N82 Teardown!

Quite a while back, I published a Nokia N95 8GB Teardown after my phone died. Not too long later, my brother smashed his own Nokia N82 while mountain-biking.

As it is, I think it is best that I post this on another blog, so do take some time to take a look at what I consider to be the best smartphone of 2007-2008.

Nokia N82 Teardown

What's up...

Hmmm.. Has been a very very longgg time since I've last posted anything here. So- to give you a very brief summary of what I've gone through for the past 6 months +...

In short, I got enlisted, gone thru PES C1 BMT, finished BTP (basic trainfire package), finished fieldcamp, finished 8km route march, POC-ed, got a 7 day block leave, got posted to unit, got a 3 month + 'holiday', had my course opening, got my SCT rank, started my lessons proper and not too long ago passed the 6 month mark in my NS life...

Will talk about it in detail further down the page...

BMT
First 2 weeks in BMT is quite slack as usual, mostly doing admin stuff and setting up items needed like the LBV, learning to fold the No. 4 uniform, getting to learn basic drills, learn rifle cleaning, and finish the BTP at Tekong's 100m range... After that week we had a rifle check... And my rifle was found to be rusty... That got me confined for a weekend... The stupid thing was that I didn't even know where the rust was... Never mind... It's over... Fortunately I wasn't confined alone.. The next bed was also confined for rusty rifle... So what we did over the weekend was play pool in the annex room with other Mohawk confinees... Didn't have really much to do other that that... Haha... The week immediately after that was my field camp... The field camp is a 4 days 3 nights one... And guess what? It rained and rained... Fortunately I missed the 6km route march that marked the start of the field camp due to the signal interview... By the time I went back to the camp site they have already finished building the basha and finished digging the basha drainage... So I went for all the other training that was organized for us... The conducting officer was also like 'Cat 1 but under canopy so can continue training' so we got drenched... Fortunately on the 2nd and 3rd day it did not rain as much and the mud started to harden... The 3rd day was the day that they needed to dig the shell script... Luckily I am excused upper limb so I became the 'water boy'... When they were about 99% done with the shell script, it started to pour... After about 10min, the shell script was like a swimming pool... Then, orders were given to prone inside it... So you could see their legs floating inside... Those who did not have to dig the holes were made to practice the arty drill... So we had to 'dive' into the mud with our rifles under us and cover our necks with our hands... That evening, we packed up and went to CCP2 (Casualty collection point 2) to sleep... But after packing up, we fell in and waited for one of the sergeants to fetch up to the CCP... However we waited and waited... We flashed our torches at the admin tent so as to attract someone's attention... But we got scolded for that... So we continued to wait... After a while another sergeant came... Then he asked 'Are you all doing guard duty?' Then we answered 'No... We are platoon 3...' Then we heard him say 'Shit... We've left a platoon behind...' So after that we made our way to the CCP2, which was already very crowded as the other platoons had used up all the space... We had to ask them to move so that we could have space to sleep... In the end, we had space for 2 ground sheets to fit 17 people... I was one of the last few to settle down so in the end we left 1 slot for someone to sleep and had to fit 3 people there... So we could only sit and try to sleep... Suddenly just after 12am, the OC and the conducting officer came to the place where we were sitting trying to sleep... We saw him and had to greet him... So he asked why we were not asleep... After a while, he left and we finally found a way to lie down to sleep... The next day we went back to the field camp site and covered up all the holes and basha drainage system... And we went back to coy line... After a few more weeks, we had our POC (Passing out ceremony) on the 9th of March 09... Our block leave was from the 11th to the 22nd March... I was posted as a 'Sig (S) Svc' to Nee Soon camp...

NEW UNIT...

As a signaller, we learnt all the standard stuff like radio sets and voice procedure and more... But there was more to learn (which I am not going to say)... After our first 2 months + all our sergeants ORD-ed... So only left warrent officers to 'take care' of us... Our official course opening was on the 10th of June 09 which meant we had a 3 month pre-course stay-in 'holiday' because other than a little studying, most of the afternoons were spent learning/playing volleyball (AND quite a lot of manual labour as the school was/is/will still be undergoing renovation... After the renovation is complete I think we can become the 'Dolphin Professional Movers'- We move anything from tables to metal cupboards to [name it here]!)... Haha... Anyway... Due to the recent H1N1 outbreak, we were under a rather high alert, as we are quite important [but not really visible] to the SAF... So we had to keep a record of where we went, what time we were at a place and the purpose of it... And also had to take our temperature 2x daily... There was a spot check on the 17th July but there were a few people who did not fill in the movement log... So our Wing Head cancelled our nights out the following Wednesday 22/07... However, the following week, something interesting happened... Mak (one of us) got a fever on Sat 18/07... So he got MC for the whole week... Then on Tues, Wed and Thurs a few more fell ill with a high fever... On Friday, our instructor also fell ill... So, the CO of the school gave us a stay-home 'block leave' for a week... After that, when we came back, we had some more moving to do as our wing's office would be moved to a new location... So it was manual work again...
8am to 10am- move things
10am- tea break (usually one of the warrants would treat)
10.30am- continue moving
12pm- lunch
1pm- move again...
3.30pm- volleyball game :-)

So for now we are still moving things... Would keep you updated as time goes by... Hopefully it won't take another 6 months for me to post something... Haha...

Happy Lunar New Year!

To all: Have a very happy chinese new year! Gong Xi Fa Cai and Wan Shi Ru Yi!!

嘻嘻哈哈又一年
高高兴兴迎新年
开开心心一整年
健健康康千千年
和和气气万万年
富富贵贵发发年
平平安安过牛年
快快乐乐零九年
《新年快乐》

HAPPY 牛YEAR!
╭┘└┘└╮
└┐．．┌┘
╭┴──╮──╮
│ｏ　ｏ│
╰┬─┬╯
祝福你及家人：《心想事成，如意吉祥!》

Test...

Hey all... As most of you would have known, I'm going to be enlisted into NS soon... I intend to keep some of you updated to what and how I'm doing in there... Therefore I'm trying something which I hope would work... Thx!

Gret's birthday and a lil more...

Happy birthday gret!

Met Megumi on 25th nov to buy a present for my sis... Damn... 1 Jay Chou CD = $8.90... Then add 1 "bonus" MV and a box of playing cards = $19.90... Zzz... Then the best... Add a nice metallic casing = $27.90... So lame right? Haha... But since my sis wanted the playing cards so badly we had to get the $19.90 set... Haha...

Dinner wif my family, one of my neighbour and my mum's friends was fun... Eat until full... Haha...

Oh... And if you ever spilled water [doesn't matter how much] on your laptop [in my case a MacBook Pro], the most important thing is to let it dry... Haha... On mon 24th my dad was a bit careless with the water filter... I was in the office then doing some accounts for my mum... So I was working on my computer... Then beside my computer is the MRET machine [go google it for more info...]... Inside it is this water filter... I accidentally poured too much water into the filter system... So to prevent the container below from overflowing, my dad tried to balance the filter on top of those 5 litter water bottles... Then he continued adding water to it... Apparently he added too much water to it that the center of gravity shifted so the whole filter toppled, together with all it's contents onto my laptop, which took a direct hit... The computer just restarted... But I quickly pulled the power plug and removed the battery from it so as to prevent more damage being done to it... Then after a while of tilting the laptop I decided to open it so it could dry better... Fortunately my dad's favourite repairman had the tools to unscrew the laptop... I removed whatever I could and left it to dry for 1 week... And it works now... Yay...

[damn still haven't kicked the habit of backdating]

Updates again... Haha...

End Oct - Nov... A lot of things happened...

20/10... First of all, Happy birthday Yan Zhi! [my bro]

As you've seen, my phone died... Super sian... Coz I got stuck with a phone which can only store like 150 messages altogether... Extremely irritating!!!

In the same week I sent in my phone for repair, my GC battery leaked... Had to clean up everything before anything became worse...

Hmmm... To think of it, at least it died before the A levels, which would cause more trouble...

Then came the A levels... Some papers were easy, some worded very wierdly and some are still do-able... But then I still don't think I would do very well...

At least it's over... Heh...

Oh... And then came the global financial crisis in the middle of the A levels, before the Econs paper... Man... I really wished that the econs paper would be on the bailout package [which was an impossible dream...] because it would be sooooo easy... Haha... Nevermind... Econs this time was quite a killer though imo... Haha... Hack A levels...

Oh... And then there was the US Presidential elections... Haha... Clearly one of the most exciting of elections to watch...

Oh... And not long after the exams my class's civics tuitor arranged for us to have a class outing... It was quite fun... Then we went to watch Madagasca 2... It's quite a funny show and I'd recommend it... Haha...

Hmmm... So many things happened this month... I wonder what'll happen next month... Haha...

I'M FREE! Yay!

[Damn... NS Enlistment 28th Jan 09... Wth... 3rd day CNY... Anyone same as me? 8.30am reporting, army School 2]

Nice one, Nokia... Zzz...

Well... My phone died 2 weeks ago, and when I went to collect it on Wednesday, they told me that the phone has been corroded so it cannot be repaired and the warranty is also voided...

So I decided since the phone is already dead why not I try to open it up to see the extent of the damage...

1) Open the back plastic case...
Quite an easy thing to do... Note that the water damage sticker was purposely triggered (I wanted to see what could happen..) That was after I collected the phone and they said is beyond repair... So I figured that not harm would be done =)

2) Removing the screws...

3) Removing the front piece... [Screen + slider]


4) Remove the screws to the back piece...


The front piece:


5) Remove the screws to the front sheet to reveal the screen and the navigation keys... I pulled up the keypad too...




6) Go back to the main piece and remove the 2 screws holding the main board to the back portion of the phone... Remove the camera too...


7) The back piece:


In all the photos, notice the only corrosion is below the screen! Not on the main circuit board... So I wonder why the phone died completely after servicing [before sending it in I could still get a white screen and the phone is recognized as a "Nokia BB5 ADL Loader USB Generic / Nokia BB5 ADL Loader USB Phone Parent" when connected]

Now nothing happens!!!!

WTH is this???

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