Asus ZenFone 2 Display Replacement

Use your fingernail to gently pry off the phone's back cover at the indicated location. While your fingernail is under the back cover slide your finger around the edges of the phone until the cover pops off.

Remove the thirteen black screws and the single silver screw from the back of the phone with a JIS size 00 screwdriver.

The black screws are 2.8 mm in length.

The silver screw is 5.5 mm in length.

Use a plastic opening tool to remove the inner phone backing.

Take the speaker out of the back of the phone. It should come out easily as soon as the inner back is removed because nothing is holding it down in place anymore.

Use a plastic opening tool to gently pry up both ends of the antenna.

Carefully remove the antenna wire from the plastic keepers along the side. Note their position for reassembly.

Using the plastic opening tool, unlock the ribbon cable attaching the battery to the circuit board by prying up the yellow tab.

Using a plastic opening tool, gently pry the vibration motor from its mount.

Gently remove the circuit board from the phone by gently pulling it away from the bottom of the phone.

Using the plastic opening tool, disconnect the ribbon cables from their connectors by gently prying them up.

Carefully remove the battery pack from the phone using your hand. The battery is glued in placed by a strip of adhesive on the top side so some force may be necessary.

Using a plastic opening tool, lift the copper sheet heat strip from the body of the phone by sticking the tool into one of the upper corner of the copper sheet and slowly sliding it along the edges.

Using a plastic opening tool, unplug the ribbon cable indicated in the picture.

Using a plastic opening tool, disconnect the display cable from the side of the motherboard by carefully sticking the tool underneath the display cable and gently pulling outward.

There are four black plastic retainers, two on each side, that keep the motherboard fix in place. To get the motherboard out, stick a plastic opening tool under one top corner of the motherboard and carefully lift upward using a small amount of force to pop this side of the motherboard out of the plastic retainers.

Once one side of the motherboard is out of the black plastic retainers, remove the whole motherboard from the phone.

Using the plastic opening tool, pry the display cable from the body of the phone.

Using a hair dryer or a heat gun, heat up the adhesive that attaches the display to the housing. The adhesive lies around the edges of the display.

Using the plastic opening tool, pry off the display by inserting the tool in between the display and the housing at the edges of the phone.

Once the screen comes away from the backing, gently slide the opening tool around the edges while prying the rest of the screen away.

Once the screen has been separated from the backing, remove the display cable out of the hole in the top of the phone body.

Using a plastic opening tool, remove the speaker grill from the display.

Place it in its designated spot on the body of the phone.

Carefully feed the antenna cables of the new display through the appropriate holes in the housing.

Reattach the phone display with adhesive. You can either use the old adhesive (if it is in good enough condition), or newly purchased adhesive (2 mm thick, double sided).