[G Pad 8.3 General] Hibble:
Hey guys,

I took a quick look inside the G Pad and want you to show how to open it and what it looks like there.

How to Open

What you need is a pry-tool, a small screw driver and some plectrums. Something to heat would be perfect as well.

First, you should remove the screw that is inside the microSD-slot:

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Next, you take the pry tool and get the device out of the chassis. Apply the pry-tool to the gap between frame and screen. As soon as you lifted off one of the short sides a bit, you stick there one of the plectrums carefully. Then you go on with the other sides.

When all sides are lifted off the device from the frame, you still won't be able to get rid of the rear panel. Unfortunately there is glue in the middle between battery and case, so a bit of heat wouldn't be bad. I took a blow-dryer to avoid bad times with my battery ;)

Internals

And here we are:

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You can clearly see the adhesive pad in the middle.

The case:

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At the top of the picture between the two speaker-holes there is the serial number label as it is on the bottom of our back side. Right, you can see a thermal foil for the powerful chips. On the left side there is a little blue box. It could probably be the vibration motor (thanks to Ardion)

Closer look to the controllers:

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After taking of the heatsink we get a look at the controller-chips. On the left side there is a Qualcomm PM8921 who cares for the power-management. The middle chip is still covered, I will embrace it later. The last chip is our NAND flash, it's a Toshiba THGBM5G7A2JBAIR

The top side:

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At the very high top of the picture there is the 3.5mm sound-connector. Below is our microSD-Slot.

The flat wire that is mounted by two screws is from our battery. I have even found a spare part, so it would be possible to replace the battery.

The connector at the bottom of the picture leads us to the next part:

Power button and volume rockers:

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Between the two volume buttons there is even a label LGV500 on it. So it might be a V500 exclusive part :p

Blame my camera for the bad macro function..

You are the SoC, aren't you?

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So there we have a Hynix memory with H9TKNNNBPDMA-ARNGM on it. I couldn't find any information about it, but it seems that there is our RAM combined with the Snapdragon 600?

Mainboard detached

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There we have our two cameras. The left one as rear-facing and the right one front-facing.

Mainboard the other way round

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Not much to see, but there is a black box at the right. There a two bulbs, one should be the brightness-sensor, but the other one?

Don't use the tab in the bathtub

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The paper strip with crosses seems to be a indicator for the manufacturer. If you have a damage caused by water the crosses will disappear and LG won't be your friend any more. It is very clever placed at the SD-card-slot, where the water-cooling will first take effect ;)

Sh1tty camera

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There you have the rear-facing camera. I wasn't able to get it out of there, probably I have to dismount the board first..

Down left of the camera, there is our IR-blaster.

The Battery

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There it is. 4.600 mAh

Worst speaker of the world :mad:

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With my first G Pad I had trouble with one of the speakers. It sounded very muffled and vibrated a lot. The new one sounds better, but not more..

The whole speaker strip is attached by three screws. The one at the bottom right didn't want to go my way, so I had to stop disassembling :(

The bottom side

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ATMEL controller in the middle. Could be the touchscreen-controller (thanks to Ardion)

USB connector

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At the left side you can see the USB connector. At the right there seems to be the microphone. The two connectors between them are connected to the blue box that I have already mentioned.

Summing up, it's no easy job to get to the battery. There are a lot of flat wires that have first to be disconnected. A lot things have to be dismounted as well.

The mainboard on the other side is good accessible and can be replaced easily.

That's all, I hope you liked it.

Replacing the screen

Turn over to iruiz2's post to see additional pictures and get to know how to replace the screen: