Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 Teardown

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 to remove the back cover, battery, camera, middle frame, and motherboard.

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The back cover of the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 is secured quite tightly, making it a bit difficult to remove.

There are clips on the back cover that secure it to the phone. Insert a pry tool between the back cover and the screen, then slide it to release all the clips.

There are antenna overflow ports at the top of the back cover.

The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 supports NFC, and you can access it in the center of the body, making pairing quite convenient.

Close-up of the motherboard

The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 comes with a 2910mAh, 11.06Wh Li-Polymer battery.

Remove the middle frame.

When the mysterious black component was removed, I found it was a big speaker sound chamber. The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 phone is JBL certified, and I believe this component played a key role.

Use tweezers to pry up and remove the motherboard.

The Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 features a FocalTech FT5436 touch chip. It is learned that FocalTech has occupied about 60% of the market share of touch chips.

The bottom also uses the same large sound chamber speakers, which work together with the top speakers to provide a stereo effect.

Two speaker modules

All the chips were covered by the metal shields.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor

Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 internal parts