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everklear · 04-18-2020, 04:08 PM

I plugged my reader in to charge this afternoon and came back to it about an hour later. The screen was frozen / unresponsive and there was a spot on the back of the reader that was very hot.

I tried the reset button as well as the power / reset button with no effect.

I took it down to my workbench and pulled the back cover off. I ended up burning my thumb (not too badly) when I touched the small-ish rectangular IC toward the bottom of the reader from the microSD card slot. That's a Ricoh RC5T619, which, according to the Ricoh website is a "power management IC".

I searched the interwebs in general and these forums for a similar topic and didn't come up with anything.

Does anyone have any experience with a similar situation?
Advice?

04-18-2020, 04:08 PM	#1
everklear Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 8644 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Device: Kobo	Literally Cooked Kobo Glo HD I plugged my reader in to charge this afternoon and came back to it about an hour later. The screen was frozen / unresponsive and there was a spot on the back of the reader that was very hot. I tried the reset button as well as the power / reset button with no effect. I took it down to my workbench and pulled the back cover off. I ended up burning my thumb (not too badly) when I touched the small-ish rectangular IC toward the bottom of the reader from the microSD card slot. That's a Ricoh RC5T619, which, according to the Ricoh website is a "power management IC". I searched the interwebs in general and these forums for a similar topic and didn't come up with anything. Does anyone have any experience with a similar situation? Advice?