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Before you begin
Read this website's Legal Guidelines and make sure you understand the risks of this repair. Place your Amazon Kindle 1 on a clean flat and soft surface, such as a rubber mat or a piece of soft cloth and get the required kindle opening tools
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Turn your Amazon Kindle 1 on its back.
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Step 2
Remove the kindle 1 battery door and the battery.
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Step 3
This is what it looks like when the kindle battery cover is removed.
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Step 4
Use a green tool to pry the kindle 1 battery upward.
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Step 5
Gently pull the kindle battery wire to release it from the connector.
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Step 6
Remove the screws surrounding the battery compartment.
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Step 10
Remove the back cover using the spudger as shown in the image.
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Step 13
Now the plastic backplate should come loose from the Amazon Kindle 1 logic board and front assembly.
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Step 12
Remove the screw holding the antenna cable cover.
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Step 15
Remov the screws holding the logic board shield.
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Step 16
Remove the screws at the front of the logic board shield.
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Step 17
Now you can lift the shield as shown in the image.
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Step 18
This is what it looks like when the shield is completely removed and placed next to the front assembly.
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Step 19
Remove the screws of the Amazon Kindle SD card reader module.
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Step 20
This is what it looks like when all screws of the SD card module are removed.
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Step 21
This is what is looks like when the SD card module is lifted away from the front assembly.
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Step 22
Open the SD Module ribbon cable latch and remove the module.
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Step 23
Remove all screws that hold the kindle 1 logic board in place.
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Step 24
Disconnect the kindle speaker connector shown in the image.
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Step 25
Open the remaining ribbon cable latches.
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Step 26
Open the latch of the Kindle scroll wheel ribbon cable.
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Step 27
Open the latch of the Kindle 1 screen ribbon cable.
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Step 28
Open the latch of the kindle side button board ribbon cable.
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Step 29
Open the latch of the Kindle On/Off Wifi switch module.
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Step 30
Disconnect the Kindle wifi antenna.
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Step 31
Remove the screw holding the plastic part the covers the wifi antenna cable.
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Step 32
Carefull peel the antenna module off the front plate.
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Step 33
Move the safe open tool towards the middle to release the antenna from the glue.
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Step 34
This is what it looks like when the module is detached from the front plate.
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Step 35
Now you should be able to carefully lift the entire kindle 1 logic board. Keep the ribbon cables from getting trapped and tearing.
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Step 36
This is what the kindle logic board looks like when fully removed from the frontplate.
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Step 37
Remove the screws holding the midboard to the frontplate.
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Step 38
Remove the screws of the kindle scroll wheel.
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Step 39
Remove the screws of the kindle switch module.
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