Installing iPad Wi-Fi Speakers

Installing iPad Wi-Fi Speakers Replace your iPad Wi-Fi's speaker assembly. Replace the speaker assembly and restore sound to your iPad.
Sections: Display Assembly 8 steps Dock Connector Cable 5 steps Speakers 5 steps	Tools: Metal Spudger Plastic Opening Tools T5 Torx Screwdriver
Step 1 — Display Assembly Insert a metal spudger between the top edge of the display assembly and the rear panel assembly. Rotate the spudger away from you to release the tabs along the top edge of the display. Insert a second metal spudger between the top edge of the display assembly and the rear panel assembly to keep the tabs from snapping back into place.

Step 2 With one spudger, work your way along the right edge of the iPad, releasing tabs as you go.

Step 3 Lift the display assembly away from the rear panel assembly by its bottom edge. Do not attempt to remove the display at this time, as it is attached to the rear panel assembly.

Step 4 In the following steps, you will disconnect the three cables attaching the display assembly to the logic board. The cables are for the following components: Digitizer Ambient Light Sensor Display Data Cable

Step 5 Use the edge of a plastic opening tool to flip up the retaining flaps holding the digitizer ribbon cables in their sockets on the logic board. Be sure you are flipping up the retaining flap, not the socket itself. Pull the digitizer ribbon cables straight out of their sockets.

Step 6 Use a plastic opening tool to remove the ambient light sensor connector from its socket by gently prying upward.

Step 7 Disconnect the display data cable from the main board by flipping up the metal retainer by its black plastic pull tab. Pull the cable connector away from its socket. Pull the connector parallel to the face of the logic board.

Step 8 Remove the display assembly from the rear panel assembly.

Step 9 — Dock Connector Cable Remove the two 4.56 mm T5 Torx screws securing the dock connector cable to the main board.

Step 10 Remove the single 2.84 mm T5 Torx screw connecting the dock connector cable to the rear case assembly.

Step 11 Remove the two 2.84 mm T5 Torx screws securing the dock connector cable to the rear panel assembly.

Step 12 Carefully remove the plastic cover over the WiFi/Bluetooth board and dock connector cable using a plastic opening tool.

Step 13 Pry the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antennas up off their respective sockets on the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth board. Remove the dock connector cable from the rear panel assembly.

Step 14 — Speakers Use the edge of a plastic opening tool to disconnect the speaker connector from the logic board. Pry up from beneath the wires.

Step 15 Remove the two 2.84 mm T5 Torx screws securing the speaker assembly to the rear panel assembly. If necessary, remove the tape covering the Wi-Fi cables.

Step 16 De-route the Wi-Fi antenna through its channel in the speaker assembly.

Step 17 Deroute the speaker cable connector through the left side of the rear panel assembly.

Step 18 Lift the speaker assembly and push it forward until the ports clear the bottom side of the rear panel assembly. Remove the speaker assembly out of the rear panel assembly.