Is my bricked tablet just due to a failed USB charging connector?
Hi all!
I have a tablet that is showing no sign of life whatsoever. Nothing happened to it, seemingly the battery just died while connected to a computer that went to hibernate, and the next day no way to turn the tablet back on.
All in all, I'm figuring it might just be the USB connector, which I'm hoping for because they are quite easy to find on ebay and such (which is also why I'm suspecting this may just be a common fault on those tablets). But before buying and playing with a soldering iron, I'd like to diagnose it.
Is there an easy way to do this? Using an old USB cable and bypassing the connector by connecting two leads directly to the main board, or something along those lines?
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Update: I bought the same model second hand. I gave the old one another shot, now that I knew it was probably fine behind a blown up USB plug. Swapped the batteries.
The old tablet does turn on, but is extremely slow to do so. It took about 20 minutes to boot. Then the screen is not responsive - i bring up the lockscreen instantly by pushing power button, but then no amount of swiping does anything, so the screen just goes to dimming.
I'm not really sure what could cause that, although the 10 odd months on a drained battery can't have helped. I could just wipe and restore factory settings, but I think it is worth trying to get the data off of it first. I'll get a USB connector online and try installing it, maybe then i can get pictures from connecting to a PC. I am afraid i will be stuck at android defaulting to a "charge only connection" and not being able to select the data transfer mode though...
Any other suggestions welcome :)
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Last update: I got it to work. nothing special, just cycled a couple of times on/off and it would get a bit less sluggish each time. By the third or fourth cycle I could copy all my photos on the SD card and then was able to factory reset. Works just fine now, only need to replace the little board that carries the usb plug, 8 GBP coming from HK, no soldering required.
Thanks for the help!
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