Replacing trackball

rubbachicken · 29th September 2009, 03:00 PM

Replacing trackball

I had seen a couple threads with custom colored trackballs etc...

Look flat out i'll be honest i'm not tryin' to do anything special I got royally hammered with my brother and woke up 30 miles from home the next day missing a shoe, my back cover, and my trackball will not go left anymore...

Cleaned it quite a bit even a mild bit of wd40 on a rag hoping to break up anything abrasive which has semi-worked but now seeing various custom trackballs i'm curious...

Would anyone be able to point me in a direction for how to replace it? I'll find the ball itself unless you wanna link that too ... but is it nothing more than a ball just like an old mouse? I know people have tried to replace blackberry trackballs and never really gotten them to stay back in there so I thought i'd ask ...

thanks !

gospeed.racer · 29th September 2009, 03:40 PM

you need to fully disassemble the phone to get to the trackball assembly. Use the HTC manual that can be found by searching it, it is a step by step process with all the screws pictured so you can get it back together. It is a tricky procedure, make sure you are up for a challenge if you have never had a phone like this apart before. this is one of the harder phones to work on.

BTW, Blackberry trackballs come out the front, by removing the trim ring. No such easy process on the G1!