![]() It’s hard to say if these manuals are legitimate (in the sense that Nokia deliberately released the schematics for use as a repair guide), or if they were stolen and republished as a “repair guide”. The same publisher of these schematics also offers a wide library of schematics, including those for Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and Chinese-local “copycat” phones (like the iPhone clone in the lower left hand corner). This helps with the repair process.Ī detail of the schematic for the Nokia N95’s RF section. ![]() Anyways, on to the manuals…Īs you can see, these are sold as service manuals.Įach phone has a scan of the circuit board that is annotated to call out the position and function of all the components. Don’t take my double entendre too literally it’s just fun to write that way. I grabbed my booty and ran for the nearest taxi.Īlright. I breathed a sigh of relief when he asked for only 75 quai - a little over $10 US - for the whole three-book collection. ![]() I brought the manuals to the clerk and asked how much…wincing at the price I may have to pay to bring these prized morsels back to my hotel room. But, getting the schematics for the phone and peering into its very circuit diagrams - that’s a whole new level, like tearing off the undergarments and ravaging the bosom of the phone. Sure, undressing a mobile phone and revealing its tender innards to my gaze - the sweet perfume of flux residue unleashed, curling into my nostrils - is one level of hardware voyeurism. This is like, the Ultimate Hardware Geek Pr0n. I don’t know about you, but getting my hands on schematics gets me really excited. I asked him where he got his schematics from and he kindly dispatched his young son to walk me over to the small tool shop on the other side of the market where, buried underneath a pile of single-use BGA SMT stencils, was a collection of mobile phone schematics for just about every phone made. Unlike most of the other folks in the market, he was working from a set of schematics - that got my attention. ![]() I was wandering around on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the mobile phone market in Shenzhen and I spied a stall keeper working on a phone motherboard. ![]()
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