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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 using nano-injection, there are some structural details are use 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 you want to put under the battery, then the middle frame must have two grooves downward about 0.5mm, when manufacturing the middle frame, will add one process, that’s will increase 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.

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5 Comments

  1. Great tear down! I like your analysis here

    “logically speaking, normal practice should be place the cables under the battery, close to the middle frame. If you want to put under the battery, then the midde frame must have two grooves downward about 0.5mm, when manufacturing the middle frame, will add one process, that’s will increase cost.”

    Thats really interesting to learn!

  2. I want the 4GB of RAM version, but I want also the space grey version couse I love black color.
    If I buy both phones, for example the space grey version and the champagne gold version, and I exchange the motherboards ? Is it possible ?

  3. Have you any idea about the capacity value and voltage of the two small capacitors near the battery connector in the motherboard?

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