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Who on this night is going to save the world? Who is going to give you back your life? It is true, gentlemen, this night saves the world HTC One. Carved from a single block of aluminum, HTC One alone is capable of much. Join our analysis of the One (note: the original in these proposals pun One as the device name, and as one of many) smartphone to steer them all. Tired of being who knows all the least? Planned obsolescence frustrating and you need to cheer up? Fouls iFixit on Twitter or zafrendi us in Facebook to track new information indiscriminately! To parse the need:

Step 1 

Opening HTC One 
Some people spend a lifetime in search of "single." We found a suitable candidate and decided to submit it to the court only known to us by: piece by piece.

Technical specifications: 

• Solid aluminum construction 
• Display 4.7 "with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 (468 ppi) 
• Chetyrehyayuerny Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.7 GHz CPU 600 
• RAM 2 GB DDR2 
• 4-megapixel camera with UltraPixel HTC 
• BoomSound

Step 2

• Not surprisingly, HTC, apparently trying to take over the design of the iPhone 5 in creating a pleasant aluminum smartphones 
• While Apple makes the iPhone with a flat back wall, keeping the thickness of the full width, HTC makes the back of a more ergonomic - rounded. 
• HTC has stated again and again that they want to make a device without any seams and the complete absence of any screws from the outside - a vivid potdterzhdenie. 
• Unlike buttons gromosti iPhone, which protrude above the surface, the buttons at the One in the same plane with an edge of the device and do not interrupt the line of the body.

Step 3

• To start, we dive under the portion HTC One, which is not aluminum: 
• Display 4.7 "1080p.
• Little heat and sucker - all it took to create a gap in One'ovskoy zero gap design .  
• Approx.: zero-gap can be translated as "bezschelevoy", "unbreakable." I do not know the correct term in the Russian language.  

Step 4

• While the display is lowered up and down, it can not be removed because still connected loop, which is laid down during the assembly. 
• Hoping to find any hidden screws that we removed a large foam pad stuck to the top of the housing. 
• No chances.

Step 5

• Not having a friendly path, we decided to approach the problem creatively ... for half an hour 
• Plying tool Metal Spudger Set up an experienced surgeon, we freed offal One aluminum womb. 
• When we last checked, the word "gut" was not the term that is frequently used in all kinds of user-friendly reputation instructions indiscriminately.

Step 6 

• We are not going to lie, saying that to get inside the device - it is a difficult task. The amount of work in the department of an aluminum housing and front panel was huge. 
• Be that as it may, we can show the interior of One. 
• Our wonderful Spudger, seem wasted plastic frame around the aluminum case. Possible showdown with the snail's pace at constant heating would minimize the damage, but we can not be sure. This device is not intended for an autopsy.

Step 7

• The most important of the outstanding features of One - it is certainly solid aluminum chassis, which demanded that the HTC set of special tools to produce excellent fit and finish. 
• Around the aperture of the camera, we found an antenna near-field communication (NFC) and depressed from her contacts. NFC has recently become fairly standard in smartphones. In particular, he helped Nexus Q fuck more in sales last year. 
• On the back side of the case, we found the balance map One. It says 5 +, but we are not sure that the account on maintainability is the same. 

Step 8

• The back of the One closed sea lanes and copper cables, cables and only after a diligent search, we were able to find the location of the battery connector, although the path to the battery itself is unclear. 
• Battery connector is securely fastened to the motherboard. After a couple of turns of our 54 bit kit 'marketing screwdriver it was disconnected and ready for removal from the device ... but not now. 

Step 9 

• Motherboard HTC One wonderfully protected copper coating. Two flat pieces of copper decorate the motherboard on both sides. 
• Speaking of copper shielding. It dissipates heat and provides the ground. However, copper shielding - it is a headache when it comes to assembly. It's like trying to straighten the crumpled aluminum foil.

Step 10 

All the chips are on the front side of the motherboard:

• Elpida BA164B1PF 
• RAM 2 GB DDR2 + Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 
• quad-core 1.7 GHz CPU 
• Samsung NAND memory KLMBG4GE2A 32 GB 
• Power controller Qualcomm PM8921 
• Module GSM / UMTS / LTE Qualcomm MDM9215M 4G 
• Synaptics S32028 
• Amplifier TriQuint TQM7M9023 
• Broadcom BCM4335 
• single-chip 5G ™ 802.11ac 
• WiFi MAC / baseband / Radio with Bluetooth 4.0 + HS and FM receiver

Step 11 

• Now that the motherboard is removed, we finally gained access to the jammed pack. After some sawing we slowly learned so well to keep the battery from its compartment. 
• Battery at 3.8 V, 2300 mAh and weighs 38.3 For comparison, the iPhone 5 battery is 3.8 V, 1440 strides, while the Galaxy S III - 3/8 V and 2100 mAh. 
• Less than a week after the BlackBerry Z10 impressed us easy to install battery, HTC One broke our dreams of spreading maintainability devices.

Step 12

• Rivals HTC One'ovskih 1080P, 468 ppi is modern HDTV 10.6 " Surface Pro, but One screen 4.7 " 
• We tried to remove the display from the case nine steps back and finally we got it. But, as we saw earlier with the battery, it will not be replaced without removing the entire lower part of the body ... and, above all, of the motherboard. 
• The back of the display are strange markings. We believe that this autographs doctors. 
• Aside from the inspection mark is cable markerovkoy XT6088C07B_FPC REV 8 
• DATE: 2012.11.30, which indicates that at least this part has been in development for a long time.

Step 13

• Raising Vibration motor frees an underlying charge, allowing detach it from the main part. 
• On this card is a whole bunch: the basic unit for the front and rear camera, headphone jack, light sensor, volume control and more elastic contacts.

Step 14 

• Disabling 2,1 MP front camera 
• This teeny-tiny block is designated as H1X1305 067,521. 
• Chipworks dismantled its HTC One and they have here was stamped OmniVision.

Step 15

• We were given no respite - the entire rear camera has a copper shield. 
• This is a camera with HTC UltraPixel , hole f/2.0, focal rasstoyanenie 28 mm, a special unit of the lens HTC ImageChip ™ 2 . 
• Chipworks is found at autopsy 4MP sensor from ST Microelectronics. 
• By removing the rear camera, 

we found two small chips on the ribbon cable the camera: 

• 515M 2L22 JP 
• IY21 3001D1 L1250A 
• Izgotovolenie such a small camera, which has the opportunity - it is a big and difficult task and the lack of just such block components - this is a good reason for the delay of the official launch .

Step 16

• An underlying (daughter) board is removed, but remained unsolved mystery. 
• Phone does not work without antennas and antennas do not transmit a signal through a metal enclosure. Taking into account that the daughter card is on the receiving end of the antenna cable of the motherboard and located under a plastic header on top of the phone, we think it has something to do with the wireless signal. 
• You see these elastic contacts along the top of the motherboard? They are found on the back of the housing in the area, hidden plastic panel. If we guess correctly, this is where HTC placed antenna.

Step 17

• Again, no surprises: our HTC One has a stereo, attention, two speakers. 
• HTC still uses in its devices mobilnryh Beats Audio . Whether based on actual results and went on about the brand, the company Dr. Dre again took up the challenge - and it's time to trim, fit and apply the settings through the speakers One softvarny equalizer.

Step 18

• We come to what is in the main part of the stern. We found there a USB port and a microphone. This small I / O is not the right board, but is useful if you want to know the direction. Approx.: It looks like complete garbage. The problem is that the guys do not just have italicized the stern, port and starboard, these marine terms on a smartphone. If we believe the wiki, the "right side» (star-board) - it is also quite a term associated with the way it is attached to the ship to port and turned the steering oar, not to interfere with other vessels in the way. But I could not pass the whole game of words, because I do not follow it completely. 
•  On the back side we see the speaker connector. It seems that most of the audio connectors pass through this small fee.

Step 19

• Rating maintainability HTC One: One (Note: yes, here again pun intended) out of 10 (10 - perfect maintainability) 
• Very, very difficult (perhaps impossible?) Open the case without damaging it. Because of this, replace any component of the extremely difficult. 
• The battery is hidden under the motherboard and tightly holds for the bulk, making it difficult for her replacement. 
• Replacing the display mzhet be done without removing the back of the case because of what the repair most of the damage - Split screen - is impossible. 
• Copper coating problem many components to remove and replace. 
• Solid exterior design increases durability.