Dominik Schnabelrauch

Hi Benjamin,

thank you for mentioning, you’re completely right. I made an edit accordingly.

Hi danreilly,

in case you don’t want to buy custom cut adhesive for this, you can use regular double sided adhesive tape.

Hi Einar Ryvarden,

in case you bought a used or refurbished phone, someone might have forgotten to put them back in. Since you have holes at the bottom edge next to the charging port this is likely. You can try to start with step 2 and see if you can lift the phone assembly (don’t forget to remove the SIM tray first). As far as I know there is no version of the regular Huawei P10 with no screws. However you there are none in the P10 lite and in the P10 plus, maybe one of the opening procedures for those phones might help you.

Hi Cheney Xian, I added a photo of the dismantled board in step 10.

Hi Ai Lang,

thanks for your comment and chip IDs. I’d say its likely a Goodix fingerprint sensor. However I removed a metal shield next to the fingerprint connector and the number on the chip says “GD L4CE 2015”. Didn’t really find anything else but maybe it helps you to exactly identify.

Hi xiajinggai, thanks for your question. The model we used for the teardown in Europe was: NOH-NX9.

Hi Lucas,

a hair dryer will do the job. However take care not to overheat your phone. Heat to screen a little and check if you can remove the battery. If not, repeat the procedure.

Hi Tomas,

thanks for mentioning, i added a precut adhesive card.

Hi Avram,

there is a little bit of adhesive underneath the edges of the back cover, however it doesn’t require heating to soften it. In case the back cover doesn’t come of straight away it won’t help to apply an iOpener to further soften the adhesive but requires a little bit more force to open the plastic clamps.

Hi Toh Mah,

the adhesive in the replacement battery kit is double sided pre cut tape which works fine when replacing the battery. There is no need to use adhesive tape as large as the original one, which is a pull tab. However thinking of the battery removal I advice not to overuse any adhesive tape when putting the battery back in place (as long it’s not the original one). The original tape makes future battery removals a bit easier. In case you replace it with any other adhesive tape (too much of it) a second battery replacement becomes more complicated because of the cables running underneath the battery. I recommend to use just enough of the tape to hold the battery in place and to apply it onto the mid frame where no cables are running. In this scenario every double sided tape will do the job. Sometimes the original tape is still sticky enough to reuse it.