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    • Eerie dimensional changes are afoot: the Air is 20% thinner, 28% lighter, and 24% reduced in volume from the 4th-gen iPad. And there are more good scares lurking under its otherworldly skin:

    • 9.7-inch, in-plane-switching LCD with 2,048 x 1,536 resolution at 264 ppi

    • Dual-core A7 CPU with 64-bit architecture

    • M7 motion-tracking coprocessor

    • 5-megapixel rear iSight camera capable of recording 1080p video; 1.2-megapixel 720p front-facing camera

    • 802.11n dual-antenna MIMO Wi-Fi

    • Support for 14 LTE bands, DC-HSPA+, UMTS, GSM/EDGE, CDMA, and EVDO

    • 16, 32, 64, or 128 GB storage

    • This is basically how we take apart iPads.

    Hilarious. I love the costume.

    Tony Gines - Réponse

    Lol, i didn't expect that :D

    hakan er - Réponse

    Love this!!!

    robert08 - Réponse

    I dont have one those sticks in my arsonal of tool where can i pick one up

    nick parducci - Réponse

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    • There doesn't seem to be a bewitching levitation feature on this tablet, despite the picture on the box.

    • New iPad, new model number: This iPad Air can be identified by the model number A1475.

    • It's been many a full moon since the Salem witch trials of the 1690s, but sneaking into this tightly-built device is going to be nothing short of witchcraft.

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    • Lightning Port? Check. Speaker grilles? Check. Camera? Check. Buttons? All the hallmarks of a jack-o-lantern tablet are in place.

    • The top edge now sports a dual mic; never again will you be haunted by background noise.

    • Volume is now adjusted by two separate buttons, a minor revision from the rocker switch on the previous full-size iPad.

    • The speakers have gone stereo and moved to either side of the Lightning connector, à la iPad Mini. It didn't bring a costume, but this bro can morph.

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    Outil utilisé dans cette étape :
    iOpener
    $19.99
    J'achète
    • Trick or treat? How about we pull out our little bag of tricks and treat this iPad to some iOpening?

    • As usual, Apple has secured the digitizer glass in place with more than ample amounts of adhesive.

    • Getting into this iPad is a bigger pain in the neck than a date with a vampire—but no amount of iPad blood can spook our stalwart iOpener.

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    • Pop pop! Oh the glorious sound of an iPad popping open, with a mysterious coin for mysterious scale.

    • A twenty-cent coin! They don't have those in the U.S.!

    • You're right, astute teardown reader! That is, in fact, an Australian coin. If you hadn't noticed, this whole teardown has been upside-down, courtesy of our favorite minion Walter, who survived the arduous trek down under.

    • Alright, enough clowning around! It's time to open this iPad up (like a book of scary stories).

    The US previously minted a 20-cent piece (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-cent...) ), and it is still legal tender. So we do have those up here!

    Forrest Bowlick - Réponse

    What adhesive would you recommend using to re-affix the digitizer glass after it's been removed. I'm looking to remove to glass, soak up some oil that was spilled inside and then re-affix.

    Mark - Réponse

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    • Double, double, boil and brew, with a witch's cackle we remove that screw.

    • Little screws can drive you batty, but lucky for us, we've got our magic wands screwdrivers.

    • Eye of newt and toe of frog, this LCD's connected—but not for long.

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    • The curtains go up, and it's a monster (battery) mash:

    • The Air's 3.73 V, 32.9 WHr, two-cell power plant is decidedly less monstrous than the previous iPad's 43 WHr, three-cell behemoth.

    • Despite the iPad's skeletal slim-down Apple claims that, due to an increase in efficiency, you can still watch the Great Pumpkin at least 20 times in a row.

    • Ogle all you want, but this battery isn't coming out…yet.

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    • The 9.7" display's specs remain unchanged from the iPad's previous outing, but Apple claims an uncanny 20% reduction in panel thickness.

    • Our display, model LP097QX2, was supplied by LG.

    • The LCD remains separate from the front panel glass. Is there a spirit of repairability lurking in this otherwise dauntingly difficult device?

    So, still no IGZO screen? That's a pity..

    Dirk Pennings - Réponse

    Our display, model LP097QX2, was supplied by LG.

    Manna - Réponse

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    • What looks like a ZIF, and quacks like a ZIF, but isn't quite a ZIF connector? We don't know, but that's what we've got on our hands with this home button ribbon cable.

    • Although unidentified, it shows more design consideration than Dr. Frankenstein.

    • Speaking of Frankenstein, we've noticed a bit of the good doctor's methodology in the Air. It seems like Apple took an iPad Mini and transmogrified it to a regular iPad's size.

    That is actually a ZIF, the lock/latch is different from other connectors (ZIF's can be tricky when you don't know them) but you can open it from the cable side with a tool releasing the tab to the back.

    David - Réponse

    where to get a zif replacement ???

    earl -

    Can you guys please loose the goofy comments and actually describe the details of how to take this thing apart? Most of this copy is completely worthless. I don't come here for your cheesy commentary but to understand how to remove connections and parts in detail.

    Whoever wrote these comments needs to go write for the comic books, not a technical reference site.

    Scott Normand - Réponse

    Hi everyone,What do u call the part that holds the battery down... It's on top on the circuit board? I have lost mine and I am trying to find where I can get it

    Francis - Réponse

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    • Is it a window to the underworld or a digitizer/front glass assembly? Probably the latter, but we're not taking any chances; we set it gingerly aside.

    • Despite the new cable dressing up this home button, Apple's Touch ID fingerprint sensor is nowhere to be found; it remains exclusive to the iPhone 5s…for now.

    by the look of the home button cable and connector, Apple could be designing the ipad air with Touch ID in mind, but decided not to put it in the production model in the last minute

    Tom Chai - Réponse

    It looks like (because I just did it) that the home button ribbon could break very easy where it bends back to connect to the ribbon on the digitizer. Solder repair? Melt together? I'd prefer to fix instead of ordering a new ribbon cable.

    Rick -

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    Outil utilisé dans cette étape :
    iOpener
    $19.99
    J'achète
    • For the second time tonight, we pull out our iOpener for some crazy glue-busting action.

    • We're hoping that this trend won't stand the test of time, and that glued-in batteries will become phantoms of the past.

    • In the meantime, it's nuke, heat, scrape, repeat.

    One day you might like to try "Undu" - scrapbooker's adhesive remover - dissolves the glue bond and then evaporates leaving glue intact. I think it's fantastic stuff - used it to remove iPhone 3G battery doing a total case replacement.

    B Louis - Réponse

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    Outil utilisé dans cette étape :
    Plastic Cards
    $2.99
    J'achète
    • Grab your grave-robbing shovels plastic cards, 'cause it's time to exhume this sucker—er, battery.

    • What is this devilry? The battery is pinned by some form of dark magic—or maybe a stray screw?

    • Stateside, we get this one, last, coherent message before strings of expletives:

    • [7:29:22] Walter Galan: It's the worst battery ever.

    • Not even removing this mysterious screw helps. It's almost enough to make us cry for our mummy!

    Thats rivet, drill and replace with tiny screw

    egrau - Réponse

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    • We employ a little black magic spudger to extract the SIM card tray.

    • Yesteryear's micro-SIM has given way to this year's nano-SIM. Next year: pico-SIMs?

    • And while it is glued in (boo), we are happy to see it as a modular component, separate from the logic board.

    • We'll call this a repairability-neutral finding.

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    • We resume the quest to liberate the battery, and under the logic board we find the culprit in the curious case of the trapped time bomb (commonly known as a battery).

    • Spring contacts on the logic board clamp down on the corresponding tab on the battery, effectively trapping it and complicating any future repair.

    • This battery is super frustrating; we're not Li-ion.

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    • This battery creaks worse than the door to a haunted mansion as we ease it out of the case.

    • In the process, the battery warps to a state resembling the Grimm Reaper's scythe.

    • Warped batteries scare the living daylights out of us. Bad things happen when batteries get punctured.

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    • We leave the boring backside in favor of the green PCB fields of the front. Planted in this logic board patch are:

    • Apple APL5698 A7 Processor—a slightly different version from the APL0698 in the iPhone 5s

    • Elpida F8164A1MD 1 GB LPDDR3 SDRAM

    • Toshiba THGBX2G7B2JLA01 16 GB NAND Flash

    • NXP LPC18A1 (Apple M7 Motion Co-Processor)

    • Apple 343S0655-A1—from our friends at Chipworks, this looks to be a Dialog Power Management IC

    • USI 339S0213 Wi-Fi Module

    • Apple 338S1116 Cirrus Audio Codec, also found in the iPhone 5c

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    • A quick peek under a sneaky EMI shield near the USI Wi-Fi module...

    • ...Reveals a pair of Broadcom BCM5976C1KUB6G Touch Screen Controllers, similar to the BCM5976A0KUB2G found in the trackpads of various MacBooks.

    • While we're in the thick of chip identification, we want to send a big shoutout of thanks to our friends at Chipworks, who stayed up late tonight to help us pick out all the teeny tiny components.

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    • It wouldn't be an oversized iPhone without the phone parts—this end of the logic board sports all of the RF components.

    • Qualcomm M9615M LTE Processor with 1 Gb (128 MB) of DRAM

    • TriQuint TQF6514 RF Power Amplifier Module—similar to the 6414 in the iPhone 5s

    • Three Skyworks SKY77-series LTE RF Power Amplifier/Duplexer Modules

    • Two Avago A79-series LTE RF Power Amplifier/Duplexer Modules

    • 227 LG—likely a Murata Antenna Switch/Filter Module

    • Qualcomm WTR1605L LTE/HSPA+/CDMA/EDGE/GPS Transceiver

    • Qualcomm PM8018 PMIC

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    • Just when we think there's no hope for this werewolf of a device, it shows its human face. Finally, a modular part: the Lightning connector. (Not that it was easy to get to.)

    • Before the thunder even rolls, the Lightning port is gone.

    • On a roll of our own, we remove what appear to be the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antennas from the rear case.

    • With two antennas and the use of MIMO technology, iPad touts twice the Wi-Fi performance of past models.

    Even with all the drum rolls only the one end of the Lightning connector assembly seems to be modular. To replace a part both ends need to be removable. According to the photo's the other end was severed before it reached the main board. How is the Lightning connector connected to the main board? Can it be replaced?

    Adolph Jonker - Réponse

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    • For our next trick, we magic away the front-facing camera. You'll have to take your costume pics the old fashioned way.

    • Ho, hum: The 1.2-megapixel, 720p FaceTime camera fails to send any shivers down our spine.

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    • More fun-sized treats:

    • What's this? We carve the headphone jack(-o-lantern) out.

    • Catch these cell antennas while you can—you won't find them in the strictly Wi-Fi version. They're a huge phone exclusive.

    • A quick 180º, and the speakers become our next victim. Shrouded in mystery, Apple calls these speakers "built-in," opting to leave the maker unspecified.

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    • We're bobbing for apples!

    • Sticking our spudger in for a dunk, we come up with another camera. This time it is the 5MP rear-facing camera.

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    • iPad Air Repairability Score: 2 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair)

    • The LCD is easy to remove once the front panel is taken off the iPad.

    • The battery is not soldered to the logic board. We'll give it that.

    • Just like in previous iPads, the front panel is glued to the rest of the device, greatly increasing the chances of cracking the glass during a repair.

    • Gobs, gobs, and goblins of adhesive hold everything in place. This is the most difficult battery removal procedure we've seen in an iPad.

    • The LCD has foam sticky tape adhering it to the front panel, increasing chances of it being shattered during disassembly.

    • You can't access the front panel's connector until you remove the LCD.

    This is not a very good repair guide. Sure, it's funny, and themed, but the actual "how-to" of removing these parts needs to be discussed. It doesn't help to see a picture with a witty line attached to it. I had to go over to the Wifi iPad instructions to figure out how to do this repair.

    Christopher Little - Réponse

    Hey Christopher, be sure to read the banner at the top of our Teardowns! "This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your iPad Air LTE, use our service manual." Hope you find the guide you're looking for!

    Sam Goldheart -

22 commentaires

Try soaking the rear case with the battery attached in a freezer for 30 minutes prior to the battery removal. This will help make the tape bond less sticky and removal will be easier and significantly safer. Heat actually makes removal harder and more dangerous.

Rick Haigh - Réponse

what company supplies the accelerometer and the gyro?

iphonedaddy - Réponse

You all should realise that Apple does not care about self or third party serviceability. Neither should you care. Just use the product and get Apple to fix if it breaks down . The reason why sites like iFixit cry foul over non-serviceability is because it ruins their business!

Douglas Dielle - Réponse

Yes pitching a 500 dollar device in the landfill because the battery is bad is always Smart Thinking .... All because of a battery with a 2 year average lifespan when the rest of the hardware should last 10 easily

Great for Sales, not so much for the environment .... All because of a Marketing Gimmick, it's an 1/8" thinner ... Big F-ing deal

But on the bright side, the new Air is thinner and smaller and takes up less room in the landfill .....

John Russell -

@John Russel

If you bring it back to Apple it will be carefully recycled, not thrown in a land fill.

And you as user get a new iPad, that could be worse...

And for Christ's sake, 'the device has 10 year life span.' Yeah sure, do you still use you Sony Ericson from 2004?

klaas123 -

Those who'd like to understand Apple's design philosophy need look no further than a popular folk song from the 1960s, Malvina Reynolds "Little Boxes." Below are the relevant words. Simply substitute "in my hand" for "on the hillside." Even the lack of upgradability in newer Macs is there in "they all look just the same." Notice also the emphasis on different colors as if that distinction mattered much.

Little boxes on the hillside, /

Little boxes made of ticky tacky, /

Little boxes on the hillside, /

Little boxes all the same. /

There's a green one and a pink one /

And a blue one and a yellow one, /

And they're all made out of ticky tacky /

And they all look just the same. /

For those who are interested, Youtube has the composer singing it.

Sad. Apple could do better than this. There profit margins are more than large enough to eliminate the need for so much ticky tacky. They could also give us gear we could tailor to suit our needs, not little boxes that look all the same.

Mike Perry - Réponse

Do Apple themselves actually repair faulty ones brought in by customers - or just more easily/simply replace the whole unit ?

Dan Mitchell - Réponse

They never repaired any iPads. They replace the unit right away and take back the broken ones back to the factory to refurbish

Tom Chai -

How likely is this iPad going to work when it is put back together? The warped battery makes me think that once it is torn down you will have a bucket full of parts that can't be put back together.

scott - Réponse

Is this Broadcom WLAN?

asd - Réponse

It's the exact same audio codec as it's previous one I see...

Wildguess12 - Réponse

Complete hardware outside! LOL

Technogala - Réponse

Where is the M7 motion coprocessor?

James Redington - Réponse

Can you guys please loose the goofy comments and actually describe the details of how to take this thing apart? Most of this copy is completely worthless. I don't come here for your cheesy commentary but to understand how to remove connections and parts in detail.

Whoever wrote these comments needs to go write for the comic books, not a technical reference site.

Scott Normand - Réponse

Totally agree - should be the technical site... we will have a joke or two after work in the pub.

Bojan Bilbija -

This is the original teardown, not a repair guide. They use this teardown and the parts from it to make more specific repair guides. If you want actual instructions look for a more detailed repair guide

Liam Judge -

hey noticing that you guys ripped the dock connector during the tear-down i did a little research and found out that the dock is soldered in the same manner as the digitizer connector on the iPad mini..... which means that most customers will be SOL if they break the dock because that will be a very risky solder job... its on the motherboard... good luck to everyone encountering this issue

junier - Réponse

Nice job tearing that lighting connector cable clean in half. Interesting how they decided to solder this one directly to the main board; good luck replacing that part.

Chris Johnson - Réponse

Is it possible for me to send this company my iPad Air and have them remove the iCloud resistor. I have an iPad that's not stolen, but bought and it is locked, unable for me to use it at all. I don't have the previous owner's information so I can't access it. I am willing to pay a price, but if you aren't able to fix my iPad, could someone please let me know what to search for, for someone who can fix it. Thx!

Ina Lockhart - Réponse

Hello,

In my ipad air microphone is not working ,so I want to know how microphone looks so that I can order replacement microphone. My ipad don't have microphone as it's already repaired once and there is no microphone in ipad

Karanvir Ghuman - Réponse

Hi,

A1475, iPad Air with LTE.

After replacing with new digitizer, I only see very, very dim apple logo. New digitizer works. Display worked prior to repair. Reset, no change. Was able to update software & firmware via online.

Suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Lowell Sonne

Lowell Sonne - Réponse

What about replacing the power and volume buttons ?

brett G - Réponse

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