Difficulty

Difficult

Steps

20

Time Required

                          30 minutes

Sections

4

  • Battery
  • 5 steps
  • Volume Buttons
  • 4 steps
  • Power Button
  • 2 steps
  • Motherboard
  • 9 steps

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Scenic Route

This guide’s procedure isn’t the most efficient way to get the job done, but still may be useful in some circumstances.

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Battery
  • Remove the SD card and the Sim card from the device.
  • The Sim and SD cards are not shown here as our device did not come with them.

Remove the SD card and the Sim card from the device.

The Sim and SD cards are not shown here as our device did not come with them.

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Step 2

  • Use an iFixit opening tool to separate the back from the device.

Use an iFixit opening tool to separate the back from the device.

Step 3

  • Remove the two 1.6mm Phillips #0 screws from the battery plug cover.
  • Remove the cover.

Remove the two 1.6mm Phillips #0 screws from the battery plug cover.

Remove the cover.

Step 4

  • Disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Step 5

  • Use your hands, or a plastic opening tool, to pry the battery from the phone.

Use your hands, or a plastic opening tool, to pry the battery from the phone.

Step 6

              Volume Buttons
  • Remove the three 1.6mm Phillips #0 screws from the plastic cover on the motherboard.

Remove the three 1.6mm Phillips #0 screws from the plastic cover on the motherboard.

Step 7

  • Remove the top plastic motherboard cover using a plastic opening tool.

Remove the top plastic motherboard cover using a plastic opening tool.

Step 8

  • Use a plastic opening tool to flip up the retaining flap on the volume ribbon cable ZIF socket.

Use a plastic opening tool to flip up the retaining flap on the volume ribbon cable ZIF socket.

Step 9

  • Peel up the volume button cable from the phone with hands, or plastic opening tool.

Peel up the volume button cable from the phone with hands, or plastic opening tool.

Step 10

              Power Button
  • Disconnect the power button from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Disconnect the power button from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Step 11

  • Peel the power button cable up from the phone with you hands, or a plastic opening tool.

Peel the power button cable up from the phone with you hands, or a plastic opening tool.

Step 12

              Motherboard
  • Remove the seven 1.6mm Phillips #0 screws from the plastic cover on the bottom of the motherboard.

Remove the seven 1.6mm Phillips #0 screws from the plastic cover on the bottom of the motherboard.

Step 13

  • Remove the bottom plastic motherboard cover with your fingers

Remove the bottom plastic motherboard cover with your fingers

Step 14

  • Disconnect the camera from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Disconnect the camera from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Step 15

  • Disconnect the display cable from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Disconnect the display cable from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Step 16

Step 17

  • Disconnect the rear speaker cable from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Disconnect the rear speaker cable from the motherboard with a plastic opening tool.

Step 18

  • Pry the motherboard cell battery from its position on the case of the phone

Pry the motherboard cell battery from its position on the case of the phone

Step 19

  • Using the plastic opening tool, pry the motherboard up, sliding along the edge to separate the pieces.

Using the plastic opening tool, pry the motherboard up, sliding along the edge to separate the pieces.

Step 20

  • Remove the motherboard with your fingers.

Remove the motherboard with your fingers.

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

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Roger Knight - Mar 5, 2020

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Those are excellent instructions but I need to know where at on the motherboard is the internal memory storage cuz my phone is so screwed up that it won’t charge or turn on or anything lol,so I got a different phone n got my SD card out of the ZTE n put in my new phone and there are some pics that I really need,but I was wondering if there was any way possible that I could put the SD card back in the ZTE motherboard and some how move the pics onto my SD card so I can have them on my new phone.This is killing my brain on trying to think of ways to succeed n can’t please get back to me,,,thanks.

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