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by Edmond 4484 days ago
Some of these weird hardware fixes are due to manufacturers using adhesive.

I believe Creative (creative.com) for instance intentionally uses adhesives that ware out after a certain period.

This would cause your product to stop working, I did a writeup on fixing their MP3 players some years back : http://vistev.blogspot.com/2010/02/harware-fix-for-creative-...

Now merely hitting the device or doing some other crazy stuff may cause the necessary components to align and viola things work :)