Essential Phone Teardown Repair Guide Steps:
Step 1
• Power down your Essential Phone.
Step 2
• Eject the Nano SIM Card Tray.
Step 3 (Essential Phone Display Assembly)
• The 5.71-inch Essential Phone display assembly is glued on solidly and is a tight fit within the frame. Apply heat to soften the adhesive.
• With the precision knife create enough space to insert a playing card.
• Use the playing card to slice and pry through the adhesive and carefully decouple the screen from the phone.
• The display assembly is still connected to the Essential Phone, so don’t try to remove it entirely just yet.
• Remove the following 2 Phillips screws securing the display cable.
• Detach the cable from motherboard and free the Essential Phone LCD panel.
Step 4 (Essential Phone Midframe Shield and Battery)
• Remove the following 8 Phillips screws.
• Lift the flexible Essential Phone midframe shield to reveal the internal components.
• Remove the following Phillips screw and small metal bracket.
• Disconnect the Essential Phone battery cable.
• Locate the two peel-to-remove adhesive tabs at the top of the Essential Phone battery. Grab the first tab and try to keep the adhesive strip flat and wide.
• Slowly and gently pull each strip up and away from the phone. The strips will stretch to many times the length of the battery- keep pulling until they come out from between the battery and the rear case.
• And just like that, out comes the 3040 milliampere-hour (mAh), 4.4-volt battery.
Step 5 (Essential Phone Motherboard)
• Remove the following 9 Phillips screws and the small brackets they secure in place.
• Remove the small piece of tape covering the loudspeaker cable connector.
• Use the flat end of a spudger to flip the tab on the ribbon cable ZIF connector upward. Pull the loudspeaker cable straight out of the ZIF connector.
• Detach the remaining cables from the Essential Phone motherboard.
• Carefully pry the massive motherboard up and out of the rear case.
Step 6 (Essential Phone Dual Rear-Facing Camera, and Front-Facing Camera and Earpiece Speaker Assembly)
• Remove the following 2 Phillips screws.
• Extract the highly touted dual 13-megapixel Essential Phone rear-facing camera module.
• Remove the small rubber gasket and then spudge up the front-facing sensor cable.
• Remove the following Phillips screw.
• The 8-megapixel front-facing camera and earpiece speaker come as a single part. Use the spudger to free the assembly from the strip of glue securing it to the rear case.
Step 7 (Essential Phone Vibrator and Loudspeaker)
• Remove the following Phillips screw and then de-cap the vibrator.
• Tweeze out the standard pancake style vibrator.
• Remove the following Phillips screw.
• Easily extricate the sprawling loudspeaker and accompanying contact cable.
Step 8 (Essential Phone Power and Volume Button Cable)
• Remove the following 4 Phillips screws.
• Use the tweezers to lift out the Essential Phone power and volume buttons cable.
* To reassemble your device, follow the steps in reverse order.
Step 1
• Power down your Essential Phone.
Step 2
• Eject the Nano SIM Card Tray.
Step 3 (Essential Phone Display Assembly)
• The 5.71-inch Essential Phone display assembly is glued on solidly and is a tight fit within the frame. Apply heat to soften the adhesive.
• With the precision knife create enough space to insert a playing card.
• Use the playing card to slice and pry through the adhesive and carefully decouple the screen from the phone.
• The display assembly is still connected to the Essential Phone, so don’t try to remove it entirely just yet.
• Remove the following 2 Phillips screws securing the display cable.
• Detach the cable from motherboard and free the Essential Phone LCD panel.
Step 4 (Essential Phone Midframe Shield and Battery)
• Remove the following 8 Phillips screws.
• Lift the flexible Essential Phone midframe shield to reveal the internal components.
• Remove the following Phillips screw and small metal bracket.
• Disconnect the Essential Phone battery cable.
• Locate the two peel-to-remove adhesive tabs at the top of the Essential Phone battery. Grab the first tab and try to keep the adhesive strip flat and wide.
• Slowly and gently pull each strip up and away from the phone. The strips will stretch to many times the length of the battery- keep pulling until they come out from between the battery and the rear case.
• And just like that, out comes the 3040 milliampere-hour (mAh), 4.4-volt battery.
Step 5 (Essential Phone Motherboard)
• Remove the following 9 Phillips screws and the small brackets they secure in place.
• Remove the small piece of tape covering the loudspeaker cable connector.
• Use the flat end of a spudger to flip the tab on the ribbon cable ZIF connector upward. Pull the loudspeaker cable straight out of the ZIF connector.
• Detach the remaining cables from the Essential Phone motherboard.
• Carefully pry the massive motherboard up and out of the rear case.
Step 6 (Essential Phone Dual Rear-Facing Camera, and Front-Facing Camera and Earpiece Speaker Assembly)
• Remove the following 2 Phillips screws.
• Extract the highly touted dual 13-megapixel Essential Phone rear-facing camera module.
• Remove the small rubber gasket and then spudge up the front-facing sensor cable.
• Remove the following Phillips screw.
• The 8-megapixel front-facing camera and earpiece speaker come as a single part. Use the spudger to free the assembly from the strip of glue securing it to the rear case.
Step 7 (Essential Phone Vibrator and Loudspeaker)
• Remove the following Phillips screw and then de-cap the vibrator.
• Tweeze out the standard pancake style vibrator.
• Remove the following Phillips screw.
• Easily extricate the sprawling loudspeaker and accompanying contact cable.
Step 8 (Essential Phone Power and Volume Button Cable)
• Remove the following 4 Phillips screws.
• Use the tweezers to lift out the Essential Phone power and volume buttons cable.
* To reassemble your device, follow the steps in reverse order.
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