Installing Dell Streak 5 Housing not as easy as it seems...

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Has anyone here installed a new housing on the Dell Streak 5?
It is NOT as easy to do as some phones are.
Here is the basic teardown by ifixit.com
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Dell-...eardown/3512/1
They do NOT explain how to do the housing change in detail.
They do NOT tell you you have to take these parts off and swap them over:
The rear case houses 7 components that need to be transferred:
LED flash
Headphone jack
Loudspeaker (for speakerphone)
2 Antennas
2 connectors for battery shutoff
Some pop out, some have to be pried off, such as the two battery shutoff & 2 Antennas parts. They also have to be glued to stay in place.
(battery shutoff "red arrows" is what shuts the phone off when the back battery cover is taken off even if battery is still in place)
All pieces need care taking off as they can break easily.


End results was nice, but I can see how one could brick this phone doing this.


I kept the black battery cover as to set it off and to look different.
I could not transfer the long speaker screen as it was thin and glued in place, so speaker shows.


Here is what it looked like before... kinda bland.




I hope this helps someone.

I'd done the same to one of my streaks and was able to take the speaker mesh to the new casing as well. I used a small exacto knife to get the mesh loose and attached it with a bit of white elmers glue to the new housing, it looks just like a regular streak.

I don't think those two contacts are battery shut off points since the streak has a separate switch to detect battery cover.

Also I just noticed that the camera lens is missing the inner ring, did you carry it over or do you have to get another one?

Originally Posted by sanyokt4j

I'd done the same to one of my streaks and was able to take the speaker mesh to the new casing as well. I used a small exacto knife to get the mesh loose and attached it with a bit of white elmers glue to the new housing, it looks just like a regular streak.

I don't think those two contacts are battery shut off points since the streak has a separate switch to detect battery cover.

Also I just noticed that the camera lens is missing the inner ring, did you carry it over or do you have to get another one?

Try starting up the phone without those two contacts...

I transferred the lens inner ring... I put it in backwards.

When I get time, I'll get that mesh out and reverse the inner lens ring....

battery door switch

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You can start streak without battery cover if you hold down the switch (use flat piece of metal or something) which is behind the little slit nearest the earphone socket.
one of the tabs on the cover pushes down on this switch when the cover is attached.
It doesn't use those 2 contacts to detect the cover, I think they are just electrical ground for the battery cover.
cm7 allows you to operate the streak with the cover removed so you can unmount/mount sd cards.
it won't boot though because the bootloader detects the cover switch and doesn't bypass it.
Removing the cover doesn't disconnect the battery because you can charge it without the cover and the battery icon appears showing it charging when you plug it in with cover off.
If you put a bit of tape on this switch to permanently hold it down, you can boot and operate the streak without a battery cover at all.

Originally Posted by warboat

You can start streak without battery cover if you hold down the switch (use flat piece of metal or something) which is behind the little slit nearest the earphone socket.
one of the tabs on the cover pushes down on this switch when the cover is attached.
It doesn't use those 2 contacts to detect the cover, I think they are just electrical ground for the battery cover.
cm7 allows you to operate the streak with the cover removed so you can unmount/mount sd cards.
it won't boot though because the bootloader detects the cover switch and doesn't bypass it.
Removing the cover doesn't disconnect the battery because you can charge it without the cover and the battery icon appears showing it charging when you plug it in with cover off.
If you put a bit of tape on this switch to permanently hold it down, you can boot and operate the streak without a battery cover at all.

behind the little slit nearest the earphone socket? should not this be the slit behind the phone's port? i see a tiny 'pressure switch' behind it. i also suffer a sudden none-booting, no-charging scenario too and is trying to figure out what went wrong with my stock device.

Hey guys. My phone has been dropped a "few" times (with silicon casing on).
I was wondering which is the GSM antenna. I want to open it and see if they need better contact or something.
ifixit.com's teardown wasn't exactly informational for my question.

So, thanks in advance

Originally Posted by Cryogen

Hey guys. My phone has been dropped a "few" times (with silicon casing on).
I was wondering which is the GSM antenna. I want to open it and see if they need better contact or something.
ifixit.com's teardown wasn't exactly informational for my question.

So, thanks in advance

I thought it was the (semi)clickable plate with a copper thing at the right side. It has to be clicked on the motherboard. I hope you know what I mean.
A here it is:
http://www.dellstreakrepairs.co.uk/i...%20antenna.JPG