8GB Flash Drive Repaired
A very close friend, brought to me a Flash 8 Giga Bytes, crying, which had lost all data in it. I tested the flash drive by connecting it to the Laptop and it gave no sign of life, that is, not detected and nothing lit.
I opened it to check at the internal level and encountered that the end of the USB (Universal Serial Bus) pins were broken.
I had to think of a solution in order to help my friend. Then, an idea came that was to check the pin out from Flash with a broken Mouse cable, doing comparison:
To finalize and give a good finish, I used glue stick to seal and the Flash has been operational since June 2015. Take a look at the photo below:
This article was prepared for you by Jaime Obed from Mozambique. He has 33 years of repair experience and have worked in the telecommunication, audio visual, PCs, Printers and UPS repair field. He also provide Vsat installation, server and networking planning and installation on RG58 (Coaxial Cable), RS232 and RJ45.
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Merlin Marquardt
September 15, 2015 at 11:38 am
Very neat and nice! Well done!
Ulises Aguilar Pazzani
September 15, 2015 at 12:27 pm
good idea Mr Obed put that in the memory card
Albert van Bemmelen
September 15, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Hi Jaime, Nice repair but I'm afraid that it will break again in future on the spot were you glued the parts together.
By-the-way: The Phison chip on your repaired Memory stick spec can be found on this Link: http://monitor.espec.ws/files/ps2251-33_datasheet_700.pdf
The PS2251-33 is a microcontroller that supports 3.3 and 1.8 Volt Flash I/O SLC (Single level cell) 2k to 8k-page large block NAND Flash.
And can even be Firmware upgraded and works on 12MHz.
I have a lot of USB Memory Sticks with different Controllers that do not work anymore so I made a sport to examine these if I can repair them by replacing components that are interchangable. But in fact the Controllers are mostly never the same. So I keep saving them until components do.
Albert van Bemmelen
September 16, 2015 at 3:21 pm
Hi Humberto. There is no secret. Just use Google to find any info you seek on any hardware you have. I never have updated any USB memory Flash Nand stick before but read this fact in several datasheets of the USB Controllers on those Memory sticks. I don't know why you specifically are asking this question? But if I can help you with finding some info I will!
Chris
September 15, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Good job done and very innovative.
Its not for long term use, maybe Albert alright but the data are saved to a new storage I hope so... 🙂
That is the most important in a case like this.
My best regards.
Yogesh Panchal
September 15, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Well done and thanks for sharing.
I agree with Albert, You should change the pin so that it will also easy to carry this Pen drive .
Humberto
September 15, 2015 at 11:11 pm
Hi Jaime, good job. Anyway I agree with Mr. Albert, but it's time to save now the important information from the 8GB Flash Drive.
Robert Calk
September 16, 2015 at 9:04 am
Good job, Jaime.
Zed Pato
September 16, 2015 at 7:22 pm
nice job jaime for saving the files inside the usb flash drive
Samantha Perera
September 17, 2015 at 12:03 am
Good job thanks for sharing