bricked box?

[Bozza]

So I have managed to partially pull out one of the usb sockets on my tv box.

The little plastic piece that holds the 4 metal pins has come out while I was pulling out a slightly deformed usb cable.

 

The box still worked while it was on. After a reboot it is not coming on. The LEDs and VFD don't come on. It doesn't boot into armbian or android.

 

Is it safe to say that it is dead?

 

I think I am going to have to try and lift those metal pins. Because they are touching the metal usb housing. Perhaps that is causing a short-circuit somewhere.

If all else fails I will try to desolder the whole usb slot.

 

Update: I have bent the pins with a pen in that broken USB port and the box boots now.

This is officially my dev box now

 

It looks like I am getting weird errors when using this box now.

When even running "apt-get update" I am greeted with

 

"Reading package lists... Error!             

E: Read error - read (5: Input/output error)"

 

I guess it is because of some of the pins shorted together .. Could this be true?

It isn't my day today by the looks of it.

Edited September 22, 2020 by Werner
Remove solved prefix again

[Werner]

53 minutes ago, Bozza said:

 

"Reading package lists... Error!             

E: Read error - read (5: Input/output error)"

 

 

Try a different sd card. Maybe it got bricked.

 

Note: I merged your posts. And moved to p2p help. No worries

[Bozza]

The pins inside the USB port were shorting the usb hub/sd card out.

I pulled the pins out completely from the usb 2 port. No more IO errors!

 

There is only one usb 3 port left on this board now.