Yeah I joined the broken black cable club late. I paid $20 for the cable and $30 for overnight shipping (“overnight” as in, paid an invoice on Thursday morning, but didn’t actually ship until Friday evening and now arriving Monday 
). Next time I will not use the forums and go straight to email. I also want to ask to buy like 5 because I’d rather spend $100 on spare parts than go another week with disruptions and stress.
My current fix is to keep everything off overnight, don’t touch a thing and especially do not open the lid, then power it on and it’ll boot normally and do one job before getting stuck again.
edit: and speak of the devil, now it is working normally again! I now only lift the lid like 5 degrees to stick my arms inside to retrieve stuff.
edit: new cable came in, installed it and it looks like it works again!