HTC 10 Mobile Phone Battery Replacement 

Pleased it helped you.

Glad I could help.

Thanks for your comments, happy it helped.

Slow and steady is the name of the game for the whole repair. Thanks for the comments.

You're right, there's no money in them! Thanks for the comments.

It's not an easy thing to do, well done. Most of the battle is taking your time and being careful. Great job!

How its the battery after the replacement? My htc 10 is shutting down at 70% :/

@@juanmanueldominguez4976 Clear the cache in the boot loader menu. Just google it for step by step instructions.

@@blackstone4823 I try everything. Phone need a battery replacement. This tutorial encourages me to do it! Greetings from Argentina!!

@@juanmanueldominguez4976 I'm guessing you have a bad battery. Return it and ask for a replacement. Your problem happened to me with another battery for a different brand. The seller sent me another and it worked just fine.

Thanks for the positive response, much appreciated.

You're welcome. I'm pleased it helped.

Quick follow-up: I failed. The HTC is no more, and I'm on a Motorola since a few months... I'll be very happy once EU finally passes the law that makes electronic consumer goods more repair / maintenance friendly!!!

You're welcome.

That's great, we'll done, it's a tricky procedure. If you're really keen (but I wouldn't advise it) you can split the screen into its various layers from the back, they just peel apart. It's unlikely that you actually damaged the lcd part, the black spots are normally marks on the back light dispersion layer from prying when getting the screen off. It's normally tape or glue or dust. I use a cotton wool bud to clean it or compressed air to blow it out. If you're happy, don't bother though. Thanks.

@@blackstone4823 I'm glad it works again, I won't touch the inside again xD

You're welcome. I actually modified my technique so I didn't pry in that top area. You can actually just work around the charger socket and then lift it out. We'll done anyway, it's not easy!

No problem, glad it helped.

Thanks. It's not so bad after the screen is off. Getting the screen off without damaging it is tricky. Some just stop working for no apparent reason because the ribbon cable can't cope with bending, and fractures inside. The older the phone gets, the harder it seems to be. Have fun!

Lol

The screen can stick to the backing and when you attempt to lift it, those bits of tape pull apart, sometimes leaving you with lots of layers of LCD screen to put back together. The main problem is keeping them clean! Glad it went well for you, it's not the easiest of repairs.

No problem

Haha! My 8 year old son plays the competition chess. Hope you got your battery sorted.

How its the battery life with new battery?

@@juanmanueldominguez4976 better than before, but I have to buy a new one because the one I bought isn't an anthentic one...(if you want to have a really better battery life, take care of what you buy, the cheaper will not be the better I think...)

@@SuperLoicking hi. may i know how can you got original battery htc 10.? cuz i want buy original battery htc 10. but i don't know how can i buy it.?

@@Joshgun_Nabatov hello, I don't know how to find an original battery on internet. Nevertheless I searched on the web and found 2 brands that seems to be of decent quality : CameronSino's batteries ("X-Longer" batteries, model no CS-HTM110SL, you can find one on Alibaba, Amazon), or Hsabat's batteries (that you can find on Alibaba and maybe on amazon). You can also check the xda thread on HTC 10's battery replacement (where I found the Hsabat's brand) : forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/htc-10-replacement-battery-t3792222 I did not bought a battery yet, because of the opposing opinions that I found... Hope this can help you

@@SuperLoicking thank you so much bro. :)

Thanks

No you don't need a template, and I don't use one anymore because it is not good enough. I carefully clean off any lumps of old glue and then put a small bead of glue all around the edge, including where the ribbon cable is (can be tricky, do it there first with the screen in the closed position). I also put one bead just above the LCD panel being careful not to obstruct the speaker, camera and sensors, and one bead just below the LCD panel to prevent light bleed from the haptic keys. Position the screen carefully and press in to place. I then place the phone screen down on a flat surface with some heavy books in top for a few hours. I would carefully glue the power button on to hold it in place, but it might work with no glue. The case does hold it well when assembled, but the phone needs to be screwed down well for the power button to work properly. Glad the video helped, good luck with the final stages. Thanks.

@@blackstone4823 Thank you for your fast reply! I will try with your solution and let you know how it worked. Have a nice day! 👍🍻

You're welcome.

Hi, sounds like you've had your fair share of HTC 10 fun! The power board getting hot is bad news and is normally caused by a short in the ribbon cable connector where it connects to the main board. When installing the power board, did you connect the ribbon cable with the battery connected? The battery must be disconnected at all times. Anyway, there's nothing you can do about it now except look to see if it's straight and pushed in properly. Unfortunately you can't charge the battery when it is disconnected via the cable, its a very complicated and electronically controlled process. If the data is important, all I can suggest is sending me the phone (if you're in the UK) and I'll do my best to get the data off. I have one here half in bits to help! All the best.

@@blackstone4823 Thanks very much for the reply. And offer of help! Unfortunately, I'm in the States. Maybe our discussion will help someone else who reads in future. The battery was never connected while we were replacing anything. And a correction -- the phone back was getting hot while I was draining that new battery, but the power board actually never responded; it was as though it wasn't connected. Not sure it was getting hot or not. My partner is an electronics engineer. I understand that you need a circuit to control charging a Lithium Ion battery. Along with the battery, power board, and screen, my partner had bought some little charging boards (intending to charge up that battery before installing). But the connections are extremely difficult so we didn't try that out while attempting rebuild of the phone. (Thus it came up at 57%; we were lucky we got any appreciable power.) Now that our rebuild did not work, there was nothing to lose, we thought. Last night after sending this question to you in comments, we were trying to connect one of the little charger boards to the new battery (all unplugged, of course). But upon touching with light force to make the connection, the black plastic part of the connector on the new battery's ribbon cable actually disintegrated. ( Same thing had happened to the connector on the first power board we tried before -- that black plastic must be getting old?! Never seen anything like it. Are all surface mounted connectors fragile near to one-time connectors? A moot point, I guess.) So... now I have a new battery with broken connector, and the original bad battery [ using a meter to test] with a good connector. Without getting into the silver packaging or chemistry of the old battery, we managed to remove the "end cap" circuit with ribbon cable of that old battery. It was taped on fairly strongly. It's just got two conductive tapes about 8mm (?) on the battery end for +/- that actually are accessible. We're assuming the little linear circuit board (teensy tiny parts!) is the temperature sensing part. So there we stopped for now.

@@rwind656 I think that most phones are one-time phones, never mind the connectors. They are never supposed to be opened, the phones lasts the contract period and that's it. It's a shame as I'm still using an HTC10 that is nearly 5 years old and it's great, I don't need anything else. I think more stuff should be repaired and re-used rather than thrown away. All of the internals are pretty fragile, it's difficult to dis-assemble and re-assemble without breaking something on your first attempt. You're lucky to have an electronics engineer on hand. I think that the linear circuit board is also the under and over charge protection circuitry. How much did the new battery cost you in the States? If the data is valuable, I can send a charged battery over so you can get the data off. It'll probably take about a week.

@@@blackstone4823, thanks very much. You did well to keep your phone in operation! Kudo's. I think I got most of my data off but I was having trouble with the USB-C cables transferring data to my desktop for a long time -- without realizing that some cables will only charge, not pass data. Duh. So I had not pulled everything off routinely. And had not kept up with backing up in other ways. Silly of me. We'll see later if I have salvaged my contacts list; I really think I might have saved everything else, and I might have the contacts as well, though the last time I migrated to this phone, it was garbled data. Fields missing and misplaced. Thanks for the offer to help; let's see how far we get. The new battery was ... something under $20? The screen was pricey-- pricier, and sure enough we separated the original on the first opening. I will ask how much it all cost, as I lost track and did not do the ordering -- I might miss a detail so I let my partner do the ordering. Today, as I was writing you, my partner ordered another power supply and we are going to attempt charging in some fashion (though I was pretty sure we already had an adjustable supply -- there must be a reason -- perhaps something more controllable). I know you don't want to overcharge and as well as +/- on the outside edges of the battery connector's ribbon cable, there were two other labels on the narrow little middle conductor. "ID" is perhaps an identifier for USB-C to say which way the plug is inserted by the user. [ I think from a search Look down below the drawings of plugs, a paragraph... batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_from_a_usb_port.] And "TH" has to do with the temperature sensing. Interesting. My partner suggested that just supply pos/neg might not be enough -- if the temp data is not supplied, or reads wrong, perhaps the phone will not operate. I guess it's become as much an electronics mystery project at this point.

The battery was the HTC10 oem battery from Replacebase. The glue template is not good enough, I had to glue it properly a few days later with T7000 which you can get from the same place instead of the template. The battery continues to perform very well.

@@blackstone4823 Useful info, thank you.

Replacebase appears to no longer list this battery. Newegg lists a supplier that sells an OEM part.

I didn't use the glue template in the end, it didn't last. I stuck it on with B7000. Just run it all around the edge, including under the screen ribbon, in as small a bead as possible. Good luck.

Hi, It does look easy, but it's a waste of time as it doesn't stick well enough, and the screen starts to come off. In the end I just used B7000 glue to stick it down and then put some heavy books on top until it had set. Don't worry about a bit of glue getting on the phone, you can scrape it off afterwards. The glue is available on Ebay. Thanks.

I used B7000 glue, it worked better than the template. The tools are readily available on places like Ebay or mo ile repair sites. Thanks.

I bought it from here: www.replacebase.co.uk/htc-one-m10-replacement-internal-battery-b2ps6100-3000mah-11-55wh-oem

I'm not sure about that.

I got mine from Ebay.

Probably nothing, although might be NFC as they can just look like a sticker.

I'm afraid I've never found a solution except to replace the screen. The ribbon cable breaks inside when it is moved doing the repair. Copy screens are cheap, genuine ones are expensive and not worth it. Sorry it didn't work out for you.

I'm sorry, I wouldn't know in India.

The most important thing is to take your time and be careful, don't rush at any stage. I think it would take around 2 hours.

@@blackstone4823 thanks so much for the reply

It took me about 4 hours, but that includes watching this 40 minute video about twice while performing the replacement.

Depends where you are. Loads for sale on Ebay.

@@blackstone4823 I am in Nigeria

@@valentineiro370 sorry, not sure I can help you there.

Yes, I have successfully used a hair dryer, but be careful by angling it off the edge of the phone rather than into the middle.

@@blackstone4823 I just did it! Great tutorial! But i damaged the screen at the top right corner where the clock is. I think i got under the screen with the plastic at the beginning when i tried to remove the screen. Damnit this thing is a hell to repair. Is there one more complicated than this? 😄

@@derFuchsi Big shame! Yes, I suppose it is a difficult phone to change the battery. HTC never intended it to be done. 2 years and then throw it away I think! If you really want the phone, you could buy a replacement screen I suppose, but that's another job to do! All the best.

Lol!

It's not easy, good luck!

@@blackstone4823 I live in Pakistan can you tell me from where can i buy OEM genuine battery ?

The bottom ribbon is always glued to the screen around the buttons, the heat you apply normally makes it peel away quite easily, without heat you'll probably break it. I'm not a phone fixer, just sharing my personal experience. In fact all the HTC10s I have fixed have been for free. I made it as clear as I could to help anyone out there keep their HTC10 in service.

@@blackstone4823 OK so why didn't you mention that it was ALWAYS glued in your video. You said sometimes both sides (maybe) The button on the other side no problem to unglue on mine even tho' you never had any. The other side didn't show you prising apart the ribbon from screen via the centre button...the video skipped a few frames. Everything else was manageable and you leave out the most difficult part!

The back doesn't pop off, so what's your next plan genius?