I'm creating a new thread because the original one is already closed. Link:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=369072
At the time the previous thread got its last updates, the situation was the following:
- My Alita wouldn't boot up (red LED would turn on and remain on forever)
- Nothing that I could do by myself would change the behavior
- The local repair shops couldn't help because it was a board problem in an uncommon device
This made me give up on trying to fix it and I left the Alita literally accumulating dust on my desk. It was around August 10th.
However, I still tried messing with it again on November 30th. I opened it again, removed the heatsink that covers the processor and memory to check the chips under it*, put it on the freezer for a while, but nothing worked. After all this, I decided to "massage" the Alita - press the screen and back cover across all the surface - and it surprisingly did boot up.
It remained functional until March 18th, with not many freezes. When it did freeze, all I had to do was reapply the "massage". Now it froze again and even this is not working anymore; however if I press it at the processor/memory area while it is frozen (trying to boot up - red LED on forever), it will stop trying to boot, though not always.
All of this makes me think that my Alita has poor contact on some component, any ideas about that?
*Note: I'm annexing a photo of the Alita components that are under the heatsink. I've found a Korean blog with a lot of information about the boards of Boyue devices, but not the Alita.
The processor is a Rockchip RK3368, the memory is a Leahkinn LTFP0066FS3-ZJy2 2011-LH PK200304.
One of the things I noted on the previous thread was that my Alita displayed it had 2GB of memory. Searching this memory on the Internet, I could find that similar models (the LTFP0066FS3-ZJy1 and the LTFP0066FS3-ZJy2 1919-LH) really are 2GB (16 Gb) models. I couldn't find any information about the exact model I have, though.