Literally Cooked Kobo Glo HD

everklear · 04-18-2020, 05:08 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?

Thargor · 04-19-2020, 08:27 AM

Same thing happened to mine recently after years of service. Switched the battery a couple of times but battery life was always terrible after that (50% per day) then the USB stopped working so I bought a Forma.

everklear · 04-19-2020, 04:04 PM

Thanks. I found one locally on Kijiji here that was a match, but it sold before I got a chance to make an offer.

I'll probably just buy a Clara or a Libra.

Still ... it would be good to resurrect it if I could find one to buy with a broken screen.

04-18-2020, 05:08 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?

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04-19-2020, 08:27 AM	#2
Thargor Connoisseur Posts: 93 Karma: 6322 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Sony PRS 505	Same thing happened to mine recently after years of service. Switched the battery a couple of times but battery life was always terrible after that (50% per day) then the USB stopped working so I bought a Forma.

04-19-2020, 04:04 PM	#3
everklear Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 8644 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Device: Kobo	Thanks. I found one locally on Kijiji here that was a match, but it sold before I got a chance to make an offer. I'll probably just buy a Clara or a Libra. Still ... it would be good to resurrect it if I could find one to buy with a broken screen.

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