I'm getting better and better at maintaining my kids' Toniebox. 🔧💪
A few days ago, it started erroring out for some specific Tonies. Most would work perfectly fine, but for others it would flash a quick blue light (trying to connect to the internet), then start flashing red without any error message. After about 10 or so red flashes, it rebooted automatically.
I did some internet research, but the results weren't very helpful. I was quickly able to rule out WiFi issues, because the Toniebox showed up as connected to my router and I could see outgoing requests in Pi-Hole.
The next reasonable assumption was that something is wrong with the SD card. Either the card reader or card itself.
I opened up the box, removed the card and when I connected it to a Linux PC, it immediately reported filesystem errors. I let Linux repair it.
At the same time I saw that some of the rubbery glue they used to keep people from removing the SD card had melted over some circuitry. It didn't look conductive, but I carefully scraped it off anyway.
And when I put it back together it started playing all of the defective Tonies and of course everything else. 🤩
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