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Asus Transformer Blank Scren Fix

The document summarizes the author's attempt to fix a blank screen on their ASUS Transformer TF101 tablet. They took the tablet apart to access the screen connection and discovered the screen was not receiving a signal. After reconnecting the screen ribbon cable, the touchscreen worked again except for a portion at the bottom. The author was unable to fully repair it due to a stripped screw. They have ordered a replacement tablet while considering a permanent fix for the TF101.
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Asus Transformer Blank Scren Fix

The document summarizes the author's attempt to fix a blank screen on their ASUS Transformer TF101 tablet. They took the tablet apart to access the screen connection and discovered the screen was not receiving a signal. After reconnecting the screen ribbon cable, the touchscreen worked again except for a portion at the bottom. The author was unable to fully repair it due to a stripped screw. They have ordered a replacement tablet while considering a permanent fix for the TF101.
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10th 

January Attempting to fix my ASUS Transformer TF101's blank screen
Been a while but finally I've got a moment to update my journal, lol. Saturday night, Andera (my TF101­B1) slid
off  the  mattress  and  ended  up  with  a  blank  screen,  and  briefly  some  green  garbles.  The  backlight  was  still
working  and  my  tablets  survived  the  same  and  worse  landings  unscratched  so,  plus  I  know  what  kind  of  guts
these  things  are  made  out  of,  so  I  knew  it  couldn't  possibly  be  hardware  failure.  The  photo's  I  took  are  all
captioned  and  in  an  Album  here  [https://picasaweb.google.com/100811170724158927013/AnderaRepairsJanuary2012?
authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMiQhdu­hZTYowE&feat=directlink]  .

Determined, on Sunday I went out in search of a torx screwdriver. As it happens, Fry's didn't have any T5's left,
just T6's and the threads over at xda­developers said T5. So I spent the worst $10 of my life, on one  of  these
[http://www.frys.com/product/6627894?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG]  . It's a real piece of shit beyond the driver bits.
Turns out though that some joker decided to stuff a Phillips PH000 in place of a Torx T5, and not include the T5
anywhere  \o/.  Fucking  bastards!  But  on  the  upside  that  was  the  right  size  for  the  Phillips  screws  I  had  to  work
with.

So I ended up undoing the torxex on the bottom (by the docking port) with a T6, and left one of them stripped by
the time I was done. After that it was time to pry off the bezel, which I did a dandy number on; when putting it
back on resulted in a barely working power button,I pryed it  up and used gravity to fix the power button before
snapping it back in. What I found was that it's a lot easier to pry off from the back end, YouTubest be damned.

 [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/­
JyeRpTGsI1Q/TwoEqrhX3KI/AAAAAAAAGCo/tLJiGwSmHBA/s1600/IMG_20120108_142503.jpg]
 [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/­
EJo0zV8gPhM/TwoELOFYfaI/AAAAAAAAGAQ/bL5g0RMy5RA/s1600/IMG_20120108_154743.jpg]

 [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/­­
sCaTfjHZyg/TwoEQLOrlRI/AAAAAAAAGAo/1d0d3NCnB8g/s1600/IMG_20120108_153951.jpg]

There are three screws on top and bottom, and two on each side. I kinda missed the top three taking off the back
plate so it might be good that it's just cheap plastic.
 [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/­
WNg0lZ28OHM/TwoESo4oWXI/AAAAAAAAGAw/2OGHlUDnU4I/s1600/IMG_20120108_153916.jpg] 

 [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/­
WXc0xOaMuzg/TwoEUe7dkrI/AAAAAAAAGA4/TVQfrJXHaYY/s1600/IMG_20120108_153701.jpg]

Getting the base plate on/off was easy. Also under the metal plate that goes over the battery, is an empty space
that looks like it is where you would install the 3G modem on a TF101­G.

 [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/­
_zUXeBssztk/TwoEXbbXdnI/AAAAAAAAGBI/Ha_NLU5i3K8/s1600/IMG_20120108_153235.jpg]

[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/­4E2hwx3ROVU/TwoEhM43jYI/AAAAAAAAGB4/WmTRBGgMx7M/s1600/IMG_20120108_152832.jpg]

 [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/­
EDxf_OzEo6s/TwoEpUsyE2I/AAAAAAAAGCg/PZRM4I2ZLRA/s1600/IMG_20120108_143040.jpg]

Most  of  the  connectors  are  the  ugly  ribbon  goes  into  stupid  pin  slot  with  flip  holder  kind  of  Flexible  Flat  Cable
thingy. I hate those and don't know why they are so popular, but alas, I didn't build the darn thing or design it. So
next up I had to figure out which one is the one I needed, I tried all of them that were readily accessible just to be
safe (bad idea).

In  my  poking  around  xda­developer's  I  found  a  link  to  somewhere  that  sells  replacement  screens,  that  told  me
where to find it. There is even a YouTube video on the whole procedure (I'll edit in a link from my browser history
later). I personally found it easier to remove the power connector so I could access the video FFC better:
 [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/­
aiQC81r3YCc/TwoEmFyqX_I/AAAAAAAAGCQ/XkUvNTCLRhY/s1600/IMG_20120108_152538.jpg]

 [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/­mfcnjKZ0C5A/TwoEnmK­
kdI/AAAAAAAAGCY/HROxJd59vuc/s1600/IMG_20120108_152419.jpg]

To be sure I was right or would more likely figure out what it does (in case of gross ID10T error on my part), I
pulled it and reseated it very firmly.
[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/­72Fw9UyMiMg/TwoEi2n79WI/AAAAAAAAGCA/bhaEbf1El4U/s1600/IMG_20120108_152748.jpg] 

[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/­67LKHsT4rxM/TwoEkR8VU3I/AAAAAAAAGCI/IbfyBBFl4xk/s1600/IMG_20120108_152625.jpg]

Fired it up and voila! The touch screen was working. So I studied how much I fractured my bezel and put it back
together, note carefully that the holes nearest the docking port are for the TORX screws that go in LAST!
 [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/­
nk5ChfGvwTQ/TwoEMoZ8SGI/AAAAAAAAGAY/OGGJyJogyNM/s1600/IMG_20120108_154543.jpg]

[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/­39NQ7MzSFps/TwoEVwYu81I/AAAAAAAAGBA/dVppsT8_T2o/s1600/IMG_20120108_153646.jpg]

On  boot  up,  everything  went  perfectly  well  until  I  noticed  that  back  and  home  didn't  work.  A  little  bit  of  testing
showed that entire portion of the touch screen is not getting any touch events :'(. I'm not sure if it's another ribbon
out of place or just that I missed a couple screws on the back plate (d'oh). But since I  have the dock, I'm pretty
much  able  to  use  it.  The  one  torx  is  now  too  stripped  to  drive,  so  until  I  figure  out  a  solution  to  that,  Andera  is
missing touch input on the left most (view able) inch of the screen.
 [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/­
uNpMKCwpa9Y/TwoEdkd6oSI/AAAAAAAAGBo/8NOjEPo9iFM/s1600/IMG_20120108_152923.jpg]

  [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/­h6eAH­EXqdM/TwoEcL17U­
I/AAAAAAAAGBg/FE4JN7f7j24/s1600/IMG_20120108_152926.jpg]

 [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/­
sUq9L8vm1Qo/TwoEaMSCfgI/AAAAAAAAGBY/W0gNoAWZbFA/s1600/IMG_20120108_152941.jpg]
 [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/­
yjn1vbDFvPM/TwoEY8zJQKI/AAAAAAAAGBQ/WJO8vEpGbi0/s1600/IMG_20120108_153056.jpg]

I  don't  have  a  drill  or  I  would  just  hit  the  hardware  store  for  a  drill  bit  to  get  the  sucker  out,  and  trust  me,    my
trusty  awl  doesn't  seem  to  one  to  carve  a  slot  in  it.  Don't  have  any  rubber  bands  good  enough  to  try,  so  I'm
thinking about grabbing a tube of epoxy on the way home from work and see what happens....if I can fix it, I'm
gonna fucking fix it! In the mean time, I've ordered a Transformer Prime / TF201­B1, because the best I can get
here is a TF101­A1; and I'm already using over 10GB on my TF101­B1, so $400+whatever memory card Best
Buy  has,  is  not  worth  it.  Like  wise,  if  I'm  getting  stuck  spending  so  much  money,  may  as  well  buy  the  prime
instead of a later version of TF101­B1 (mines a B50 with no Q/C issues). I'm very partial to my mid­generation
TF101....

Oh, btw don't forget to put the screws in the back plate if you try this at home.

 [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/­25­N7POXwvI/TwoEJgmEijI/AAAAAAAAGAI/4JLnHj8­
hpk/s1600/IMG_20120108_160038.jpg]

Posted 10th January by Terry Poulin
Labels: computers, docs, Android

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