Difficulty
Moderate
Steps
12
Time Required
10 - 15 minutes
- Battery 4 steps
- Speakers. 3 steps
- Motherboard 3 steps
- Headphone Jack 2 steps
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Introduction
If you can't hear music using your headphones, or your ASUS Memo Pad device does not recognize your headphones when connected, this is the guide that can help you replace your headphone jack using simple step-by-step instructions. The headphone part installed in your device is a 3.5 mm jack.
Parts
No parts required.
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Plug out the charger and pull out the memory card if connected as a preliminary step.
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Wedge the plastic opening tool between the front and back cover on every side as shown on the photos.
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Slide the plastic opening tool back and forth to make sure that the back cover is disconnected.
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Remove the back cover.
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Remove the protective copper sticker and all duct tapes fixed on the device.
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Locate the two ribbon cables attached to the motherboard. Using tweezers, remove the cables away from their sliders.
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Unscrew four #00 Philips 2 mm screws holding the battery tray in place.
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Locate the battery cable attached to the motherboard. Remove the cable gently using tweezers, the same way applied before for the ribbon cables.
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Now, you are able to remove the battery from the device. You can then separate the metal frame located at the back of the battery by gently wedging the plastic open tool in between the two parts, and slide it back and forth until the metal frame is removed.
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There are seven screws holding the speakers in place. In the previous steps, you removed four of them, highlighted in red. All that's left to do now is to remove the remaining three screws which are highlighted in orange using philips #00 screwdriver.
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Locate the two speakers cables connected to motherboard. Unplug these cables from their sliders gently by using tweezers.
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Now, the speakers should be loose and easy to remove. You can gently use your hands to take them off.
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From here you can set the speakers aside and replace them with new ones that are functioning properly.
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There should be a total of 12 screws removed from the device, 7 of which have already been removed in the process of taking out the battery and the speakers. The remaining screws are highlighted in blue.
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Carefully disconnect the cord that connects the on/off button to the motherboard
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Peel back the electrical tape holding the connections of the motherboard down to the frame of the device.
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The motherboard should be loose now and easy to remove.
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Locate which part is the headphone jack on the motherboard.
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Use a soldering gun to solder the connections surrounding the headphone jack fixed on the motherboard.
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Gently, disconnect the headphone jack.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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