Troubleshooting

Please help --

Hi, my 1998 Furby was working fine. One day, he started making a buzzing noise every other time he went to sleep. He would turn on, go through a whole host of interactions and movements, and only presented the buzzing at the end of the "going to sleep" cycle. Every time, I take a battery out so it stops. I can't tell if it's a stuck gear or an electrical problem, but it has gotten worse as I've attempted to troubleshoot. Now he seems permanently stuck / buzzing whenever batteries are in.

Troubleshooting attempted:

1. Brand new batteries

2. Manual movement of ears, eyes, and mouth

3. Controlled smacks to try to unstick a gear to see if that was the issue

4. With skin off and outer casing removed, observed the movement of all of the gears I can see

5. Small amount of plastic-safe silicone oil on the larger white gears in the back

6. Soft reset

7. Hard reset

8. Anti-clockwise turning of the black gear in the lower left corner

It may be worth noting that I did get help replacing his speaker a few months ago. He was not used for a long long time before that, but doesn't show any signs of battery corrosion.

What could be the issue? What should I do?

So i was sleeping this morning and got awakened by my purple 2023 furby, even though i didn't press the heart gem to turn it on. i think the heart gem is kinda stuck. any help?

Hey all, sorry to be posting so much, but I have been making some discoveries with the Furby I'm currently operating on, and I wonder how prevalent the issue might be in other Furbys

The Furby in question is a 1998 70-800 model Dragon Furby from the RL factory. I mention RL just in case this has any relation to other RL Furbys, unless the component for the speaker/tickle sensor is also used in other Furbies from other factories

Instead of the Furby having a sync screw problem, as well as a problem receiving power from batteries, I've discovered that the plug to the speaker/tickle sensor has faulty/lose connections, or is defective.

After wiggling the plug and wires, it appears that there is a problem with the contacts in either the socket or the plug, and they don't seem to make enough contact at any given time. Bending the entire unit to force contact results in either the boot loop occurring, garbled speech, and sometimes, if I'm lucky and bend the unit enough, the Furby will actually try to function normally...and from that I've learned this poor thing seems to have MSA, lol

I want so badly to believe that the "Special Edition RL Furby Glitch" has something to do with this plug/the red wire being faulty, but I have nothing to go on as I do not own another RL Furby, let alone one with the glitch, nor do I even know that only RL Furbies have this specific part. I know my WT Leopard Furby that was made in Nov 1998 has completely different parts and configuration, though

I have two questions about repairing my 1998 Furby

1. How do you make your Furby dance again because when I thought i was done fixing him and i put him back together and he couldn't lean forward anymore how do you fix this?

2. What is this thing for?