Pyra repairability and scoring?


Grench

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I know that ED has done a lot of work to make the Pyra modular with some nods toward end-user self servicing. I wonder how it would score out on ifixit. It may be worth loaning them one to find out? (some day when there are units to do so with)

I thought this was very interesting: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+2+Teardown/52523

Using that same scoring methodology and what I know so far of the Pyra, I think it should score similarly high.
 
The Pyra's been designed to be even easier to assemble than the Pandora was, and the Pandora should have scored pretty well on the repairability scale.

Versus the Pandora we have no fiddly light tubes to be dropped into the hinge the right way round and in the right orientation, no wifi antenna cable needing the be threaded through the rolled up LCD cable pushed through the hinge, no big microphone waiting to be snapped off the board, and hopefully a less difficult to install LCD cable, and no power switch cover that falls out and gets lost every time you open the unit. And that's on top of all the features the Pandora that I have has, and I've opened and repaired it by myself plenty of times.
 
A friend of mine wanted me to fix his phone that had an iFixit score of 0. It could not be taken apart without destoring it.
 
Confirmed: to change the screen will be pretty easy: unscreew 3 Screews, lift the Lid frame, and unconnekt the conneltor on the LCD Board..
Way easer than to change a light on your car..
 
There will none of this (quoted from Droid 4 teardown)
"Tons of glue adheres the glue that is securing the glue to the glue that holds the phone together."
I used to have one of them I needed to replace the screen on.
 
There will none of this (quoted from Droid 4 teardown)
"Tons of glue adheres the glue that is securing the glue to the glue that holds the phone together."
I used to have one of them I needed to replace the screen on.
I have a droid 4, too and had to replace the display assembly because the ribbon cable was broken. since it's a nightmare to replace the ribbon cable alone, I chose to swap the complete display with synthesizer. It was one of the hardest repairs I have done so far and my proximity sensor doesn't work anymore (maybe it's obstructed, but I don't want to open that thing up again so I am running a hack to disable the sensore and just switch my display on and off by button press). ED has a droid 4, too.
 
Yeah, Droid 4 is one of the last decent smartphones that fulfills a basic need for me with the keyboard. I have a couple of its younger brothers, Photon Q. I guess I am lucky I haven't needed to work on the display.
 
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