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Disassembling and repairing HTC HTV31 Butterfly 3

Heey everyone,
My phone has some serious problems. I'm talking about percentage not showing correctly, because of that the phone will go off at random. As the percentage that is shown (for example 43%) is actually a lot less (it's actually 0%). And when I try to turn it on, the phone must be charging, otherwise the chance of data getting deleted is almost 100% (I think around 85%). And with the data deletion problem comes the storage problem, because the data is probably still on there but not accessible by android or something and therefore my phone can't install updates now(the apps are all stock) even though they were on there the moment the phone shut off.
I hope you guys still understand the situation, but now my actual question
Because these problems are all the cause of a faulty battery, I want to replace the battery with a new one.
I couldn't find replacements for our butterfly 3 phone, but there are ones for the M8, M9 and M9+.
These batteries look very similar and I actually think they are the exact same size and they do have the same connector.
Since so many things are similar between the M9/M9+ and our Butterfly 3, I thought those batteries also fit our phone.
But since taking the phone apart is not easy and of course risky, I would like to ask if anyone here has taken apart a HTC (HTV31) Butterfly 3 before.
If so, could that someone please tell me how this phone can be disassembled and maybe even tell me what the size and the connector of the battery are.
I could of course just buy a new phone, but this phone is the only one on the market(!!!) that fits all my needs. And replacing the battery is cheaper than buying a new one. As I got lucky somehow that I didn't have to pay any taxes or anything when I bought it around 1.5 years ago. And the prices on ebay are definitely higher than back then.
If any of you has some other ideas to solve my problem or has a better phone with almost the same specs, then place say so
PS. If it's possible to use the battery of the M9, then I will try to put a larger capacity battery in it, as this capacity is a bit low.

you can go to taobao.com, look for the battery.
A chinese disassemble tutorial: tieba.baidu.com/p/4918349216

franspear said:
you can go to taobao.com, look for the battery.
A chinese disassemble tutorial: tieba.baidu.com/p/4918349216
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Thank you!
The website with the tutorial doesn't load unfortunately, but as I almost bought the battery for the M9, I am happy I now know they aren't the same.
Thanks again.
EDIT: Turns out that the images don't load. Do the images load for someone here? Would very much appreciate it if someone could upload the images somewhere.

I have the exact same problem with my htc butterfly 3
I am looking for a fix of the exact same problems for a long time. Havent found one. If u found a fix plz do let me know

Battery life is wrong / innaccurate

Hi,
My m9 has an issue with the battery. Basically when the battery gets down to 20% the phone may die at any point. Sometimes goes all the way down to 0% but just as likely to die at 20%.
Is the battery effed or is there a way to fix this ?
How hard is it to swap out a m9 battry?

It's definitely the battery age, it's not very hard to swap but I don't recommend to swap by your own if you don't know what that means, one wrong move and you can damage the phone.

My battery died the same way. It's a sign you need a new one. From what I've been told, you're best paying a professional to change it as the phone is quite sensitive. Just make sure you know if anything doesn't work before you hand it over.

Yeah, that's a sign of needing a new one. It's not really easy to swap it. You need a steady hand and the proper tools. Also you have to be very careful with the details, cause as everything is glued up, trying to pry something can easily break something else.
From my experience, the youtube videos that show how to replace it are not really accurate. They show replacing it only when the adhesive is already removed, which can cause you problems not knowing where the adhesive is and how to remove it. I screwed up a few parts prying the battery
Gladly almost everything is modular.

UPDATES:: Got a new battery, did a practice run on an old m9 model that was already FUBAR, swapped battery fine, made no difference at all to the situation. yay!!

Battery replacement part suggestion?

Seems I'm one of many with this phone with a battery problem and it looks like I would need to replace it.
Can anyone recommend me a site where I can get a good and reliable replacement battery?
Thanks

I would like to know an answer to this too.

claiming in....
Not really looking forward to unglue the screen, take out every single piece just to replace battery... but i don't really wanna update to a SD835 device yet... and SD845 are a long way ahead... 6-8months at least. So yeah -.- have to replace battery probably.

Reliable battery replacement?

Has anyone found a reliable battery replacement? I haven't been able to find an authentic Samsung T8220e battery.. and the third party ones I've tried won't put out enough current (if I turn the brightness up, the tablet immediately shuts off). All the listings I've found so far on Amazon are 3rd party junk batteries.

I just bought a used p600 with a piece of junk Marval Power battery that only charged to 60%. I replaced it with a used OEM battery (at the time, there was only one shop on eBay selling used batteries) and it's working fine. I haven't used any apps to measure battery health yet, but it seems to be performing pretty equally to the three other p600s I've had over the last few years. It's probably up to luck, too (based on the condition of the tablet that the used battery was pulled from).
Hope this helps!

I just ordered a battery from mister-phone on eBay, instead of the pos replacement battery I have been using for a week, I hope the new one is original as advertised

please let us know how the mister phone battery works out. i have to get another battery after actually having some good luck for a while on an ebay purchase. but one side is swollen again and the battery is all over the place. thanks

So far it seems to be the real deal, it have the same markings and shape on the frame as the original, I'm still testing it, and it's way better than the cheap one.

I bought this one on amazon, and it appears to be working. My stress test is to play a game on full screen brightness and it instantly dies with the other lousy batteries. So far, so good... but it's oos. I would recommend buying a battery on amzon though for the easy returns if it doesn't work. Also, a kit with a decent spudger. I bought this one on Amazon that has a pretty good metal one with a decent selection of mini drivers.

I ended up buying one. Battery seems to work well except I can't get it to charge passed 80 or so no matter how long I leave it plugged in for. Other than that it works well. Restarts don't do anything. Anyone e have any ideas to reset the stats or something. I am at a loss. Thanks.

Stock or custom rom?

It's been a while since you posted this, but I just recently had to replace the battery in my SM-P600 when the original battery started puffing up. The only symptom was that home button was jiggly and loose, and I thought that the housing for that button was broken or something, and was looking into replacing the parts associated with that button when I pressed on the casing on either side of the button and everything clicked back into place and the button worked properly. I then noticed the screen was slightly bulging int he middle and realized it was the battery expanding.
Anyway, the assortment still available on Amazon has pretty bad reviews, so I gambled on a new listing that didn't have any reviews except the seller has been around for a while and is reviewed very well. Received the battery, replaced it, it took a while to charge up, but it holds a charge well and stress tests (full brightness with a taxing game) fine as well. I'm happy with it. Keeps my tablet alive for a little while longer (even though I don't use it much anymore since I got my 15" Chromebook that converts into a tablet).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L67LJMK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Incidentally, I also bought the same toolkit you mentioned and it's a really good one. I've used it disassemble four different devices now and it's worked well. Good toolkit for the price.

Bad battery

The vibration motor on my Fire phone stopped working, and then I noted that the case was bulging - the screen backlight was bleeding out of the side gaps.
After removing the back (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Fire+Phone+Teardown/27458), it was clear that the battery had swollen significantly. I pried the battery out, but like many phones it won't boot without a battery installed. Now it's time to decide whether to move on or spend $15 on a questionable battery off Ebay.

Wow, that's dramatic. What did you decide to do? I had planned to replace my battery once it is bad. Seems like the thing to do if you still like the phone.

dini77 said:
Wow, that's dramatic. What did you decide to do? I had planned to replace my battery once it is bad. Seems like the thing to do if you still like the phone.
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I decided to buy a battery on eBay for $12.99. It was reasonably easy to reply (there are instructions on iFixit) and the phone is working again. I'm not sure about the true capacity of the new battery yet (its not my main phone).

henningspruth said:
I decided to buy a battery on eBay for $12.99. It was reasonably easy to reply (there are instructions on iFixit) and the phone is working again. I'm not sure about the true capacity of the new battery yet (its not my main phone).
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That's good to know, that you could do it cheaply and easily. Fire isn't my main phone either but it has a data SIM and is in daily use. I still enjoy it and plan to keep using it indefinitely. It is special because there will never be anything like it again.