Manual 10 - Battery

Power down the device.

Remove SD card and place in COMPARTMENT A.

Pictures 1 & 2: Insert a wide blue pry tool between the rear case and front panel at the bottom of the tablet, an inch left of the Samsung logo. Sweep left, then insert a guitar pick to hold the left side open. Work your way right with the blue pry tool.

Picture 3: Insert a guitar pick to hold the right side open.

Picture 1: Insert the blue pry tool in the lower-left corner.

Picture 2: Work your way up to the speaker. Insert a guitar pick an inch below the speaker.

Picture 3: Continue prying up until you can see the rubber piece on the speaker (red square).

Picture 1: Use spudger to pry up upper-left corner under the pink speaker.

Picture 2: Put a guitar pick in place of the spudger to hold the upper-left corner open.

Picture 1: Insert the blue pry tool in the lower-right corner.

Picture 2: Slowly work your way up with the blue pry tool, pivoting the front panel slightly up from the rear case.

Picture 3: Create just enough space to hold the front panel just above the rear case with your fingers.

Pictures 1 & 2: Continue lifting the upper-right corner until you can wedge the flat end of a spudger in the upper-right corner to hold it open.

Picture 3: Sweep across the top with the blue pry tool, while gently pulling up the front panel with your fingers.

Remove the blue pry tools, then pivot the top edge of the front panel above the rear case.

Once the top edge reaches a 45° angle, pull it away from the rear case.

Battery cable head is fragile:

Use one prong of the plastic tweezers to wedge under the right side of the battery connector and pull it up slightly.

Lift battery connector straight up from the left side to dislodge it.

Picture 1: Peel tape up from connector and fold it back. Don't discard it - leave it attached to the cable.

Picture 2: Use blue pry tool to lift ZIF connector black bar into open position.

Picture 3: Slide cable out with your fingers.

Picture 1: Remove two 2.9 mm #00 Phillips screws securing charging port. Place in SLOT 2.

Adhesive holds the microphone (attached to the charging port) in place:

Pictures 2: Pull up the right side of the charging port until the microphone starts to stick. Pinch the microphone with your fingers and peel it up.

Picture 3: Place charging port / microphone assembly in ZONE V.

Use blue pry tool to lift the cream-colored digitizer ZIF connector bar into open position.

Slide cable out with your fingers.

Use blue pry tool to lift the black LCD ZIF connector bar into open position.

Pull cable free with your fingers.

Hold LCD and digitizer cables out of the way while removing the battery screws.

Remove ten 3.0 mm #00 Phillips screws holding the battery. Place screws in SLOT 3.

The battery lifts easily up and away from the tablet. Place battery in ZONE V.

From ZONE V, replace battery.

Replace ten 3.0 mm #00 Phillips screws holding the battery from SLOT 3.

Push LCD cable into open ZIF connector on logic board.

Close ZIF connector black swing bar.

Seat digitizer cable.

Close ZIF connector cream-colored swing bar.

From ZONE V, replace charging port cable & microphone:

Picture 2: Seat microphone first then charging port.

Picture 3: Replace two 2.9 mm #00 Phillips screws securing charging port from SLOT 2.

Push charging port cable into open ZIF connector on logic board.

Close ZIF connector black swing bar.

Replace tape.

Push battery connector straight down into its socket.

Seat front panel on rear case, charging port first.

Push center clips into place.

Picture 1: Press charging port clips into place.

Picture 2: Press clips in top corner into place.

Picture 3: Turn tablet over and continue pressing clips into place.

Examine all edges to ensure all clips are seated and the display is flush with the rear case.

Replace SD card from COMPARTMENT A.

Power up and test device.