A long dead but decent TV was hanging at Matt's apartment since he'd replaced it with a nicer quad OLED Samsung. I toted it back to Blodgett and booted it up to a black screen and LED flashing 6X. Dive on the net and it was likely one of 3 failure modes (unfortunately somewhat common on this series and manufactured timeframe). The edge backlight LEDs fail, the communications board fails, or the power board fails. I bought replacement parts for all these fails from eBay for about $85 all tolled. I didn't want to crack it all open for debug and then need to keep waiting for parts to arrive. Git 'er dun.
Cracking the back off was the biggest hassle in the end. Tiny plastic tabs all over heck and they don't easily release (or realign to close it up either).
Success crowned my efforts as I swapped the power board first and when I fired it up the screen lit up.
I put it all back together and deployed it as a monitor for my JRiver MC Linux audio streamer so I can get band images and lyrics and the like, in the new location for the EleFrugalKit. Nice. Of course I hooked it to WiFi to get the latest firmware but then disconnected Android from reporting to Google.
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