I had to change caps because one got lost but they are OK now. No smoke or heat or anything,
I don't have any game cards, but I have tried with OFW without SD card and it also freezes. I will try to reproduce this again, I expect the same...
Yes, everything was isolated with tape. Flex and chip is HWfly 2040, bought it together. So no cables and no solder other than the capacitors next to the CPU. I checked there are no shorts or anything.
Just in case there was some residue, I...
Sadly I had tried that a couple of times but to no avail. First time I tried restoring a eMMC backup (which was a downgrade so it did not work because of the fuses), then I tried recovery mode. I’m really not sure what could be causing this...
@The Real Jdbye, I thought about that and I have blank DVD's and Blurays but honestly after like 90 songs I just listen to it a couple of hundred times toss it out and burn something else or have like 2-3 CD's. Florida here the heat in the car tends to ruin the CD's after like a few months even commercial pressed ones don't last too long.