Introduction
The Motorola Moto G7 Plus (model XT1965) features a 3000 mAh Li-Ion battery. If a user has had the phone for a long time, the phone will lose its charge at a much faster rate than when it was new and the battery may need to be replaced. If troubleshooting doesn’t work, use this guide to remove the battery from the Motorola Moto G7 Plus. This guide shows you how to remove the battery with a prerequisite for taking out the screen. Before beginning the repair, make sure the device is turned off, disconnected from any external power sources and discharged to 25% of the device’s battery life for safety. Gather the suggested tools listed below and a new Motorola Moto G7 Plus battery. Heating is optional, but makes adhesive removal easier.
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Insert an opening tool pick under the screen, starting at the top of the phone.
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Slide the pick around the entire perimeter of the display to break the adhesive.
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Once enough adhesive has been removed, you should be able to separate the screen by gently lifting it from the left side of the phone.
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Remove the three 2.7 mm screws that surround the base of the display cable using the Torx T5 screwdriver.
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Gently remove the metal piece that covers the base of the display cable.
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Underneath this metal piece is the base of the cable. Use a spudger to vertically lift the connection out of its port.
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Use the blade end of a Halberd Spudger to cut through the two strips of black tape attached to the battery.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to disconnect the battery from the phone.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
3 comments
bricked, the display is not recognized anymore after re-attaching
Mrs Glue -
as an additional information: my phone is bricked, because i severed a connection of the display, which is located at the bottom of the phone - you should only enter the pick up to a depth of ~ 2-3mm at the bottom!
Mrs Glue -
Went as smoothly as possible, thanks very much. Only the glue under the battery was a serious pain in the butt.
Dont pry deeper than 3 mm. If you are deeper and just under the glass you will damage the display. The sceen are two layers. Obe witk the veru thin glass and one with a metal frame with display. Yoy want to get under both layers to lift the screen.
Magnus Tuvendal -
Correcting autocorrect… Dont pry deeper than 3 mm. If you are deeper and just under the glass you will damage the display. The screen is two layers. One with the very thin glass and one with a metal frame with the lcd-display. Yoy want to get under both layers to lift the screen.
Magnus Tuvendal -
I don’t have a thermal gun. Here’s what I did. I wrapped my phone in a baggie and an added an oven thermometer into a heating pad and monitored the heat that way. I left it for awhile (to allow all heat to dissipate) and the heat was 189-degrees Fahrenheit. One hour, toasty warm. So I worked with that.
Harry A -
So after one hour at 180 degrees Fahrenheit the base already started buckling and removed itself from the screen. So it was easy to remove the base from the screen. There was some rubber thread that I had to remove. Because of that, I understand that now my phone is not water-tight and I need to treat it as such. But the battery replacement went fine and everything is working great after it was all placed back together. I hope to get a few more years out of my G7 plus!
Harry A -