Soldering novice - Braveheart dead?
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(10-04-2020, 02:54 PM)MonCon Wrote:
(10-04-2020, 12:45 PM)ConorIA Wrote: Hi folks, 

I am a total noob when it comes to soldering, but after successfully removing the VCONN switches on my Braveheart edition, I got a little more confident. 

Alas the confidence was misplaced. I tried following @megous tutorial to avoid the battery drain when the phone is off. I managed to remove U1301 ok, but as I could not get the solder to cooperate to short R1309. To make matters worse, when I removed the paper tape protecting the other components, I noticed that the capacitor (C1307?) was gone. It came off with the tape. 

So my phone is in a bad state. My question is, is there any solution? Is it repairable? (Obviously we've learned that this tiny soldering jobs are not my forte). 

Should I try to turn it on as is? Any risk of major issue? Or just likely to fail?

Can I buy a new "brain" for the phone, or should I just plan to get a whole new phone down the road. 

Thanks for your advice. I've been enjoying my pinephone and I just wish I was more skilled so that my "repair" didn't cause more problems.

fyi from another post: 
(09-30-2020, 11:25 PM)tllim Wrote:
(09-29-2020, 06:20 AM)--- Wrote: @tllim said "The PinePhone CE edition mainboard will be released as spare part once the software getting more mature and tested. Probably late Q4 or early 2021".

I have enthusiastically evaporated unreasonable quantities of time with a (possibly hardware related) issue that apparently has no domestic user solution.
Will a suitable replacement motherboard be available for the UBPorts edition phone or do I have to get back in the queue for a new one?

The PinePhone v1.2a spare mainboard will be available on end of Q4 (this quarter).

also: 
https://pine64.com/product-category/smar...are-parts/
https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-bra...mainboard/

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the tip! I think the 1.2a still has the issue with the VCONN switches. I wonder when the 1.2b will ship and whether it will be a drop-in replacement for the 1.1.
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Soldering novice - Braveheart dead? - by ConorIA - 10-04-2020, 12:45 PM
RE: Soldering novice - Braveheart dead? - by nas - 12-24-2020, 02:41 PM
RE: Soldering novice - Braveheart dead? - by nas - 01-05-2021, 03:20 PM
RE: Soldering novice - Braveheart dead? - by nas - 01-06-2021, 04:45 AM
RE: Soldering novice - Braveheart dead? - by nas - 02-25-2021, 02:38 PM

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