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