All right, today I'm going to show you how to take apart the Galaxy Tab 3.
This is the 7 inch version.
First you're going to take your non-marking pry tool and kind of pry between the edge
of the screen and the plastic around the outside.
The whole process will take about a minute.
There's a bunch of little clasps that you're trying to separate as you go around the edge.
I'm not going to speed it up so you can see exactly what I'm doing as I go around the
outside.
Every single part for this phone, or this tablet, I'm going to link in the video description,
so you can, if you ever plan on replacing any of the headphone jacks or speakers or
screens, you can find all the parts listed below pretty easily.
Anyway, so I'm just finishing with the last couple clasps right now, and you can see the
screen will separate from the body right about here.
And you just kind of pull the back off.
And then you see these four screws.
And these screws hold the battery into the tablet.
They're a Phillips head, so once you get those screws out take your little pry tool and kind
of lift up on the connector down below.
Be really careful with this and don't pull away from the motherboard because I've seen
that connector come loose before.
So be very gentle in pulling the battery out.
The battery has a little plastic frame around it so when you're buying a replacement it
probably won't come with that frame.
Just take off those little stickers and then you'll be able to reapply the frame to the
new battery.
Here's all the screws for the motherboard.
All Phillips head and all the same size so you don't need to worry about where the screws
actually go so get rid of those.
And here's the ribbon cable connectors.
Just pop them up and off, they're kind of LEGOs.
They'll clasp on and off.
Just pry each one of those up, that's the headphone jack and those are the buttons along
the side.
And then the motherboard comes up and away from the tablet.
Here is the headphone jack.
There's two screws holding that in so if your headphone jack is fuzzy or if it stopped working,
or if there's something stuck down inside of it or you just want to replace it just
take those two screws out and this is all that it is.
Once again the parts are listed in the video description below.
Here is the 3-megapixel rear camera.
Tiny little guy.
And then these are the speakers that are going along the bottom of the phone.
They're dual speakers.
And conveniently these little ribbon cables are very fragile.
But Samsung left a little groove underneath each one of them.
You can see me taking my tweezers right here and kind of finding that groove and you can
use like a pin or a needle or anything else just slip it under there.
You can see the double-sided sticky tape right there.
So you have to be really careful not to damage those ribbon cables.
And then the speakers just come up and away from the device.
This one has a little clasp along the right-hand side.
So it's a little bit harder to pull away.
Now, I found this part to be pretty interesting.
There's a plastic bracket up along the top that you can just kind of pull away from the
top of the tablet and it holds in the camera, the front camera, and the LED, for the flash
or the light sensor.
And you can see right next to the camera and the LED that there is a slot for a speaker.
So it makes me think that when Samsung was designing this they had, an option was to
make it as a phone instead of a tablet.
So I found that pretty interesting.
The frame has a built-in speaker spot.
Anyway, clip the black plastic piece down into place.
And that'll hold the front camera and LED.
And now this is the screen.
This is the whole screen right here.
I'm not going to show you how to separate the glass and the LED mostly because that
takes forever and the success rate is very low but if you have a heat gun and kind of
a pry tool, a separator, you can probably get the two apart.
I recommend just replacing the whole thing as a unit.
That has a much higher success rate.
Anyway you just saw me replace the headphone jack and the rear camera, just putting those
back into place.
I'm also snapping the bottom speakers into place.
Making sure the ribbon cables are in their, the spots that they were designed for so they'll
reconnect again with the motherboard.
Getting the one screw in for that speaker on the left side.
Now, the motherboard.
Make sure all the ribbon cables are, you know, above the motherboard when you put it in,
so you can clasp them down into place.
And then here's the screw layout, once again all 7 screws.
Grab the battery with the plastic bracket.
Get it into place.
Then you have those four screws around the outside as well.
And then clip the battery connector back in just kind of like a LEGO.
And then run your hand around and make sure all of the little connectors are pressed down
and snapped into place so you don't have to worry about that later, you don't have to
pry the screen up out of the frame again.
You'll hear a series of satisfying clicks as you press the screen back into the frame
and that is it.
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