Plastic switch isn't working

pmilladcs · #11 (**permalink**) 8th Feb 2007, 4:22 pm

sorry my camera is a bad webcam. u can still see good tho.
Key:
Blue-where the switch should be
Red or pink-pointing out where the switch area

lattesurf · #12 (**permalink**) 8th Feb 2007, 4:57 pm

pmilladcs , alright i see where your problem is. You would have 3 options on this thing:

1. Leave it as it is and use a small pin to switch it on/off when needed.

2. Find a similar switch at your local electronics store and get it replaced.

3. Remove the switch and solder a permanent wire across it (ie permanent on).

pmilladcs · #13 (**permalink**) 8th Feb 2007, 6:14 pm

i have just found a REALLY SMALL switch. i had to use a needle. the problem is now it's totally weared off. i'm not very lucky. my mp4 player cannot turn on any more.

this might be the last post i will ever make on this site.
good bye mympxplayer.org

michiganjfrog · #14 (**permalink**) 8th Feb 2007, 7:20 pm

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Originally Posted by pmilladcs";p=&quot

i have just found a REALLY SMALL switch. i had to use a needle. the problem is now it's totally weared off. i'm not very lucky. my mp4 player cannot turn on any more.

this might be the last post i will ever make on this site.
good bye mympxplayer.org

There's gotta be a way to turn it on, if everything else is working. You just gotta turn it on once, and stop trying to turn it off! Turning it off with the main power switch is not essential. I can't tell what kind of damage has been done with the needle, but perhaps you can dig the needle into the whatever is left of the sliding switch in order to turn it on. If there's nothing left of the sliding switch, perhaps lattesurf's suggestion of soldering across the contacts to create a permanent on. Whatever the solution, the decaying of a plastic switch is not going to stop me! Technically, so long as it works otherwise, the player still has a way to be turned on, even if it must be permanent. Hope you succeed at that.

pmilladcs · #15 (**permalink**) 8th Feb 2007, 7:42 pm

i came back cuz I'M REALLY REALLY DIPRESSED. i'm not the most spoiled kid on the block. my mp4 was my only christmas gift. i can't get a new one.

the red is where that switch was. well the switch was on a black thing, that black thing is gone. i ripped it off. what do i do now? i still have all the peices, just not on the player. plz help

Pocket_Nano · #16 (**permalink**) 8th Feb 2007, 8:48 pm

Do you have a webcam or a video recorder?. Do us all a very big favor OK?. Take this player and a hammer and beat the shit out of it. Take out all of your frustration on it and smash it to a million and 1 pieces. But I want you to film this and then post the video of it back here so we all can watch it. After that send me a private message here on the forum with your address and I will buy you another brand new player the same as the player you have now. Write your forum name "pmilladcs" on a big piece of paper and tape it to your chest so we know the video is really you and that you didn't just download the video from somewhere online just to get the player. Do we have a deal?. :lol:

Pocket-Nano

lattesurf · #17 (**permalink**) 9th Feb 2007, 12:24 am

pmilladcs , if the switch can be slided into the Off position, it must be possible to push it back into the On position.
Keep trying with the small pin, the switch isin't very tight, and should be able to slide to On as long as the small pin gets a grip on whatever that is still left on the switch.
It probably takes alot of patience, but keep trying, you will be able to slide it back to On.

As a last resort, if after many days and hours of trying, and you still could not get it to On. Find someone good in soldering, or maybe yourself, and remove the switch to replace it with a wire short. Since i think it would be quite difficult to obtain such parts from any electronics store.

pmilladcs · #18 (**permalink**) 9th Feb 2007, 3:53 pm

lattesurf, the switch is totally off. as you can see in the picture it's gone, there's some silver thing left. it happened when i was tryna find the switch.
pocket_nano, are you really going to buy me a new one?

pmilladcs · #19 (**permalink**) 9th Feb 2007, 3:57 pm

and how would you send it to me? u dont need to buy the same but i really don't beleive you. can you make an ebay account with my address?
can you somehow send 40 bucks to my paypal?

newbielives · #20 (**permalink**) 9th Feb 2007, 4:37 pm

I believe Pocket_Nano that he will buy you a new player after you do what he ask.

He is after all a "Gold Donator to the site"