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Bozza

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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 by Werner
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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 ^_^

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