Huawei P8 Lite Battery Replacement

Written By: Dominik Schnabelrauch

Comments: 30

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

Time Required

25 - 30 minutes

Introduction

If your Huawei P8 Lite won't hold a charge you can use this guide to replace the worn-out battery without removing the complete motherboard.

Before disassembling your phone, discharge the battery below 25%. The battery can catch fire and/or explode if accidentally punctured, but the chances of that happening are much lower if discharged.

Tools

Parts

Huawei P8 Lite Replacemet Battery

Step 1

Use an Opening Tool and start to lever up the back cover of your Huawei P8 Lite at the bottom of your phone.

El celular no tiene ese tipo de tapa es como sellada, que debo hacer para saber si es por la pila que no agarra carga porxa

maguada1106 - 30/05/21

Wenn man langsam langsam arbeiten und vorsichtig ist, dann kein problem gibt es.Ich hätte keine Problemen zu öffnen.Das ist sehr leicht.

Athanasios Georgopoulos -

Step 2

There are clips around the whole mid frame, holding down the back cover. Open all of them with the Opening Tool.
When all clips are open, remove the back cover from the rest of the phone.
If the back cover doesn't come freely, there are probably some additional clips that need to be disconnected.

The back panel is really really easy to brake, be careful :)

romaingauthier - 17/03/18

In my mobile phone the back panel was kept in place also from 2 strips of bi-adhesive tape. Pull gently to detach it to remove the panel.

beppe modolo - 13/01/19

right. it has 4 strips of adhesive tape

Miguel Cretu - 24/07/19

To facilitate the detachment of these double-sided tapes, I recommend heating with a hairdryer along the edges of the back cover, especially at the four corners.

Nicola - 04/02/21

Step 3

Use a tweezer to remove the warranty sticker which sits on a screw in the bottom right of your phone.

The 4 screws wich hold down the lower part of the loudspeaker are Torx screws for me. But it's a French Huawei, doin' nothing like the others :)

Christopher Hourlier - 12/09/17

Die Wasserschadenindikatoren sitzen unter dem Mainboard. Bei den Aufklebern auf den TORX handelt es sich um Garantiesiegel.

Andre Richter - 25/04/18

Danke für den Hinweis, wurde so übernommen.

Dominik Schnabelrauch - 26/04/18

pour dévisser les vis cruciformes, quel taille de tournevis faut il? svp

blan - 08/07/18

Bonjour, il vous faut un tournevis ou un embout cruciforme #00 pour dévisser une vis cruciforme #00. Bonne réparation !

Claire Miesch - 09/07/18

Step 4

Remove the 4 black Torx T5 screws which hold down the lower part of the loudspeaker.
Remove the three silver Phillips #00 screws which hold down the upper part of the loudspeaker.

Step 5

Remove the loudspeaker carefully.

Step 6

Remove the three Phillips #00 screws that hold the metal plate in place.
Remove the metal plate with a tweezer.
Unplug the battery flex connector with a spudger.

Step 7

To protect your motherboard during battery removal, you can reinstall the shield plate, allowing for safer prying.
Screw the three Phillips #00 screws back into the motherboard shield.

Step 8

Use a tweezer to loosen the adhesive strip and lift it up to give you an easy grip.
Gently pull out the adhesive strip. Don't pull it in a steep but in a flat angle and with caution. It can tear in two pieces easily.
If your phone is equipped with an NFC antenna continue with the next step to get it off. Skip the next step if it does not have an NFC antenna.

Step 9

Remove the Phillips #00 screw.
Use a tweezer to remove the plastic cover.
Carefully peel up the NFC tag and remove it.
When reassembling make sure to install the NFC antenna onto the new battery and connect it.

In my case, in order to remove the NFC antenna i had to remove also the second screw on the metal pate. This allowed to lift just a little the plate and move out the NFC connector.

Roberto - 25/01/18

Auch bei mir ging es nicht wie in der Anleitung beschrieben, da die Antenne auf beiden Seiten eingefasst ist.

Julian Riedel - 22/11/18

In my case, the small black plastic cache, was glued with the nap of the buttons which is just under the cache. I totally screw the connector for the buttons, carefull removing this plastic cache !!

Pour moi, le cache en plastique était collé avec la nappe des boutons physique qui est dessous, j’ai du coup complètement pété le connecteur de cette nappe… gaffe !

yop - 25/02/19

The small black cover of my phone was also attached with a double-sided adhesive. Therefore, be careful not to force and lift gently.

Nicola - 04/02/21

We can detach the NFC antenna from the old battery starting from one of its corners, first heating it a little with a hairdryer. Then we can apply it to the new battery.

Nicola - 04/02/21

Step 10

There are three adhesive strips beneath the battery you'll need to undo. One under the top, the mid and the bottom of the battery.
Be very careful not to pry against the motherboard, you may damage surface mount components and lose functionality.
Use a Spudger to carefully start to pry out your battery.

Slip a stiff playing card(poker) into one corner of the battery and work your way through the bottom. I didn’t have the tools to remove the adhesive so this really helped. I’d tried brute-forcing my way through with the spudger and screwdrivers but that ended up almost causing an electrical fire

Jithin Thomas - 03/11/20

A playing card is a good idea that could work. But please, never ever use a screwdriver on a battery.

Tobias Isakeit - 03/11/20

To facilitate battery unstuck (which notice is attached tenaciously!), I advise you to proceed as follows. First of all, I found it easier to operate from the base of the battery (where the flexible cable connector starts) since there was a little more room to work than at other points. From here, patiently begin to perform these two actions alternately: heat inside with a hairdryer and gradually introduce a thin object (the one I used was plastic, longer than the battery and about 2 cm wide), also making movements side. If you have a contact cleaner or alcohol, you can spray some inside. You will see that little by little, with patience, you will come up above and the battery will come off!

Nicola - 04/02/21

Step 11

Undo the adhesive beneath the battery with the Spudger.
The easiest way to do so is by moving the Spudger in small movements like a lever.

Step 12

Remove the battery.
If you reinstalled the metal motherboard shield to protect the motherboard while prying, you will have to remove it to connect your new battery.
When reassembling your phone replace old adhesive with double-sided tape or pre-cut adhesive strips.

Bei Schritt 9.2 (Kunststoffkappe vor NFC-Antenne hilft es, die Kreuzschraube links neben dem NFC-Anschluss zu lösen, dann lässt sich die Abdeckung einfacher entfernen. Ansonsten funktioniert die Anleitung sehr gut.

Groej Htro - 27/06/20

Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order and apply new adhesive strips where necessary.

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10 comments

Thanks for your sweet effort

Hussien - 18/08/17

Très bon tuto ! Merci beaucoup :-)

ps : j’ai galéré a décollé la batterie

Jérôme Blanchart - 20/09/18

Hat wunderbar funktioniert! Nun läuft mein P8 Lite wieder!

2711chrissi - 02/12/18

One thing to be careful of that I just did, and screwed up my nieces phone.

You see that black square hole in the aluminium chassis under the battery? Yeah be very very careful when sticking your prying tool under the battery. The LCD us right behind it. Try and stay very far away from those holes in the chassis when you do your prying.

Her screen now has Horizontal and vertical lines right across the centre of the screen.

Sigh.

Terrence Wilson - 06/01/19

Super Anleitung, Danke kann ich weiter empfehlen!

del Grosso - 28/09/19

Great tutorial. I applied it on my P8 lite 2017 PRA LX1 and it worked greatly. I adapted some step.

Main differences are:

Step 1&2: it’s very hard because P8 lite 2017 hasn’t clips, but only glue on the edge under the cover. It’s very difficult to insert the lever under the inner part of the cover.

Steps 3 to 5: it’s not necessary to release amplifier because it’s separated from the battery.

Steps 7 to 9: they doesn’t apply

Step 10: to release the battery you must be careful of 2 stripes of contacts under the battery. Scotch tape is all along the right side of the battery and on the left side in the upper left side and in the lower right side.

Battery inclines to bend and to warp while removing it.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Pragmata Insightful Consulting - 23/10/19

salve,ho seguito alla lettera tutta la procedura ma il telefono non si accende più ne con la bat nuova e nemmeno con la sua originale,dove ho sbagliato,grazie x l’attenzione,saluti

andrea68 - 25/11/19

Ciao @andrea68 ,

Ci dispiace che il telefono non funzioni come prima. Magari puoi provare di spegnere e riaccendere il telefono e/o di fare un reset.

Se hai comprato la batteria su iFixit, rivolgiti al nostro dipartimento di supporto: eustore@ifixit.com (in caso di un acquisto sul sito europeo) o support@ifixit.com (in caso di un acquisto sul sito americano). Sarà un piacere aiutarti!

Cordiali saluti,

Claire

Claire Miesch - 26/11/19

Alright, so I just performed the “surgery” on mine. There’s a couple of things I would like to share: a) Be REALLY careful when taking the back cover as the plastic part around the camera breaks unbelievably easy. Just pry very slowly and patiently, don’t rush it. b) When prying the old battery, it’s necessary to pry back AND forth, millimeter by millimeter. It seems the tool doesn’t go the whole way in, thus why it’s needed to (very) slightly deform the battery’s edges. BE CAREFUL HERE. c) When assembling the phone again, during the re-installation of the NFC antenna, the black cover of the PCB where the antenna connector attaches, has two little flaps, it might need a very slight trimming with scissors if it doesn’t get back into the sockets where it latches. DO NOT FORCE IT IN, as this might damage your PCB and it’s better to damage one of the little flaps to damaging the PCB. All of that being said: Thanks so much for the guide!. Battery replaced, waiting for a full charge to start using!.

An G - 07/02/20

Très bien fait, Pédagogique, Bravo Dominik (de la part de Dominique)

Et très bon site IFIXIT, dans la démarche de faire par soi-même, en étant éco-responsable

Drouinot -