Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
 

Drawer filled with N900s. When N900 first arrived I wanted it so bad but it was too expensive and I needed a smartphone (which I hated) for a work job and the iPhone was the only one which managed to do what I needed at that time. So now I am kinda taking it back. But these are all broken and on their way to new users. I have maybe 5 working ones which didn't come with this buy. And one is still waiting to be sent to a member but mail is delivered to Bulgaria, Turkey and Italy, but not in Greece where it is going. So frustrated. And UPS and DHL are really expensive or then I just don't know how to choose a right delivery method. Cheapest price was tens of euros and to send a phone which costed 26€ post included and which is going to next user with 26€ plus postage the postage should not be too much.

Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
 

Do you think you will be able to fix 'all telephony functions disabled due to communication error' modem reballing thing?

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(I was and am afraid of that oven method and cam module)

Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
 

If you have access to a hot air reflow gun just mask with kapton tape and foil apply liquid flux around the module I think should do it.

Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nokia-SS-...0AAOSw9OFZNCJN

I think this is right tool for camera removal.

NOPE NOPE NOPE

It must be SS-100 camera removal tool, not 51 :(

Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
 

You should have seen my soldering skills during RC car/ship teenage times :cool::eek::cool:
And ... it did not improve :rolleyes:

So I stay away from any electronics smaller than what you plug in a power outlet :D

Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
 

If you want @peterleinchen, I can try to fix it, especially I'm on holiday from next week (just to recharge my own batteries, so I'm staying home).

Re: Maybe it's time to do something with broken USB sockets?
 

Just for everyone to know, the secret to better soldering is good solder alloy but far more importantly to have the right flux. Flux is the magic your soldering skills are missing, I also recommend a good iron, a good clean off station and holder and most importantly it needs to have a thermostat control so you cna put the right temperature point to the work you are doing.
So flux is the magic, and that other stuff too, and skill, and clean and tin your iron as you work.
So just flux skills, right guys?

but getting serious again read this, print it, save it, scribe it out a thousand times on unetched PCBs using solder as your ink your weller soldering station as your quill, hand it out, preach it, and be free:
https://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/SOLDERRM-D.PDF
Now go forth and sin no more!

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Amateurs! It is a sign of a bad master who blames the tools.

I see growing up in a Soviet Bloc country was a huge benefit. You learn to make do with what you have. In my case, with the only flux available, colophony (rosin). Even that only available in music shops (for violin strings), not as a flux.

An iron? You sissies are used to temperature controlled soldering stations. All I had for the first 10 years of my hobby electronics was a transformer iron. We made our own wire loops for the tips. Here is a shot of what I learned to solder with:

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The iron is the original one I bought for my own hard earned cash as a teenager almost 40 years ago. It is still going strong. The rosin (here labelled "kalafonia" as it of a Polish origin) is from eBay. The blobs of tin solder are leftovers from when we had a plumber in the house.

If this is all you have, that really teaches you how to solder :D
Shame my eyes are not what they used to be and thus my hobbyist days are pretty much over. I can barely see the tiny components. Even the classic ones, through the hole, with the 2.54 mm pitch.

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Feh!
In the 90s in Alaska I snapped the antenna ripped some PCB traces and broke the battery pack off of an air band walkie talkie, the way I was supposed to call for my ride home.
A folding pliers tool, a nail, and some pine resin from beetle damage to nearby trees. I carefully melted and separated the resin, heated the nail carefully figuring out the time and discoloration of the nail for temp and using the nail melted the existing solder along with some extra lead from melted and cut into strips decapitated .22 bullets. I think I must have had some copper wire in my camping kit to use as an antenna and to connect the broken battery pack.

(My favorite engineers to hire for prototype type jobs are can-do ex-eastern block(ex-USSR/Warsaw Pact/ex-Yugo) seems lazy get the job done when the boss isn't looking with way out of the box thinking ones, great education too)

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Is that an Eastern bloc soldering gun?
It sure looks like one.. :D