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No, that's cool. The reason I am often hesitant to post on these types of forums (or forums dealing with coding or ANYTHING with Linux (joke guys) is that there is a tendency just to be arrogant to the poster. This, quite frankly, feels like **** and belies a lack of people skills. . . And before you take umbrage, I'm NOT referring to your post. Truly. You actually were being blunt. That's cool. Others tend to be . . . . a bit more some times. But I digress....

I'm approaching 60. In answer to the earlier poster, I spent my first career life for 8 years doing depot-level repair work on equipment for the US Air Force. Tear down to metal and rebuild from scratch, including IC's. And, of course, resoldering all components to all PCB's and major units. Think this. . . tearing a weather radar down to scratch, component by component, and then rebuilding it completely. Then we'd ship the units to people in the field to just plug each block in and then rebuild the bad unit they send back. The bar was high on getting it right. And yes, we had a fully equipped work station with great gear back then when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

In my limited review of the newer technologies? I beg to differ from the previous poster. It really IS more or less the same, except things are smaller and way more heat-sensitive. You solder whole chips and ensure temperature is correct using FLIR or an infrared monitor. And, to be fair, technicians have ALWAYS been sensitive about heat, static, and other variables when dealing with anything that has IC's. Incidentally, I've continued to tinker on just about everything for the intervening 40 years. Usually fixing it too. And mainly just because I enjoy it.

In short, I'm not talking about replacing a resistor in a 1960's era television set. That really WOULD be different.

But the concept of tracking down a short using a voltage meter (checking out your voltage dividers) or for open connections is exactly the same. The only thing different is the scale of the work and, by definition, the tools sized for the scale of the work.

The REASON I came here was to ask for opinions. I have no intention of attaching the battery directly to the charger unless I check my perception against others who know more. So tell me it's a stupid idea. Just don't imply that I'm stupid for asking.

The reality is the pandemic has crushed me, and my business, and left me with no money in a country I'm not a citizen and no exit route. I need the phone, of course, to ply my business. Spending 300 Euros when my visa does not allow me to work traditionally is not an option. If I had my previous cash flow position? I'd just run down and buy a brand new phone with the latest specs and get someone else to do chip-off data extraction for me. But I don't have that right now. BTW, I'd appreciate no flaming on that matter.

To recap, I had reconnected the battery cable to the motherboard and reassembled everything then tried to charge. There was absolutely nothing. No haptic bump, and no charging percentage. Dead. . . It sounds like the general consensus was to just finish removing the SIM cage from the motherboard. Frankly, at this point, I could just pluck it off with tweezers. and then reattach the battery cable & try again. Would that be a correct assessment?

Now, since I primarily do Service Design, User Experience, and Product Management work? I'll make you a deal. Don't give me **** about misstatements or bad ideas here and I won't give you **** about your crappy code and horribly designed hardware that makes life hell for the end user, okay? 😏

Because I honestly don't do that. I understand the coder and hardware designer perspective and why they think that way. I respect it and realize it's required to do that job. Consider the same for others.

If there was a soapbox emoji for me to step off of, it'd be right about now. LOL

Thanks in advance for your help. And I hope you guys see the humor in this post. Sometimes it doesn't show through the actual words used.