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
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