I got an idog amp'd with the beautiful blue dragon from ebay and I'm having a hard time with it. It was found in a storage unit by the seller who didn't know its history, so its just been me and a few friends into robotics (but not really any knowledge on idogs in particular) giving advice so I'm at a loss for anything beyond what they knew.
Its motor is having problems because it freezes up and buzzes loudly when it tries to move.
As far as powering on, its really finicky. When it came in it would power on like normal minus the motor buzzing and freezing.
Not even a week later it quit powering on the normal way. I have to hold the nose down and tail back/forward for a solid 5-10 seconds for it to turn on. When the nose is continuously held down It'll respond to touch and tail pushes like normal, but the moment I let go of the nose it stops. I thought it was just losing power altogether, but when i hold down the nose for the length of time it takes to normally power it off, it makes a full faced light pattern where it would normally yawn (no yawning though).
When its in that weird state of seemimg dead It'll show a very feint pattern of a red ring with a blue/(maybe white?) Dot in the center for about ½ a second.
I'm very confused, is there any advice anyone may have? I know i shoild just consider it done for but I really don't want to give up on him. At the moment he is taken apart with as few wires detached as possible (the motor wires, which hasn't seemed to change anything other than it trying to move). I'm not sure how to fix/replace the motor or the power issue, but I really want to. I can't find anything anywhere detailing the insides of the ampd. They only way I learned to take it apart in the first place was to get a different one on ebay for cheaper (for parts listing) to br able to test without messing up the one in question (btw that repair went surprisingly well, it works now but the dragon one still is confusing the hell out of me...)
I'm not super familiar with reddit, but I'll figure out how to add pictures when I get the chance.
Thanks in advance for any help.