starter solenoid?? You more than likely replace it along with the starter motor itself but thought I'd mention it just in case. Then again even new equipment is known to be flakey sometimes too :-)

https://www.wikihow.com/Test-a-Starter-S...

Im really hoping that it would be fixed by simply cleaning the motherboard with an ultra sonic cleaner and replacing the faulty component.

At the moment im puzzled by what happened with the component. I don’t understand if this could have been caused by water damage or if it was there the entire time. It doesnt look burnt it just crack in the middle

Hi Mamal !

Indeed, iFixit does not have a guide for your smartphone model. However, we may be able to help you anyway.

What is your problem with your smartphone?

Me too I have the same problem used all kind of chargers

I returned my 3 wk old braven 405 because it quit charging. At 3 wks old the replacement stopped charging. Why at 3 wks and are they all faulty?

Oh great one! You're the master.

I responded to your question on my A300 Disassembly Guide. Did that not work?

It sounds like you’re disk has got physical surface defects. File system repair utilities are of limited use in such cases. Take a look at Advanced Hard Disk Tools in the Restarters Wiki.

Unless you can boot your iMac into Linux and DOS utilities (I don’t know whether that’s possible) you’ll need to take out the hard disk and temporarily attach it to a PC. There are 2 possibilities:

Spinrite can often recover unreadable sectors by doing its own error correction on the aggregate data accumulated from many reads. It’s far more persistent than any OS or the drive’s internal error recovery logic. If it succeeds it’ll remap the sector. If it was a transient error from a physical jolt or a voltage spike during a write and the disk is otherwise in good health, you can continue using it. However, Spinrite costs $89, but you get a lifetime personal licence and a money back guarantee if it disappoints.

If you can boot into Linux of any flavour then ddrescue will clone your hard disc to another. In a first pass it’ll read everything it can and keep a log of any sectors it couldn’t. You can then rerun it as many times as you like and it’ll just retry the sectors it has so far failed to read. This is a good option if you fear your disk is could die completely at any moment, allowing you to recover as much data as possible while you can. After the first run, running Spinrite might well enable it to succeed completely on a second pass.

Or, you could just find a professional data recovery firm. For a 3-figure sum they should be able to get your data back if it’s humanly possible, and should only charge if they succeed.

It sounds like Windows can’t recognise the content as a valid file system even though it can recognise it as a USB device. If you haven’t already, try it in a different USB port, then a different computer. Under Computer Management - Disk Management, can you see a healthy partition on it?

You might be able to recover it with Recuva, otherwise a partition recovery tool such as EaseUS might work.

Quite commonly the tray will only open a fraction of an inch. Is this the case or does it really open half way? If it opens half way you may be able to pull it the rest of the way. You might find it opens properly if the drive is upside down or on its side. In any case, you will have to open it up to find what’s jamming it.

Opening only a fraction of an inch is normally caused by a peg which locates in a hole to lock the drawer shut. The mechanism should withdraw the peg before starting to move the tray but sometimes through wear the peg won’t be removed soon enough and then gets jammed in its hole. Once you can see the peg and the hole and understand their operation you can often cure it by filing either the peg or the hole (or both) to give it a bit more clearance.

If something else is jamming you should be able to see it when you open up the drive. Take great care not to touch the lens as it’s suspended on a set of fine wires to allow its position to be micro-manipulated in order to follow and focus on the track. If it’s already broken, for example by being hit by a foreign object, then that could be what’s jamming it. Or if you have small children around maybe one of them introduced a foreign object into the tray.

By all means have a go - you will learn something and have fun in the process and you may even save a drive from landfill, but if it comes to it, a new drive is not expensive and is easy to fit.