[INFO] Asus Transformer Minor Teardown

hybridau · Jun 4, 2011

Well today I thought I'd see what could be done about a light bleed spot that was annoying me. There are a couple of light bleed spots (seems pratically evident to some degree on all IPS screen devices). Anyway I did a minor disassemble as a result.

Result: Impossible to get rid of completely, its just an unfortunate trade off. I did manage to make it less intense and under normal light conditions and 60% brightness you can not really notice it now. p.s. there is nothing to "losen" the screen. It is not screwed down by the edges.

Anyway since it was apart I took some pics so you can see what is inside the beast

WARNING: The bezel is VERY fragile, so be warned. I used a guitar pick to remove it VERY carefully. After the bezel is off its easy sailing to remove the back cover. /warning

Enjoy.

LHS Speaker (CRAP!!!)

stuntdouble · Jun 4, 2011

Thanks for this. I've been umming and ahhing about doing it myself, just to see whats in there. Now I dont have to.

Added to ultimate thread as well. Nice job.

hybridau · Jun 4, 2011

Your welcome

stuntdouble · Jun 4, 2011

Just got a couple questions if I may. In order to lift off the back plastic casing, was it just held down by those 2 torx screws at the bottom by the 40pin connector socket, and did it just lift off easily, or were there clips holding it down? Oh and were there any labels/security stickers that would invalidate a warranty that you saw when it was open please, as I cant see any in the pics?

hybridau · Jun 4, 2011

stuntdouble said:
Just got a couple questions if I may. In order to lift off the back plastic casing, was it just held down by those 2 torx screws at the bottom by the 40pin connector socket, and did it just lift off easily, or were there clips holding it down? Oh and were there any labels/security stickers that would invalidate a warranty that you saw when it was open please, as I cant see any in the pics?

Hi stuntdouble,

Two torx screws have to come off first, these are part of what holds the bezel down.

After that you need to use a guitar pick from the back to lift the bezel up...best to get all 4 corners up and keep sliding..as soon as it wont slide lift it out and back in again a bit further on... it absolutely destroyed the pick by the way..lots of sharp edges in there.

The bezel will then come off from the front of the tablet. Just be careful and dont force it, Around the 40 pin connector was the biggest pain.

The back cover is held down by 4 screws on the top glass, and umm if I recall about 10 screws behind where the bezel . It basically then falls off once all screws are off with not to much effort.

There are also no security stickers over any of the screws anywhere inside the tablet

stuntdouble · Jun 4, 2011

Excellent thx a lot. Will have a fiddle inside mine one of these days then.

mike5065 · Jun 4, 2011

What did you do, specifically, to fix bleed? Were some screws too tight, too loose, did you move stuff around...?

Thanks for the pics.

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hybridau · Jun 4, 2011

mike5065 said:
What did you do, specifically, to fix bleed? Were some screws too tight, too loose, did you move stuff around...?

Thanks for the pics.

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App

I tried to lift the screen a bit where the bleed was. when i did that it went away a bit. I then cut and jammed small bits of black foam under it. it worked ok enough but not to get rid of it totally.

There are no screws holding it down. well not onthe edges anyway. You would have to dig deeper to find out the direct cause. I did not want to do this as it means components being removed.

RavenMad · Jun 4, 2011

I appear to have a small bit of hair or fibre trapped under the glass - it's visible when the screen is off - do you think doing a tear down like you did would give me access to blow it off or is the screen still secured?

rehash · Jun 4, 2011

Thanks for doing this, gives me an idea of how well its made.

dbiggss · Jun 4, 2011

Thanks for posting this! After breaking it open, any ideas of where the creaking is coming from?

smartbuddy · Jun 4, 2011

Great work there, thanks for sharing your efforts with all.

Canadoc · Jun 4, 2011

What size torx screw driver does on need? Would loosening the bottom screws help for light bleed ?

verkion · Jun 4, 2011

Thanks for posting this...I don't suppose you have any more shots of the left/right speakers? Like a closer view/shot of them? There's a lot of people with speaker issues and I'm thinking I should just replace my own/test it somehow.

Thanks!
verkion

hybridau · Jun 5, 2011

RavenMad said:
I appear to have a small bit of hair or fibre trapped under the glass - it's visible when the screen is off - do you think doing a tear down like you did would give me access to blow it off or is the screen still secured?

Yes I'd say you could with a can of air, you would not have to remove the screen, however you risk getting more dust under it to be honest. So id say be careful.

dbiggss said:
Thanks for posting this! After breaking it open, any ideas of where the creaking is coming from?

is it around the edges you get the creaking?... if so its the bezel as that is clipped on. The back cover is screwed on pretty well.

Canadoc said:
What size torx screw driver does on need? Would loosening the bottom screws help for light bleed ?

T5 torx. The screws's inside are phillips 000's.

loosining the T5 torx screws will do absolutley nothing to help bleed as they are no where near the screen. The screen starts and ends where it shows externally. The black boarders are just filled with circuitboards.

verkion said:
Thanks for posting this...I don't suppose you have any more shots of the left/right speakers? Like a closer view/shot of them? There's a lot of people with speaker issues and I'm thinking I should just replace my own/test it somehow.

Thanks!
verkion

Hi Verkion, These are the only two pics I have, , the wiring is SUPER bad on the left hand side speaker (look close at the bottom wiring in white/red. I was scared to sneeze close to in incase it broke!.

The wires are soldered on too.

Right Hand Side Speaker

Left Hand Side Speaker

SlimDan22 · Jun 5, 2011

Whats this i see....a mini PCI-E pinout

Probably for HSPA/HSPA+/LTE/WiMax/ETC/ when they release a model to carriers, but still cool nonetheless

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mike5065 · Jun 5, 2011

I think there's a thread in the zoom forum that tried to do something with a similar pinout....

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josephislee · Jun 5, 2011

Hey, any idea about battery capacity? I'm hoping its at least 6000 :S

digitheatre · Jun 5, 2011

josephislee said:
Hey, any idea about battery capacity? I'm hoping its at least 6000 :S

If i'm not mistaken TF has 2x 3300mah battery.
From one of the pics, you can see it is printed 3300mah batt capacity.

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reloadro · Jun 5, 2011

hey thanks a lot for this !
Has anyone spotted the microphone ? I'm looking to change it if possible , depending on what this involves...
Is this it ? h t t p: / / i.imgur.com/K2yPh.jpg
I kinda i doubt it .. why would it need such a large data bus.
It could probably be the one on the left though , under the yellow sticker

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