Google Pixel 2 XL Motherboard Replacement

Step 1 SIM Card



• Insert a SIM card eject tool or a paperclip into the small hole in the SIM card tray, located on the left edge of the phone, opposite of the power and volume buttons.
• Press firmly to eject the tray.
Step 2

• Remove the SIM card tray from the phone.
• The SIM card will fall out of the tray easily.
• When reinserting the SIM card, ensure that it is in the proper orientation relative to the tray.
Step 3 Screen

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• Your replacement display may not come with pre-installed speaker grilles or a front-facing camera gasket. If that is the case, use tweezers to carefully remove these parts from your old display and follow the rest of the guide to install them on a new display.
• Clean any adhesive residue off of the parts before reinstalling them.
• Make sure to install the grilles and gasket before applying display adhesive.
• Cut a strip of 1 mm wide double-sided tape to be about 3 cm (1.25 inches) long.
• Lay the adhesive strip along the upper edge of the earpiece speaker slot in your new display so that it's centered over the slot and touching the upper edge.
• The adhesive strip needs to be as close as possible to the edge of the slot without overlapping. Otherwise, it can interfere with the display adhesive.
• Gently press the adhesive strip into place on the display with your finger or a spudger.
• Peel the white backing away from the adhesive strip.
Step 4
• Lightly set the speaker grille into its slot so that the indented half of the grille sits inside the slot, and the flat, unindented half of the grille is above the slot on top of the adhesive. Do not push it onto the adhesive yet.
• Use the point of a spudger to gently push the edges of the grille against the edges of the slot, centering the grille in the slot.
Step 5
• Use the flat end of a spudger to push the top of the grille down against the adhesive strip.
• Repeat the last three steps to install the lower speaker grille.
• When installing the lower speaker grille, apply the adhesive strip to the lower edge of the speaker slot, and position the grille with the flat half below the slot.
Step 6
• If you're reusing the camera gasket from your old screen, the old adhesive may have stuck to the gasket when you removed it. If this is the case, and the adhesive is still sticky, skip to the last step.
• Cut one strip of 1 mm wide adhesive to be 6 mm (1/4") long.
• Place the adhesive underneath the front-facing camera hole, parallel to the top edge of the display.
• Cut two 3 mm (1/8") strips of 1 mm wide adhesive.
• Place the adhesive strips to the left and right of the camera hole, perpendicular to the bottom adhesive strip.
• Gently press the adhesive strips into place on the display with your finger or a spudger.
• Make sure all three strips are as close as possible to the camera hole, without overlapping the hole.
Step 7
• Peel the white backing off of all three adhesive strips.
Step 8
• Carefully place the front-facing camera gasket down on top of the adhesive.
• Make sure that the gasket is centered around the camera hole. If it overlaps the hole at all, it will disrupt the function of the camera.
• Press the gasket down against the adhesive with your finger or a spudger.
• During the boot-up process after reassembly, the screen will go through a calibration sequence. Do not touch the screen during this process, as it could result in improper touch calibration and create touch issues.
Step 9 Midframe

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• Remove eleven 3.8 mm Phillips screws securing the midframe.
• Throughout this repair, keep track of each screw and make sure it goes back exactly where it came from.
Step 10
• Insert an opening tool into the notch in the midframe near the volume buttons and pry the midframe up and away from the rest of the phone.
• Remove the midframe.
Step 11 Battery Connector
• Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the battery connector.
Step 12 Motherboard
• Use the point of a spudger to disconnect the front-facing camera connector.
Step 13
• Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the right Active Edge sensor connector.
Step 14
• Use the point of a spudger to disconnect the fingerprint sensor connector.
Step 15
• Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the left Active Edge sensor connector.
Step 16
• Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the charging assembly connector.
Step 17
• Use the point of a spudger to disconnect the front-facing sensor assembly connector.
Step 18
• Make sure all the cables and connectors are clear of the board, and use the flat edge of a spudger to gently lift the bottom of the motherboard.
• The narrow part of the motherboard is very fragile. If it starts to bend when you lift, stop and make sure there isn't anything holding the board down. The board should lift up without any resistance.
• Holding the wide part of the motherboard near the SIM card slot, carefully slide the board toward the bottom of the phone while lifting it out of the phone.
• Remove the motherboard.
• When reinstalling the motherboard, move all the cables and connectors out of the way of the board and make sure all connectors are aligned with their respective sockets.

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