Share iPad Air Replace the Inner Screen After Flooded

1. iPad Air Replace the Inner Screen After Flooded
Use this guide to replace the obvious watermarks screen
on your iPad Air by replace the inner screen. If you need
some tools of phone or iPad, you can try
vipprogrammer.com.
Problem:
Water-damaged iPad Air is turned on normally, but the
display backlight has obvious watermarks, as shown in
below picture.

2. Solution:
1. Prepare tools: heating platform, Silver Hawk blade and
Opening Pry Tool and so on.
2. Set preheater to 80℃.The surface of preheater is
aluminium sheet. I place a piece of A4 paper on it to
avoid hurting the rear cover, as shown in below picture
3. Open preheater and put iPad Air on it with metal cover
downwards and touch screen upwards, as shown in
below picture. As iPad Air employ aluminium cover, I
can heat it directly. The rear cover transmits the heat to
touch screen glued places, which reduces the hurt to

3. LCD. Metal cover can store some heat, which also can
reduce the heating times.
4. When temperature reaches 80℃, I can use Silver
Hawk blade to pry touch screen from side face, as shown
in below picture. Pry a 1mm gap and plug the transparent
plastic film to cut the glue between touch screen and rear
cover, as shown in below picture. The advantage of
transparent plastic film is softness, so it will not scratch
the ink layer of touch screen and can reduce the damage
to flex cable if the maintenance man is not familiar with
the structure of iPad.

4. 5. When use transparent plastic film to cut the glue, we
have to notice the location of flex cable. When
transparent plastic film reaches flex cable, we have to
stop and lift the cut part. Use SilverHawk blade to handle
the glue at flex cable, as shown in below picture.

5. 6. After lifting touch screen, remove LCD screws. The
location of screws is shown in below picture.
7. After removing LCD screws, lift screen and remove
the fixed iron plate used to fix LCD touch flex cable, as
shown in below picture. The fixed iron plate is stuck with
LCD flex cable. We have to be careful when removing it
to avoid breaking the flex cable.

6. 8. After removing the faulty screen, assemble a workable
screen to test functions. After making sure that display
and touch functions are normal, lock fixed iron plate and
fix the LCD screws.
9. Use non-dust cloth to clean the surface of LCD and
touch screen. Besides, clean the remaining glue on touch
screen. If during the teardown process, the frame glue is
not deformed too much. We can reuse it, as shown in
below picture.

7. 10. After finishing cleaning frame glue, assemble touch
screen and rear cover. Put them on pre-heater to heat.
Soften frame glue to increase the stickiness. During the
heating process, I use pad pasting roller to tighten the
margin area, as shown in below picture.
11. After making sure that there is no gap, put iPad on
table with screen downwards and Put something heavy
on it until it cools down, as shown in below picture.

8. When it cools down, the replacement of screen is
finished.
Notes：
(1)When heating, the temperature should not be over 90
℃, or it will damage battery or LCD backlight.
(2)When using blade to pry screen, mind the strength.
And if the temperature is not enough, it is hard to pry a
gap. If in that case, we have to keep heating.
(3)Before cut glue by plastic film, if you meet the
machine that you are not familiar with and do not know
where the flex cable is, you have to watch the online
video to learn about the place of flex cable. During the
cutting process, if you meet a sudden large resistance, do
not increase you strength to keep cutting because you

9. may meet the flex cable.
(4)When cleaning LCD and touch screen, you have to
make sure that there is not any foreign matters. If after
assembling iPad, we find the dust in it, it will be
troublesome to reassemble it.
(5)Try to use the original glue on screen. As long as the
deformation is not too much, we do not change the frame
glue, because the replacement glue in market is not as
good as the original one.