2007 with P0a80 and manual latch for hatchback won't work.

I bought a 2007 sight unseen for way too much money and finally my luck ran out. Bad hybrid battery. To make matters worse I can't even open the lift gate. The little silver thing on the inside is stiff and it won't rotate to open the door. I just tried it on my daily to make sure I have the idea correct and it opens no problem. How am I going to get the liftgate open if the manual lever doesn't work??

To make matters worse I cannot get the Dr. Prius app on my iphone to work with my obd reader even though I specifically bought the reader dr. prius app told me to use. I have an old galaxy s7 burner with the dr. prius app but haven't got it to work yet either. Assuming I can't get the app to work is there a way to manually measure voltages on the cells to find the culprit cell once I have it on the bench? Man, not off to a good start with this one.

 

From the inside near the hatch latch there is a little silver tab that if you lift up it will open the hatch. In theory. It's like my silver little thing is already stuck up and not actuating whatever it is supposed to release.

No go with the 12v. The switch is in rough shape from heat damage, but it does try to do something. You can hear it make a clunking sound, but the hatch is still firmly shut.

I got the Dr. Prius app to work at least. What does this tell us about the battery? To the layman obviously it appears modules #3, 5, & 8 are different. Possible to swap the 6 cells out and be good? I know there are concepts of charging and balancing the cells that I know nothing about, and I obviously need to do a lot more research on my own. Just wondering if someone can point me in the right directions, pointers etc. I have 2 bad hybrid battery assemblies, possible to scrounge together all the good cells from those? Drawback is they were known to be bad packs already and I'm sure sitting for a couple years hasn't fixed them.

Although I can't even dig into this HV battery fiasco if I can't lift the gate....
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