Strange, check you haven’t got any bridges across any of the M92 pads on the board. If your worried about that cap, you can just remov it for the time being.
Yeah. If the reading remains approx the same, then remove that inductor and see which side of the inductors pads remains short to ground.
Also i just want to confirm, this in ohms right, not kiloohms? as you don’t state the unit of measure at the end, so just wanna make sure
Yep all looks good.
This cap was half pulled but seems to be stable.
I have on default settings now so with probes not touching anything it shows : M Ohms @20.16
When I touch the cap M disappears but Ohms stays. When I touch the Inductor it turns : K Ohms @ 3.67.
. Right I will take Inductor off now.
Sorry meant to say probes not touching the screen show M Ohms OL.
The reading 20.6 is Ohms on the cap.
I’m confused 
This was measuring about 1ohm earlier relative to ground… what caused this reading to change?
I thought it was because I pressed the range button but I wasn’t able to replicate that result again. So am not sure all I did differently today was a quick ipa clean on m92 pads
Inductor now off and result in picture.
The cap is still at 19.77 Ohms.
3rd battery is 15.273 M Ohms.
Also some close ups on general area
3.736 is now reading 2.2096 K Ohm 
again other than cleaning the flux off I haven’t done anything different. I can’t understand this.
Flip the board over and take some readings on the inductors surrounding the main PMIC the same as with your switch lite and lemme know what you get.
Don’t worry about this too much, fluctuations in resistance is normal.
BQ doesn’t appear to be responsible
My guess would be Ram or SoC unfortunately as the two rails which are shorted (Red and Purple) feed them.
If it were me, I’d pull the Ram and see if the shorts clear.
You could also pull the incductors off first on the slim chance it’s the main PMIC responsible, though i think it’s unlikely and you’ll likely find the short/s is on the indctors output pad side…but you never know.
Thanks for helping Severence. Just some questions if I pull the ram off does mean it will need to be reballed to put it back on?
And in regards to pulling the inductors are you referring to all the ones I circled?
Yep.
The two inductors surrounding main PMIC, representing the shorted rails. Red and purple, 0.16ohm and 0.32ohm, pull those two and see which side of the pad the short remains on
Thx for clarifying.
How do you work out this is for the ram or soc do you have a ‘map’. Just interested in understanding.
Here the readings
It’s a bit strange that your reading on red (1V8PDR) went from 0.16ohm to 21ohm did you change probe polarity or something?.. regardless, the short is on the output which lets us know it’s not the main PMIC responsible and it’s something downstream such as the SoC or Ram.
Nope no map unfortunately, I just stripped a donor board of all major IC’s and buzz it out in contunuity mode.
No just had black on ground and red testing. I might leave this one on hold until I decide what I should do with it. It’s shame though. But at least I’ve learnt loads thanks to you 
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
Hey
Yes I am getting 15.65 M Ohms on center pin to ground.
Also I am pretty sure someone has tampered the soc/ram shield. I’ve taken some pictures. Looks bad but maybe I contributed to it by heating aroubd m92 a lot. I havent touched this part of the board. Tbh looks like (ram) is where it should be?
I will also get back to you about the lite soon. But i am assume same treatment with IPA for this switch as well?
Flux residue here would indicate somebody has reflowed Ram (either intentionally or accidentally) I would be surprised if your flux made it that far in, but not impossible i suppose.
The SoC on the other hand looks near immaculate and doesn’t appear to have been exposed to excess heat, which is a good sign.
It is indeed, but what i mean is, the ram may have been knocked or over nudged while solder was molten merging the balls below and surface tension will pull it back in place… just a possiblity. You could tilt the board and inspect the outer balls for any issues such as bridges etc… though it’s pretty rare your ever lucky enough for a bridge to be on the outer most row where you can easily see it 
Yeah you can do, just skip the heat step as this regular board doesn’t appear to have suffered liquid damage so it’s not needed here.
