Olympus m-10 camera switch mechanism?

[John Keiser]

I was given this camera. Like many point and shoot digital Olympus cameras,
it is turned on by retracting the lens shield.
Has a charged battery and power shows at the camera battery terminals when
connected to 4.5 v.
Retracting the lens shield does nothing.
I opened the camera. [Easy. Just a few screws.]
Under the front cover is a pivoting plastic arm, maybe 1/2 inch long that
swings across the interior over a circuit board when the lens shield is
retracted.
I wanted to manually bypass the switch and start diagnosis.
But I can't see anything like a switch. Anywhere.
There is a 1/4 inch square shallow metal enclosure near the area where this
arm would be but it sure doesn't look like a switch or anything that really
comes in contact with the arm.
Does anyone know how Olympus cameras are switched on?
Thank you.

 

[John Keiser]

Upon further inspection: I see that the 1/4 inch metal device is a
microswitch but the lever has broken. It is so small that even if I had the
broken parts [they seem to have been eaten by the camera], I could not
repair.
I could possibly wire a slider switch elsewhere.
Oh well.

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I was given this camera. Like many point and shoot digital Olympus
cameras, it is turned on by retracting the lens shield.
Has a charged battery and power shows at the camera battery terminals when
connected to 4.5 v.
Retracting the lens shield does nothing.
I opened the camera. [Easy. Just a few screws.]
Under the front cover is a pivoting plastic arm, maybe 1/2 inch long that
swings across the interior over a circuit board when the lens shield is
retracted.
I wanted to manually bypass the switch and start diagnosis.
But I can't see anything like a switch. Anywhere.
There is a 1/4 inch square shallow metal enclosure near the area where
this arm would be but it sure doesn't look like a switch or anything that
really comes in contact with the arm.
Does anyone know how Olympus cameras are switched on?
Thank you.