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all right today I'm going to show you how to take apart the Galaxy Tab 3 this is the little 7 inch version first you're going to take your non-marking pry tool and just kind of pry between the edge of the screen and the plastic around the outside the whole process will take about a minute there's a bunch of little clasps that you're trying to separate as you go around the edge I'm not going to speed it up so you can see exactly what I'm doing as I go around the outside every single part for this phone or this tablet I'm going to link in the video description so you can if you ever find replacing any of the headphone jacks or speakers or screens you can find all the parts listed below pretty easily anyway so I'm just finishing with the last couple clasps right now and you can see the screen will separate from the body right about here and you just kind of pull the back off and then you see these four screws and these four screws hold the battery into the tablet they're a Phillips head so once you get those screws out take your little pry tool and kind of lift up on the little connector down below be really careful with this and don't pull away from the motherboard because I've seen that connector come loose before so be very gentle and pulling the battery out battery has a little plastic frame around it so when you're buying the replacement it probably won't come with that frame just take off those little stickers and then you'll be able to reapply the frame to the new battery here's all the screws for the motherboard all Phillips head and all the same size you'll need to worry about where the screws actually go so get rid of those and here's the ribbon cable connectors just pop them up and off they're kind of like Legos the clasp on and off just pry each one of those up that's the headphone jack and those are the buttons along the side and then the motherboard comes up and away from the tablet there's the headphone jack there's two screws holding that in so if your headphone jack is fuzzy or if it stopped working or if there's something stuck down inside of it you just want to replace it just take those two screws out and this is all that it is once again the parts are listed in the video description below here is the 3 megapixel rear camera tiny little guy and then these are the speakers that are going along the bottom of the phone that's dual speakers and conveniently these little ribbon cables are very fragile but a Samsung left a little groove underneath each one of them you can see me taking my little wire my tweezers right here and kind of finding that groove and you can use like a pin or a needle or anything else to slip it under there and you can see the double-sided sticky tape right there so have you really careful damage those ribbon cables and then these speakers just come up and away from the device this one has a little clasp long wire right hand side so it's a little bit harder to pull away now I found this part to be pretty interesting is a plastic bracket up along the top you can just kind of pull away from the top of the tablet and it holds in the camera the front camera and the LED for the flash or the light sensor and you can see right next to the camera and the LED that there is a slot for a speaker so it makes me think that when Samsung was designing this they had you know an option was to make it as a phone instead of a tablet so I found that very interesting the frame is a built-in speaker spot anyway clip the black plastic piece back down into place and that will hold the front camera LED and now this is the screen I'm not this is the whole whole screen right here I'm not going to show you how to separate the glass in the LED mostly because that takes forever and the success rate is very low but if you have a heat gun and a kind of a pry tool a separator you can probably get the two apart I just remember play seing the whole thing as a unit has a much higher success rate anyway just let me replace the headphone jack and the rear camera just putting those back into place and I'm also snapping the bottom speakers into place making sure that the ribbon cables are in there the spots they were designed for so they'll reconnect again with the motherboard getting the one screw in for that speaker on the left side now the motherboard make sure the ribbon cables are you know above the motherboard when you put it in so you can clasp them down into place and then here's the screw layout once again all seven screws grab the battery with the plastic bracket get it into place then you have those four screws around the outside as well and then clip the battery connector back in just kind of like a Lego and then run your hand around and make sure all of your little connectors are pressed down and snapped into place you'll have to worry about that later you have to pry the screen up out of the frame game you'll hear a series of satisfying clicks as you press the screen back into the frame and that is it if you have any questions make sure to leave them in the comments below don't forget to like if this video helped you and don't forget to subscribe I put up videos pretty often so be fun - see you around any parts and stuff or listed in the video description below and hit me up on Twitter as well at Zach's jerry-rigged thanks for watching