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Otium Bluetooth Headphones Battery Replacement

Introduction

The Otium Bluetooth Headphones are rated for 500 charge cycles. If your headphones will not hold charge, or charge at all, you may need to replace the battery.

What you need

    • Power off your earbuds first.

    • Use a pry tool to unclip the cover of the left earbud.

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    • Carefully remove the battery from the housing.

    • The battery is connected by two fragile wires.

    • Shown is a 3.7v 100mAh Lithium Polymer (LiPo) battery.

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    • Carefully peel back the rubber cover from the protection circuit module (PCM).

    • Remove the cover and save to re-use.

    • The rubber is attached using Kapton tape and hot glue.

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    • Carefully bend the PCM away from the battery to make desoldering the two wires easier.

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    • Use a soldering iron to desolder the two wires from the PCM.

    • Adding a JST connector would make future repairs much easier!

    • Recycle your old battery!

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Conclusion

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

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