Huawei Honor 8 Teardown

Huawei Honor 8 uses a 5.2-inch 1080p screen, and is powered by a HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor, and has three versions: 3GB RAM+32GB ROM, 4GB RAM+32GB ROM, and 4GB RAM+64GB ROM. The Huawei Honor 8 has dual 12-megapixel cameras on the rear with laser focus, while the front camera is 8-megapixel and has a 3,000mAh battery.

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Before the teardown process, we need to remove the SIM card tray first.

There is no screw at the bottom cover, so the back cover and the chassis are glued together. We need to heat up the back cover with a heat gun for about five minutes.

Insert a guitar pick between the back cover and chassis.
Slide the pick by the edges to remove the back cover completely.

Open the back cover slowly, be careful, the fingerprint module is still connecting to the motherboard.

The fingerprint module is fixed to the main board with a metal bracket.

Remove two screws that secure the metal bracket and disconnect the fingerprint cable from the motherboard.

Now, you can remove the back cover completely.

The fingerprint module

From top to bottom: motherboard, battery, and speakers/ports.

The metal frame functions as a cushion to protect the glass back cover when being dropped.

Remove all screws securing the middle frame.
The middle frame is glued with the metal chassis as well, preventing water from penetrating.

Here’s the middle frame.

This is the dual-color flashlight embedded in the metal frame.

The motherboard of the Huawei Honor 8 is quite compact. The main chipsets are all covered with metal shields.

This is the speaker module and the USB Type-C port.

Remove all screws securing the motherboard and separate the motherboard from the metal chassis.

The speaker of Honor 8 is square and with 4 touch points (the left one above). The distance sensor by light resides on the right of the speaker as shown above.

Speaker module and bottom board

The rubber circle prevents the headset jack from being loose due to plugging and unplugging too often.

3000mAh battery and fast charging at 9V/2A.

The volume button and power button are fixed by the metal bracket.

Here are the light distance sensor and speaker.

Huawei Honor 8 features a 12MP Sony IMX286 rear camera and an 8MP front camera.

1. Micron 4GB LPDDR4 RAM and Kirin 950 SoC
2. Samsung 64GB eMMC 5.1 ROM
3. NXP 66T16 NFC
4. VIA CPM1.0A RF chip
5. VIA CBP8120 CDMA Band Chipset
6. QuaTek BQ25892 Fast Charging IC
7. SKY77621-51 RF Amplifier

1. FCI FC7712A CDMA3G/2G
2. HiSilicon Hi6362 RF chip
3. SKY77360-2 GSM/GPRS/EDGE/TD-SCDMA
4. SKY13535 SP12T SP9T
5. SKY77765-1 CDMA/WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA /LTE RF chip
6. HiSilicon Hi6422 RF chip
7. Broadcom BCM43455XKUBG Wi-Fi
8. Broadcom BCM4774 GNSS Positioning Chipset
9. HiSilicon Hi6421 Power IC
10. HiSilicon Hi6402 Audio IC