Bye Bye HiFi Walker

I’m not having much luck with my high resolution music players. My first one, a Sony, decided to destroy its battery (and then destroy the replacement battery that I bought) by shorting it out. I suspect the charging circuitry. That went to the tip. And now my second, which had the wonderful name “HiFi Walker” has had the display fail. So, despite there being no obvious way in, today I tried to fix it. I was hoping that upon the removal of the back I’d see a dangling socket I could just reconnect to tumultuous applause.

Unfortunately that’s not how it has worked out. After using the hair dryer to loosen the glue I got the back off to find a perfectly assembled circuit board with no obvious flaws. So it was time to double down and remove the processor board completely from the case and check the display connections. Which of course all looked fine to me, even though the display was obviously still broken.

This is the a genuine “blue screen of death” in that it is all that is displayed. Oh well. At least I tried.