![]() I’m not sure why there are three, but I suspect one is for 2.4GHz WiFi, one for 5GHz WiFi, and one for BlueTooth I don’t know which is which. However, if you chip away at the screen aggressively, e.g., because the top of your screen is shattered (as mine was) and you’re scraping pieces off bit by bit, then there’s a good chance you’ll tear the conductive tape or rip it completely off of the assembly, destroying one of the three antennae. If you carefully remove the screen along the top edge by warming the adhesive with a heat gun and then carefully prying the screen away from the loosened adhesive, then hopefully you’ll be fine. ![]() See those three windy yellowish strips, one to the left of the cameras and two to the right? They’re conductive tape which folds under the plastic and makes contact with terminals on the motherboard when the pictured part is screwed in properly. Here’s the photo in question (click this photo and others for larger versions): Though who knows, maybe if I’d watched more carefully or paid more attention, I would have.įirst, and most importantly: if you use a spudger carelessly along the top edge of the Surface (the edge with the camera), you will probably destroy your antenna assembly, and nobody sells replacements. You can see the antenna assembly in this section of the aforementioned teardown. This is just the stuff I didn’t pick up from watching the videos. Note: This isn’t a complete recipe for replacing your screen. In this article, I share the lessons I learned during the replacement, on the off chance that someone else might benefit from them. If I had, I might have spared myself some painful “lessons learned” which left my Surface worse off than before (well, aside from the screen, which is now once again intact). I honestly didn’t watch all of these videos all the way through, and I probably didn’t watch them carefully enough either. For example: Surface Pro 4 Screen Repair From Start To Finish “Sort of”, How to Take Apart the Microsoft Surface Pro 4, Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Display & Battery Replacement, Surface Pro 4 Teardown Review! (also see the article associated with that teardown). This was not only my first time replacing a Surface screen, it was my first time replacing a smart-phone or tablet screen of any sort.īefore doing the replacement, I attended YouTube University, watching several relevant videos. ![]() I just replaced a shattered screen on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4.
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