{"id":906,"date":"2011-09-05T22:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=906"},"modified":"2011-09-05T22:27:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:27:39","slug":"replace-blackberry-9700-keyboard-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2011\/replace-blackberry-9700-keyboard-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing BlackBerry 9700 keyboard redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this year I wrote up a how to on replacing the keyboard of a BlackBerry 9700<\/a>. It seems my brother in-law is especially hard on keyboards as he recently lost the M key. You can see the missing key in the picture above, the membrane has been torn making it necessary to replace the entire keyboard.<\/p>\n

Off to eBay again for a new part. This time I took a different approach – I found a reasonably priced used keyboard<\/a> located in the USA. My total cost was under $6 including shipping. By using a used keyboard I hoped to avoid low quality replicas, sensible given my last experience where the right shift key popped out and needed gluing back in.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The packaging for the keyboard was complete overkill. I wouldn’t hesitate to deal with this seller<\/a> in future. The part was exactly as the listing indicated, the slight blemish on the keyboard matched the one I received – clearly they took the time to take a photo of the actual part they were selling.<\/p>\n

The disassembly of the BlackBerry 9700 \"\"<\/a>went exactly as I wrote up last time<\/a>. The bottom cover again felt tricky, a little persistence and patience was required. The bezel was a bit easier as I knew to start at the bottom and work around the sides (again as per my previous description), the key to the bezel was getting the bottom started.<\/p>\n

I still don’t have the right torx screwdriver (T5) – so again I made use of the same flat head micro-screwdriver pictured on the right. This worked surprisingly well (again).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I think it took me less than 20 minutes to do the entire keyboard swap (including taking a few pictures).<\/p>\n

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