Google Pixel 3 Battery Disconnect

Written By: Arthur Shi

Comments: 14

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

Time Required

5 minutes

Introduction

Prerequisite guide only! This guide is part of an another procedure and is not meant to be used alone.

Tools

Step 1

Remove the five Phillips screws securing the wireless charging coil:
Two 1.9 mm screws
Two 4.2 mm screws
One 4.3 mm screw

The top 1.9 mm screw can’t be totally removed — it comes out with the coil once loosened

Dmitriy - 14/01/21

This was not true for me.

Will Herrick -

Can I leave the wireless charging coil out?

This may also allow a bigger battery!

Jex Webster - 15/04/21

You may be able to! Note that this is not only the wireless charging coil, but also the NFC antenna (the upper loop).

Arthur Shi - 20/04/21

The 1.9 mm screws are actually screwed into the head of another screw beneath them. Sometimes the lower screw unscrews instead of the upper. That leaves both screws attached to the coil. If possible you should separate the two screws and screw the lower one back in first using a small flat blade screwdriver.

Richard Elder - 13/05/21

If you decide to clean the wireless coil assembly, be aware that IPA will completely remove the printed 2-D barcode on the lower right. (Hopefully that's not important.)

Bitt Faulk -

There were 7 screws!!! The last two were both near the power button.

Emily Viehland -

Yes, I have that to, and a little black plastic part covering I port.

ekan97Kingen (ekan) -

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Nhimimana Glibert -

Hey is there any potential way to accidentally damage the charging coil. Or is there something that needs to stick together? When trying to replace my phone batter, first the new battery doesn’t work, then when I swap to the old battery, my phone wireless charging charges, for a second then doesn’t work. When I disassemble and reassemble a second time it doesn’t register anymore. My phone still has battery so it turns on but now it has no way of being charged. I don’t use the usb port cause it gets clogged n is unreliable

Adrian Ho -

Step 2

Lift up and remove the wireless charging coil.

There seems to be a small amount of adhesive holding down the camera-side edge of the coil. Used a spudger to peel it off...and some of the black film on the back side of the coil was torn away.

Jacob Dziubek - 14/06/23

Had some adhesive tape holding down the camera side of the coil. Used the tweezers and the spudger to carefully peel it off.
Also has some adhesive from the back cover edge that caught on the black film at the top of the phone (above NFC coil) - VERY carefully scraped it off with the point of the spudger while gently pulling the coil assembly away.

Stuart Clark -