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bean61 · 02-10-2011, 11:30 AM

The 4-way rocker switch in the lower right corner no longer works. I've been searching eBay for a broken or blacklisted kindle for parts. I'm thinking that the easiest fix might be to buy a blacklisted kindle, open it up, and replace the serial number chip with the same chip from my daughter's kindle. Anybody know which chip this is? Is the plan feasible? If not, anybody have a better plan (besides the obvious: buy a new one)? I'm a chip engineer and have lots of debug experience, but don't have the equipment to desolder/resolder a large pin-count device. Thanks in advance!

02-10-2011, 11:30 AM	#1
bean61 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: kindle 3g	Dog chewed on my kid's new kindle The 4-way rocker switch in the lower right corner no longer works. I've been searching eBay for a broken or blacklisted kindle for parts. I'm thinking that the easiest fix might be to buy a blacklisted kindle, open it up, and replace the serial number chip with the same chip from my daughter's kindle. Anybody know which chip this is? Is the plan feasible? If not, anybody have a better plan (besides the obvious: buy a new one)? I'm a chip engineer and have lots of debug experience, but don't have the equipment to desolder/resolder a large pin-count device. Thanks in advance!