Chosen Solution
My little guy dropped my Kindle Fire 7 (5th Generation–2015). I don’t blame him; it was my fault for giving the device to him sans case while he was sick. Here is what I have observed since “the incident”: There is no visible case or screen damage (ie cracks, malformations, etc)It can be powered on/offI can adjust the volumeI can adjust brightness (because I know where to touch the screen)I (once) blindly entered my lock screen passwordAfter blindly entering my lock screen password I was able to connect it to my computer via USB and access some of the files that are on the deviceSome files are available for transfer, others are coming up as black photos instead of images (they did this before “the incident” too), and a mess of others are not available at all but still apparently on the device as it the internal memory is very very full)The device made its characteristic “click” sound when I entered the passcodeThe screen is white with horizontal colored lines (if held in portrait vs landscape)The lines move depending on what I have tried to do to the device I need to retrieve the rest of those photos and videos. They are the record of my child’s life. They aren’t backed up on the Cloud :-/ I suspect that the hard drive, speakers, and buttons are in decent shape given my observations but need to know what needs repairing/replacing. If it’s not a repair or a “just snug up this loose connection”, knowing where to purchase parts would be amazing. As a side note, would a professional repair person be able to access the files (photos, video, documents, whatever) if I took it to one of those places? It has a lock screen passcode. Not a great proponent of handing my data over to strangers.
