Asus ZenFone Zoom Teardown

DavidDecember 23, 2015

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In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Asus ZenFone Zoom to remove the back cover, speaker, battery, camera, and motherboard.

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After turning off the phone, we started prying open the back cover from the lower left corner and using nails to lift it off.

The back cover was removed.

Some people are worried that the connection between the phone body and the back cover is not strong enough, and that the back cover may come off when the phone is dropped. The back cover features eighteen clips, which are specifically designed to secure it to the phone body, so there is no need to worry.

Remove all screws securing the middle frame.

After removing all screws, insert a pick under the middle frame and slide it along the edge to remove the middle frame.

After successfully removing the middle frame, the internal design seems to be very reasonable. More importantly, we found that the volume of the camera module far exceeded our expectations.

There are sixteen screws securing the middle frame.

Remove the flash and laser autofocus module.

Uncover the flexible printed circuit. It would be able to remove the flash and laser autofocus module.

Close-up of the flash and laser autofocus module

The Asus ZenFone Zoom camera module is covered by a protective cover.

The SIM card slot and TF card slot were secured on the flexible printed circuit board. The board was secured on the battery.

Asus ZenFone Zoom has a hanging hole.

We noticed that there is a watercolor sticker on the headphone jack, but the sealing of the jack is not very good, and I still have concerns about its tightness.

Compared to the iPhone 6 Plus’s rear camera

Disconnect the battery connector and circuit board from the motherboard.

In this step, we remove the eight screws securing the motherboard.

When the screws and cables are removed, the motherboard cannot be separated. Then we realized that we should remove the camera first.

The camera module of the ASUS ZenFone Zoom has three cables. The board should have an independent ISP for processing images, stabilization operations, and zoom drive.

ARM and Taiwan words written on a chip of the board, it should be an ISP.

Remove the camera module’s protective cover.

Now, the motherboard can be removed.

Remove the camera module.

The front and back of the Asus ZenFone Zoom motherboard are both covered with a metal shield.

The camera inside has up to 10 HOYA lenses.

Now, we will disassemble the camera module.
Remove the six screws.

As described in the official press conference, all lenses are arranged vertically. Why arrange it so?

From this angle, we can see the internal structure of the zoom lever.

Remove the battery.

Just someone asked whether to replace the battery. The answer is yes. But first, you need to separate the metal shield from the battery and install it on the new battery.