Some of these weird hardware fixes are due to manufacturers using adhesive. I believe Creative (creative.com) for instance intentionally uses adhesives that wa

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-zen.html 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 :)