btw i forgot to ask, since removing the inductor next to BQ and the short to ground here spontaneously clearing, are you still measuring the short on the battery connectors center pin?
also, i don’t know if we established this earlier or not, but looking at your earlier images
It would seem somebody has already been under this shield and possibly already attempted to reflow Ram or SoC… it might be worthwhile removing this shield and taking a look like in your other case with the Lite board and seeing if there is any evidence of a reflow…, it’s entirely possible if somebody attempted a Ram reflow and accidently knocked one or both of these modules causing the short your seeing on these rails, in which case that would be potentially good news
