Sony Xperia Z2 Disassembly

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble Sony Xperia Z2 to remove and replace the back cover, battery, camera, speaker and motherboard.

Compared to Sony Xperia Z1, the Sony Xperia Z2 did not change significantly, but it’s use 5.2-inch IPS screen.

 Sony Xperia Z2 is still using the glass back cover, with a 20.7 million pixel rear camera.

To remove the back cover, you need to use a very thin metal bar. The rear cover is glued on the phone body. You need to pry it up.

Be very patient. We have successfully removed the back cover.

 After opening the back cover, you can see the Z2’s battery and motherboard, the motherboard is wrapped in a tightly shielded metal cover, the battery pack is also wrapped by yellow tape.

 The rear glass panel of the Xperia Z2 is very thin.

The motherboard is wrapped in a tightly shielded metal cover.

 Sony Xperia Z2 battery, speaker and vibrator

Remove six screws.

 Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard.

Remove the battery.

Sony Xperia Z2 comes with a 3200mAh Li-polymer battery.

Once the battery was removed, you will need to disconnect the remaining cables and parts. This is to ensure that you don’t damage the motherboard.

 Sony Xperia Z2 rear camera

The back of the motherboard

 Here is the front view of the motherboard. It shows all of the ports, including microSD memory card slot, micro SIM slot, micro USB port and front facing camera.

After removing the motherboard, you can see the 3.5mm headphone jack.

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 The speaker and vibrator

 Another speaker and vibrator

 

This is the RF cable, used for enhance wireless signals.

Remove all metal shields covering the chips.

 Here you can see the chips on the back of the motherboard.

 

Qualcomm PM8941 power management chip

Samsung 3GB RAM (K3QF7F70DM-QGCF)

NXP TFA9890 speaker chip

 Samsung 16GB memory, model: 340 KLMAG2GEAC-B001

 Qualcomm WCD9320 audio decoder

Skyworks SKY77619 multiband multimode power amplifier

 Skyworks SKY77753 power amplifier

Qualcomm RF Transceiver (WTR1625L)

Qualcomm PM8841 power management chip

 Qualcomm WTR2100 LTE chip

 Qualcomm QFE1101 PA power management chip

 2.2MP front camra

 Xperia Z2’s micro SIM card slot

 Xperia Z2’s micro SD memory card slot

 Xperia Z2’s micro USB port