Repairing Philips DVP-3010 and clones
Somehow I received “several" bad Philips DVP 3010-02 DVD (DivX/Xvid) players. They were sold in local market about year ago for about 100$.
All the devices have same flaw- not reading disk due to the damage of flexible conductor. This is design error. I think Philips must pay me some money for discovering such errors 
First off all, the only thing from Philis is brand name sticker on the device and few bitmaps in firmware. It is generic DVD player with Mediatek processor. It is same CPU as in VIDO player (and many other). Disk reading device is made by ASATECH.
To repair this player just open the box, remove disk holder and look to flexible conductor. If one end, near laser is bended to sharp angle the problem is located. All you need is to change this conductor… or just spend some time and repair it.
In this image you can see the broken part of flexible pcb. Also, when removing the conductor, remove some scotch tape holding it. This tape is placed in wrong place- there is very small room to flex pcb. If the tape was glued near the main PCB, the player would be working without any problem.
In this image you can see where the flexible conductor was glued (1) and the place were it is broken (2).
Here is the image of repaired device. The conductor is glued in other place, so it can curve in lots of space. Some players were with special pcb holder, but the flaw is the same.
To fix player you need:
1. Screwdriver “star"
2. Screwdriver “philips"
3. Scissors.
4. Some Scotch.
5. Good thermoregulated iron (if you want to fix pcb instead of buying new one)
6. Some other tools and steady arms.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Hi
How do i fix this cable? #5. Good thermoregulated iron (if you want to fix pcb instead of buying new one)
Beacause i dont know where to buy a new cable my supplier dont have this cable anymore.
Or you have a dealer who sell this cable ?
Thanks
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Nope, I don't buy or sell these cables. Simmilar cables are widely used in other equipment. Just find any cable long enough and having same conductors picth. It may be wider just cut unused lines away near connector.
Or cut bad part of the cable near connector, save fixing plastic. Remove isolation from one side of the cable, glue plastic to form thicker end and place it to DVD.
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
just to clarify a bit as it was somewhat vague. the pcb mentioned is actually the small strip on the disc side of the cable, which unclips delicately from the laser board. to fix the cable, i used scissors to trim of about 2mm of the end of the connector, replaced in socket and then moved the tape as seen in pic above. hope this helps and thanks for posting this in the 1st place.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
In most cases, the damage is much more distant than 2mm from side. I just cut all the damaged area, using regulated soldering iron remove all isolation and glue blue plastic spacer back. It take about 2 minutes to repair the cable.