[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Galaxyninja66:
I saw the image attached on eBay and instantly wanted that on my Photon Q keyboard. It looks awesome. This modification does require taking apart your phone and getting down the keyboard back light, for an in depth tutorial on completely disassembling your Photon Q, take a peep at this repairs universe video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_JlhF600XU

Now this is a super simple modification that doesn't require soldering or any cutting of plastic like all the other awesome modifications for the Photon Q, and this can probably be done with other keyboard back light phones as well, I don't see why not. Even I could do this, it is that simple.

So here are the instructions:

1. Power off your Photon Q (or don't, be wild)

2. Pry off the back cover, if you have a sim slot installed you might need to remove the sim, and you will most likely need to pop out the micro sd card.

3. Unscrew all the bolts that hold down the plastic ring on top of the circuit board. A lot of people recommend disconnecting the camera, meh.

4. Disconnect battery

5. Make sure your bolts are organized, and count them. I say this because I lost a small and thankfully unimportant one

6. Jiggle the circuit board out of place, and BE GENTLE! open it out like a book, and take care that you don't tear the flex cable connecting the display to the keyboard/motherboard. These components can tear like a leaf, just ask my old Xoom volume flex cable (which I can't find anywhere if you can find a Motorola Xoom volume key ribbon cable anywhere tell me please)

7. See that white rectangle with all the bumps? that is the back light for your keys! (not the one with all the boxes, the one with the circular bumps that click!)

8. Now you get to do whatever you want! Do rainbows, do a solid color of choice, if you have tape and markers you can do some cool ****. The person on eBay said it was just colored tape, I didn't have colored tape so I did the following to achieve my rainbow keyboard keys:

- Put down one layer of scotch tape on the backlight

- Use sharpies to color in a rainbow, ROY-G-BIV amiright fella's?

- Put another layer of Scotch tape on top to keep the ink from leaving marks on the top film (the one with all the rectangular key cutouts)

- Closed it all up and screwed everything in place

- Boot up the phone and voila, fabulous keyboard keys that will surely make friends question my sexuality!

I have attached 3 pictures, the image of the eBay listings keyboard keys (they are much brighter since LineageOS / android puts the keys at the highest possible brightness by default), and two pictures of my keys. They are dimmer because my Nexus 7 camera is meh and Sailfish OS by default doesn't put them at the highest value. Couple that with my bathroom being the darkest room in the house and it being noon, and it comes out to some not so good pictures. Take my word for it, it looks better in real life. This is to just give an idea of what it looks like for others. Also if you are concerned about the keys not looking as bright, that isn't really a big concern. Yeah, obviously pure white is going to look brighter than red or blue for obvious reasons, but all in all its about the same brightness, and in the dark (which is when you are actually using said keys), they are more than usable and some great eye candy -- even at Sailfish OS's lower default key brightness.