Umi Plus Battery Replacement, Part 2
It's been about a month and a half since I disassembled my Umi/UmiDigi Plus E and I'm so glad that I wrote down where I removed each and every screw! The new battery arrived yesterday, after a loooot of confusion, misdirected packages, and incorrect tracking numbers! But all's well that ends well.
So, today I opened the small air cushion envelope (is that the right word?) and inside I found - surprise, surprise - the correct battery! So I went looking for the disassembled parts of my phone and found them at once. It might not look that way but there is a certain order to my office. Most of the piles in here should be labeled "to do, urgent"!
Fitting the new battery inside the case was not so easy, because the flat cable coming from it was off by about a fraction of a millimetre and those clip-on connectors are somewhat delicate, so I didn't want to push too hard. In the end I was able to connect it all the same; a quick power-on test ended with me shorting out something on the backside of the circuit board with my fingers, crashing the phone. So instead I opted for fitting the plastic shield first - four short screws in each corner, one slightly longer screw in the middle at the bottom - and then finding the charger and connecting it to the phone that was lying flat on it's back on my table. Lo and behold: It came alive immediately!
After that it was simply the matter of putting all the screws back in the right place: Two short screws at the top left & right, one medium screw with washer at the top centre/left, three longest screws at the bottom! Surprisingly only one piece was left over in the end: Some plastic clip that had sheered off when I disassembled the thing. Or maybe it was broken by the old, bulging battery. Who knows.
After powering the phone on I was greeted with about a hundred apps that needed updating. That's quite a lot, I think! It's been only two months since this thing was last powered off and I always keep my apps up to date. Other than that I'm quite surprised I managed to replace the battery so easily. It probably wasn't even worth a second article!
So, today I opened the small air cushion envelope (is that the right word?) and inside I found - surprise, surprise - the correct battery! So I went looking for the disassembled parts of my phone and found them at once. It might not look that way but there is a certain order to my office. Most of the piles in here should be labeled "to do, urgent"!
Fitting the new battery inside the case was not so easy, because the flat cable coming from it was off by about a fraction of a millimetre and those clip-on connectors are somewhat delicate, so I didn't want to push too hard. In the end I was able to connect it all the same; a quick power-on test ended with me shorting out something on the backside of the circuit board with my fingers, crashing the phone. So instead I opted for fitting the plastic shield first - four short screws in each corner, one slightly longer screw in the middle at the bottom - and then finding the charger and connecting it to the phone that was lying flat on it's back on my table. Lo and behold: It came alive immediately!
After that it was simply the matter of putting all the screws back in the right place: Two short screws at the top left & right, one medium screw with washer at the top centre/left, three longest screws at the bottom! Surprisingly only one piece was left over in the end: Some plastic clip that had sheered off when I disassembled the thing. Or maybe it was broken by the old, bulging battery. Who knows.
After powering the phone on I was greeted with about a hundred apps that needed updating. That's quite a lot, I think! It's been only two months since this thing was last powered off and I always keep my apps up to date. Other than that I'm quite surprised I managed to replace the battery so easily. It probably wasn't even worth a second article!
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