Hi all, thanks for sharing. I'am trying to fix my father-in-law's old tablet just for fun, but somehow I managed to loose a tiny part 🤭.

Can anyone please tell me what PD8101 is? And can I potentially replace it with any other diode? Don't really feel like it's worth creating a separate topic, so decided to ask here.

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Hi all.

I do something totallt different for a living, but deep inside I'am a computer geek who always wanted to learn a little bit of electronics - including electronics repair. So a few years ago I started from scratch and today I fix different single board computers as a slightly profitable hobby .

Still can't believe it, but I somehow managed to get all the necessary tools and taught myself to deal with microsoldering and BGA with sufficient level of confidence.

Now I'am also interested in learning more about BIOS and EC chip programming.
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I asked someone who knows the creator of SVOD and he says that there has been an eMMC adapter for SVOD4 in the plans but since quite a few SVOD3 units are still not sold - he postponed that project and as of now it is only possible to directly connect to an eMMC chip and program it that way with SVOD4. Hope that at some point those compatible adapters will be released though....

Hi, same question here - there is a dedicated mode in the SVOD4 app and the pinout is also quite simple (as you can see on the attached screenshot), but I wasn't able to find a proper adapter board for this programmer.

The only SVOD adapter I found is compatible only with SVOD3. I'am sure there must be some other option, but I'am only discovering chip programming world, so maybe someone else will be able to help us get this sorted .

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