Palm Tungsten E (Pocket PC) Battery Installation Guide

Step: 1

You Will Need The Following Tools:
T5 Tory Driver
Shim Tool
A Soldering Iron


Warning! This Repair Requires Soldering! Proceed at your own risk.
Step: 2

Flip over your Tungsten-E unit and remove the 4 screws using the T5 Torx Driver located in the red circles of the picture.
Step: 3

Now you will need to release the tabs with your shim tool, this may take a little time.
Step: 4

Keep light opening pressure with your fingers on the area once you have released a tab. (try and keep the frame from relocking back into the tabs again).
Step: 5

continue doing the same on the next tab and so forth.
Step: 6

until the frame of the Tungsten E unit finally opens.
Step: 7

This picture shows the unit open with the battery exposed - but still soldered to the unit.
Step: 8

You will need to remove the battery from the motherboard of the Tungsten E - it is attached by double sided tape and may require some pressure to remove.
Step: 9

Now you will have to do some soldering (2 wires) to release the old battery and replace the new battery.

Snap on the cover and put back the single screw.

Your new battery will need a minimum of three hours of charging before first use.