Apple i. Pad 2 Wireless Wifi Antenna Replacement Repair Guide. If you are not familiar with the ipads wifi antanna, the location of the wifi antenna, removing the i. Pad 2 digitizer without tearing this antenna can happen very easily. The i. Pads wireless antenna is attached to the backside of the touch screen digitizer by adhesive tape. Located on the right side between the i. Pads “Home” button and right corner as if you are holding the i. Pad in front of you. For future repairs, knowing the location, applying enough heat, prying up slowly to get a peak under the digitizer in this area, and being very careful in this area is the key to removing digitizer without ripping the wifi antenna out. If you ripped ANY part of this wifi antenna while removing the ipads digizer, it is advised to replace it as your i. Pads wifi will not work properly. Signal strength might be weak or not work at all. This guide below is how to replace the wifi antenna with the glass digitizer already removed. The i. Pad 2 model, has a particular area to be careful with when removing the digitizer, the area near the upper right corner, near the volume, mute buttons. The power ribbon cable is one cable that handles powering i. It is as if you were doing work, a new browser game by impish developer Pippin Barr, simulates puttering around inside Windows 95, clicking dialog boxes and mashing. Android App Cracking Tutorial by AleX. Avete acquistato un’applicazione sul Market ufficiale Google Play e la volete installare su più terminali, usando account. The English version offers selected articles from. Pad on, off, sleep, volume, mute functions. One very small section of this ribbon cable is exposed between the frame and digitizer, if you rip this very small fragile cable your i. Pad will not power on. On the i. Pad 3, and i. Pad 4 Apple protected this power cable area with a small protective plate covering & protecting the “power” ribbon cable. Replacing this power cable is one pain in the butt! VERY small screws, parts and ribbon cable to handle. Removing the i. Pads digitizer without cracking or scratching it is an almost impossible job also. All the i. Pads I received have cracked digitizers, so damaging the digitizer any further on removing is not a concern. The wifi antenna’s between the i. Pad models are different antenna’s, but the location is the same on the ipad 2, 3 and 4. Even partially ripping this antenna will damage the antenna. If you slide your “spudger” tool through this area between the digitizer, frame and wifi location, you will rip the wifi antenna for sure! Virtual Private Network (VPN) – Private Internet Access Follow @Augusta. Pc. Repair. Problem is, for most attempting to repair there cracked digitizer themselves and not realizing you ripped the wifi antenna or cellular data antenna near top. Then sealing new digitizer in place and your i. Pad does not turn on (ripped on off power cable?) or your wifi does not work. How good, or what use is the i. Pad without wifi, internet connection? It has no network cable jack for internet connection. Have learned to test these functions BEFORE sealing the digitizer down. Removing the new digitizer off i. Pad in one piece again will be very difficult IF you sealed it down. You’ll be in for another new digitizer again. The i. Pad 2 wifi cable component is very cheap, you can find on ebay for $3- $7 USA depending on the i. Pad model. So at that low cost it is a good idea to order one if you intend on repairing your front panel touch screen digitizer. Best yet keep a few extra around especially if you are doing these type repairs for customers. The frame backing on the i. Pad’s with Cellular Data Antenna’s is black plastic or hard rubber directly behind the antenna’s. The Cellular Data Antenna’s (model specific) are located between the front facing camera. One cellular data antenna on the left, and one on the right of the front camera. Both these Cellular Data Antenna’s are also glued by strong adhesive tape to the backside of the i. Pads digitizer. These antenna’s are wider and the same color as the strong adhesive tape on the digitizer. Hard to tell sometimes if you are freeing the tape off the digitizer OR ripping out the Cellular Data Antenna antenna’s! Model i. Pads with Cellular Data Antenna’s, this area is more difficult to get thru without damaging then the wifi antenna area. To much heat begins to soften the black rubber backing on the frame, will warp or melt it out of shape. If you know what you are doing, and what the cellular data antenna’s look like and how to get by this area it is not that difficult. But for a first timer attempting to remove the i. Pads digitizer you can rip these cellular data antenna’s out easily. First i. Pad with cellular antenna’s I ripped out and had to replace the cell antenna’s, have done 3. Pads since, never ripped one out again. Trouble is once you get by, free up digitizer on one antenna,,, you have a second one to free up, get by on other side of camera. Mom & Pops Vapor Shop – 1. Off All E Liquids Using Code 1. Give “Tobacco Blaze and “Buds Blend”E- Lquid a try! First off, this is a guide and by no means does Lightspeeds Computer Repair take any responsibility in the dis- assembly or repair of your i. Pad by this guide & photos, and you damaging the i. Pad. For it is a very delicate, meticulous repair. Dis- assemble & repair at your own risk. Make sure your i. Pad is completely POWERED OFF. Not in standbye, not in “sleep” mode, POWERED OFF completely BEFORE removing digitizer and disconnecting ANY cables or connections inside of the i. Pad. Disconnecting, or re- connecting the lcd screen cable when i. Pad is not fully powered off, can blowout the back- light filter which is a circuit on the logic board. Producing a permanent dark, dim lcd screen. You’ll need a very, very small phillips screw driver to remove 4 very, very and extremely small screws from the i. Pads wifi antenna. These screws are extremely small. The normal precision type screw driver set will not do. Removing this cable is easy, but one end of the wifi cable runs under the i. Pad 2’s logic board, as you will see in photos below. I thought the i. Pad 2 logic board was going to have to be removed, but there is a much easier way without having to remove the logic board. Photos above show the damaged, ripped i. Pads wireless antenna cable. Photo above right, shows the backside of the i. Pads glass touch panel, where the wifi cable is attached to backside. The wifi antenna sits just to the right of the ipad home button on i. Pads models 2, 3, and the i. Pad 4. On removing the i. Pads glass digitizer, the wifi cable ripped separating into 2 pieces, one on the i. Pad frame, the other on glass touch screen bezel area. ANY tears or partial rips in ANY area of this antenna, you’ll need to replace it if you want your wifi working. It is important to test your wifi and digitizer functions BEFORE sealing the digitizer down in place. Above left photo, I already removed 4 very, VERY small screws securing this end of the cable to the i. Pads base frame. You will see the other end of this wifi wireless cable running to, and under the i. Pads logic board. Remove these 4 very small antenna screws, do not lose these screws. Photo to the right > > > > > > Shows the i. Pads wifi wireless cable running under the i. Pad logic board. You’ll see blacktape, carefully peel this up & off. Partially peeled up in this photo. Photos Below,,,Peel the black tape off, the 2 cables you see in these photos you do not have to remove. The silver part you see in photos below is just a cover, you can carefully, CAREFULLY pop the silver cover up and off. You can actually pull up carefully on that black tape area of this cover with your fingers,, carefully. Be careful you do not damage circuits under this lid while removing! Removing this lid will then expose the backside of the wireless wifi board. Silver cover popped off, and removed. Photo on left, this is the backside off the i. Pad 2 wireless, wifi board. The ipads 2 wifi board connects into a socket straight down, on the logic board. There is a small notch in the upper corner, the board connector is on this end. With a small tool, carefully, VERY CAREFULLY pop it slowly upwards, straight up. DO NOT stick pry tool in very deep, just enough to grab the small IC board from the farthest end from home button area to disconnect & pop upwards. Actually best to use corner of a credit card rather than a precision screw driver or metal. It will popup out of it’s socket, straight up. Maybe e. Bay used. And Apple does not sell them to anyone. Photo on right. You can see the socket in this photo, it is straight down. To re- connect it, line it up and push straight down. And here is the other end of the wireless cable. Cable runs under the small silver trim, which you can see and remove the cable easily. Cable is plugged into the small socket on board as you see. Pull the cable straight up & off to disconnect it from board. Next photo below,i. Pad 2 wifi cable nowdis- connected from board. The antenna cable runs under a wider black power connector cable leading to the logic board area. Hold this cable down with your finger and carefully pull the antenna cable out from under it. If you have not already, remove the 4 screw holding i. Pads antenna to the frame. DO NOT lose these tiny screws. Your now ready to install the new i. Pad 2 wireless wifi cable. From here it very easy, just do all in reverse. Run or route the new i. Pad 2 wireless wifi cable under the silver trim (last photo)Connect wifi cable to first connector on board, opposite of logic board connector. Same connector as the old antenna. Make sure connector is in straight and firmly clicks into antenna cable socket for a solid connection. After installing wifi cable into socket, line wifi board up with socket on logic board, and carefully push it straight down until you hear a light “click”. You might not hear a “click”. Then press the entire wifi board down so it is evenly seated. Line the silver cover back up, and carefully push and snap silver cover back down. Line up the mounting holes in the i. Pads base area, install the 4 screws back into wifi cable bracket & the i. Pads frame. These screws are important for they ground the antenna to i. Pads base frame for better reception.
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