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Huawei P9 Display Replacement

Introduction

Use this guide to replace the display of your Huawei P9.

Before disassembling your phone, discharge the battery below 25%. The battery can catch fire and/or explode if accidentally punctured, but the chances of that happening are much lower if discharged.

What you need

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    • First switch off your phone and remove the SIM card tray.

    • Unscrew the two Pentalobe P2 screws located at the bottom next to the device's USB C port.

    • If the screen is cracked you might want to use some tape to protect your eyes from glass shreds and get a better grip to open the phone.

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    • Avoid to lift only the display instead of the whole phone assembly as doing so may cause damage to the screen.

    • Use an iSclack or a suction handle to separate the phone assembly from the rear panel.

    • In case you can‘t manage to lift the phone assembly out of the rear panel you can insert the pointed end of a spudger in the headphone jack opening and press the phone assembly upwards until you create a gap between assembly and rear panel. Then use the spudger to lever the phone assembly out of the panel.

    • Don't remove the rear panel completely yet. There is a cable connected to it! It is running from the finger print sensor to the display unit.

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    • Disconnect the fingerprint sensor using a spudger.

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    • Unplug the antenna cable.

    • Remove the sticker that sits on top of the screw.

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    • Unscrew the two Phillips #00 screws that hold the metal plate in place.

    • The plate, which is covering the battery connector, has two little hooks on each side. Use a tweezer to free them and unhinge the plate by carefully moving it upwards.

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    • Now you can unplug the battery connector and bend it aside.

    • The EVA-L09 model has an NFC antenna adhered onto the battery.

    • If you are just removing the battery to get to the display, you can leave the NFC on the battery.

    • Mark its place on the battery with a felt pen for reassembly. Carefully peel it off and make sure not to rip or crease the antenna.

    • For reassembly, place the NFC antenna on the battery where it was before so its contacts align with their counterparts.

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    • Free the ends of the adhesive pull tabs to get a good grip on them.

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    Tool used on this step:
    Tesa 61395 Tape
    $5.99

    • The battery is secured with three pieces of adhesive, a removable pull-tab in the center, and on the SIM tray side. A third piece of adhesive on the button side has no pull-tab.

    • Pull the adhesive tabs in a slow constant movement to free the battery.

    • Should those adhesive tabs snap, you might want to use an iOpener to heat and soften them a little bit so you can pry out the battery with a spudger.

    • There are two cables running directly underneath the battery. Take care not to damage them when prying with a spudger! You can see their position in the last picture.

    • Slowly lift the battery toward the button side and free it from the remaining hidden piece of adhesive.

    • When reassembling your phone, replace old adhesive with stretch release adhesive strips, double-sided tape, or pre-cut adhesive strips.

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    • Remove the other five Phillips #00 screws from the motherboard.

    • Disconnect the motherboard flex cable as well as the power and volume button cable.

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    • Unplug the LCD screen flex cable.

    • Now you can remove the complete motherboard easily.

    • Conveniently both, the front and rear camera, are removed with the motherboard.

    • Remove the earpiece speaker (mind adhesive underneath).

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    • Heat the top part of the glass with a heat gun or iOpener.

    • The glue used for the display is tough and needs patience and gentle steady force.

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    • When the glue is softened, insert a spudger through the camera bay in the midframe and push the display away from the frame.

    • Place a plastic card or two opening picks under the display bezel at the top, between the screen and the frame. This will prevent the glue from readhering.

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    • Insert an opening pick approximately 1/16 of an inch and slide it along the side to sparate the display from the frame.

    • You might feel more resistance where the LCD ends on the lower end.

    • Stop here and take your time to reheat that part and soften the glue.

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    • When the glue is soft enough carefully move the pick around the bottom corner.

    • You can now work your way along the bottom edge.

    • Leave the opening pick on one side and flip the display over.

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    • On the back side detach the display flex cable from the frame.

    • Now you can lift the display away from the frame.

    • Check for any small parts like the rubber gasket at the top behind the speaker grill.

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Conclusion

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

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14 Comments

While the guide shows pictures along the process it doesn't really give the whole picture.

Just one example: as a repair guide, you could easily expect the display to be cracked and you can no longer use a suction cup to open it up.

A bigger issue is that the guide doesn't show steps up to the replacement part listed.

An incomplete guide while still providing enough information to help someone with experience in repairs.

Seth - Reply

ifixit sent me screen and digitizer without the metal frame. is there a way to remove the metal frame and add it to the replacement screen? does ifixit sell screen and digitizer with the metal frame?

david cech - Reply

you guys are killing me... first you sell the display without the frame even though your instructions clearly show the frame and now it is exactly the same story with a middle frame screen... why it is not part of your display package since it is necessary for the replacement and once again showed in instructional video?

david cech - Reply

Hello David, I am very sorry for the confusion. The guide was not congruent with the spare part in the shop. Having a display assembly with the frame already attached would be more convenient and an easier repair. Though the display without the frame is a bit cheaper but makes the guide more complex (hence the rating "difficult").

What instructional video do you mean? Is it for another device?

Tobias Isakeit -

Please sir let me know if I replace the only screen is it not effect to battery. Because someone told me if I have replace screen it should need whole cover with battery . Please tell me is it true or not

Anurudda Weerasekara - Reply

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