Frankenphone Project (Motorola Atrix 2)

So my Atrix 2 ended up breaking.  Very oddly in fact.  One day I woke up and my phone was turned off, also noticing that my alarm went off, and luckily my wife's alarm went off.  I couldn't do anything to get my phone to turn back on, So i took the battery out, and it all went downhill from there.

I noticed I had to re-login to everything including my Google account on the phone itself, but nothing was erased.   I could Login to Facebook, and then I was automatically logged out, and it wanted me to sign back in.

Everything was messed up, and then the phone restarted by itself.  When the phone re-started got the same notifications that I got from that morning.  This happened

After about 5 soft-resets, 7 hard-resets, 3 resets done by the ATT store rep, and Motorola Customer service not doing anything for me besides telling me my phone was out of warranty, I then resorted to trying to flash the stock ICS rom hoping it might get rid of the problem.

I then resorted to trying to Root it, about 5 different ways, because the only way I could flash any rom at all was to have it rooted to that I could install a custom recovery so that I can load something besides the stock rom (which had failed)

NOTHING AT ALL WORKED.

So my next choice was to get a new motherboard or a broken phone with a good motherboard.  So I searched on Ebay on found an Atrix 2 that was listed wrong (was listed as an atrix, so it didn't have nearly as many views) and got it for about 35 bucks, and then I swapped the motherboard.

My original phone on the left with a broken brain, and a pretty face, and the new(ish) phone on the right with brains, but no pretty face. 

Starting the teardown

I started with taking out the good motherboard out of phone 2.  You first have to take the plastic backing off with 8 or so t5 screws, and then another 8 or so t5 screws to detach the motherboard from everything else.  

Remember to detach the wiring for the camera, LCD screen and digitizer. It will be 3 separate connections to the motherboard. 

Full view,  sorry the picture is dark

 then you have to do everything to the other phone, and then put it back together putting the pretty face back together with the working brain. 

And you are finished after putting the screws all back in, and making sure everything is attached correctly.  Put the plastic backing back in, slap in the battery, sd card, and sim card. 

And she lives!!! again!!  (this is the second time I have torn this thing apart.