Sony Xperia Z3 Compact Back Cover Replacement Repair Guide

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Moderate

Steps

3

Time Required

                          10 - 45 minutes            

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• Back Cover
• 3 steps

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Heat the cover glue               

• Heat up along the edges of the cover to soften the glue.
• Ideal temperature is around 120 - 150 °C for 60 seconds.

Heat up along the edges of the cover to soften the glue.

Ideal temperature is around 120 - 150 °C for 60 seconds.

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Step 2

• Place a suction cup on the back cover and pull to open a gap.
• Insert a guitar pick into the gap and slide it around the corner of the back cover to cut the adhesive sticker.

Place a suction cup on the back cover and pull to open a gap.

Insert a guitar pick into the gap and slide it around the corner of the back cover to cut the adhesive sticker.

Step 3

• Finally, remove the back cover.
• Be careful, the back cover is fragile and can break.
• It can be a good idea to wear protective glasses. If the glass shatters, it could enter your eye.

Finally, remove the back cover.

Be careful, the back cover is fragile and can break.

It can be a good idea to wear protective glasses. If the glass shatters, it could enter your eye.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Paul - Feb 24, 2015

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I think this guide shows how to open a phone that’s already been opened. I have seen another that showed all the glue between the battery and the back cover that can take a lot of effort to remove, plus once done then (if it was before) it will not longer be waterproof.

Vladimir Gorshunov - Jun 20, 2015

I replaced battery cover and I heat up new one. It looks like it become waterproof again.

Thingalong - Aug 28, 2015

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It will no longer be waterproof, unless you are using the exact same quality and amount of adhesive as the original one, and you press the back glass to the phone as hard as it was before.

If not, then it is hardly waterproof.

IanW - Sep 21, 2015

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I used a domestic hair dryer for about 2 minutes to heat the back of the phone which softened the glue enough for the rear panel to be removed. A layer of glue remained around the frame. The replacement part also had a gummed edge and stuck quite firmly without needing any pressure.

I reheated the rear to soften the new glue and then held the phone in two small clamps gently but firmly until the phone had cooled (overnight as it was convenient).

The phone is waterproof.

duesseldorfhahn - Oct 8, 2016

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Do not forget to clean the phone (remove the rest of the glue sticking on the phone). It will fit better with no old glue.