So right now I’m going to show you the quickest way the fix an iPad (the original version.)
There are a few videos online that are super long.
I kind of shortened it down for you.
The main thing is if you’re going to replace the digitizer.
The digitizer is just the glass part.
There’s no LCD underneath.
There’s that one ribbon cable right up there at the top that fixes it, or that connects
it.
Um, all around the outside of this frame there are little clips.
Right here you can kind of see the little plastic parts that kind of poke into the metal
thing to keep it all intact.
I will show you those as I replace it around.
The version I have does not have the plastic frame or the home button, so I’ll be showing
you how to replace those as well.
So as far as getting the screen de-attached from the frame, you can kind of see that there’s
a metal part here and there’s a rubber part, and then there’s the actual screen itself.
And when you pry, you’re going to want to pry between the metal and the rubber, and
not the rubber and the screen.
I just took a screwdriver and used a guitar pick to kind of separate or put a little bit
of a gap right in there.
Then the screwdriver fits right in.
You need to have something, you know, that is substantial.
Hopefully you have one that’s a little bit thinner than this, but it needs to be able
to not bend or give at all when you pry it upwards.
And the wider the head, like the more width it has, the better.
So you can kind of see where I’m at right now.
You can still see the little plastic clips all around the edge of the frame.
There’s another clip right here around the outside.
It looks like this one actually broke off.
Didn’t need that one anyway.
So basically I would just kind of lift it up, spread it open a little bit with the pick,
put these little guys in there, and then use the actual screwdriver as my main prying tool.
If you did buy the digitizer with the frame around it, you won’t need to worry about
the old frame.
So I’m just going to go ahead and continue opening it up, just prying it up little by
little all the way around the outside.
I’m not going to lift it completely off yet though because there are some ribbon cables
underneath that I need to detach.
Now we have the iPad lifted up a little way from the screen itself and we’re going to
take apart the digitizer cable.
And right here is where the digitizer cable comes into the main board and there’s this
little lip right here at the very end.
You have to lift this up; I’ve already done it right here so you can kind of see that
it’s up in the upright position.
Then once both of those are up you can just kind of pull the ribbon cable out and it looks
like that.
This other one right here is already coming apart.
So this is for the speaker at the top.
And this is more of a clip on so it’s kind of like a Lego piece.
This snaps onto this right there.
So they’re pretty solid.
They’re not that hard to take off and they’re pretty durable so they’re not going to break
very easily either.
Just make sure you don’t put a whole lot of pressure on the upper part of this cable.
So now that we have the iPad pulled away from the back casing, we’re going to release
the LED…the LCD from the frame.
So what I’ve done is I’ve taken out these screws right here.
They’re little torque screws…little like the star head screws.
And there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7…7 of them around the outside.
And now I’m just taking my little pry tool and I’m going between the LCD and the frame
and just kind of lifting it up right here all the way around.
And you can see that it’s kind of getting loose.
You can heat it up if you want.
I’m just going really slow and lifting it up without the heat…it makes it a little
bit simpler.
So here we have the old digitizer and frame and you can see the glass.
I tried to pick it out away from the frame right here at the bottom, but it was almost
impossible so even heating it up with the gun it still wouldn’t do it.
So what I had was just the old replacement glass but it seriously would have taken me
a couple hours just to separate the glass from the frame there.
So I ended up just spending the same amount of money and getting a digitizer attached
to the frame already.
This one has the home button already installed.
All I really need to do is transfer the camera from this digitizer to this one right here
and it will save a whole lot of time.
So buy the frame with the digitizer and you’ll be a much happier person.
Okay so the digitizer and the frame has a piece of plastic that’s covering up the
top of it, so we’re going to take that off and then take the LCD that we’ve gotten
all the dust off of, and then very quickly put it right down on top of it.
So with the camera there’s a heavy duty tab at the bottom you just got to pull up.
And there’s some sticky stuff around the lens and the LED, but all you have to do is
just take it to make sure that little hole is cleaned out….there’s no dust or anything
down in there…and then just place the camera back in that slot.
So we have all the screws back in around the outside.
We got the front camera ribbon cable attached.
All the other cables….the digitizer cable is still taped to the front of the screen.
So now everything is ready to go.
All of my pins…all my brackets are set and ready to rock.
All I need to do now is connect the 3 cables and then press the screen down into place
and let it clip in around the outside.
There we go.
All you really need to do it just line up the right side first.
It kind of slips down inside of these little grooves.
Then you just gently press in around this other side and then it evens up perfectly
with everything else.
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