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touslyxid:
You can see the damage here: http://min.us/lhg7YDu3PGetY

I ripped out the USB and sound jack ports. The whole process was an amateur job, I opened it because I was willing to sacrifice this device to the music player gods, I had some serious buyers remorse with this thing. Never buying Philips again. Also I figured out the proper way to open it half way through ripping the thing apart. I did salvage the battery and screen however, perhaps it would be useful in a future project with a raspberry pi or something of the sort.

Edit: Also thanks for the help guys.

wodz:
Please consider donating this player to the project. Judging from the pictures it should be possible to resolder usb and headphone socket. Maybe pamaury finds a way to bypass security checks and without guinea pig device this would be impossible.

touslyxid:
My apologies, my intentions were to throw the player away after taking some scans of the insides. Since the device was cleverly designed to hide how to open it I had to bruteforce my way in starting from the top, cutting off large pieces of the case and in effect making the device unusable for regular every-day use, as a result I only have board, battery and screen, I threw everything else away, the keypad, case, and speaker. Fortunately I at least figured out the proper starting point to use when opening the device up, so if anyone in the future decides to tackle it they can be a lot more precise in the process.

In hindsight I should have just asked one of you guys for help through the whole process, as you guys know better than I do how to work with these things.

wodz:
Working board itself is still interesting when speaking about bypassing the protection. Other then this it should be possible to  dump the content of nand chip.

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