
Step 6
Then remove the screw on the bottom corner.
Step 7
Then on the other side there is a small plastic protective panel that needs to be removed in order to access the other 2 screws.
Step 8
Unscrew using the Torx again the screw at the top.
Step 9
Also remove the screw at the bottom.
Step 10
This is just the view with all 4 torque screws taken out from the back of the sidekick.
Step 11
There is one more that needs to be removed and that is right below the sticker that was behind the battery.
Step 13
Flip the phone over and flip open the screen.
Step 12
Hold the screen half way open and you will expose 2 Torx screws that need to be removed.
Step 15
Once the 2 screws are removed you can then fully take off the screen with the hinge attatched.
Step 16
Now that all the screws have been removed holding the sidekick together you can now seperate the front plate from the backplate. Take your time with this and use the green tool to help you create space between the to plates. The plates are snapped together by hinges that need to be released. The green tool does this well by working it around the device inside the space between them.
Step 17
You can now remove your trackball and replace it with a new one.
