Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

6

Time Required

                          25 minutes

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  • Scroll Wheel
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Introduction

This guide will show you how to disassemble your Anker 2.4 G Wireless Mouse to repair the scroll wheel with little to no experience required.

For help with desoldering, see: How To Solder and Desolder Connections

What you need

Step 1

              Scroll Wheel
  • Remove the stickers from the bottom of the mouse to have access to the screws, The stickers are shown in the picture by the red rectangles.

Remove the stickers from the bottom of the mouse to have access to the screws, The stickers are shown in the picture by the red rectangles.

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Step 2

  • Use a Phillips #00 to remove the 4 screws shown by the red circles in the picture.

Use a Phillips #00 to remove the 4 screws shown by the red circles in the picture.

Step 3

  • Using a plastic opening tool or spudger, on the center of the mouse, separate the upper and lower board.

Using a plastic opening tool or spudger, on the center of the mouse, separate the upper and lower board.

Step 4

  • Remove the wires from the white crimp headers, separating the upper and lower housing units of the mouse. Avoid pulling the wires too hard to prevent them from breaking.
  • Don’t pull the wires too hard, as they might break.

Remove the wires from the white crimp headers, separating the upper and lower housing units of the mouse. Avoid pulling the wires too hard to prevent them from breaking.

Don’t pull the wires too hard, as they might break.

Step 5

  • Pull the scroll wheel put parallel to the board.
  • This may take some force to remove. Pull the scroll wheel out parallel to the board rather than perpendicular to it.
  • Replace/clean if needed.
  • If your mouse still does not work after this step, then continue to the next instruction.

Pull the scroll wheel put parallel to the board.

This may take some force to remove. Pull the scroll wheel out parallel to the board rather than perpendicular to it.

Replace/clean if needed.

If your mouse still does not work after this step, then continue to the next instruction.

Step 6

  • Desolder the three pins, then solder in the replacement part.

Desolder the three pins, then solder in the replacement part.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Michal Rorat - Jun 16, 2017

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Hi Vincent, could you please help me with finding a place where this rotation sensor can be bought. I’m not even sure how this part is called so searching for it is quite tricky.

Cheers,

Michal