Huawei P9 Teardown

The Huawei P9 was released in April 2016. It is the successor to the Huawei P8 and maintains almost the same design. However, it introduced a dual-camera system co-developed with Leica on the rear and added a fingerprint sensor. The phone features a 5.2-inch Full HD AMOLED display, a built-in 3000mAh battery, and runs on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system.

Today, we will show you how to disassemble the Huawei P9 and also check what other surprises this phone brings besides the dual Leica camera.

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Huawei P9 Disassembly Steps:

Tools needed: Screwdriver, tweezers, crowbar, suction cup, guitar pick

1: Remove the SIM card tray
Remove the SMI card tray with an eject pin.

Card tray design: SIM 1 is for a Nano-SIM card, SIM 2 is for a Nano-SIM card and a TF card.

2: Remove the back cover
Remove the two screws beside the USB Type-C port.

Use a suction cup to hold the front panel of the phone and pry open a small gap. Insert the pry tool into the gap and slide it along the edge. Once the side is fully opened, the back cover can be removed.

The fingerprint recognition module of the Huawei P9 is fixed on the back cover. Before completely separating it, the fingerprint recognition module cable needs to be disconnected. The Huawei P9 uses the FPC 1025 fingerprint recognition module.

Disconnect the fingerprint recognition module cable from the motherboard.

3: Remove the motherboard and front/rear camera

Remove all screws that secure the motherboard.
Disconnect them from the motherboard one by one: 1. Battery, 2. Main FPC, 3. Screen, 4. Side button, 5. Front camera, 6. Rear camera.

The back side of the motherboard
SoC: Kirin 955, 8 Cores, Mali T880 GPU
RAM: Micron 4GB LPDDR4
ROM: Samsung KLMCG4JENB B041 64GB eMMC 5.1
HiFi: Hisilicon Hi6402
Power managing IC: Ti BQ25892
R-f amplifier: Skyworks 77621

The front side of the motherboard
Wi-Fi & Bluetooth/FM: Broadcom BCM4355XKUB
CDMA base-band: VIA CBP8.2D
CDMA RF: FCI FC7712A
RF send-receive: Hisilicon Hi6362

The dual 12MP rear camera features an F/2.2 aperture, a Leica lens, a dual-color temperature LED flash, and supports laser focus.
8MP front camera: F/2.4 aperture.

4. Remove the loudspeaker module
Disconnect the loudspeaker from the motherboard. The loudspeaker is fixed to the back cover with acrylic foam tape.

Close-up of the loudspeaker module.

5: Remove the sub-board, audio jack, and vibrator
Remove the screw securing the sub-board, and remove the vibrator and audio jack.

Audio jack and vibrator

The battery is secured with double-sided adhesive tape.

Battery rated capacity: 2900mAh, typical capacity: 3000mAh.

Remove the main FPC and coaxial cable.

Huawei P9 internal parts

The Huawei P9 disassembly process is now complete.