Sony Xperia Z3+ Dual Teardown

DavidJune 30, 2015

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In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Sony Xperia Z3+ Dual to remove the back cover, battery, camera, speaker, and motherboard.

The first step is to open the dust cover on the left side.
Remove the SIM card tray. Heat the back cover, then remove it with a suction cup.

The Sony Xperia Z3+ Dual features a tempered glass back cover, which is extremely flat and smooth. The surface of the back cover has undergone a special waterproof coating treatment, causing water droplets to coalesce into teardrop shapes when rainwater comes in contact quickly.

Now, you can access internal components, including the battery, camera, speaker, and motherboard.

Disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard and then remove the battery.

The Xperia Z3+ Dual comes with a 2930mAh battery. The model is AGPB015-A001, manufactured by HanrimPostech Nanjing using LG Chem cells.

Remove the screws securing the motherboard, then use tweezers to pry up and remove the motherboard.

Now, remove all small components from the phone body.

The 3.5mm headphone jack is specially customized by ALPS.

The back of the earpiece is also covered with waterproof foam.

Wireless antennas

Rear camera and front camera

Speaker module

The 5.2-inch IPS display comes from AU Optronics, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080. The LCD panel model is H515DAN03.0.

Red: Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994 processor + Samsung 3GB DDR3 SDRAM
Green: Qualcomm PM8994 power management chip
Yellow: Silicon Image WCD9330 audio decoder chip
Brown: Qualcomm Sil8620 HD output chip

Toshiba THGBMFG8C4LBAIR 32GB ROM
NXP PN544 NFC chip
Qualcomm PMI8994 power management chip
Qualcomm WTR3905 Low-power RF radio frequency receiver
Qualcomm QFE1040 diversity antenna switch
Qualcomm QFE3335 Independent RF power amplifier
Qualcomm QFE3345 Independent RF power amplifier
Qualcomm QFE1035 antenna switch
Qualcomm QFE1045 antenna switch