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Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement

Introduction

The purpose to this guide is to show how to properly replace the screen on a Palm V.

What you need

  1. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement, Outer Case: step 1, image 1 of 1

    • Lay device face down on surface.

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  2. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 2, image 1 of 2 Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 2, image 2 of 2

    • 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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  3. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 3, image 1 of 1
    Tool used on this step:
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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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  5. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 4, image 1 of 1

    • 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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  6. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 5, image 1 of 3 Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 5, image 2 of 3 Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 5, image 3 of 3

    • 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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  7. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement, Screen: step 6, image 1 of 2 Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement, Screen: step 6, image 2 of 2
    Tool used on this step:
    Tweezers
    $4.99
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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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  8. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 7, image 1 of 3 Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 7, image 2 of 3 Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 7, image 3 of 3

    • 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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  9. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 8, image 1 of 2 Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 8, image 2 of 2

    • 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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  10. Palm v LCD screen assembly replacement: step 9, image 1 of 1

    • 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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Finish Line

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Adam Rianda

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Cal Poly, Team 13-25, Maness Winter 2010 Member of Cal Poly, Team 13-25, Maness Winter 2010

CPSU-MANESS-W10S13G25

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Can the electroluminescent backlight panel be separated from the LCD? Then clip out the wires related to the LCD? Is that possible or are they fused?

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