Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra Motherboard Replacement

Written By: Jacob Jung

Comments: 21

Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra Motherboard Replacement

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

Time Required

15 minutes

Introduction

This guide will show you how to remove the motherboard from your Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra. The motherboard may need to be replaced if basic functions of the phone no longer run. A heat gun or hairdryer is needed to open the back panel, which can become hot and potentially damage the phone. Additonally, a T5 screwdriver is needed to remove screws while a spudger is needed to disconnect parts of the phone.

Tools

Step 1

Wedge your finger under the bottom ridge of the SD card insert.
Pull outwards with your fingers to remove the SD card from the left side of device.

How do you remove it? (Seems obvious but write for any audience, and say how to do things instead of just what to do)

Kyle Ladtkow - 09/05/18

Step 2

Use a hair dryer to heat each corner of the phone.
Alternate heating each corner for a minute to loosen the adhesive binding the back cover to the phone.
Don't heat one area for too long; the phone may get damaged from overheating.

Consider saying “loosen” instead of “soften” so that steps 2 and 3 use the same terms. Somebody may not know that heating the glue will loosen it, and so they will be confused reading “once the adhesive is loosened” in step 3.

Kyle Ladtkow - 09/05/18

Step 3

Press a suction cup on a heated corner of the device.
Hold the phone down and gently lift the suction cup to create a small gap.
You may hear crunching or popping sounds when you lift up the back cover.

sure that there is adhesive tape on backcover?

where should it tape on at the device inside?

looks more like only plugged together`?

Alexander H - 04/12/20

Step 4

Insert your iFixit Opening Tool in the small gap between your phone and the back cover.
Lift up on the iFixit Opening Tool and insert your plastic card in the small gap between your phone and the back cover.

Period missing for first point.

Kyle Ladtkow - 09/05/18

Step 5

Slide your plastic card along the side of your phone to loosen the adhesive.
Move the card along the sides of the phone to lift all of the corners.

Can you clarify what should be repeated in this step?

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

Step 6

Lift up the back cover by lifting up the sides of the phone with your hand.
Apply a new strip of adhesive for reassembly.

Step 7

Peel off the two pieces of black tape covering the battery with your hands.

Step 8

Use the iFixit Opening Tool to remove the flexible orange strip which connects the battery to the motherboard.

Grammar, consider rewording. “Use the iFixit Opening Tool to remove the flexible orange strip which is connected to the battery from the motherboard” or “Use the iFixit Opening Tool to remove the flexible orange strip which connects the battery to the motherboard” or another alternative depending on your intended meaning.

Kyle Ladtkow - 09/05/18

exelente, a melhor aula de celular que eu vi.

wmestrecamaleao - 07/01/20

Step 9

Wedge the iFixit Opening Tool underneath the battery.
Remove the battery by pulling up on the iFixit Opening Tool.

Step 10

Remove the four 4mm T5 screws on the top of the black panel securing the antenna module to the device.

Clarify where the screws are

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

That is not the antenna module !!!

ptbgn - 19/08/19

Step 11

Insert your iFixit Opening Tool underneath the antenna module.
Lift up gently with the iFixit Opening Tool to remove the antenna module.
The antenna module may be difficult to remove.

Maybe add a caution that the module is hard to take off

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

Could use better explanation on how to take off

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

“to take off piece” change to take off the piece? Or even be specific, “pull with your hands to remove the module.”

Kyle Ladtkow - 09/05/18

also the picture makes it look as if you flip the antenna board over but it needs to be pulled up from the phone as if you bend it over it will break

Andrew Bromfield - 27/04/19

Step 12

Insert your iFixit Opening Tool underneath the front camera and gently lift up.
Remove the front camera by lifting the front camera up with your hands.

The second part of this NEEDS an action shot

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

Step 13

Remove the 4mm T5 screw connecting the headphone jack to the panel.

Step 14

Use your iFixit Opening Tool to lift and disconnect the headphone jack connector piece.
The small black piece connected to the headphone jack that is holding the single screw in place has broken off in the device shown.

“use your iFixIt Opening Tool to lift (the) head phone jack…”

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

Step 15

Insert your iFixit Opening Tool between the back camera and the motherboard and gently lift up.
Lift up with the iFixit Opening Tool until the back camera is removed from the device.

Step 16

Remove the two 4mm T5 screws connecting the motherboard to the device.

Only the bottom two screws for this part need to be removed; the top two were removed with the antenna module

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

Step 17

Use your flat head tweezers to remove the black wire connected to the motherboard.
Use your flat head tweezers to remove the white wire connected to the motherboard.
There are only two wires connected to the motherboard.

The text should locate the wires better

Tiffany Dang - 09/05/18

Step 18

Use your iFixit Opening Tool to remove the main flex (the middle orange tab) from the motherboard.
Use your iFixit Opening Tool to remove the power button flex (the left orange tab) from the motherboard.