iPad Mini 3 earphone replacement and disassembly method 30 steps
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How to repair and disassemble the iPad Mini 3 earphones if you can't hear them
iPad Mini 3 earphone replacement and disassembly procedure 30 steps
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 1]
If there is no sound coming out of the earphone or broken inside, you will need to replace the earphone.
If you can remove even liquid crystal glass and panels, there is no place that seems to be particularly difficult, so please refer to it when it breaks down!
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 2]
The liquid crystal glass is only stopped by a strong double-sided tape in the main body, and there is no screw at all.
However, because double-sided tape is very powerful, it is easy to disassemble by using the tool (heat gun) in the image.
Heat gun is a thing like a powerful dryer, and the internal double-sided tape is weakened by applying heat to the place which is enclosed in a red frame by this.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 3]
After applying heat, the liquid crystal is peeled off, but this decomposition uses a suction cup (orange tool) because the glass is not broken.
However, if the glass is broken, the only way is to peel off it little by little using a tool such as an iron spatula because it is not possible to use a suction cup.
If you insert a pick etc. in the place where the glass was able to float even a little, the work efficiency will be improved because it does not adhere again.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 4]
If it is able to peel off overall, it will be able to lift the glass.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 5]
When the glass is peeled off from the main body, it becomes such a state, but it cannot be removed because the connector is still connected internally.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 6]
To remove liquid crystal glass (digitizer), it is necessary to remove the liquid crystal panel in the decomposition process.
The red circle part of the image is a screw that secures the panel, so try to remove the Phillips screwdriver.
There is a gray sponge on the right side of the image, but when you peel it off, you can see the screw.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 7]
The screw above is on the upper side, but this is the lower side.
Depending on how the glass is peeled off, the screw may be hidden with tape or magnet, but I think that it is easy to understand because it is in the same part as the screw removed by STEP6.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 8]
It is a hidden screw.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 9]
Instead of removing the LCD panel as soon as the previous screw is removed, it is a place where black tape is peeled off using a tool though it peels off because it is stopped even with the tape.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 10]
The tape is peeled off in this way.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 11]
The tape above is on the left side, but let's peel off the tape in the same way!
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 12]
I was able to peel off the tape.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 13]
If four screws and tape can be peeled off, it will be possible to cause a liquid crystal panel, but be careful because it will crack if you try to cause a liquid crystal panel at once because light double-sided tape is attached to the side of the liquid crystal.
Insert a tool such as a spatula and try to wake it up little by little.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 14]
If you can completely cause the liquid crystal, please knock it down to the glass side as shown in the image.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 15]
The heat shield is drawn in this way under the panel above.
There is a small screw in the red circle part, so let's remove all!
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 16]
I was able to remove the heat shield.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 17]
The battery and the connector of the liquid crystal panel are hidden in this part.
Let's remove it because the iron plate can be removed when the screw of the red circle part can be removed!
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 18]
The connector is connected to the logic board, but be sure to remove it from 1.
1 is the connector part of the battery, but you can easily remove the connector from the logic board by lifting it from the bottom to the top.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 19]
The LCD panel could be removed.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 20]
I think that I was able to find the red frame part as soon as I was able to remove the panel, but this part becomes a connector of the liquid crystal glass.
You can remove the connector if you try to lift from the bottom to the top.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 21]
I was able to remove the liquid crystal glass.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 22]
The earphone connector is under the front camera cable, so I'd like to remove it first.
There is a connector of the front camera in the part which is enclosed in a red frame, so remove it.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 23]
If you can peel off the tape as in the image, I think that the connector was seen, so I will use the tool.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 24]
There is a foundation around the front camera, but you can easily remove it if you make it from the bottom.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 25]
I was able to remove the front camera.
The battery is removed to make it easier to understand the decomposition in the middle, but you don't have to remove it.
Let's remove the red frame part because it becomes the connector of the earphone!
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 26]
The method of disassembly is exactly the same as the front camera of the previous.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 27]
The cable under the front camera is only fixed with double-sided tape, so it will be peeled off using the tool.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 28]
Since the cable part becomes double-sided tape as well, the tool is put down and peeled off.
[iPad Mini 3 Earphone Replacement STEP 29]
There is only one screw in the red circle, so remove the Phillips screwdriver.
