Motorola Moto G4 Play Screen Replacement

Geschrieben von: Yordan Gil

Kommentare: 9

Motorola Moto G4 Play Screen Replacement

Schwierigkeitsgrad

Difficult

Schritte

Zeitaufwand

30 Minuten

Einleitung

Use this guide to replace a broken or malfunctioning screen. When removing the screen, make sure to wear safety glasses.

Note: Microwave only one iOpener at a time for no more than 30 seconds, and make sure to not microwave it more than once within two minutes.

Werkzeuge

Schritt 1

Open case with a plastic opening tool that has the same size as the divot located at the bottom left of the phone. If you don’t have an opening tool, use your finger nails.

Schritt 2

Lift the case by the nearest corner to the divot and remove it from the phone.

Schritt 3

Place the plastic opening tool into the notch located at the bottom of the battery compartment, and lift upwards. If you don’t have an opening tool, use your finger nails.
Remove battery from your phone.

Why are you showing this without a battery?

Brent Fast - 17/02/19

Schritt 4

Remove any SIM card and/or memory card present using your hand.

Schritt 5

Remove the small silicon cover at the bottom right of the camera using tweezers.

I eventually gave up trying to peel it back and just brute-forced a small hole large enough to get to the screw. Slightly less waterproof now :)

Slippery Jim -

Schritt 6

Remove the sixteen (16) 3mm Phillips PH000 screws securing the midframe.
Some phones have two shorter screws, one on each side of the battery (double marked with orange circles at left). If your device has these shorter screws, make sure they go back in their original holes.

Schritt 7

Remove the back panel assembly with your hands.

Schritt 8

Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the rear-facing camera connector from its socket on the mother board.

Schritt 9

After detaching the connector, carefully remove the camera using tweezers. If you don't have tweezers, use your hands.

Schritt 10

Use tweezers to pop up the antenna wire.

Schritt 11

Use the flat end of a spudger to pry up on the connector at the bottom of the battery space.

Schritt 12

Remove the two (2) 3mm Phillips PH000 screws securing the charging port.

Schritt 13

Insert the tweezers under the vibrator and gently lift up the whole part.

Schritt 14

Pop up on the vibrator's connector to separate it from the charging port.

Putting this tiny connector back in will be the hardest part of the process. I wish I had a magnifier handy when I did this because my eyes aren’t what they used to be. Very tiny part!

Slippery Jim -

For the vibrator connector, it's very important for you to pop UP (i.e., perpendicular out of the motherboard). If you try pulling the connector to the right, you risk pulling the 2 wires out of the connecter.

Allen T -

Schritt 15

Using an opening tool, pry up one of the connectors to the left of where the sim card was located.

Schritt 16

Pry up the next connector located right on top of the previous one.

Schritt 17

Using the Phillips screwdriver, remove the screw that's found next to the speaker on the top left of the phone.

Schritt 18

Using the plastic opening tool, carefully pry up the motherboard.

If you have the dual-sim version there’s an additional connector on the back side of the motherboard. So you first will have to flip it towards the bottom of the phone, disconnect the sim slot (like in e.g. steps 15/16) and then you can remove the motherboard.

okay.cool - 12/07/19

Schritt 19

Pull up the cable that connects the motherboard and the charging port.
It's on the side that's closer to the motherboard, you might need to push the cable down first, and then pull it up.

Schritt 20

Pry up the frontal speaker with a plastic opening tool.

Schritt 21

Peel the black tape up with a plastic opening tool and or your fingers.

Schritt 22

Peel the flexible black cable using a plastic opening tool and or your fingers.

Schritt 23

Peel up the small tape that's connected to the screen with a plastic opening tool.

Schritt 24

Place an iOpener on the edges to soften the screen adhesive.

Schritt 25

Insert the Jimmy knife through the edge.
Place a plastic card so that the adhesive doesn't stick back again.
Go around the edges of the device with the Jimmy knife until all the adhesive has been removed.

Schritt 26

Pull up on the LCD screen with your hands and remove it.

Abschluss

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

Tinte & Feder

Yordan Gil

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405 Reputation

4 Kommentare

The phone I just tried to fix had two digitizer connectors just like the one in this procedure, but all the replacement parts I can find on ebay and aliexpress etc. which claim to be for XT1601 - XT1609 have just a single connector. Any thoughts about why that would be?

jrhooker - 19/08/18

The smaller one is from the power and Volume buttons and needs tobe transfered to the new display if you bought one with Frame (which makes it much easier)

Marko Käppler - 03/10/18

I had to figure out that out myself. Yes, you will need to transfer the connector from the old frame to the new frame. I should also add, the frame I got had no buttons, so I had to get them from the old phone.

Joshua Rieth - 18/11/18

Good guide though I could not see the purpose of removing items 20, 21 & 22

pauldmallett -