Nintendo Switch v1 ripped pads screenconnector

Nintendo Questions Nintendo Switch
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So I got my hand on a NS v1 that was completely destroyed.

  • Gamecard slot wasn’t working, touchscreen wasn’t working ripped connector - repaired and working now
  • No USB-C connector and ripped pads - repaired and working now
  • no screenconnector thing (56 pins?) and about 15 ripped pads. Anyone knows the pinout? Are they all connected?

USB-C HDMI out works now. But I don’t have joycons so can’t do much with it as touchscreen doesn’t work when docked.

If I find out the pinout I maybe going to attach 56 wires (or less??) to the screen ribboncable and board.

Not for resell or anything, just trying to fix and boost my skills.

thanks!

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The two black marked pads are nc. Greens are GND and the rest are needed lines for the lcd. So if all 56 pads are ripped you have a long journey ahead if you want to restore the needed pads…

Here is a link to layer scans where you can check where the via of the pads are and in case where they go, if you can not connect to the via anymore:
https://balika011.hu/switch/

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Thank you so much Calvin. I’m going to give it a try!

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All repared (what a work …holy moly) but the connector won’t touch the pads…
The only connector I had broke cause I tried to push it on the pads and that white thing came off.
I tried to scrape the soldermask as flat as possible but I guess it wasn’t enough. And I also think I used a bit too thick of a wire to repair the pads 0.15mm to be exact. Good news is when I took the connector off again all the pads(including the ones I repared) were still intact.
I have to say that this is my first “micro solderding repair” , so I guess I have to learn a lot and also need some better soldertips for such soldering.

edit: not really the first thing, the first micro stuff I did was broken pins on a AMD Ryzen 7 CPU , 8 missing pins took me 3 hours to do, but quite good for a first try. The CPU is still up and running.

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A good help for such tiny pad repairs a precut solder strips. They are nice flat and help to achieve a fairly even level when repairing the pads.

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Yeah i have a couple of packages but for me unusable. They all bend in a circle. LoL maybe I bought the wrong crappy quality ones…