Apple iPad mini 4 Teardown

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Apple iPad mini 4 to remove the display assembly, camera, volume button, speaker, battery, and motherboard.

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The iPad’s screen and body were fixed with glues, so we used a heat gun to heat up the edge of the display.

Heat it up for about 5 minutes.

Opened the display assembly a little bit with a suction cup and inserted a guitar pick between the display assembly and the base.

Sliding the guitar pick by the edge to continue to open the display.

Now you can open the display assembly. Be careful, as the LCD and touch cables are still connected to the motherboard.

Remove the LCD cable cover.
Disconnect the LCD cable and touch cable.

The display assembly was removed completely.

The display assembly integrated a touch ID, touch component, display components, and screen cover. Because the touch ID is fixed on the display, it is very difficult to replace it.

The touch ID

Before touching the internal components, you should remove the battery first.
Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard.

There are some black tapes.

Remove all the black tape.

Remove two screws.

Remove the cover. You can access the rear camera cable, front camera cable, and headphone cable.

Disconnect the rear camera cable, front camera cable, and headphone cable.

Disconnect the volume button cable.

Disconnect the RF antenna.

Remove eight screws.

Remove four screws securing the speaker module.

Remove the rear camera.

Power button module

Rear camera and front camera

Remove the RF antenna.

Disconnect the speaker cable.

Remove the left and right speaker modules.

Compared to the iPad Air’s speaker.

Remove the battery.

Heat it up for about 5 minutes.

Now, the battery was removed.

The IPad mini 4 uses a 5124 mAh Li-polymer battery.

Remove the motherboard.

Double-sided adhesive fixed

Remove the volume button.

IPad mini 4 motherboard

Remove the metal shield.

For more guides, check out the iPad mini 4 device page.

Source: zol.com.cn