Smontaggio Fairphone 3

Scritto Da: Tobias Isakeit
Pubblicato: 11/09/19
  • Commenti: 54

Smontaggio Fairphone 3

Pubblicato: 11/09/19

Smontaggio

Introduzione

"Tutte le cose buone arrivano a tre alla volta" deve essere stato il concetto dell'azienda sociale olandese quando hanno previsto di realizzare il Fairphone 3, il loro nuovo dispositivo mobile realizzato in modo etico e che propone uno schema modulare che rende facili le riparazioni. Il Fairphone 2 del 2015 aveva già portato in alto l'asticella della riparabilità degli smartphone; solo uno smontaggio ci dirà se il suo successore porta ancora più in alto questa asticella, mentre altri grandi costruttori continuò offrire telefoni sigillati con la colla e sempre più difficili da riparare.

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    • È la bellezza interiore quella che conta, ma ce ne occuperemo tra breve. Per prima cosa, guardiamo le specifiche di questo smartphone:

    • Display IPS da 5,65" con risoluzione 1080 × 2160

    • SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 632

    • 4 GB di RAM e 64 GB di memoria interna

    • Fotocamera posteriore da 12 MP ƒ/1.8 e fotocamera anteriore da 8 MP ƒ/2.0

    • Batteria da 3.060 mAh

    • Sensore impronte digitali e jack cuffie

    • Un grande grazie al Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM, che ci ha fornito quest'immagine a raggi X del Fairphone 3.

    Finde ich toll,

    schliesse mich gerne den Danksagungen an.

    LG

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    • La linea genealogica dei Fairphone (da sinistra a destra): Primus, Secundus e Tertius, come avrebbero detto gli antichi romani se avessero potuto contare gli smartphone.

    • Da notare l'evoluzione non solo nelle dimensioni e nello stile, ma anche nella tecnologia: l'ultimo sviluppo propone una porta USB-C invece del vecchio connettore micro USB, oltre al sensore impronte digitali sul retro per una maggiore comodità.

    • Ma quanto è più grande? Il Fairohone 3 misura 158×71,8×9,89 mm e pesa 189 g.

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    • Iniziamo semplicemente rimuovendo la cover posteriore: non è necessario alcun attrezzo.

    • Questo è senz'altro un miglioramento rispetto all'involucro tipo paraurti del Fairphone 2 e anche alla versione 'slim' in due parti che l'ha sostituito a metà del ciclo produttivo.

    • Se hai nostalgia della protezione offerta dal paraurti, non ti preoccupare: è incluso nella confezione.

    I can't find this bumper in any review or unboxing. Can you add a picture of it and check if it's really included?

    Nacht Elfje -

    Hi Nacht Elfje, you can check out the bumper on the official Fairphone 3 website. See at the “In the box” section.

    Tobias Isakeit -

    This reminds me of the Galaxy S phones up to the S5! This isn't the only way to allow for a removable battery though! Manufacturers could use screws or even do something like the Samsung Wave (that still looks really nice!). There was also the LG G5 which had a unique mechanism.

    Fingers crossed that manufacturers stop using glass backs on phones and start going back to sanity and practicality. :p

    Edit: oh and add sustainability to my last sentence

    Raccoon -

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    • Anche la rimozione della batteria è facile come lo è Android 9: si solleva usando l'incavo nella parte inferiore.

    • Con i suoi contatti incassati e un più robusto involucro di plastica, questo è un ben protetto ritorno al passato che siamo lieti di ritrovare.

    • Con i suoi 11,781 Wh (3.060 mAh a 3,85 V), questo contenitore di energia non è il più grande di oggi. Dovrebbe comunque bastare per tutto il giorno; se non fosse così, potrai semplicemente portarti dietro una batteria di ricambio e scambiarla.

    • Batte quanto a capacità il Google Pixel 3a (11,55 Wh) ma resta sotto l'iPhone Xs Max (12,08 Wh), per non parlare dello Shift 6m (16,3 Wh).

    • La parte inferiore della batteria riporta un messaggio di incoraggiamento e apprezzamento per i progressi fatti finora: "Well done. You're what progress looks like." Parlando di progresso, è ora di avanzare con lo smontaggio. Avanti tutta!

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    • Fairphone ha deciso di abbandonare l'elegante meccanismo di blocco del display della versione precedente, preferendo delle viti a croce standard #00.

    • Fairphone fornisce perfino un piccolo cacciavite, ma ci perdoneranno, ci auguriamo, se preferiamo l'impugnatura più ampia e quindi più comoda del nostro Kit cacciavite Mako.

    • Rimosse le viti, sblocchiamo lo schermo dalla scocca. Scopriamo così lo stesso connettore pogo pin oltre alla configurazione a breakout board, cioè con una scheda stampata intermedia, già vista nel Fairphone 2.

    • Da notare la mappa della Repubblica Democratica del Congo in questo punto per illustrare la provenienza conflict-free di minerali come tantalio, stagno, tungsteno e oro.

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    • Se i moduli del Fairphone 2 utilizzano tutti i connettori pogo pin, quelli del Fairphone 3 sono passati a normali zoccoli a pressione facilmente accessibili.

    • Una semplice azione di leva con lo spudger e i moduli sono liberi.

    • È di aiuto l'etichettatura dei connettori e dei moduli, ma i pezzi del puzzle si allineano facilmente anche se non fai caso alle scritte.

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    • Il Fairphone 3 arriva con questa famiglia di moduli:

    • Il modulo superiore, il modulo fotocamera e il modulo inferiore sono tutti qui, in modo molto simile al Fairphone 2.

    • L'altoparlante ora si guadagna il suo proprio modulo chiuso (invece di essere una parte del modulo inferiore), e si connette alla parte posteriore dello stesso modulo.

    • Se speri di aggiornare il tuo Fairphone 2 con questi moduli, abbiamo cattive notizie per te. I moduli e le loro parti interne non sono compatibili. Ma i loro involucri, dicono, sono prodotti con policarbonato riciclato al 50%, quindi almeno c'è un po' di riuso!

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    • Non contenti di avere soltanto rimosso i moduli, tiriamo fuori il nostro cacciavite Torx T5 e un plettro di apertura e andiamo oltre con lo smontaggio.

    • Iniziando dal modulo superiore:

    • Sia la fotocamera da selfie da 8 MP ƒ2.0 sia l'altoparlante voce sono rimovibili.

    • Il jack cuffie, così come accade per i sensori di prossimità e di luce ambiente, è saldato sulla breakout board.

    • Il modulo fotocamera supporta una fotocamera modulare da 12 MP ƒ1.8 con sensore Sony IMX363 Exmor RS. I LED del flash sono saldati sulla breakout board.

    • Il modulo inferiore contiene il motore di vibrazione, una porta USB-C saldata e il microfono.

    • Il modulo altoparlante, con i suoi due contatti, è il più solitario delle parti attaccate al modulo inferiore.

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    • Rimossa la scheda madre, scopriamo una piccola serie di contatti a molla che connettono al sensore impronte digitali, ai pulsanti del volume e dell'accensione e ad alcune antenne.

    • Dopo aver tolto la schermatura scopriamo:

    • SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 632

    • 64 GB di memoria eMMC Samsung KMRH60014A-B614

    • Modulo RF front end Qorvo QM57508 RF

    • Ricetrasmettitore RF Qualcomm WTR3925

    • Modulo Wi-Fi Qualcomm WCN3680B

    To remove the motherboard you need to unscrew two black screws with a 5 point screwdriver. I almost bent the metal cover of the motherboard before noticing that.

    VooBee -

    Yeah. That should be mentioned in the main text.

    Gordon Wilson -

    These aren’t complete steps for disassembly. It’s a tear down, not a repair guide.

    Jason Zak -

    Moin! Konntet ihr die Positionen des Gyroskops und des Lagesensors ausfindig machen? Diese haben bei meinem FP3 nach Wasserschaden den Geist aufgegeben, ich muss ggf. die zugehörigen Module tauschen. Vielen Dank!

    Jan vdB -

    Moin, leider konnten wir die beiden Bauteile nicht genau identifizieren. Wahrscheinlich sitzen die auf dem Motherboard und keinem der einzelnen Module. Eventuell bekommst du von Fairphone direkt eine Nachricht wenn du ihnen schreibst.

    Tobias Isakeit -

    Bonjour, il doit y avoir une confusion, la puce en orange “LPDDR3 KMRH60014A-B614 Samsung de 64 Go” doit être de la eMMC et non de la LPDDR3 qui correspond à de la RAM.

    Justin -

    Thanks for the tip, we've corrected it

    Tobias Isakeit -

    Do you happen to know which wireless connection the antenna in the upper right corner of the frame next to the rear camera is for? WiFi, Bluetooth, mobile 2G/3G/4G? My frame is broken in that corner and as such the antenna is cut. Now it'd be good to know which connection it might affect and see if it does have a negative effect in real life at all... Thanks!

    Tobse Ri. -

    how do you undo the "spring contacts" for the shields?

    coffeedog23 -

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    • Sulla faccia anteriore della scheda madre troviamo:

    • Flex RF Qorvo QM56022

    • IC gestione alimentazione Qualcomm PMI632

    • IC gestione alimentazione Qualcomm PM8953

    • Codec audio Qualcomm WCD9326

    • Amplificatore audio Awinic AW88980

    • NXP Q31A1

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    • E questo è quanto per il Fairphone 3, scomposto fino alle viti e ai componenti singoli. Riassumiamo le nostre scoperte:

    • Il nuovo involucro è facile da aprire e mette in mostra la trasparenza del progetto.

    • Il design ancora più modulare rende l'interno del telefono molto ordinato ed è richiesto un altro strato di smontaggio per riparare i componenti individuali.

    • Il rimontaggio di questo telefono non dovrebbe proprio essere un problema e noi siamo fiduciosi sul fatto che funzionerà ancora.

    • Vediamo che cosa significa questo in termini di riparabilità…

    Estimado/a Señor/a,

    Solicito autorización para utilizar la fotografía del paso 11 en una publicación. En caso afirmativo, indíquenme por favor cómo debo citar su autoría. Muchas gracias y un saludo cordial,

    Pere Renom

    cogitoergomitto@gmail.com

    Pere Renom -

    Puede dirigirse a esta página para obtener más información al respecto. Cualquier duda que tenga, no dude en comunicarse conmigo.

    Mariana Roca -

    Permitimos el uso no comercial de nuestras imágenes con crédito. ¡Ejemplos de cómo acreditar incluyen "fuente:iFixit" o "imagen cortesía de ifixit.com" o alguna combinación!

    Mariana Roca -

    where is the gps module??? Many Thanks

    Michael -

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    • Il Fairphone 3 si guadagna il punteggio di 10 su 10 nella nostra scala di riparabilità (10 è il più facile da riparare):

    • Il design dà la priorità a componenti chiave come la batteria e lo schermo, che sono accessibili senza strumenti o al massimo con un comune cacciavite a croce Phillips.

    • All'interno del telefono ci sono "indizi" visuali che aiutano nello smontaggio e sostituzione di parti e moduli.

    • La sostituzione di moduli completi è molto facile. È possibile anche arrivare alle parti interne dei moduli stessi usando un cacciavite Torx.

    • Le guide di sostituzione e i pezzi di ricambio sono disponibili nel sito web del produttore.

    • La maggior parte dei componenti all'interno dei moduli sono sostituibili individualmente benché alcuni siano saldati.

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37 commenti

Love that this is still happening in the mobile phone world. And that they’re taking sustainability seriously.

Timothy Buchanan -

Not making it upgrade-able seems to defeat the purpose. Only the battery and the screen are likely to need replacement before this goes obsolete

Robert M -

You don’t need to upgrade every year and maybe in the future you will also be able to swap the motherboard with a newer cpu.

you can always try these ones: https://www.shiftphones.com/en/

Mihai Serban Cotabitiu -

No, it does not defeat the purpose. The purpose is making it easy to replace any part if something breaks - even if you’re a non-tech-savy user. The Fairphone makes repairing your smartphone as easy as assembling an IKEA shelf, which - definitely - archieves it’s purpose. You don’t need to buy a new phone if your screen is shattered or your USB-C-connector got dusty - just a replacement part.

Of course, having upgradeable parts would be nice, but that’s not as easy to accomplish as it might look: The individual parts would be sold less often, resulting in higher prices to account for development and production costs. And compatibility isn’t easy on low-level hardware: Installing a better camera could also require a better BUS or other connection to the mainboard etc. A bigger battery might need a better charging IC or at least more space in the housing. Same goes for any other component. And remember - the Fairphone 2 got a camera upgrade midway in it’s life cycle. So you can’t even say it’s not upgradeable.

sadfadsf -

I’ve been using my Fairphone 2 since it came out in 2015, so it probably counts as obsolete - but it works perfectly well, and spare parts are still available (as they are for the Fairphone 1, incidentally) so I’m not going to replace it for the foreseeable future. “Obsolete” it may be, but it’s still a good phone.

MarkNW -

To add to what everyone else said, it's been almost 5 years since the Fairphone 2. It's a great time to upgrade. It won't be that important in another 5 years though as technology has kinda stagnated imo. Hopefully this lasts and ages just like laptops do (although older laptops were so much more repairable). The massive difference between the two is software of course and only the Purism Librem 5 handles that.

Raccoon -

Don’t think so: There are many projects working hard on that issue: https://tuxphones.com/all-linux-distribu... Although only purism and pine64 offer a ready to use mobile phone yet. This can improve further in the future. So maybe (but only maybe) you can give your fairphoen 2 a new operating system with newest security patches like postmarketOS: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairp...) And if software is upgradable for years and hardware is repairable for years, your phoen can last for years.

Max -

You can upgrade it! A new camera module and a new top module just came out and they improve the camera quality of the front and rear camera significantly.

Look here: https://www.fairphone.com/de/camera-upgr...

T.S. Spivet -

Thx, great teardown! Whats the “NXP Q31A1” for? Any idea?

LastDawn -

Very nice. I enjoyed myself

jbraveedozie -

I think this phone is quite nice. However, I wish that they could have simplified the design to make it waterproof (external enclosure could be the display, midframe, and backplate with rubber o-rings. Also, I think that a faster processor, like the Cortex A7X series, would make this phone feel a lot faster. This CPU is around 2.5 times as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3B+, which uses the same A53 cores.

Ethan Zuo -

Would it work in Canada?

Philippe Morin -

C’est révolutionnaire. Et cette révolution doit continuer.

Elias GUIVI -

I wonder if you could add a module with an encryption chip from www.skudo.tech and have all your communication securely encrypted on a hardware level.

Francis -

Great idea that works!!! Had the One one for a long while, but switched it (yeah:), as it were not so compatible with the Macs I rely upon for my work.

vjrott -

The use of regular press fit connectors is probably a big improvement. As a Fairphone 2 owner, I know the phone has had idiosyncrasies that I think could have been down in part to the abundance of pogo pin connectors - just a guess. I can attest to the ease of repair-ability of the Fairphone 2 as I had to switch a module that got water damaged - looks like the FP3 will actually be easier. It’s also nice to see they have more modules in the Fairphone 3 and I hope they provide upgrades to the modules as well as spare modules.

Edward Venison -

Another pointless OLPC. Go buy an used phone if you want to save the environment; not buying a phone made from newly mined conflect-free materials. The SD 632 SoC is also an outdated lower mid-range chip that’s already sluggish so choosing 632 is just forced obsolescence. What’s the best way to get you to buy FairPhone 4? Sell you a FairPhone 3 that’s slow from day 1

peichen_alpha -

If it had 6GB-8GB RAM I’d be all over it

Cloudane -

iFixit please stop promoting Philips screws. They are plain horror. Torx is the only way to go as the heads don’t wear out over time.

Blanka -

Think about it like this, I do. Every cent you pay will be a vote for the future so the future will look like the things you buy/vote right now. I vote for Fairphone and Shift, you?

allyn_ab -

Grr, the power button is on the left side! The soc is on the weaker side although it's a tradeoff for repairability. I hope that the next Fairphone is even better and sleeker. This one isn't right for me. I don't think the camera is as good mainstream flagship phones either.

Raccoon -

J’ai acheté il y a 6 mois (et reçu après 3 mois d’attente) un Fairphone 3… travaillant moi-même en éco-conception , un must me disai-je.

Je suis pourtant bien déçue: très gros et lourd -peu pratique. Interface ultra connectée avec des fonctions indéverrouillables - comme par exemple le” ok Google “, en 1er fenetre, qui s allume tout seul. Le clavier a disparu pour toutes applis, passage automatique en commande vocale inenlevable ds les parametres…(j ai du importer un clavier). Icone 4G en fenetre 2, dure àdégommer. Historiques gardés sur ttes aplis, y compris SMS, demande un temps dingue poru alléger les données stockées. et summum: ce Fairphone 3 se décharge très rapidement et est tres lent à recharger.

Bref, il y a peut etre la reparabilité, mais je n ai trouvé ni LA SOBRIETE (d usage et d’electricité), ni l ASSISTANCE (Fairphone ne repond jamais aux appels, l assistance email prend 3 jours minimum et leur réponse est inadaptée et non suivie) .

Catherine Deschamps Touzard -

Sorry for my French comment above.

Just to recap: I will not advise neither my students in eco-design/carbon audit/circular eco nor any friend to buy teh Fairphone 3. Cost is so high with so many drawbacks: poor battery (quick discharge slow recharge), the shape and weight (tooo big); the total lack of SOBERTY/ ECO DESIGN of the applications. Google vampired thing

Catherine Deschamps Touzard -

Do you have examples of phone models that are better, in terms of the criteria you set?

Hampus -

How long does the company provide Android updates, and how timely after those updates are released by Google?

Jim Reitz -

Really, I don’t mind for ribbon cables connectors and/or press-fits, if it help bring down costs.

Look at that gargantuan pogo pin array for the display. Probably comparable to a DVI dual link in size.

I don’t mind it, but I feel like it would be better for them to end up with a ribbon cable (for a lower cost for the competitive market)

Xavier Jiang -

I think that Fairphone teardowns should be on their own scale. Comparing these to the rest of the phone market is like comparing apples to oranges.

Kevin Schuman -

I have a Fairphone 2. it still works quite okay, I only have the issue that the one receiving my phone call doesn’t hear my voice unless I put the speaker on which means that I don’t have any privacy anymore as everything we talk about is loud and clear for everybody :(. What do I have to replace in order to solve that problem?

Rina Teeuwen-van der Ende -

I‘m currently using an iPhone SE that I‘ve had and used since autumn 2016, so for almost five years. I‘ve not had to replace or repair anything, though if I don’t change my phone soon, I’ll have to replace the battery at least. I’ve had a similar track record with my previous phones apart from one that accidentally took a bath… to make the Fairphone more sustainable than what I‘m doing now, it would have to be usable ‘as is’ for five years, and then upgradable after that to give me a few more years of use without replacing the entire phone. Otherwise, while it’s a nice idea, it would actually be less sustainable and a step back for me.

Ariadne -

What an awesome accidental find while looking up repair steps for an unrelated device! This phone looks and appears amazing! I am ALWAYS trying (about a 50-50 success rate), to repair and or modify electronic devices I find recycling. And living in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's amazing how wasteful people here are because something like a simple fuse popped, or an outlet cord broke, or simply was tossed in the garbage because it's “last year's model”. Heaven forbid! And growing up in a good ol' TV repair shop my dad owned from before my birth in '72 up to the mid 90’s, fixing things like this is kinda part of my genetic makeover. It's in my blood. So what I'm wanting to know is simply IS there a mobile carrier company in the United States that has this phone available? That or are there “unlocked" units produced by the company that would be compatible to any pre-paid wireless carriers here where I simply purchase a sim kit? If so, what do these cost and which OS (android I presume), is loaded in it?

John Gaudi -

Hi John, glad you found your way here and happy to hear there is "still hope" for and in the Silicon Valley :)

You might want to have a look at the manufacturer page (they have a 4th iteration of their model now) and what they have to say about availability outside of Europe. OS is based on Android and there are discussions on the forum about sailfish and other OS.

Tobias Isakeit -

That or are there “unlocked" units produced by the company

I can tell from this alone that you're in the US because not a single phone is SIM locked in the EU. It's been forbidden by the EU for years and I think it's an amazingly consumer-friendly practice. :)

That said, I don't know if the opposite could be true... As in, American companies not allowing you to put their SIM in only their devices. I imagine there's plenty of SIM-only carriers though.

V Beers -

Hi, the Fairphone 3 actually does not have an IP54 rating (as claimed in step 1) - the Fairphone 4 is the first Fairphone with an IP rating, see https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/a...

Anna -

Thanks for the hint. Apparently it was advertised with IP54 back in 2019 according to a forum discussion. I will correct it.

Tobias Isakeit -

where is the gps module??? Many Thanks

Michael -

where is the gps module??? Many Thanks?

Michael -

Hi, I need to replace the on/off button/volume strip, but it's impossible to order anywhere.. anybody can help?

David FP3 -