Huawei P Smart Plus Repair

The Huawei P Smart Plus did something unusual for a budget phone in 2018: it fitted four cameras, two on the back and two on the front, at a price where rivals were still managing one of each. That is also the quickest way to tell it apart from the standard P Smart, which matters more than you might think when getting a repair quote.

How much does a Huawei P Smart Plus repair cost?

Our fixed prices at iExpert Repairs are:

• Screen replacement – £89
• Battery replacement – £65
• Charging port repair – £59
• Diagnostic service – £15

Each covers the part, the labour and a 12 month guarantee, with no assessment fee added afterwards.

Which P Smart do you actually have?

Huawei reused the P Smart name across several handsets and it causes more delayed repairs than any other naming issue in the range. Count the lenses: the P Smart Plus has two cameras on the back and two on the front. The standard P Smart has two on the back and one on the front.

Settings, then About phone, settles it definitively in seconds. Quote that model number when you contact us and we can confirm the correct part and price straight away. A display assembly ordered against the wrong P Smart simply will not fit, and the delay while the right one is sourced is entirely avoidable.

Four cameras, and what a drop does to them

The rear pair sit under a single glass cover, and a crack across that housing lets dust reach both lens assemblies at once. If your photographs have gone soft or hazy since an accident, that is usually the cause rather than software or the phone simply ageing.

It is worth mentioning when you get in touch, because owners rarely think to report it. The front pair matter too if you use portrait mode on selfies, since the second front lens is what provides the depth information that effect relies on.

The torch test that saves these phones

The P Smart Plus uses an LCD with a backlight, which gives you a free check worth running before writing it off. If the phone appears dead – black screen, but it still rings, vibrates or shows up when connected to a computer – take it into a dark room and shine a torch at the display at an angle.

If you can faintly make out the home screen, the backlight has failed rather than the handset. Everything on it is intact and recoverable, and you are looking at an £89 screen replacement rather than a dead phone.

The fingerprint sensor is on the back

A conventional reader on the rear panel, entirely separate from the display. A screen replacement cannot break it and no re-enrolment is needed afterwards – unlike Huawei’s later flagships, where the sensor sits behind the screen and a rushed repair can leave you with a perfect display and a reader that recognises nothing.

Battery replacement at £65

These are now several years into service and batteries are far and away the most common reason they arrive with us. The cell is bonded in with adhesive that must be eased out slowly rather than levered, and the phone is charge-tested after reassembly rather than simply screwed back together.

Confirm the battery is genuinely at fault first. A worn cell copes with messaging and browsing and then drops sharply during camera use, navigation or video calls. On a phone bought largely for its cameras, that is exactly when you notice.

Is it slow, or is it full?

Check before spending anything. A handset close to storage capacity behaves exactly like a failing one: apps crash on opening, the camera refuses to save shots, everything drags. Move photographs off, clear cached data and uninstall what you no longer use. It costs nothing and resolves the complaint more often than people expect on phones of this age.

Charging faults: cable, plug, then lint

Change the cable first, because after this many years most originals have failed internally at the strain relief. Then change the mains plug. Then look into the socket with a torch for compacted pocket lint, which we clear at no charge. Only after all three is our £59 charging port repair the right answer.

Is a P Smart Plus worth repairing?

For a single repair on a phone that still does what you need, yes. A £65 battery on a handset already set up the way you like it, with your contacts, apps and photographs in place, is fair money and it transforms how the phone feels to use. Where it stops adding up is two repairs at once – a screen and a battery together comes close to what the phone is worth, and we will tell you that rather than quoting for both and letting you discover it afterwards.

The same guarantee, whatever the phone cost

Every repair carries 12 months of cover on both the part and the workmanship, identical to what we give a current flagship. If a replacement screen develops dead touch areas, or a new battery will not hold charge in normal use, it comes back to us and we put it right at no cost. A fresh drop is a new accident rather than a failed repair, and we would rather state that plainly than bury it in small print. The parts cost less because the components cost less, not because the service is any different.

Does your P Smart Plus get hot while charging?

A little warmth while charging is normal. A phone that becomes uncomfortable to hold, or that heats up noticeably while sitting idle, is not.

On a handset of this age the usual explanation is the battery. A cell that has lost much of its capacity works harder to accept and hold charge, and that inefficiency shows up as heat. It is worth acting on rather than living with, because a swelling cell presses on the display from behind – if your screen has begun to lift very slightly at one edge, stop charging the phone and have it looked at. A £65 battery replacement deals with it, and it costs considerably less than the screen it could otherwise push out of its frame.

Where can I get a Huawei P Smart Plus repaired?

iExpert Repairs handles Huawei P Smart Plus repairs from our Essex workshop and accepts devices from anywhere in the UK by tracked, insured post. contact us to arrange it or to confirm which P Smart you have before committing to anything.

We cover Huawei repairs across every model, plus phone battery replacement, water damage repair and data recovery where a handset cannot be saved. See our mobile phone repairs page for other brands and UK-wide tech repairs for other devices.