Disassembling Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Back Cover

Written By: Jordan Soto
  • Comments: 12
Disassembling Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Back Cover

Difficulty

Easy

Steps

3

Time Required

30 seconds

Introduction

This guide will demonstrate how to remove the back cover of this device. This is a prerequisite step for most internal problems for this device. You will have to remove the back cover before you can reach many components.

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    • Place the plastic opening tool into the SD card slot or charge port.

    • Try in an upward motion until you see a separation between the tablet and back cover.

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    • Work around the entire device by sliding the plastic opening tool around the rim.

    • If this is the first time, it will be hard to separate the back cover from the tablet.

    • The clips are approximately 5 cm apart. While working around the device, the clips will make a dislocating sound when disconnected.

    It is not necessary to remove just the white part under penalty of breaking the pins, it is necessary to remove the back with the colored outline of the tablet

    paquito -

    Both plastic tools broke within the first two minutes of use. Had to resort to a narrow conventional flat screwdriver.

    Dennis Durost -

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    • Remove the back cover once all links have been separated.

    • Be careful when touching any of the internal components of the tablet.

    This is the wrong method to open it! You have to open it beetween the front-Display and the golden rim.

    agnuz6569 -

    I’ve taken the back cover off my Samsung tablet, and in the process I have torn one of the little orange plastic connectors that are attached to the back cover. The connector I’ve damaged is the second one in on top left in the picture above. Can you please tell me if I need to replace this before I can get the tablet to work?

    Thanks.

    Tom -

    If you remove just the back cover - which to the uninitiated does look less scary than trying to get between the bezel and the display - you will destroy the tiny plastic rivets that lock the cover onto the bezel. More importantly, you will then find that getting to the parts you need to replace is rendered impossible because they will be hidden under the bezel, which of course will still be in place. So the correct way to take this tablet apart is the more challenging way i.e. separate the front display from the bezel and rear. But with care and the right tools this is still not too difficult. And if you are in any doubt about this, it is worth pointing out that in all of the photos below from Step 4 onwards, the work shown is taking place with the bezel removed. There is nothing written in this guide to indicate that this had to be done.

    PhilipHN -

    Have just gone through this process, successfully having read this and other guides and I totally agree with PhilipHN that the most reliable is the slightly scarier approach of removing the front display from the bezel and rear. It is easier overall, you just have to attack it confidently (but gently!).

    Jeremy Linskell -

Conclusion

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

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Jordan Soto

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6 comments

This is very misleading and not the correct way to open this device. This will damage the backplate and the antennas that are glued together. The proper way to open this tablet is from the front taking the LCD out of the frame.

jamee -

I have completed this disassembly multiple times without issue. There is nothing glued to that part of the unit.

G C -

I disassembled and assembled back SM-T805 for motherboard replacement 2 hours ago. Discovered that back cover have a row of tiny pins with tips molded into back cover rim who are designed to break out and larger pins who will click open and back on closing just fine. Also back cover rim is glued to cover with weak glue. Seems someone Samsung decided that those larger pins alone are not enough to keep back cover firmly in place without flapping around. In reality larger pins alone on assembling will click back and keep cover in place just fine.

However I agree to you that correct way is to carefully open this tablet from screen side with these small blue flat openers or with plastic cards. It will be faster as well. Back cover rim should be removed only to replace antennas. I hope that author of these manuals will fix that.

Jānis Baumanis -

Jamee is right, the SM-T805 (3G) can be opened separating the cover from the LCD, and not by removing that back cover that is glued to the rest.

German Palacio -

How can I get another charging female component

peter toombs -

I want to buy another charging port for my Samsung tablet model SM- T805Y??

peter toombs -