Broken Nook Simple Touch

A lot of the interconnections are surface-mount things that wedge or clamp flexible cables; I've seen those dislodge (or actually break solder joints) without being obvious. A probe with a stick (I keep chopsticks in the toolbox) can make it wiggle, if that's the issue.

Not many people know what chopsticks were originally for.

And at that, I don't even think 'chop sticks' is even the name to use (or even the right alphabet).

First of all, a microscope might be handy in a do it yourself manner. I wonder what hardware manufacturer makes the Nook. Could it be Toshiba? Samsung? Apple?

It depends on how hard you fell on it.

Long ago a roommate brought me his 6" CRT tv AM-FM clock radio. The only one I've ever seen. His father got mad at him and threw it at him.

The picture tube was fine but the circuit board was broken. I soldered jumper wires across the leads that were broken, not at the break points but from the places where components were soldered in closest to the break points. About 15 pairs of them, but it worked afterwards. Most were obvious but some a few were just little cracks. I think you could solder straight the "wires", the traces, but you'd have to scrape off the lacquer or whatever it's covered with.

Extremely nearsighted person examined whatever was visible and found nothing cracked or broken, so I put it in a plastic bag to await inspiration or the breakage of the one I'm using now.

Thanks, guys.