On my old phone I had an issue with the proximity sensor and front facing camera. This led me to holding my phone backwards to take photos and being unable to hang up phone calls.
I think I put up with this for a year and a half.
I did end up figuring out the issue with the proximity sensor but opening up my phone to reconnect the camera module was too much effort for me.
I have a HDD in my PC that was manufactured in 2008, it still works and SMART is not reporting any errors.
How is this a technical issue? Seems like your hard drive is working fine?