Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

8

Time Required

                          20 - 40 minutes

Sections

3

  • Rear Case
  • 2 steps
  • Midframe
  • 3 steps
  • Battery
  • 3 steps

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Introduction

If your battery is swollen, take appropriate precautions.

What you need

Step 1

              Rear Case
  • Prepare an iOpener and lay it over the rear case to soften the adhesive on securing the rear case to the phone.

Prepare an iOpener and lay it over the rear case to soften the adhesive on securing the rear case to the phone.

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Step 2

  • Use a plastic opening tool to pry the rear case off of the rest of the device.
  • Remove the rear case.
  • The wireless charging coil may try to stick to the rear case, so make sure to remove it from the case before fully separating the rear case from the rest of the device.

Use a plastic opening tool to pry the rear case off of the rest of the device.

Remove the rear case.

The wireless charging coil may try to stick to the rear case, so make sure to remove it from the case before fully separating the rear case from the rest of the device.

Step 3

              Midframe
  • Remove the midframe bezel.

Remove the midframe bezel.

Step 4

  • Remove the four Torx T5 screws securing the midframe plate.

Remove the four Torx T5 screws securing the midframe plate.

Step 5

  • Remove the midframe.

Remove the midframe.

Step 6

              Battery
  • Use the point of a spudger to pop up the battery connector.

Use the point of a spudger to pop up the battery connector.

Step 7

  • Fold the wireless charging coil away from the battery.

Fold the wireless charging coil away from the battery.

Step 8

  • Use a spudger to gently pry the battery up from the rest of the device.
  • The battery is secured with some moderate adhesive, so some force may be necessary.

Use a spudger to gently pry the battery up from the rest of the device.

The battery is secured with some moderate adhesive, so some force may be necessary.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Jeffrey Sauter - Aug 5, 2016

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The screws that attach the black plastic in step 3 are NOT #2 phillips. This is reasonably obvious from the photo but the misleading caption should be changed. They are T5 Torx bit screws. Also, the plastic camera sub assembly in step 4 has 3 small t shaped tabs that shear if you pry it away from the phone. I could not see a way to remove the sub assembly without damaging the tabs so the 4 T5 screws will have to keep it in place from now on.

Kelsea Weber - Aug 5, 2016

Hey Jeffrey! Thanks for the heads up. Feel free to edit the guide steps as you see fit by selecting Edit in the top right corner of the guide step in question. We changed the permissions so you should be able to edit the text. Thanks again for contributing!

Richard Klein - Nov 22, 2016

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Do you need to apply fresh adhesive when re-assembling?

ben_martell - Mar 4, 2017

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Do you need to apply adhesive when re assembling?

Mike Mangiaruca - Mar 13, 2017

the adhesive is 3 narrow pieces of double sided tape. You can carefully peel it off the old battery and reuse it. I don’t see where it’s absolutely necessary though. The battery isn’t going to move around after the phone is put back together.