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G16 Mainboard

Started Jul 18, 2017 | Questions thread
reyalp Regular Member • Posts: 201
Re: G16 Mainboard

ghce wrote:

Purchased a second hand faulty G16 inc charger and battery for a very low price, opening it revealed a badly corroded main board, both sides which I removed and cleaned but to no avail.

Any one know of a cheap source for replacement boards?

Beware that these cameras have quite a bit of camera specific calibration stored in the onboard flash memory. If you manage to successfully replace the main board but aren't able to get the factory adjustment (which requires Canon service software or some very hard core reverse engineering), you may run into image quality problems or other issues.

One CHDK user a long time ago got a replacement board directly from Canon, only to find that they apparently ship them in factory mode, or perhaps with nothing but a bootloader: https://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php?topic=5969.0

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