I was stuck in line for COVID testing so I thought I would pull apart my carcam that was not turning on because of a stuffed internal battery causing to to get stuck in an infinite power cycle loop.
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I pried the back off to expose the PCB and screen.
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I didn’t have a screwdriver to pull the PCB out so I tried looking up the main IC spca1521a-hl091 datasheet
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I found this datasheet which is from the same manufacturer but a different chip
https://datasheet4u.com/mobile/925383/SPCA1528A.html
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The battery is a single cell LiPo with a protection PCB.