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
  • aramis87@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Can you do wireless charging? If that’s something that’s possible with your phone, make sure that the wireless charging option is enabled in your settings before your phone runs out of power. I don’t know that it’s an option that must be enabled on all phones, but I know it’s something you can turn on/off on some phones. And at least enabling it before you run our of power will give you the option for wireless charging if you decide to pursue it, even if it’s just to get photos and data off your current phone later.