Introduction
If you are having issues with keeping a charge or your battery is dead, use this guide to properly replace the battery in your Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1.
Parts
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Have the front of the device facing you.
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Begin near one of the curved edges of the device (see photo two for visual example).
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Place a plastic opening tool between the front and back panels.
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Once the plastic opening tool is fully inserted, wedge it around the device’s edges to separate the panels.
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Lift the back panel off of the device.
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Remove the adhesive film and flip up the retaining flap on the ZIF battery connector.
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Slide the orange battery ribbon cable out of the ZIF connector.
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Using a Phillips #000 screwdriver, remove the ten 4 mm screws around the battery.
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Slide a plastic opening tool under the bottom of the battery close to the speakers and lift up.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
10 comments
Used this guide up until the disconnecting of the battery in order to fix the black screen of death. Very very helpful. Thank you.
If you have my kind of bad luck — where the latch for the battery flex cable connector sticks to the tape when you remove the tape, and then it will not snap back into place — don’t worry about it too much, because the connector tension will hold the flex cable in place. Just put the tape back over the top as directed.
Why does it say you need a heat gun?
To loosen the adhesive. A hair dryer works well too
AWESOME!! I was trying to open it from the “NOT OK” place and you saved me to broken the screen… thanks!!
David Leiva -
No problem, enjoy.
Roger L. Ortiz -
Felt it was easier for me to do it from the middles out.
Tanin Garcia -
@rogerlortiz You two seem to be miscommunicating. The author points out the location between the digitizer and frame in which to place a tool. While @Tanin Garcia, whom no longer seems to be member, was pointing out where along the edge from corner to corner it was best to start the separating process.
B. A. Computer Services -
Important: the display is sourrounded with a plastic frame. You need to get beween this frame an the backcover (not directly at glass edge as I tried it first and almost broke the glass). Get a closeup picture of it to clarify.
Oliver Dawid -
wer lesen kann, ist klar im Vorteil - ich hab die SD-Karte drin gelassen. Hat aber funktioniert…
Thomas Wolter -
Don’t use a very small flathead screwdriver as a spudger. Just shattered the screen :(
nikvoss -
Yes, shattered the screen. To the garbage, it goes. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. This a repair better suited for a professional repair! Thanks for helping me make the decision to get another one!
vancega -