ZTE Lever Charging Port Replacement

Einleitung

Use this guide to replace the charging port located inside your ZTE Lever Z936L if it is malfunctioning or is broken.

Please verify that your device does indeed need the charging port replaced by checking to see that the device does not charge when plugged in.

Before beginning, make sure you that the device is powered off or has no charge. Also make sure to have nothing connected to the device as well which means making sure to remove the sim and SD cards if you have them.

Was du brauchst

Schritt 1 Battery

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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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Schritt 2

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

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Schritt 3

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

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

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

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Schritt 6 Volume Buttons

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

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Schritt 7

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

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

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

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Schritt 10 Power Button

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

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

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Schritt 12 Motherboard

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

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Remove the bottom plastic motherboard cover with your fingers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Schritt 20

Remove the motherboard with your fingers.

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Schritt 21 Charging Port

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Use a soldering gun to desolder the two points connecting the charging port to the motherboard.
Check out our How to Solder and Desolder Connections guide if you are unfamiliar with the process.