Alcatel Pop 3 5.5" - Side button flex

Guide with all the necessary steps so that you can change the flex of the side buttons of the Alcatel Pop 3 5.5 (5025D) yourself.

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Tutorial: Step by step

Step 1 characteristics

Dimensiones: 77.84 x 151.9 x 9.45 mm
Peso: 165 g
SoC: Mediatek MT6580M
Procesador: ARM Cortex-A7, 1300 MHz, Warner° de nacleos: 4 
Procesador grafico: ARM Mali-400 MM, Nurnero de nticleos: 1 Memoria RAM: 1 GB
Memoria RAM: 1 GB
Memoria interna: 8 GB
Tarjetas de memoria: microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC 
Pantalla: 5.5 in, Ips, 720 x 1280 pixeles, 24 bit
Bateria: 2500 mAh, Li-ion (de Tones de !Rio)
Sitema operativo: Android 5.1 Lollipop
Camara: 2592 x 1944 pixeles, 1920 x 1080 pixeles, 30 fps 
Wi-Fi: b, g, n, Wi-Fi Hotspot
USB: 2.0, Micro USB
Bluetooth: 4.0
Localizacion/Navegacion: GPS, A-GPS

Step 2 Back case

Using a plastic opening tool, remove the back cover.

Step 3 Cards

Using the necessary tools remove all the cards from the phone.

Step 4 Intermediate housing

Remove the 13 Phillips screws (PH # 00).

Step 5

Unhook all the edges of the intermediate casing, for this use a plastic opening tool.

Step 6 Battery

Remove the Phillips screw (PH # 00) that holds the battery, lift the battery with an opening tool, and simply lifting the battery will disconnect itself.

Step 7 Cable coaxial

With the help of tweezers, disconnect and remove the coaxial cable.

We have removed it completely for convenience, but if you wish you can disconnect it only from the motherboard.

Step 8 Motherboard

Disconnect the interconnection flex and the LCD screen, for this use a plastic opening tool to lift the tabs of the connectors without damaging them, and tweezers to remove the flex cables.

Step 9

Disconnect the flex cable from the digitizer, use a plastic opening tool to lift the tab of the connector taking care not to damage it, and remove the flex with tweezers. Once all the components are disconnected, lift the base plate using a plastic opening tool.

Step 10 Side button flex

Take off the back of the buttons with a metal spike, and then with a metal opening tool, take off the base of the flex.

Video Tutorial summary

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