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  1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown, Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 1, 2 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown, Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 1, 2 resimden 2.
    • That time of the year is upon us. No it's not Leif Erikson day, nor is it National Hug Your Cat day. It's that time of the year when new Kindles show up on our teardown doorstep.

    • Today's special guest, the Kindle 7th Generation (now with a touch screen!):

    • 6" display with Pearl e-paper technology with 167 ppi

    • 4 GB storage capacity (it could figuratively hold thousands of books)

    • 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n Wi-Fi compatibility

    • Touch screen (did we mention it has a touch screen)

    • 4 weeks of battery life (based on 30 minutes of reading a day, with wireless turned off)

  2. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 2, 2 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 2, 2 resimden 2.
    • In case you forgot which smiling benevolent overlord megacorp is responsible for your Kindle, simply turn it over and the answer shall present itself: Amazon.

    • The Kindle 7th Generation is identified by its model number WP63GW.

    • All of the Kindle's numerous IO hardware features are conveniently located together on the bottom edge. Including and completely limited to:

    • Power button

    • Multicolored status LED

    • Micro USB port

  3. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 3, 3 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 3, 3 resimden 2. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 3, 3 resimden 3.
    • Mild adhesive and plastic clips secure a thin plastic bezel to the front of the Kindle. We gave it a shot without heat, and our opening pick made short work of both fasteners.

    • Proprietary screws? No sir. T5 Torx screws make for easy entry and happy fixers.

  4. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 4, 3 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 4, 3 resimden 2. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 4, 3 resimden 3.
    • Screws out, and the display assembly pops out of the rear case with minimal jostling.

    • Amazon kept a minimalistic approach from the start on their Seventh Kindle. Ditching buttons in favor of a touch screen sounded intense to us, but so far it's looking like the decision made for a greatly simplified design.

    • The motherboard and battery ride on the back of the display assembly midframe. We'll pop out a connector and get to the chemical goods.

    What does "pops out of the rear case with minimal jostling" mean?

    James Sweeny - Yanıt

    How do I remove the connector on the right side, that keeps the display from being removed from the bezel?

    piet - Yanıt

  5. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 5, 3 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 5, 3 resimden 2. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 5, 3 resimden 3.
    • In a teardown that's otherwise been a breeze, we've encountered our first real repair barrier. Overly sticky battery adhesive. Decidedly the worst kind of adhesive, this is the kind that requires effort to remove. Yuck.

    • The Lithium-ion Polymer battery in the Kindle 7th Generation is rated at 3.7 V and 890 mAh. That works out to 3.29 Wh of energy.

    • Amazon tells us that's good for 4 weeks of use, defined as reading half an hour a day with the Wi-Fi turned off. That's 14 hours of use and 658 hours of standby.

    • Sounds like a lot! But it's half the eight-week spec of the Kindle Paperwhite, a backlit tablet with a 5.25 Wh battery. Where is this Kindle's extra power going?

    On step 5, what type of connector are amazon using for the battery? (the white bit)

    stivenskyrah - Yanıt

  6. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 6, 3 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 6, 3 resimden 2. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 6, 3 resimden 3.
    • We let some cables and screws know what we think of them, and free the motherboard for a closer look:

    • Elpida (now Micron Technology) B2432BCPE-8D-F DDR2 Mobile RAM

    • Freescale Semiconductor MCIMX6L7DVN10AB Applications Processor

    • SanDisk SDIN7DP2-4G eMMC iNand Ultra 4 GB NAND Flash

    • Atheros AR6803G-BL3B

    • Maxim Integrated MAX77696A Power Management Integrated Circuit

    • 24.000 430F

  7. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 7, 3 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 7, 3 resimden 2. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 7, 3 resimden 3.
    • Returning to the front of the display assembly, we pop off a plastic bezel and find a secret perimetric circuit board.

    • Looks like we've found the source of the new Kindle's touching sensibilities. A grid of infrared LEDs and receivers crosses the display, powered by Neonode's zForce tech.

    • The LEDs project away from the display, into small wells in the plastic bezel. These wells collimate and reflect the light back across the face of the display, in wide flat bands to be received on the opposite side...

    • ...until your finger gets in the way and blocks the band, registering a touch.

    Any available info on the display besides the basic specs...manufacturer, model, connections,..?

    Paul Franzosa - Yanıt

  8. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 8, 3 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 8, 3 resimden 2. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 8, 3 resimden 3.
    • The touch grid is made up of two distinct circuit boards, joined by a small ribbon cable.

    • One is lined with LEDs and projects, from the top and left side of the Kindle's display. and the other is made up of IR receivers (likely phototransistors), and makes up the right and bottom edges of the display.

    • We pulled out our favorite home-hacked IR camera to see this in action.

    • There's a bit of circuitry on the receiver board, to monitor the breaks in projected light and detect touch:

    • Neonode zForce NN1001 Single Chip Optical Touch Controller

    • Texas Instruments MSP430G2 Ultra Low Power Microcontroller

    • The infrared LEDs seem to spend most of their time in a low-power idle state.

    • Once the grid detects a break in the beam, the LEDs power up and get much brighter, to more accurately detect and track your finger.

  9. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 10, 2 resimden 1. Kindle 7th Generation Teardown: adım 10, 2 resimden 2.
    • Kindle 7th Generation Repairability Score: 8 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair).

    • Simple, modular design with few, distinct components that can be replaced independently.

    • Easy opening procedure—clips supplemented by mild adhesive are all that hold the front bezel in place.

    • Battery adhesive is much stronger than necessary, making its replacement hazardous.

    • Lack of available replacement parts has limited repair options in other Kindle models. We can only hope this model doesn't share the same fate.

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where's the antenna?

noah - Yanıt

Step 6 , Image 3 right bottom corner is the antenna. Atheros AR6803G-BL3B is the wifi system on chip I guess which is shown in image 2 near to the antenna.

Arjun Nambiar -

I replaced the battery and now i have problema with a cable that connect the infrared LEDs and the receptors with the motherboard.Please help.

P.S.Now my touchscreen doesn't work.

Radu Voicu - Yanıt

Hello, i need capacity of C7 capacitor on Kindle 7th generation wp63gw touch board. Can you help me?

rathma assamite - Yanıt

so far, it's not easy to find a replacement screen. I gave up and ordered a new kindle 7th gen because I couldn't find a screen to order. Mine got damaged by a destructive dog.

deteague - Yanıt

Is there someone who has the picture of the plastic bezel (light guide)??

I'd like to see more details of plastic bezel (light guide).

Especially, I need the pictures of infrared LED side of plastic bezel and receptors side of plastic bezel.

Life's Easy - Yanıt

Applying heat solves the excessively "sticky" battery adhesive. I just boiled a jug of water and stood a cup of hot water on the battery for a few minutes. Lifted out easily.

midnite.daydreamer - Yanıt

Is there any way to get to the backlight source? The color temperature being so high in blue is terrible for sleep patterns and I would like to attempt to filter it at the source.

benjamin.reed.morrison - Yanıt

Im stuck with a frozen screen of a tree on a hill and a boy reading under the tree. I opened my kindle to disconnect the battery, but the picture is still there!, How do I hard reset the device? Battery currently has 4V.

kro - Yanıt

Literally tore down the whole thing. All I have left now is the screen on the gray frame, still displaying the same image… I’m gonna wait for the capacitors to discharge and see if it works when I plug it back in.

kro - Yanıt

Hello, Kro. Did it help? I have same problem with same image on screen

Anton -

hi there thanks a million for putting up this site. I just bought my Kindle 8th (2016) and 2 hour in it showed me the faulty battery sign on the screen. Is there a teardown tutorial of this version?

Xam Xee - Yanıt

Very interesting discussion!! I think that you should write more on this topic .There are some interesting points in time in this article.I just would like to give a huge thumb up for the great info you have here on this post.

Ebook Website - Yanıt

Hi, if i understand everything right, if i have a problem with the touchscreen, it’s not really the screen the problem, it’s the “frame” around the screen? So if i buy a kindle with a broken screen (i saw a cheap used one), i can take the frame out and put it on my kindle, it should work?

Zorgalouf - Yanıt

Hi, has anyone had to replace the voltage controller just above the micro USB port? Mine has burnt out and I need to know which chip to buy. Any help will be greatly appreciated, Thanks.

dsavio93 - Yanıt

I have a generation 7 kindle what does it mean when there is a battery with an explanation point in center of the screen?

Carol Schnooberger - Yanıt

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