Disassembly/Repair of the mobile device Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 TB-132FU (Lenovo Tab P11 Pro 2022, Lenovo Tab P11 Pro (2nd Gen)) with each step description and the required set of tools.

⚠️️ Before disassembling, do not forget to turn your phone off.

First of all, we need to remove the card tray, for this we use a special tool and we push out the memory card tray.

⚠️️ Pay attention! The tool must be inserted into a hole on the edge of the phone's housing. Do not press too hard. It may break the tray eject mechanism.

We need to heat the surface of the display to a temperature of about 70 ° C or 160 ° F. For this we use a heating mat, and we recommend using a heating mat or a separator.

Since disassembly has a third maximum difficulty, we will need to detach the display. This is a very difficult thing to do. It is quite difficult to heat the display evenly, and it is extremely easy to damage the display.

So, after 10- to 15 minutes of heating, we take a thin plastic film.

We insert it into the gap between the housing and the display and carefully run it along the edge, cutting off the adhesive backing.

⚠️️ We need to be really careful in the front camera area.

⚠️️ We need to be careful on the edges.

⚠️️ We don't need to use any force. If in some places the display is sticking back, we can additionally use, for example, a plastic pick to lift the display slightly.

⚠️️ Detaching the display is a time-consuming and labor-intensive procedure.

Basically, we can carefully lift with one hand, and with the other hand we unscrew one screw (screwdriver Phillips 1.5 mm (PH #000)).

Then we remove the bracket holding the connector.

And we disconnect the connector of the display cable. And now we can carefully remove, actually, the display itself.

In our case we have two battery connectors. First, we use a Phillips screwdriver one and a half millimeters or Phillips #000, we unscrew the screws, then we remove the brackets.

We disconnect the battery connectors itself with a non-metal tool.

ℹ️️ The Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 model has a battery L22D2P31 with a capacity of 8200 mAh (also known as a rechargeable battery).

Using a screwdriver Phillips 1.5 mm (PH #000), unscrew 19 screws securing the frame.

⚠️️ We can't remove any elements until we unscrew the screws around the edge and remove the frame that holds the speakers, the motherboard, and other elements.

We try to detach the frame that holds the various elements. To do this, we use a thin plastic tool. Carefully we insert it into the gap, run it along the edge, detach the clips.

We unclip the clips and thereby detach the frame.

⚠️️ We also need to be careful in the front camera area, on the corners.

After that, we move on to unscrewing the screws.

Carefully remove the screws that hold the small board with the charging port.

We also detach the charging port bracket.

Carefully unscrew the screws that hold the loudspeaker. We use a screwdriver Phillips 1.5 mm (PH #000). There are four of them.

Disconnect the inter-board cable connector on the small board.

Carefully detach a small board with a charging port.

First we need to lift the loudspeaker from the back side and from the back side of the cable gently hook and pry the contact pad up to remove the speaker.

We unscrew one screw fixing the front camera and remove the bracket holding the connector.

We disconnect the connector and carefully pry the front camera up by the base to unglue it and put it aside.

Then we unscrew the eleven screws that hold the motherboard, that hold the speaker, that secure the small cover with antennas that hold microphones.

We unscrew them, put them aside on a special surface, put the screws in a certain order so that we don't mix up anything when reassembling.

And we carefully detach the small cover with antennas.

And we can try to detach the cover on the left side of the top part, which hides the rear camera.

We disconnect the connector, pry it up by the body and remove the rear camera.

We disconnect the inter-board cable connector on the motherboard.

We carefully try to lift and remove the speaker. As we can see, this loudspeaker does not have a cable, only the contact pad is located on the speaker itself.

Then we disconnect the connectors of the two coaxial cables on the motherboard.

We also disconnect the connector of the cable to keyboard contacts.

Using a screwdriver Phillips 1.5 mm (PH #000), unscrew the six screws and remove the bracket holding the inter-board cable connector.

Disconnect the inter-board cable connector.

We see that there is nothing in the way on the motherboard, that we have disconnected all the connectors.

And try to carefully lift and remove the motherboard.

We unbend the cables so that they do not interfere with us.

And we remove the motherboard.

Using a screwdriver Phillips 1.5 mm (PH #000), unscrew the three screws and remove the bracket holding the vibration motor.

We can finally try to detach the speaker on the top right side.

We lift up the speaker, run a tool under the cable and the contact pad, and carefully detach the loudspeaker.

We look at the way the cable is glued.

⚠️️ No need to force, no need to hurry, just be as careful as possible. Let's see how we can properly detach the cable. We use a tool that is more convenient for us.

Carefully pry the edge of the contact pad up and remove the loudspeaker with an inter_board cable.

Before we remove the battery, of course, we'd better unstick and detach the keyboard connector cable.

First, we unscrew the two screws holding the cover, and detach the small locking cover in this part.

And we need to detach the cable with keyboard connector itself.

We need to check how it's held in place. We have to understand how we can gently lift it up. We check what we need to unglue.

So we carefully unstick in the areas that we can unstick. Lift in the places where the connector is lifted.

And carefully, without hurry, remove the cable with the contact pad to the keyboard.

Using a screwdriver Phillips 1.5 mm (PH #000), unscrew the seven screws securing the loudspeaker.

And after unscrewing the screws, we can carefully detach the loudspeaker.

We find the right place where we can pry it up, carefully, no need to hurry, no need to force.

As always, it's really important to find the right place where we can hook, lift and effortlessly remove the speaker.

After that, we disconnect the inter-board cable connector on the small board with the card connector.

We disconnect the connectors of the two coaxial cables so that they don't interfere with us.

Then we can carefully lift up and remove the small board with the card connector.

And finally, we move on to detach the battery.

So, we need to unwrap the two black tabs to the side and we also need to peel off the adhesive covering so that we don't accidentally tear off the tabs and we don't have to remove the battery for a long time.

We carefully unwrap the tabs and peel off the adhesive coating.

Carefully, not hurriedly, we peel off the covering, so that it does not interfere with us when pulling the adhesive tape.

Then gently we pull the tabs to the side, pulling out the adhesive tape.

We pull the adhesive tape out on one side and repeat the same procedure on the other side.

⚠️️ We need to remember to unstick the battery cable!