Read this website's Legal Guidelines and make sure you understand the risks of this repair. Place your Apple iPhone 2G on a clean flat and soft surface, such as a rubber mat or a piece of soft cloth and get the required opening tools.
This what your iphone 2g should look like after you take off its backplate and have it face down.
Step 2
There are 3 screws that need to be removed towards the edges. 2 large screws towards the center and a smaller one at the top of the iphone 2G communication board and Logicboard.
Step 3
Carefully remove the iPhone 2G battery using a green tool or any plastic tool. Use a very slight amount a pressure to ease the battery loose since it is taped/glued on firmly. Be careful not to puncture the battery and take your time with the removal.
Step 4
Then take the mainboard (the communications board and the logicboard and pull them away from the phone but do it carefully since these three cables that you see are connected to the mainboard. You might want to use a small flathead to ease the cables loose so that they do not have the potential to tear. This is what it looks like after you remove the mainboard.
Step 5
Remove the black tape usine a flat head and be careful removing it because you want to preserve the piece for later during re-assembly.
Step 6
Try not to tear the tape like you see in this picture. We are showing you this here for demonstrational purposes and we have ample tape to replace it with.
Step 10
Use a very fine flat head or a dentist tool if you have one to release the hooks that hold this piece of metal in over the ear speaker. The amount of space to work with is small to release the metal hooks but slowly work you way between the edge.
Step 13
You have now made it to the ear speaker. This piece is held in by double sided tape so just wedge you flathead into a side of the ear speaker and wedge it out of the iphone midboard frame.
Step 12
As you life the ear speaker out you will feel the double sided tape slowly giving.
