Meizu Metal Teardown

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Meizu Metal to remove the back cover, battery, speaker, and motherboard.

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Remove the two screws next to the USB port.

Open the back cover with your fingernails, and then remove it.

The back cover features a large area of graphite cooling stickers, and the camera is secured in a metal frame to ensure that it is always in the centre.

Once the back cover is removed, you can access the internal components, including the battery, speaker module, camera, and motherboard.

Remove all screws. One of the screws is covered with a fragile label. If you damage it, you will void the warranty.

At the bottom of the body, the FPC1055 fingerprint sensor, micro USB port, speaker, microphone, and other components are integrated on the small circuit board.

Meizu Metal speaker module

FPC1055 fingerprint sensor

Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard.
Pull out this white tab and remove the battery.

The Meizu Metal comes with an 11.93Wh Li-polymer battery.

The Meizu Metal uses a magnesium-aluminum alloy frame, along with a metal back cover, which gives this phone a much higher hardness, so you don’t have to worry about the phone bending in your pocket.

Meizu Metal vibrator module

Close-up of the 13MP rear camera and 5MP front camera

All chips on the motherboard are covered by metal shields. Use tweezers to pry up and remove the metal shields.

Samsung 16/32GB ROM
MediaTek MT6795M RISC Multi-core Application Processor

MTK6169V RF chip
Skyworks 77961-11 RF chip
Skyworks 77643-11 RF chip

MTK MT6331P power management chip
MTK MT6332P power management chip