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Unbrick Samsung SPF-85H Photo Frame

I've had a Samsung SPF-85H Photo Frame (http://www.samsung.com/au/support/model/LP08MNLSBT/XY) for about 8 years that was loaded with lots of photos (scaled down). One day I added about 200 photos and suddenly the auto slideshow feature locked up. When I rebooted the frame it went into auto slideshow and had frozen (I only got the blue Samsung logo). When I connected the frame via USB nothing would show up (the mass-storage mode did not initialize). At this point, the frame was pretty much bricked - I could not access the menu nor delete photos from the internal storage. So, I talked to the official Samsung service centers in my country but their response was that they can't fix Photo Frames, they only replace them. So, Samsung's plan is to force their past technology into obsolescence. That's something I strongly disagree with, so I set out to fix it myself. If you look on the back of the frame there is a small round opening close to the power plug that is labele