My phone gave up the ghost, today, due to damage to the socket where the flex cable goes that transmits USB, audio and charging. Obviously I need at least to charge it somehow, so without the socket, I don’t see a way to keep the phone. I also don’t know how a new socket could be soldered into the motherboard.
I’m sorry it had to be this way - I’d have preferred something dramatic like falling into a volcano, burning up during reentry, or such. This phone has drowned in a half-frozen river (together with me) (sorry for non-dull), been dropped about a million times, and had the following bits swapped due to grievous damage:
- screen, 8 times (I had to count them in purchase history in AliExpress)
- the 1st screen drowned
- one just didn’t work
- one was damaged when I ripped it off to change the proximity sensor
- the rest just were broken during drops
- flex cable between daughterboard and motherboard (the phone didn’t charge)
- charging/speaker/audio jack daughterboard (the phone didn’t charge, but the culprit was the flex cable)
- battery (the phone didn’t charge, but the culprit was the flex cable)
- proximity sensor (collateral damage of screen swap)
- fingerprint reader (because I tore its cable during a screen swap
It looks like a zipper that’s missing the thing that zips the two sides together. Maybe zip that part back together and it’ll work.
It looks worse than it used to. It just didn’t snap, do what you might. Eventually I screwdrove it to this condition (can’t get any worse than dead, right?)
You could end up making a short that causes the battery to burst into flames if it was still connected (I assume it’s removed at this point tho) 🤷♂️
Samsung Note 7’s head technical advisor over here, still doing what they know best