iPad Air 1 Battery Replacement By Mobile Device Rescue

All right, this is an iPad Air one, and we're doing a battery replacement. This one will not take a charge plug it in it shows the charging icon just forever, and it never does boot up. So we're going to put a new battery in it. I have it on my heating plate at 60 degrees Celsius, which is plenty hot to get the screen off you'll see on the internet. Some other people recommend 90 degrees, Celsius and, in my experience that's just too hot I did damage an LCD with it that hot before it left a splotchy pattern on the LCD that wouldn't go away, and I had to replace the LCD on my dime couldn't charge the customer for that, of course, so 60 degrees is hot enough. It's not so hot that it'll damage the battery or do any damage to the inner components, but it will get the housing hot enough to soften the adhesive, and that's all we want.

Is it just to be soft enough to be able to get this screen off without cracking it, because the screens, good, and I want to reuse it so to make sure I don't get spots on the inside I want it to be spotless both inside and out helps you notice if you've got something on the inside. If the outside is dirty, you might not notice, and you'll seal it up and clean the outside. Just to realize it. Oh, you got a fingerprint or a smudge or something on the inside, so try to keep it clean throughout and then there are ways. I'll show you before we close it up that I can clean the inside.

It's got some sort of mark here can tilt that's a scratch. I'm going to try some alcohol all right. It came off with alcohol. Those are scratches right there. Those won't come off all right.

This has flex cables that attach on this side, so to open the iPad Air. One I usually turn it upside down. So the home button is over here so that I can open it. This way, because I'm right-handed I want to start on this side and get this side free. First, when it's ready, the heat goes out to about right here, so on this direction.

It gets the whole thing heated all right now, I'm gonna start with my Isis um of tool and then once I have entry I'm going to switch to a spider with a plastic tip less chance of causing damage, and I'll start over here in this corner with a suction cup. It's not hot enough. Yet again, it's upside-down! There's the home button over there see if it's hard enough, yet there we go, so I've got entry, so I'm twisting it. That will keep me from cracking it. Hopefully that idea is to put the fulcrum closer to the part words glued down.

Wow, seems much more stuck on this side. All right now, I can turn this off set it aside and work on taking off the screen and the LCD. So I've got a triple zero Phillips head screwdriver to work on the four corners, there's a screw holding it in on each corner. Underneath this tape, I use magnets to help me track screws, keep them in order now, try not to touch the inside of that glass. The whole time you got it open, you're going to want to set that screen somewhere, probably on the inside facing down, so that it won't get me on it.

Anything on it. Oh, alright, now before I disconnect anything. This is where the battery connects. This is where the LCD and the outer glass connect under this plate. I want to disconnect the battery before anything else, so you can take out this screw right here.

Remember what screw this goes to set that on your magnet. So you know where it is, and I like to use these red plastic razor blades to pry, underneath the logic board. It is stuck down with adhesive. You can pry up and then slide it over so that disconnects the battery. So now it's safe to do other things.

Take off other components. I'm going to use another magnet to trap these three screws so now, I know which one of those go into I'll set. This aside, I'm going to use my fingernail to pull out and that'll undo the LCD connector right there, I'm I, set this somewhere safe, be careful not to damage that so now, battery's disconnected I can use my fingernails to pull up on the digitizer connections and my tweezers to get the tape off of the home button connection and disconnect it I'm going to put that right. There flip up the ZIF connector, and then I can pull it out. So now, I want to be careful with this screen because I'm going to reuse it get my suction cup off of it.

I'll put it somewhere out of the way now we're doing a battery, swap, so I'm going to take this battery out and to do that. I'm going to use my heating pad again bring it back over automatically set to 60. It always goes to that temperature. Now you don't want to use metal tools on the inside, especially on the battery. If I was using, metal I could puncture it, and if I did, that, I would have a firework, show lots of smoke and flames shooting out of this thing and that's not a good deal.

So this is plastic. It's got a beveled edge go in that direction, so I'll be able to get underneath it once the adhesives are soft and pull that out of there. Now that I've got both the glass and the LCD disconnected, it is safe to go ahead and pull out my battery disconnect her the battery does have a part that goes underneath the logic board. So I want to be really careful here, and I'm. Gonna start on this side, getting the battery up from the housing trying not to damage any of these cables here or any of this work up here.

But I'm going to want to pry this up, like that. Can you see underneath there so that I can lift over the little connector here and out from under it starting to get warm? So that was so now the batteries free from housing, but it's still on a peg which holds it in the spot there. So I'm going to use my spider to lift on a logic board, so I can lift it out there. We go bad battery out now, there's still some sticky left and that may be sufficient to hold my battery in place. It's got adhesives already installed on it.

So once I pulled this off, I don't need to add my own sticky. Let's see the little hole there, there's a peg that I've got to go on top of, but under here so use my spider again to lift the logic board up slide. That in believes, that's in place turn off my heating pad and get it out of the way. So I can see the screw hole line up, so I believe it's in spot now, before I'm, ready to seal it up. I want to test just to make sure that I do have the battery in the right position.

So I'm, just going to put temporarily oh yeah before I. Do this I don't want to connect that, while they're still juice to it, so I'm going to do like I did in the beginning and put that there to disconnect the battery so that it's safe to plug things in now, I'm going to put in the LCD just so I can see if it lights up when I turn it on. This is the magnet where I have my battery screw, so I'm going to get my battery screw ready and then connect the battery again. Now that screw will squeeze the logic board down on to the prongs so that it makes connection, and now I'm gonna carefully set this down and see if it boots up. Okay, so that's a great sign.

That means that the battery works, and it's in position, and so now I'll need to take off the LCD by first disconnecting the battery with this, and then I'm going to clean all the old adhesive up, so that my new adhesive will stick. You don't want to leave that old adhesive, or it's going to cause the new adhesive not to stick well, and then you'll have a problem with the screen coming up later and the customer will be upset so go ahead and disconnect the battery again. So this battery is almost fully charged. Came that way, so I'm going to disconnect the battery set my screw aside, where I know where it is now it's safe to disconnect the LCD set that aside and I have found the best way to clean that adhesive is to use this GU gun. Does a good job of cleaning it up so off-camera I'm going to be spraying some on a paper towel that I folded, and I want to start getting it damp, wet the glue all the way around, so that I can scrape it with a tool.

You want to be careful not to get it on the lens of the camera. It'll make it look wheel and give it a film, and it'll mess up all the photos. So if you do, that's okay, you can use alcohol and a cotton swab to clean that off, but it's best to try to avoid it all together. So now, I'm going to use my metal scrape to land I'm going to be careful if I have a slip and I puncture. This battery, we're gonna, has a firework show and a big problem on our hands.

So I have to be really careful and concentrate on what I'm doing, but all this old glue you want to get that out of there all right. So now, I can go back over it with my GU gun I'm using my fingernail to get it down in that corner. I want it up against the metal as best I can clean all that out. It's nice and smooth and ready for some new adhesive. Alright.

Now it's pretty clean when I hit it with a dry paper. Towel get all that adhesive remover the goo gone I want to get that up so that my new adhesive will stick well. You need to use your fingernail to get it into the corner, no matter. If there's any spillage or drops or fingerprints, you want to clean it up. I, don't want anybody coming in doing a repair after me, and finding a bunch of adhesives and fingerprints that are left I'll find that well huh when I come into an iPad, that's been repaired at another shop.

Quite often you'll find messes inside there, and it just looks tacky and unprofessional and I. Don't want anybody seeing anything like that, after working on a pie pad that I worked on or a phone or any device, so it's important to make it look good inside and out, so I'm going to blow some air in there make sure there's no nothing left and eat shards of glass or glue chunks or anything else. All right now, some screens come with Tessa tape already installed on them, but most don't they have a cheap adhesive. That does not work very well, and you can't really trust it. So you need to check before you install it.

If your new screen has wax paper that says Tessa and red letters, then you know it's a good adhesive in your okay sticking with the factory glue adhesive, but in this case it's a battery replacement, I'm reusing the screen. The screen has old adhesive on it, but I'm not going to trust. If I'm going to add a little of a little more of mine. This adhesive is still good, I'm, going to reuse, some of that, but I'm going to put some of my own here here here and here and maybe a little on the sides, and I'll use. This I should say Tessa on it.

This stuff is perfect. It's not going to come up. If you use this, the screen will stay down like it's supposed to he's here now. I, don't want to put it on top of the antennas. You stick it down on top of the antenna, the next guy to open it could open it and pull an antenna up and rip it and have to replace that, and it might be you that does another screen repair or a new battery, or something like that.

So you want to put it in between them, but not on them. Now. I've also got some two millimeter wide Tessa tape that I'm gonna use on these sides. Here all right with that little that I added in the adhesive that's already on the screen. It's gonna stick pretty well I'm going to set this aside.

I have got a black piece of poster board that I'm going to sit down and put the screen on top of it. I'm gonna start by cleaning the outside with my microfiber rag, to make sure that I'm not going to close it up with any spots on the inside when I move it around see, there's something on the inside there. Actually that's on the cardboard. So since I didn't touch it anywhere, it looks pretty clean. I do see something all right! That's pretty clean! The black helps me see it spots will look white if I just do it like this.

It's really hard to tell so now my battery's still disconnected I want this to sit at the same height as the iPad. So I've got an old iPhone five that I used to set my screen on top of gives me the right height and to keep from making marks on it. I'm going to hold it with this rag and plug it back in lift the ZIF connector plug in the home button again, and then I'm going to replace the tape that goes over it tape that covers up. That's really stuck that's what I wanted to stick again all right. I, almost take these back down, know that those are stuck down.

I can put the LCD back on I want the LCD back, yet my screws that hold it into place so now that I've got everything plugged in I can disconnect the battery and put the screw, and it holds that down careful of the home button. Flex, cable and lay this back into place. I can take my 4 screws and put them back in the corners lifting the tape here in these two top corners, hello, robocalls, I, get them all day. Long, don't take those all right. So now, I want to clean this LCD with my microfiber rag.

If you've got any adhesive on that rag, it's likely to spread around, so it's best to use a good, clean rag. If you can see that adhesive right there smeared a little alcohol clean that off now, it's time to pull up the wax paper off the back of your Tessa tape get ready to stick the screen down. This is a little tricky getting this back one now, let's place in this side over here, and you want to be careful of this flex capable here you need to tuck it in so that it doesn't get pinched between the housing and the glass squeeze all the way around turn it back on now. Those adhesives will stick well, but I do like to put it in clamps for a little until the customer can get here to pick it up just so that the pressure is on it, and it's making contact all the way around, and it gets best seal all right. There you go it's a battery replacement on an iPad Air 1.

It's ready to go so now, I'm going to contact the customer. Let him know he may pick it up.

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