Hi,
I’ve got myself a switch here that I just purchased as faulty. Was described as charge port being good but opened it up and someones been in here and done a poor attempt at removing the charge port and they’ve just pulled it off the board, looks like a couple pads missing. Not sure about the inner connections yet but does anyone know if this kinda problem is salvageable?
Believe the charge IC is gone too which is the actual issue and not the charge port which makes this all the more annoying.
I imagine if the inside pads are good I can maybr solder a bit of wire then attach the new charge port pads to the wire and hopefully it all makes a connection. This does take partial power and sent 5v to some capacitors .
I have attached some photos of the damage and hopefully this can be salvageable as it’s an unpatched switch I’d really like to get working for personal use.
Here is a close up of all the visible damage:
