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Huawei Mate 8 Teardown
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Huawei Mate 8 to remove the back cover, speakers, battery, camera, and motherboard.
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Remove two T3 hex screws next to the Micro USB port.
Now you can remove the back cover; be careful. The fingerprint recognition cable is still connected to the motherboard.
Under the back cover, you can access the battery, camera, speaker, and motherboard.
There are two yellow cables covering the battery. It is used to connect the motherboard and bottom PCB board.
Fingerprint recognition modules are assembled by Shenzhen O-film.
Mate 8’s back cover uses the CNC process, and you can see the interior ball knife lines.
The back cover is not a simple plastic mosaic stitching. Instead of nano-injection, some structural details are CNC.
Let’s see these two cables. Logically speaking, the normal practice should be placing the cables under the battery, close to the middle frame.
If it is to be placed under the battery, then the middle frame must have two grooves about 0.5 mm downward. When the middle frame is manufactured, an additional process will be added, which will increase the cost.
Perhaps my analysis is wrong, but I cannot imagine about this, my understanding is cost-saving.
Two cable connectors are fixed using a stainless steel sheet.
Bottom PCB board and speakers module
Highly integrated motherboard
The back of the motherboard
Kirin 950, packaged together with Micron’s DDR4.
Samsung KLMBG4GENO-B031 eMMC5.0 NAND Flash
Texas Instruments BQ25892 charger evaluation module
Two HiSilicon TI6362 RF chip
HiSilicon Hi6421 power management chip
There are several free soldered pins. It is reserved for CDMA baseband.
13MP rear camera with Optical Image Stabilizer
The battery cells come from Sony.
For more guides, check out the Huawei Mate 8 device page.
Great tear down! I like your analysis here
logically speaking, the normal practice should be to place the cables under the battery, close to the middle frame. If you want to put it under the battery, then the middle frame must have two grooves downward of about 0.5mm; when manufacturing the middle frame it will add one process, which will increase the cost.
That’s really interesting to learn!
I want the 4GB RAM version, but I also want the space grey version because I love black.
If I buy both phones, for example, the space grey version and the champagne gold version, can I exchange the motherboards? Is it possible?
I want a new battery for the Huawei Mate 8.
I have the Mate 8, but the network does not serve.
Do you have any idea about the capacity value and voltage of the two small capacitors near the battery connector on the motherboard?