Hi
I managed to brick my akita while doing a hardware mod... Ok, after some time I found it would boot and I could even ssh into it and even later that the display showed everything. Only difficult to see without the BACKLIGHT.
I came upon this thread
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1963 and found the fuse for the backlight and it was blown.
On the c1000 (also C3000, C3100) the fuse is beside the battery compartment and its value "1.25A" is printed on the board.
frank