With the battery and the speaker pulled back we can see a MediaTek MT6261 SoC and supporting components on the left. On the right are connections for the reset button (mounted on top of the usb connector), speaker and what I assume is a vibrator motor connected to βVIBβ. The touchscreen is also connected at the top, with itβs controller mounted on the flat flex cable. The home/power button is tucked in on the far left. u8plus smart watch quick teardown and uart 9 Jan 2016
I noticed this smart watch on Amazon for the bargain price of Β£7.51, which was just too cheap to ignore β I didnβt expect much but I was quite surprised at how functional it actually wasβ¦ Anyhow, it was never expected to stay in once piece for long, and after an hour I took the screwdriver to it.
The back is covered by a aluminium plate that seemed to be sticky backed; it came off pretty easily. Underneath was four screws that released the back cover.
Inside, not much too see: a 200mAh, 3.7v battery, speaker, reset button (on the right) and what looks like a bluetooth antenna at the bottom.
With the battery and the speaker pulled back we can see a MediaTek MT6261 SoC and supporting components on the left. On the right are connections for the reset button (mounted on top of the usb connector), speaker and what I assume is a vibrator motor connected to βVIBβ. The touchscreen is also connected at the top, with itβs controller mounted on the flat flex cable. The home/power button is tucked in on the far left.
The other side of the board, removed from the shell: the connections to the LCD are at the bottom, the power button on the right and some test pads sprinkled all over π
The βD+β and βD-β and the proximity to the USB suggest the four pads on the left are for the USB; VBAT is positive side of the battery; PWR connects to the power/home button. Just slightly covered by the green label is RXD and TXD β which is likely our UART, and two others (βOW2β and βOL0β). Above them next to PWR are five unlabelled pads β hopefully these are JTAG.
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