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Is there any way to salvage any photos and documents I may have on it? It is flat with a kickstand. I don’t see any way of taking it apart. It has a keyboard that attaches magnetically to the tablet. Thank you!
gatvabale we need to know if it is a T-102 or a T-103. You would need to remove the screen to get into. You need a heat gun (or iOpener) Properly warm up the outside edges of the screen. Once hot enough for the adhesive to become sticky and less adherent, you need to insert some thin guitar pics or similar. Pretty much the way it is shown in step 8/9 on this guide. iPad 5 Wi-Fi LCD Replacement proceed to remove the screen. The LCD ribbon cables are on the top right side, so be careful that you do not rip those with your opening tool. This is not an easy task and you will need to take your time so as to not crack the LCD. Here comes the bad news. Both the T-102 and the T103 are using soldered eMMC storage which is soldered to the mainboard. There is really no good or easy way to remove those recover your files. You really would need to get yours up and running long enough to recover those files. Tell us what you have tried to repair your device. Give us more history and let’s see if we can help you with that.
