Huawei Mate S Teardown

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Huawei Mate S to remove the back cover, battery, speaker, camera, and motherboard.

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Remove the SIM card tray.

Remove two screws next to the Micro-USB port.

Heat up the display by the edge with a heat gun for 3-5 minutes.

Now open the display assembly a little bit.

Be careful. There is a cable still connecting to the motherboard.

Disconnect the fingerprint recognition cable.

The fingerprint recognition button is fixed on the back cover by the glues.

Under the back cover, you can access the battery, motherboard, speaker, and rear camera.

Huawei Mate S comes with a 3.82v, 2800mah, 10.7wh Li-polymer battery, Huawei model: HB436178EBW+.

Remove all screws securing the motherboard and speaker module.

Remove the Micro-USB board.

Remove the speaker module.

The screw was covered by a fragile sticker.

Remove the battery connector protection board.

Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard.

Lift up and remove the motherboard.

Remove the battery.

The battery is fixed by the glues. It is a little hard to remove it.

Huawei Mate S motherboard

Remove the front camera.

Remove the rear camera.

Huawei HiSilicon Hi6361GFC RF chip
Huawei HiSilicon Hi6421 power management chip
Skyworks power amplifier chip

TriQuint TQP9058N power amplifier chip
Hynix 3GB RAM
Samsung 64GB ROM
NXP 66708 chip
Altec chip

For more guides, check out the Huawei Mate S device page.