Hardware Switch Lite with blown and shorted(?) caps

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I pulled apart a Switch Lite today that was charging (~0.63amp on the meter) but wouldn't power on. Doing a bit of probing around the front of the board, I noticed only 1 cap that was registering a short:

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Looking at the back side of the board, I noticed a cap that appears to have exploded for what seems to be the backlight for the home button:

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Does anyone happen to know, or could find out, the value for that capacitor on the back of the board that is blown? I'd appreciate it if so since details on these components seem to be hard to come by. As for the cap on the front of the unit, is that related to issue on the back of the board? I don't have another unit to compare it with but I assume I shouldn't be able to get a beep on the multimeter on both side of that thing.
 

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I cleaned up the corrosion in that area and things seem ok there. Also, that thing I thought was a cap in the first picture is apparently an inductor so it isn't shorted. Where I do have shorts on this board is on the right side on the back and one component, that I assume is a cap, near the IC for the digitizer on the front. Its black though while the other things that I know are caps are tan colored so perhaps its something else.
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Does anyone have any idea where these 4 caps (I assume they are caps anyway) hook up? I am having a hard time tracing these things to any other component.
 
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