Google Home Motherboard Replacement

ID: 108496

Description: This guide involves removing the o-ring from...

Steps:

1. Removing the lid too quickly could cause you to tear the interconnect cable that attaches the base to the top of the lid.
2. Pull off the Google Home’s magnetically attached base and set it aside.
3. Using a Torx T6 screwdriver head, unscrew the four 1.7mm Torx screws deep in the speaker recess so that you can remove the lid.
4. After all four screws are out, pop the lid off the device to open the capsule.

5. Carefully remove the interconnect cable using a pair of tweezers.

6. Remove the ‘O-ring’ that wraps around the device holding the switch panel in place.

7. Using a Torx T6 screwdriver head, unscrew the four black 1.7mm Torx screws.
8. Remove the panel and the mute button switch. If done correctly you should now be able to see the device’s guitar-shaped motherboard.

9. Disconnect the foam-padded, red and black cable that connects the motherboard to the sound driver, by squeezing and pulling on the tab
10. Disconnect the orange interconnect cable that connects the bottom of the device to the motherboard by pulling straight out on the orange tab.

11. Using a Torx T6 screwdriver head, unscrew the five silver 1.7mm Torx screws keeping the motherboard in place.
12. Remove the motherboard.