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Palm v Logic Board Replacement

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    • Lay device face down on surface.

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    • Heat the left and top edges with hairdryer for one minute.

    • Move hairdryer back and forth to evenly heat up surface.

    • Caution: directly heating the screen can melt or distort the screen.

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    • Use tweezers to hold Palm right side down on it's side.

    • Use a plastic opening tool to pry open front and back casing.

    • If you are unable to open you may need to heat with hairdryer for longer.

    • Be sure not to touch case directly with fingers, it will be hot!

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    • Leave plastic opening tools in between front and back casing.

    • Rotate Palm and repeat steps 2 and 3 for right and back edges.

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    • Now pry open front and back casing with plastic opening tools.

    • Separate front and back casing completely.

    • Power button will fall off once front and back casing have been removed. Be sure not to lose it.

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    • In order to seperate the screen from the motherboard you must disconnect the ribbon attached to the screen.

    • To do this, using tweezers, flip up the cable clamp that is connecting the ribbon to the screen.

    • Once the clamp is up you can use the tweezers to gently detach the ribbon.

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    • Now you must flip up the adjacent clamp as well, using tweezers like before.

    • After the clamp is flipped you can gently remove the second ribbon with tweezers.

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    • Before removing the screen you must detach one more wire, the battery connector.

    • Using the tweezers, squeeze the connector attached to the wire and genlty pull.

    • Do not pull from the wire.

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    • Now that both ribbons and the wire are disconeccted, you can apply a downward pressure to the battery. You will have to carefully rotate the frame so that the battery can go through.

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    • Lift up the black flap covering the ribbon cable with your hand

    • With the spudger, left green cable clamp

    • Gently remove ribbon cable from clamp

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    • With your hands, pop out the logic board from the casing

    • If board bends significantly, trying pushing from another angle

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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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